In addition to taking at least four creative writing workshops covering at least two genres, students are also required to take at least six reading-intensive courses, including a course in literary theory or the history of literary criticism and a breadth of literary periods.
Theory Courses offered this academic year are listed below.
Academic Year 2013-2014
Fall 2013
COLT 1210 Introduction to Literary Theory
ENGL 0800L/0710L Ishiguro, amongst others
ENGL 1561H The Brain and the Book
ENGL 1762A Perverse Cinema
ENGL 1900R Queer Relations
TAPS 1230 Performance Theory
Academic Year 2012-2013
Spring 2013
ENGL0410J Literature of Identity
ENGL0800I Global South Asia
ENGL1140A The Literary Scholar
ENGL1560R From Frankenstein to Einstein: Literature and Science from
1800-1950
ENGL1900Y Medieval Manuscript Studies: Paleography, Codicology,
and Interpretation
ENGL1900Z Neuroaesthetics and Reading
ENGL2760Y American Orientalism and Asian American
Literary Criticism
ENGL2900N Ethical Turns
LITR1230J Writing Material Differences
Fall 2012
COMP1210 Introduction to the Theory of Literature
ENGL1761Y Issues in World Literature
ENGL1900E Aesthetics and Politics
ENGL1900R Queer Relations: Aesthetics and Sexuality
ENGL1901B Politics and the Novel
ENGL2560Z Global Early American Literature
ENGL2900O Narrative Theory