English Composition 1102: The Argumentative Asian

Last Updated: Mon, 01/05/2026
Upload a PDF
PDF required. Please edit this page and upload a PDF. Please check PDF for accessibility prior to submission.
Course prefix:
ENGL
Course number:
1102
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

A composition course that develops writing skills beyond the levels of proficiency required byENGL1101, that emphasizes interpretation and evaluation, and thatincorporates a variety of more advanced research methods. Develops communication skills in networked electronic environments, emphasizes interpretation and evaluation ofcultural texts, and incorporates research methods in print and on the Internet.

Our class focus will be on understanding the comprehensive process of communication in the modern world. We will learn about the affordances of various technological mediums (e.g. digital media and print) and of the demands of differing genres and domains of communication (literary studies, cultural studies, academic writing, and humanistic analysis). We will sharpen our critical thinking by participating in ethical argumentation, text-based discussion, and training in the skills of communication and persuasion. Students will also be introduced to the fundamentals of the research process as well to the mature maneuvers of academic writing. As we dissect the processes that detail modern communication, we will consider synergy of written, oral, visual, electronic, and non-verbal communication (WOVEN). Ours will be a student led and collaborative course where members will be invited to work in teams and co-construct the course content.  

 

 

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Writing area. 

  

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals.  

  

This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question: 

  • How do I write effectively in different contexts?  

  

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcomes: 

  • Students will communicate effectively in writing, demonstrating clear organization and structure, using appropriate grammar and writing conventions.
  • Students will appropriately acknowledge the use of materials from original sources.
  • Students will adapt their written communications to purpose and audience.
  • Students will analyze and draw informed inferences from written texts.  

  

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies: 

  • Critical Thinking
  • Information Literacy
  • Persuasion  

 

 

Instructor first name:
Arpit
Instructor last name:
Kumar
Section:
F5, HP1, K07
CRN
30404
31595
35039
Department (you may add up to three):
Literature, Media, and Communication

ENGLISH COMPOSITION II

Last Updated: Mon, 01/05/2026
Upload a PDF
PDF required. Please edit this page and upload a PDF. Please check PDF for accessibility prior to submission.
Course prefix:
ENGL
Course number:
1102
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

A composition course that develops writing skills beyond the levels of proficiency required by ENGL 1101, that emphasizes interpretation and evaluation, and that incorporates a variety of more advanced research methods. Develops communication skills in networked electronic environments, emphasizes interpretation and evaluation of cultural texts, and incorporates research methods in print and on the Internet.

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

 

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Writing area. 

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals.  

This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question: 

How do I write effectively in different contexts?  

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcomes: 

  • Students will communicate effectively in writing, demonstrating clear organization and structure, using appropriate grammar and writing conventions.
  • Students will appropriately acknowledge the use of materials from original sources.
  • Students will adapt their written communications to purpose and audience.
  • Students will analyze and draw informed inferences from written texts.  

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies: 

  • Critical Thinking
  • Information Literacy
  • Persuasion  
Instructor first name:
Michael
Instructor last name:
Young
Section:
G03 and G7
CRN
30276
35136
Department (you may add up to three):
Literature, Media, and Communication

Intro to STaC

Last Updated: Fri, 01/02/2026
Upload a PDF
PDF required. Please edit this page and upload a PDF. Please check PDF for accessibility prior to submission.
Course prefix:
LMC
Course number:
2100
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

As the introductory course to the LMC Science, Technology and Culture thread, this course explores the way in which disciplines construct and represent the knowledge they generate.

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

Core IMPACTS

This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question:

  • How do I interpret the human experience through creative, linguistic and philosophical works?


 

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome:

  • Students will effectively analyze and interpret the meaning, cultural significance and ethical implications of literary/philosophical texts or of works in the visual/performing arts.
  • Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies:
  • Ethical Reasoning
  • Information Literacy
  • Intercultural Competence


 

Instructor first name:
Thomas
Instructor last name:
Crawford
Section:
B
CRN
31546
Department (you may add up to three):
Literature, Media, and Communication

Environmentalism and Ecocriticism

Last Updated: Fri, 01/02/2026
Upload a PDF
PDF required. Please edit this page and upload a PDF. Please check PDF for accessibility prior to submission.
Course prefix:
LMC
Course number:
3308
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

Surveys the emergence of ecocriticism as an analytical framework for interpreting the verbal and visual rhetorics of environmentalism in both western and nonwestern cultures.

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

Core IMPACTS

This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question:

  • How do I interpret the human experience through creative, linguistic and philosophical works?


