大一英语为通过写作分析文学提供了基础, reading, 通过对各种文本的探索, genres, forms, 以及贯穿整个西方文明的风格. The course serves to establish the relationship between themes and devices and provides a comprehensive overview of literary conventions including, 但不限于:象征主义, diction, sensory detail, 叙事视角, and irony. 学生将学习精读和注释的最佳实践，以及文学分析论文的格式和执行. 学生们还通过各种修改策略和同侪研讨会来加强他们的写作.

American Literature is a survey course that introduces students to a range of the best and most seminal works of literature of various forms and genres and from various historical contexts and literary movements in American culture. This course will build upon the methods of literary analysis introduced in Freshman English in order to provide students with the necessary tools for more complex written analysis. Students will develop a deeper understanding of the form-content relationship in order to make cogent arguments about the literature studied.

分析与组成 is designed to advance students' skills in The Academy's "what-how-why" methodology by incorporating non-fictive texts to introduce critical themes in two specific literary subjects. 通过两个四分之一长的单元, 《新葡京平台》通过批判性文章调查正义与性别认同, drama, works of fiction, films, 以及图画小说来定位突出的主题, 趋同和分歧的理解, 朝着复杂的方向努力, 新葡京平台正义的综合解释, the state, and ethics, 以及性的话语和表达.

Postcolonial literature introduces students to the relationship between the “Self” and the “Other” borne from the hegemonic history that indelibly connects Europe and Africa. Specifically, 帝国主义列强如何试图代表“他者”,以及代表权如何被用来证明和产生对民族和文化的征服. 通过使用评论文章和维多利亚和现代小说, we will examine the complexities of representation and the ways in which literature can serve to either propagate or deconstruct the binaries that dominated colonial attitudes.

莎士比亚作为文学和戏剧 aims to help students gain an introductory understanding of Shakespeare's work and how it fits into the context of his life and times.  Other goals for the course include the following:  to learn to write about Shakespeare's work; to learn how to read and analyze Shakespeare’s plays and their significance linguistically, historically, politically, socially, and culturally; to do close readings of text, noting the integration of literary devices and textual directives for performance; and to develop a methodology for approaching antiquated texts for academic reading, pleasure reading, and performance. 

Myth and Hero introduces students to mythic stories and heroes from around the world and investigates the underlying psychological need—both culturally and personally—to construct these tales. 在简短介绍了神话和英雄结构之后, 这门课程考察了来自不同文化的不同英雄, 在不同的民族和时代之间建立联系和共同需求. More modern works will then be considered with an emphasis on the psychological aspects of heroic tales to understand the overall shift from epic to tragic, perfect to flawed, divine to sublime, 以及英雄传统中个体的原型.

文学与喜剧形式 is designed to investigate central questions about humor while introducing students to numerous facets of comedy in literature. What is laughter? What is funny? 这两者是如何不同的——一个是身体上的，另一个是精神上的——又有什么联系呢? 尽管喜剧是在任何一天都能经历的事情, 我们很少停下来找理由解释为什么我们的身体会不受控制地抽搐. 学生将探索喜剧的各种惯例, specifically, 笑话的机制, 笑声的体验, 希腊喜剧结构, hyperbole, satire, parody, black humor, and irony, 为了了解它们是如何工作的, 无论是情感上还是智力上, 在个人层面和文学作品中.

Chicago literature explores literature inspired by and about Chicago in an attempt to make sense of its disparate peoples and their experiences throughout history. 芝加哥有很多名字:“风城”, 大肩膀之城, The Second City, Paris of the Midwest, 邻里之城, a City on the Make, The Jungle, and so on; each of these names helps characterize aspects of Chicago, 但没有一个能完全概括它的许多方面. 本课程旨在通过在各种小说和非小说作品中对芝加哥的描绘，深入研究芝加哥的许多方面. 课程材料将探讨芝加哥从沼泽到大都市的成长过程, 看看帮助建立并继续塑造这座城市的各种经历.

一战文学 is a survey course that introduces students to literature written in response to and in reflection upon the Great War. 通过小说和诗歌，本课程将考察历史, sociopolitical, 以及受此事件影响的文化力量. 第一次世界大战后，欧洲面对自己和它以前毫无疑问的公约. After the war, 欧洲人开始重新思考他们的文化, 产生了现代主义艺术形式, psychology, existentialism, and the like.

