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
ENGL2103 - Literary Mirrors: Introduction to World Literature
ENGL2105 - Contemporary Latin American Fiction
ENGL2106 - Irish Identities: Literature and Culture
ENGL2301 - Major American Authors I
ENGL2302 - Major American Authors II
ENGL2303 - Modern American Authors
ENGL2304 - American Voices in Fiction and Non-Fiction
ENGL2305 - Writing Women
ENGL2306 - Survey in American Drama
ENGL2307 - Making It New: Poetry from Bradstreet to Bishop
ENGL2309 - The Haves and Have-Nots: American Authors on Money, Class and Power
ENGL2321 - Love and Gender
ENGL2323 - Short Fiction
ENGL2325 - Spirituality and the Literary Imagination
ENGL2402 - Shakespeare: Tragedies, Histories, Comedies, Romances
ENGL2404 - Major British Poetry
ENGL2406 - The Rise of the British Novel
ENGL2408 - Modern British Novel
ENGL2409 - Modern Political Novel
ENGL2413 - A Tradition of Resistance: African American Literature
ENGL2417 - Chant Down Babylon: Cultures of the Black Atlantic
ENGL2506 - Poetry Writing
ENGL2603 - Studies in Drama: Ritual and Social Reality
ENGL2605 - Stages of the Modern
ENGL2607 - Major British Drama
ENGL2609 - Playing Shakespeare: From Study to Stage to Film
ENGL2701 - Literature and Film
ENGL3301 - The Land Before Us: American Literature About the West
ENGL3421 - Spanish Caribbean Literature
LANG2103 - Literary Mirrors: An Introduction to World Literature
LANG2105 - Contemporary Latin American Fiction
LANG2605 - Spain: A Cultural Approach (was 3405)
LANG3417 - Spanish American Experience: An Overview
LANG3421 - Spanish Caribbean Literature
LANG3427 - Contemporary Spanish American Women Novelists
LANG3429 - Encounters with 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 Western Art I
ART1202 - Survey of Western Art II
ART2213 - From Daguerreotypes to Digital Prints: History of Photography
ART2215 - Modern Art (was ART3207)
ART2217 - American Art (was ART3205)
MUSIC1101 - Survey of Music History
PERF1101 - The Theater: History & Appreciation (was SPCH1109)
PERF1301 - Song: From the Monks to the Monkees (was MUSIC1102)
PERF1302 - Music Theatre Through the Ages (was MUSIC1104 )
PERF1303 - History of the American Musical Theater (was MUSIC1107)
PERF1304 - Musics of the World (was MUSIC1113)
PERF1321 - Foundations of Western Music