 

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome:

  • Students will effectively analyze and interpret the meaning, cultural significance and ethical implications of literary/philosophical texts or of works in the visual/performing arts.


 

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies:

  • Ethical Reasoning
  • Information Literacy
  • Intercultural Competence
Instructor first name:
Thomas
Instructor last name:
Crawford
Section:
A
CRN
35310
Department (you may add up to three):
Literature, Media, and Communication

Studies in Fiction: Spunky Women in Literature

Last Updated: Fri, 01/02/2026
Upload a PDF
PDF required. Please edit this page and upload a PDF. Please check PDF for accessibility prior to submission.
Course prefix:
Literature, Media, and Communication
Course number:
3202
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

The course will open with a detailed study of The General Prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale" and the class will examine how several historical developments (including the plague and the Crusades) impacted the development of fiction that focuses on the lives of ordinary people.  Students will have the opportunity to read various examples of fiction (Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, The Wife of Willesden, and The Mere Wife) and will also explore the various components of fiction, including setting, characterization, and point of view. Perhaps even more important, students will look at the ways that various writers have created fiction to examine the times in which they lived and wrote. Focusing on Marion Turner's historical study of women in the Middle Ages and Rebecca Romney's study of the women writers who influenced Jane Austen, students will develop a better understanding of the circumstances that led writers to create women characters who resisted the conditions that faced them and then worked to establish themselves as fully human beings.

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Humanities area. Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas.
 

This course will help master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals. This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question:
• How do I interpret the human experience through creative, linguistic, and philosophical works.

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome:
• Students will effectively analyze and interpret the meaning, cultural significance, and ethical implications of literary/philosophical texts or of works in the visual/performing arts.
 

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies:
• Ethical Reasoning
• Information Literacy
• Intercultural Competence
 

Instructor first name:
Carol
Instructor last name:
Senf
Section:
CS
CRN
35034
Department (you may add up to three):
Literature, Media, and Communication

British and Contintental Romanticism

Last Updated: Fri, 01/02/2026
Upload a PDF
PDF required. Please edit this page and upload a PDF. Please check PDF for accessibility prior to submission.
Course prefix:
LMC
Course number:
3512
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

Course Description: Responding to increasing levels of individual and social freedom in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Europe, the vanguard culture of Modernity, enters a period of revolutions—intellectual, political, industrial/economic, and artistic.  Romanticism is the name we give to the artistic revolution of this era. British Romanticism is notable for its poetry, and we will read a number of canonical works by Romantic poets – Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats.  Continental Romanticism is predominately Germanic: philosophical and musical as well as literary; in this class we will turn our attention to the music of Beethoven, and to the philosophy of Hegel.  For our finale, we will read Mary Shelley’s novelistic exploration/critique of Romanticism, Frankenstein.

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Humanities area. Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals. This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question:•How do I interpret the human experience through creative, linguistic, and philosophical works? Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome:•Students will effectively analyze and interpret the meaning, cultural significance, and ethical implications of literary/philosophical texts or of works in the visual/performing arts. Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies:•Ethical Reasoning •Information Literacy •Intercultural Competence

Instructor first name:
Blake
Instructor last name:
Leland
Section:
B
CRN
29519
Department (you may add up to three):
Literature, Media, and Communication

Major Authors: James Joyce

Last Updated: Fri, 01/02/2026
Upload a PDF
PDF required. Please edit this page and upload a PDF. Please check PDF for accessibility prior to submission.
Course prefix:
LMC
Course number:
3226
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

This section of 3226 will focus on the work of James Joyce, one of the most important writers of the 20th century. We will begin with some of Joyce’s short stories (Dubliners), then quickly read his first novel (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man). This will prepare us to tackle Ulysses, a famous, and famously challenging, novel. I strongly suggest you take a look at it, sampling different chapters (you can find the text online easily enough – although you will have to buy a hardcopy). For those who engage with it on its own terms, this novel can be an experience of extraordinary linguistic and intellectual and emotional energy.  If you are willing and able to put in the substantial time and effort required, then I think you will find Ulysses among the most remarkable novels you will ever read.  You should, however, realize that it is set in Dublin, Ireland, in 1904. The novel as a whole proposes a (bittersweet) morality of tolerance and acceptance, but the characters are realistic, which is to say flawed, and sometimes express racist, misogynist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic attitudes common to the time. It was also considered to be offensively explicit about sex and sexualized fantasies, to the point where it was for some time banned as obscene.

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help students master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals.

 

This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question:

· How do I interpret the human experience through creative, linguistic, and philosophical works?

 

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome:

· Students will effectively analyze and interpret the meaning, cultural significance, and ethical implications of literary/philosophical texts or of works in the visual/performing arts.

