Literature and Society

Curriculum Description
Literature and Society offers courses on traditional historical periods, major authors, and the genres of literature. Grounded in a careful reading of texts, the courses also offer students the opportunity to explore the relationship of literature to such disciplines as art, film, theatre, photography, theology, and cultural history. These courses give close attention to the human values implicit in literature.

Faculty Advisor
Abby A. Johnson, Ph.D.

Format
In addition to the 13 required core and writing courses, 16 courses must be taken from the following Literature and Society curriculum. Of these, students must work with their advisor to establish the appropriate distribution of required and human values courses.

COURSES

American Literature and the American Idea (Core) American Religious Voices: Ralph Waldo Emerson and William James (Human Values) Arthur Miller: An Ethical Study (Human Values) Augustine's Confessions (Human Values) Beyond Sojourner Truth Cinema and American Values (Human Values) Classic and Romantic: Styles and Values in Western Culture (Core) Classics in the Catholic Tradition (Human Values) Contemporary American Values On Stage and Off (Human Values) Contemporary Irish Literature Dante: The Journey to Freedom (Human Values) Detective Fiction and Cultural Values (Human Values) English Renaissance Literature and Culture Fragmentation and Reintegration (Human Values) Gender and Sexuality Introduction to the Literature of Mysticism Law and Literature Mark Twain's America: Society in Crisis Mortals and Immortals: Ancient Greek Myths Novel and Nation: Fiction in Contemporary Ireland Of Constant Sorrow: Greek Tragedy and Its Context Old Testament Literature: Society and Ethics (Human Values) Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Western Intellectual Tradition Perfecting America: Society, War, and Culture, 1830 - 1900 Photography and Literature: Images of Change in American Culture (Core) Plato and the American Experience (Human Values) Plato and the Greek Imagination: Myth, Drama, Philosophy (Human Values) Religion and Conflict T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land and Its Allusions (Human Values) Television: History, Culture, and Structure The Art and Vision of Dante and Shakespeare (Core) The Artist in the Community (Human Values) The Art of Biblical Literature (Human Values) The Book of Genesis: Literature, Ethics, Theology (Human Values) The Book of Job: Poetry and Theology in the Face of Suffering (Human Values) The Gods in Greek and Roman Literature (Human Values) The Martyr and the Warrior: Religion and Violence The Mortal Hero: Ancient Epic Poetry (Human Values) The Myth of the Hero (Core) The New British Theatre The Plays of William Shakespeare: Text and Performance Themes from Greek and Roman Drama (Human Values) Theological Issues in 20th and 21st-Century Fiction (Human Values) Theology and Imagination (Human Values) Theology and Literature (Human Values) Virgil's Humane Epic (Human Values) What is an American? Cultural Identity in the U.S. (Human Values) Women in Antiquity Writing Irish America