非裔美国文学 is a survey course that introduces students to literary works from the 19th century to present by writers of African and African American heritage. 本课程将考察一些作者, issues, genres, styles, and themes; furthermore, 它将分析历史, sociopolitical, 以及帮助塑造非裔美国人经历的文化力量. 这门课还将强调种族的交集, gender, 以及阶级观点, whenever applicable, 因为它们为文学分析提供了信息.

拉丁美洲文学 is a survey course that introduces students to a selection of work written by Latin American authors and that significantly advances students' critical thinking skills through the analysis and deconstruction of challenging texts. 强调通过Octavio Paz提供的观点进行分析, 学生将通过他的主题镜头探索作品. 此外，学生将被介绍到“魔幻现实主义”的文学概念.用小说和散文, 这反映了一种更周期性的感知和讲故事的方法, students will be instructed in the understanding of non-Eurocentric modes of literary art and will earn an appreciation of Latin American literary and cultural values.

美洲原住民文学 is a survey course that introduces students to the historical and contemporary Native American experience though readings from biographies and regarded literature by indigenous authors. Issues of language, cultural identity, historical witness, and current sociopolitical experiences are reflected in these works and analyzed through discussion and composition of complex literary analysis essays.

AP文学与写作是一门强化课程，旨在向学生介绍大学水平的分析, discussion, 从广泛的文学作品中理解写作, drama, and poetry. 这门课程挑战并培养学生批判性思考的能力, synthesize literature, and write effectively. 虽然这门课程探讨了许多不同流派的作品, 身份的概念——我们如何理解它, create it, question it, destroy it, 生活没有它-连接他们所有. 随着学生深入研究这些话题, 还会出现许多其他的，帮助我们形成一种文学语言和方法.

Women’s Literature is a survey course that explores literary works written from the 19th century to present by and about women in order to better understand how femininity and gender roles are both biologically and culturally constructed. 以西蒙娜·德·波伏娃的《新葡京平台》为视角, students will analyze several major literary works in order to explore women’s complex experiences historically and cross-culturally in relation to patriarchy, hegemony, 以及社会政治结构.

通过电影文学向学生介绍电影的批判性观看和分析，重点是风格, techniques, and ideologies, 目的是让学生成为更有鉴赏力的观众. 本课程通过介绍电影术语来传授基本的电影知识, scholarly articles, 以及电影中艺术技巧的讨论. 核心目标是拓展学生的思想和认知. Film, like all forms of art, is an attempt to communicate “something or other” to its viewer; as for decoding the “meaning,这门课将通过一系列电影中展示的各种术语和设备来进行概念交流. Discussions and explanations will accompany each film viewing in order to assist students’ understanding of the interplay of devices and their role within a film’s production and meaning.

文学与写作 facilitates in-depth written literary analysis with an emphasis on strengthening interpretations and arguments structurally and stylistically. 本课程提供必要的背景知识，帮助学生有针对性地表述, 有趣的论点和捍卫他们使用主要和次要的文本证据. 学生将练习和运用掌握权威和有说服力的声音和语气的技巧, 有效的组织, cohesion, 并剪裁体裁，以形成独特而有说服力的议论文.

这门课程追溯了这一经久不衰的流行流派的历史和演变，以便更好地理解它的吸引力, 它的惯例和主题关注点. 通过追踪像C. Auguste Dupin, 夏洛克·福尔摩斯和赫尔克里·波洛, 学生们自己也会成为侦探, 从文本中寻找线索，试图解开该体裁探索的谜团:人类动机的错综复杂的网络, 社会和文化的黑暗暗流，以及发现“真相”的悖论和困惑.到课程结束时, 学生将增加他们对体裁的历史的欣赏，并能够识别某些文本致敬的方式, critique, 或者在持续的社会文化评论中颠覆类型惯例.

“那是一个漆黑的暴风雨之夜……”这门课进入了“哥特式”文学的黑暗:鬼屋, gloomy landscapes, 多节的荒野和狂风暴雨的大海, 在哪里我们会遇到各种著名的文学怪物, ghosts and mysteries. 本课程将探讨“哥特”体裁的历史，以确定其惯例, forms, 以及主题关注点. 通过了解这段历史, 我们可以将这一类型的发展方式与今天的发展方式联系起来. 我们将一起探索哥特式的想象力，并批判性地思考为什么它的可怕的图像, 情节和人物与人类的经历产生共鸣.