 

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies:

· Ethical Reasoning

· Information Literacy

· Intercultural Competence

 

 

 

Instructor first name:
Blake
Instructor last name:
Leland
Section:
B
CRN
35309
Department (you may add up to three):
Literature, Media, and Communication

Studies in Fiction: Gothic Literature

Last Updated: Fri, 01/02/2026
Upload a PDF
PDF required. Please edit this page and upload a PDF. Please check PDF for accessibility prior to submission.
Course prefix:
LMC
Course number:
3202
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

LMC 3202: Studies in Fiction: Gothic Fiction

Dr. Narin Hassan

T/TH 2-3:15pm

Course Description: 

This course will trace the prominence of gothic, supernatural and sensational elements in novels of the nineteenth century as well as contemporary fictions. Much of the fiction we will read addresses or attempts to evoke feelings—particularly uncanny and disturbing feelings—and produces intricate plots devised to engage and sustain readers with melodramatic, gothic, and sensational elements. We will focus specifically on texts from the nineteenth-century that represent domesticity, gender, and crime and then examine the enduring influence of gothic narratives from this period to contemporary writing and culture. Readings will include Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Bram Stoker, Dracula, George Eliot, The Lifted Veil, and Florence Marryat, The Blood of the Vampire, among others. 

 

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Humanities area.

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help students master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals.

This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question:

  • How do I interpret the human experience through creative, linguistic, and philosophical works?

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome:

  • Students will effectively analyze and interpret the meaning, cultural significance, and ethical implications of literary/philosophical texts or of works in the visual/performing arts.

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies:

  • Ethical Reasoning
  • Information Literacy
  • Intercultural Competence
Instructor first name:
Narin
Instructor last name:
Hassan
Section:
NH
CRN
35302
Department (you may add up to three):
Literature, Media, and Communication

Major Authors: The Brontes

Last Updated: Fri, 01/02/2026
Upload a PDF
PDF required. Please edit this page and upload a PDF. Please check PDF for accessibility prior to submission.
Course prefix:
LMC
Course number:
3226
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

LMC 3226 Major Authors: The Brontës

Dr. Narin Hassan

T/TH 12:30-1:45pm

Course Description: 

This course will consider the prolific work of the Brontë sisters to trace the enduring influence of their writing within Victorian culture as well as contemporary literature and film. We will examine the literary movements, influences, and genres represented in novels such as Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (as well as other works) and examine how their forms of psychological realism represented aspects of nineteenth century culture and the rise of the woman writer. We will also discuss examples of adaptation within contemporary films, texts, art works, and music that are influenced by or reference their novels. 

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Humanities area.

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help students master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals.

This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question:

  • How do I interpret the human experience through creative, linguistic, and philosophical works?

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome:

  • Students will effectively analyze and interpret the meaning, cultural significance, and ethical implications of literary/philosophical texts or of works in the visual/performing arts.

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies:

  • Ethical Reasoning
  • Information Literacy
  • Intercultural Competence
Instructor first name:
Narin
Instructor last name:
Hassan
Section:
NH
CRN
35301
Department (you may add up to three):
Literature, Media, and Communication

Animation

Last Updated: Wed, 12/31/2025
Upload a PDF
PDF required. Please edit this page and upload a PDF. Please check PDF for accessibility prior to submission.
Course prefix:
LMC
Course number:
3253
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

Ever wondered how drawings, puppets, or pixels come to life on screen? This course takes you on a journey through the history and art of animation: from hand-drawn shorts and stop-motion experiments to today’s stunning digital worlds. No prior experience is required. You’ll explore how animation has evolved as both an artistic and cultural force, learning how animators across time and continents have shaped the way we imagine stories, characters, and motion itself. Along the way, you’ll gain a foundation in animation history, technique, and theory, with an opportunity to get hands-on experience using Autodesk Maya to create simple 3D scenes.

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Arts, Humanities & Ethics area.

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help master course content, and support students' broad academic and career goals.

Orienting Question:

  • How do I interpret the human experience through creative, linguistic and philosophical works?

Learning Outcome:

  • Students will effectively analyze and interpret the meaning, cultural significance and ethical implications of literary/philosophical texts or of works in the visual/performing arts.

Career-Ready Competencies:

  • Ethical Reasoning
  • Information Literacy
  • Intercultural Competence
Instructor first name:
Krystian
Instructor last name:
Ramlogan
Section:
B
CRN
34480
Department (you may add up to three):
Literature, Media, and Communication
Subscribe to Literature, Media, and Communication