STUDIES IN LITERATURE (SLLT1015)

PREREQUISITE: ENGL1012 OR ENGL1012H THEATER IN THE CITY: Theater in the City is a six-week summer course, which meets on Tuesdays on campus and sees a play on Thursday at one of the city’s many theaters. Summer 2012 the planned selections are Noel Coward’s “Private Lives” (Pittsburgh Public Theater); Lee Hall’s “The Pitman Painters” (Irish and Classical Theater); Maggie Kate Coleman’s “Pop” (City Theater); Frank Floyd Hightower’s “The House That Carol Built” (Kuntu Repertory Theater); and August Wilson’s “Gem of the Ocean” (Pittsburgh Playwrights at the August Wilson Theater). Cross-listed with SLLT1015 WOMEN IN LITERATURE: This course explores the novel as it has been practiced by women writers and examines specific contributions they have made to the novel. It is particularly appropriate to study women writers in the context of the novel form, since historically the rise of the novel occurs concurrently with the emergence of women writers. Each novel will be considered individually as well as in relation to its larger cultural context and to the other novels under study. Authors generally include Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf, Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Jean Rhys, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Amy Tan, Sue Monk Kidd, Linda Hogan, and Katherine Stockett. Cross-listed with SLLT1015 Topics from world literature involving various literary genres and themes. Possible semester topics include: Black Literature, Contemporary Literature, Women in Literature, and Biblical Themes in Literature.