LITERATURE AND ECOLOGY (ENGL 277-8) - Inspired by the CHC mission, Literature and Ecology (including Literature and Animal Studies) explores the interconnected relations between humans and all of creation. Students learn to read literary texts with a view toward how Nature forms not only the stage upon which humans enact their lives but the very fiber of creaturely connectedness on our fragile planet. Such investigations widen the “circle of sympathy” as students expand their understanding of what it means to be human.
LITERATURE AND FILM (ENGL 160) - This course explores how written texts have been adapted to the medium of cinema. It has been taught in a general context as well as in more specific thematic focuses. “American Noir,” for instance, examines how the genre of the hard-boiled detective novel was ripe for adaptation in the cinematic genre of “film noir.” In all its incarnations, the course challenges students to analyze how classic literary narratives have been re-imagined by film directors to create visually dramatic re-creations of words on the page.
CREATIVE FICTION WRITING - In this creative writing course students translate the academic study of narrative into composing their own artistic representations. Recent courses have focused on realistic fiction, building fantasy worlds, or the verbal-visual integration of graphic novels.
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Requirements/Prerequisites:
Students must pass first year writing courses and maintain a C- average in their major.
