Writing and Literature
ENGLISH COMPOSITION & RHETORIC
Composition I - Fall only
Credit: 1
Length: 1 Semester, Fall (part of a sequence of 2 semester courses to be taken consecutively in the junior year)
Prerequisites: Sophomore English / Junior (ASMSA) Standing
Fulfills: High school graduation requirement in English
Concurrent Credit: UAFS ENGL 1203 - Composition I - 3 Credits
This is a structured course emphasizing writing skills. Students begin with refining their paragraph writing skills before progressing to various essay forms, focusing on writing across the curriculum. Students develop each step in the writing of research. Special emphasis is placed on writing skills needed for success in college. Please note: All juniors must complete both Composition I and II in their junior year.
Composition II - Spring only
Credit: 1
Length: 1 Semester, Spring (part of a sequence of 2 semester courses to be taken consecutively in the junior year)
Prerequisites: Composition I
Fulfills: High school graduation requirement in English
Concurrent Credit: UAFS ENGL 1213 - Composition II - 3 Credits
This is a structured course emphasizing and continuing to develop writing skills in cross-disciplinary contexts. As in Composition I, special emphasis is placed on writing skills needed for success in college. Students continue the skills learned in Composition I, utilizing their research writing skills across the curriculum to work. In addition, literary analysis is introduced in this second semester, and the course culminates with a detailed college admissions unit designed to prepare students for that process as seniors. Please note: All juniors must complete both Composition I and II in their junior year.
Sophomore English
Credit: 1
Length: 2 Semesters (consecutive Fall/Spring)
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills: High school graduation requirement in English
Concurrent Credit: None
Sophomore / 10th Grade students will be taught to write analytical, thesis-driven essays on fiction, poetry, and drama that rely on summary, evaluation, analysis, and research. They will also learn the importance of audience, voice, and purpose in writing. Skills in close reading, summarizing and scrutinizing texts, and learning how to draft basic essays, in addition to some basic research literacy skills, are topics of special emphasis. Please note: all admitted sophomores must complete the year-long course.
LITERATURE
African-American Literature
Credit: 1
Length: 1 Semester
Prerequisite: UAFS ENGL 1213 / Composition II
Fulfills: Literature (fulfills Senior English) or Humanities Elective
Concurrent Credit: UAFS ENGL 3043 - Seminar: American Literature II - 3 Credit Hours
In this course, students will read and critically analyze novels, short stories, and poetry from significant periods in African American Literature. The course will begin with pre-Revolutionary War poetry and progress through the following periods: Antebellum, Postbellum, Harlem Renaissance, and the Civil Rights movement. In addition, we will look at Naturalism; Myth, Legend, and Ritual; to the the late twentieth century as it applies to African American Literature.
American Literature
Credit: 1
Length: 1 semester
Prerequisite: UAFS ENGL 1213 / Composition II
Fulfills: Literature or Humanities Elective
Concurrent Credit: UAFS ENGL 2023 - Introduction to American Literature - 3 Credit Hours
This course offers a broad survey of the American Literature from pre-contact to the contemporary U.S. In the course of reading and discussing stories, essays, plays, and poems by American writers, we will trace the development of American culture from its early insecure roots to its current global influence.
Ancient Greek Literature
Credit: 1
Length: 1 Semester
Prerequisite: UAFS ENGL 1213 / Composition II
Fulfills: Literature or Humanities Elective
Concurrent Credit: UAFS ENGL 2013 - Introduction to Global Literature - 3 Credit Hours
The course is designed to cover the major cultural achievements of the Greeks from the Archaic and classical periods, with special emphasis given to the role of Athens. While the course is mostly centered upon literature, other elements of Greek culture such as politics, mythology, gender roles, and the visual arts are also discussed. Authors to be read include, but are not limited to, Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, and Thucydides.
