Aesthetic Inquiry
The 2-course requirement in this domain consists of courses that expose students to original works produced by writers, visual artists and musicians, and provide an opportunity to interpret, evaluate, analyze and understand these products of the creative imagination. Using the language, concepts, and criteria of the respective aesthetic disciplines, courses in American, British, World and Foreign Language literature; historical surveys of art, music, theatre; and performance/studio courses will explore the relationship between aesthetic works and their historical and cultural contexts.
Requirement: two courses (one from literature, one from the arts).
Literature (one course)
AMST1101 - Introduction to American Studies
ENGL1105 - Introduction to Literature
ENGL2101 - English Literature I
ENGL2102 - English Literature II
ENGL2103 - Literary Mirrors: Introduction to World Literature
ENGL2105 - Contemporary Latin American Fiction
ENGL2106 - Irish Identities: Literature and Culture
ENGL2303 - The Modern American Novel
ENGL2304 - American Voices I: U.S. Literature to 1865
ENGL2305 - Writing Women
ENGL2309 - The Haves and Have-Nots: American Authors on Money, Class and Power
ENGL2321 - Performing Gender
ENGL2323 - Short Fiction
ENGL2325 - Spirituality and the Literary Imagination
ENGL2402 - Shakespeare: Tragedies, Histories, Comedies, Romances
ENGL2406 - The Rise of the British Novel
ENGL2408 - Modern British Novel: Empire and After
ENGL2409 - The Political Novel
ENGL2413 - African American Literature: A Tradition of Resistance
ENGL2417 - Literature of the Black Atlantic
ENGL2604 - American Voices II: U.S. Literature Since 1865
ENGL2701 - Literature and Film
ENGL 3301 - The American West in Film and Literature
ENGL3421 - Spanish Caribbean Literature
HONOR2201 - Affective Reading: Sympathy and the Institution of the English Novel
LANG2103 - Literary Mirrors: An Introduction to World Literature
LANG2105 - Contemporary Latin American Fiction
LANG 2107 - From Damsel in Distress to Femme Fatale: Parisian Women in Modern French Cinema and Literature
LANG2215 - Darkness in the City of Lights: Contrasting Views of Paris in Modern French Literature & Culture
LANG 2315 - Today's Italy: A Journey through Literature, Cinema and Everyday Life
LANG2416 - Latin American Peoples and Cultures
LANG2419 - Approaches to Hispanic Literature
LANG2605 - Spain: A Cultural Approach
LANG3411 - Latin American Literary Giants
LANG3417 - Spanish American Experience: An Overview
LANG3421 - Spanish Caribbean Literature
LANG3427 - Contemporary Spanish American Women Novelists
LANG3429 - Great Figures of Hispanic Literature
LANG3431 - Contemporary Spanish Novel
LANG3433 - Modern Hispanic Drama
PHIL1111 - Literature & Philosophy
PHIL1112 - Aesthetics
Art, Performance, etc. (one course)
ART1201 - Survey of Art I
ART1202 - Survey of Art II
ART 2201 - Visual Constructions of Gendered Identity
ART2202 - Social Justice & Visual Art
ART 2204 - From Globalization to Transnationalism: Art in the Contact Zone
ART2215 - Modern Art (was ART3207)
ART2217 - American Art to 1913
ART 2221 - Contemporary Art and Artistic Practice (in conjunction to Artist in Residence Program)
ART 2223 - From Patronage to Practice: The Catholic Art Tradition
PERF1101 - The Theater: History & Appreciation
PERF1301 - Song: From the Monks to the Monkees
PERF1302 - Music Theatre Through the Ages
PERF1303 - History of the American Musical Theater
PERF1304 - Musics of the World
PERF1321 - Foundations of Western Music
