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Human Studies
Course
Instructor(s)
Advanced Fiction - HS507 This is a creative-writing course for experienced writers interested in conceiving and developing a book-length work, either a novel or story chain.
Autobiography - HS008 This course uses autobiography as a literary form to examine the lives of certain significant people and then to examine our own lives, concentrating particularly on understanding the effects of early home and community environments.
Bread, Love, and Dreams - HS009 This course is an introduction to the unconscious. It begins with the problem of knowing something which by definition is unknown. It then proceeds to examine two classic approaches to the unconscious: dreams and love.
Creative Writing - HS538 This class concentrates on the theory and practice of poetry and short fiction. Our goal is to develop the skills of verbal craftsmanship and self-criticism.
Introduction to Literature I - HS103 This course uses classic readings in world literature to introduce the history and mythology that lie behind our own culture.
Poetry and the American Environment - HS152 Since Anne Bradstreet in the seventeenth century, American poets have responded to the natural environment and its human transformation.
Starting Your Novel - HS495 This is an intermediate to advanced creative writing class for those interested in an intensive approach to writing longer fiction.
Text and Theory - HS361 This version of Text and Theory will focus exclusively on controversial literature from the standpoint of reading, criticizing and teaching.
The Eye and the Poet - MD015 Using a shared creative vision, students collaborate on making artifacts embodying both verbal and visual elements. We look briefly at the history of creative interchange between writers and visual artists, then concentrate on collaborations of our own.
Turn of the Century - MD030 From the collapse of communism to the fall of the World Trade Center and beyond, this course will use outstanding recent works of non-fiction, fiction, film and art to illuminate the meaning of our own time as it unfolds into history.