Austen, Bronte, and Film
Credit: 1
Length: 1 Semester
Prerequisite: UAFS ENGL 1203 / Composition I
Fulfills: Humanities Elective
Concurrent Credit: 3 Hrs. UAFS HUMN 2663 - Introduction to Film - 3 Credit Hours
This course will explore literature and the art of film as well as the expression of societal values through the medium of film. Film techniques, major directors of film, historical genres, and significant works will be studied and analyzed. The adaptation of nineteenth-century British literature will be the primary area of focus. The films will encompass the traditional period-piece drama, classical Hollywood cinema, and contemporary cinematic adaptations of novels by Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters.
British Novel
Credit: 1
Length: 1 Semester
Prerequisite: UAFS ENGL 1213 / Composition II
Fulfills: Literature or Humanities Elective
Concurrent Credit: UAFS ENGL 3023 - Survey of British Literature II - 3 Credit Hours
This course will trace the development of the British novel from its beginnings in the eighteenth century to the modern period. The development of the novel form will be examined as well as literature as a form of social criticism. Representative authors include Daniel Defoe, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, D. H. Lawrence, and J. L. Carr.
British Women Writers
Credit: 1
Length: 1 Semester
Prerequisite: UAFS ENGL 1213 / Composition II
Fulfills: Literature or Humanities Elective
Concurrent Credit: UAFS ENGL 3023 - Survey of British Literature II - 3 Credit Hours
This course examines various British female authors from Renaissance to the present. The roles of women in society and in the home during different time periods of British history will be also explored. Poems, essays, short stories, and novels will be read and discussed in their historical context.
Gender in Literature
Credit: 1
Length: 1 Semester
Prerequisite: UAFS ENGL 1213 / Composition II
Fulfills: Literature (fulfills Senior English) or Humanities Elective
Concurrent Credit: UAFS ENGL 2013 - Introduction to Global Literature - 3 Credit Hours
This course examines various British and American female authors from the Middle Ages to the present. The roles of women in society and in the home during different time periods will be explored. Poems, essays, short stories, and novels will be read and discussed in their historical context.
Literature of the American South
Credit:1
Length: 1 Semester
Prerequisite: UAFS ENGL 1213 / Composition II
Fulfills: Literature or Humanities Elective
Concurrent Credit: UAFS ENGL 2023 - Introduction to American Literature - 3 Credit Hours
In this course students will read and discuss fiction, essays, and poetry by southern writers as we consider ways in which these works do or do not participate in southern traditions of writing and thinking. Our larger purpose will be to study the literature, history and culture of this region with the aim of understanding how those factors have influenced southerners and the south as it is today.
The Modern American Novel
Credit: 1
Length: 1 Semester
Prerequisite: UAFS ENGL 1213 / Composition II
Fulfills: Literature or Humanities Elective
Concurrent Credit: UAFS ENGL 3043 - Seminar: American Literature II - 3 Credit Hours
This course is designed to focus on the novel in America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the relationship of the novel to the reading public, innovations in the novel’s form, and fiction’s engagement with history. Representative authors include Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner.
Poetry
Credit: 1
Length: 1 Semester
Prerequisite: None
Fulfills: Literature or Humanities Elective
Concurrent Credit: None
In this course, students are first introduced to classical forms of poetry such as the sonnet and the sestina, and then study Modernist poets such as Eliot, Stevens, cummings, and then move on to investigate more recent poetry such as Plath and Sexton, and eventually study contemporary poets such as Rita Dove and Sherman Alexie, for example. The course is reading and writing intensive.
Philosophy in Literature
Credit: 1
Length: 1 Semester
Prerequisite: UAFS ENGL 1213 / Composition II
Fulfills: Literature or Humanities Elective
Concurrent Credit: UAFS ENGL 2013 - Introduction to Global Literature - 3 Credit Hours
This course introduces students to literary texts in world literature from various cultures and historical eras and literary genres which are particularly influenced by philosophical ideologies either directly or indirectly. Introduces the genres of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama via the medium of global (specifically, non-American) literature.
