Sponsored by: and Divisions
Faculty Contact: Lisa Colletta
*Faculty contacts serve as "advisors" to those students who have an interest in the given concentration.
You should feel free to contact these faculty with questions.
Courses in this concentration feature active engagement with a range of literary, visual, musical, and creative arts. These courses challenge students to think and write with increased depth, independence and creativity about how the arts express and shape individual as well as cultural experiences and identities. They also explore how the arts inspire joy while educating and enriching us. Students may expect to study formal, aesthetic concerns, as well as the artistic process as a dynamic and strategic series of expressive choices.
Required Courses:
Students must choose four (4) courses from the following distribution list.
Note: Of these four (4) courses, students must take courses from at least two (2) different disciplines.
Required Courses:
ENG 3600 Expository Writing
ENG 3604 Writing Poetry
ENG 3605 Writing Fiction
FLM 3600 Documentary, Experimental, and Animated Film
FLM 3671 American Film Comedy
LIT 3676 The (Un)Natural Imagination: American Nature Writing (Inactive)
LIT 3601 Shakespeare
LIT 3671 Warriors and Lovers: Literature of the Middle Ages (Inactive)
LIT 3602 Victorian Literature (Inactive)
LIT 3603 Espionage, Subversion, Terror: The Spy Novel (Inactive)
LIT 3678 Poets and Poetry (Inactive)
LIT 3680 Haunted Houses, Dangerous Desires: The Ghost Story (Inactive)
LIT 3682 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights
LIT 3684 Prizewriters: International Literature and the Literary Prize
LIT 3686 Love, Sex and the Family in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Literature
LIT 3689 Poetic Elegy
LIT 3693 Play, Performance, Perspective: The London Stage in Winter
VSA 3600 Art, Religion, and Politics of Ancient Egypt
VSA 3601 Greek and Roman Art
VSA 3602 19th Century European Art
VSA 3610 Art in the Early 20th Century Art
VSA 3670 Arts of the Renaissance
*LIT3695 (2 credits): The Play's the Thing
(This is a 2 credit winter course that may count as one half of a unit toward a concentration. 4 total units are required to fulfill a concentration (one 4 credit course equals 1 unit). Two 2 credit courses (course or pre-approved indpendent research project may equal 1 unit).