Sherlock Holmes and Popular Culture
Credit: 1
Length: 1 Semester
Prerequisite: None
Fulfills: Literature or Humanities Elective
Concurrent Credit: None
This course will examine the detective genre as a literary form, focusing particularly on Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous character. The Adventures Sherlock Holmes as well as selected novels will be analyzed to determine how these works both create and modify an emerging literary genre as well as express the ideals of a changing British culture during the fin-de-siècle.
Special Topics in Literature
Credit: 1/2
Length: 1 Semester
Prerequisite: None
Fulfills: Literature or Humanities Elective
Concurrent Credit: None
This course provides instructors and students with the ability to make a "deep-dive" into the work of a few selected authors or as a case study of specific genres or forms within the instructor's specialty area as a literature seminar. This course is rarely offered. Possible course topics include study of one to three authors connected in some way, specific genres or styles limited to a geographical place or a small number of authors, or other themes that connect specific works.
Survey of British Writers
Credit: 1
Length: 1 Semester
Prerequisite: UAFS ENGL 1213 / Composition II
Fulfills: Literature or Humanities Elective
Concurrent Credit: UAFS ENGL 3023 - Survey of British Literature II - 3 Credit Hours
This course is a critical study of canonical works of the British Isles from the 18th century to the present, designed to reflect issues on class, gender, economic and political history, as well as other issues relevant to each of the respective works. It is also intended to expose students to a variety of literary genres.
Survey of World Literature
Credit: 1
Length: 1 Semester
Prerequisite: UAFS ENGL 1213 / Composition II
Fulfills: Literature or Humanities Elective
Concurrent Credit: UAFS ENGL 2013 - Introduction to Global Literature - 3 Credit Hours
During this course students will read works spanning many centuries, from Western and non-Western literature. The course will offer an introduction to literary works from a variety of cultures with at least one major text from each of four periods (antiquity, medieval, early modern, and modern) and from a minimum of three literary genres. A major goal of the course will be for students to come to understand these works in the contexts of their wider literary and cultural heritages and to better understand their place in the world.
COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA
Intercultural Communication
Credit: 1
Length: 1 Semester
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills: Humanities Elective
Intercultural Communications examines the relationship between communication and culture. Intercultural communication focuses on an aspect of communication that affects each of us on a daily basis, the communication that occurs among people who possess different ways of thinking and behaving.
Yearbook
Registration Code: YEARBOOK
Credit: 0.25
Length: 1 Semester
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills: Humanities Elective
This course incorporates the study of journalistic skills with the publication of an online monthly school newspaper and the creation of the yearbook. Skills to be studied, used, and mastered include journalistic writing techniques, methods of gathering and writing news and feature stories, use of Adobe Photoshop and other media layout and production technologies, news and feature photography, and newspaper and yearbook design and production.
Speech
Registration Code: SPEECH
Credit: 1
Length: 1 Semester, Fall or Spring
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills: Oral Communication (speech)
Concurrent Credit: UAFS SPCH 1203 - Introduction to Speech Communication - 3 Credit Hours
This introductory course for public speaking includes informative speaking, persuasive speaking, and debate, with emphasis on extemporaneous speaking. Preparation for scientific research using a multi-media approach is emphasized.
INTERDISCIPLINARY / CROSS-LISTED
Humanities through the Arts
Registration Code: HUM ARTS
Credit: 1
Length: 1 Semester
Prerequisites: None, though priority seating is reserved for Art POD students
Fulfills: Fine Arts or Humanities Elective; Art POD Requirement
Concurrent Credit: UAFS HUMN 2563 - Humanities through the Arts - 3 Credit Hours
An introduction to the arts in Western civilization and their relationship to basic humanistic ideas. In addition to serving as an introduction to music, painting, sculpture, architecture, and literature (drama and poetry), the course explores fundamental principles and ideas of Western culture and how these are expressed in each of the artistic disciplines. Note: For ArtPOD students, this course replaces the Literature/Humanities elective internal requirement. Seating is prioritized for ArtPOD students, but if space allows, other students may take this course to satisfy that same Literature/Humanities elective.