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CONTENTS
Staff
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Welcome
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How to Use this Pamphlet
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Course Table
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General Information
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The following is a complete list of the courses from which the Department will choose to offer a selection
in any given year. Quotas are established for all courses and you may have to choose alternative courses
at Registration, depending on the demand. Check the Department Office for the courses offered in a
particular year and for the quotas. The new codes will be used this academic year in conjunction with the
old codes.
LEVEL 1 COURSES
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LITS 1001 (E10A): Introduction to Poetry
LITS 1002 (E10B): Introduction to Prose Fiction
LITS 1003 (E10C): Introduction to Drama
LITS 1004 (E10D): Introduction to Orature (not offered in 2011/2012)
LITS 1006 (E10F): Introduction to Film
LITS 1007 (E10G): Reading and Writing about Literature
LITS 1501 (E15A): Introduction to Chaucer (not offered in 2011/2012)
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LEVEL 2/3 COURSES
LITS 2003 (E20C): Poetry & Narrative (not offered in 2011/2012)
LITS 2004 (E20D): Love, Death & Poetry
LITS 2103 (E21C): Modern Prose Fiction
LITS 2107 (E21G): African/Diaspora Women's Narrative
LITS 2108 (E21H): Modem American Literary Prose
LITS 2113 (E21M): Writing Africa from the Diaspora (not offered in 2011/2012)
LITS 2201 (E22A): Drama I (not offered in 2011/2012)
LITS 2202 (E22B): Drama II
LITS 2207 (E22G): Introduction to Shakespeare (not offered in 2011/2012)
LITS 2301 (E23A): Key Issues in Literary Criticism I
LITS 2304 (E23D): Key Issues in Literary Criticism II (not offered in 2011/2012)
LITS 2402 (E24B): Folk Tale & Proverb (not offered in 2011/2012)
LITS 2502 (E25B): West Indian Literature II: Women's Fiction (not offered in 2011/2012)
LITS 2503 (E25C): West Indian Poetry
LITS 2504 (E25D): The West Indian Novel (not offered in 2011/2012)
LITS 2505 (E25E): West Indian Drama
LITS 2511 (E25K): West Indian Autobiography
LITS 2603 (E26C): Creative Writing: Poetry
LITS 2604 (E26D): Creative Writing: Prose Fiction
LITS 2606 (E26F): Creative Writing: For Screen and Stage (not offered in 2011/2012)
LITS 2706 (E27F): Reggae Poetry
LITS 2901 (E29A): Latin American Cultural Studies (not offered in 2011/2012)
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LEVEL 3 COURSES
LITS 3001 (E30A): Modern Poetry
LITS 3002 (E30D): Myth, Epic and Hero (not offered in 2011/2012)
LITS 3006 (E30F): Borderlands Cinema (not offered in 2011/2012)
LITS 3103 (E31C): The City in Fiction
LITS 3111 (E31K): Contemporary Science Fiction (not offered in 2011/2012)
LITS 3113 (E31M): Africa in the Black Atlantic Imagination
LITS 3203 (E32C): The Romance
LITS 3204 (E32D): Shakespeare I
LITS 3205 (E32E): Shakespeare II (not offered in 2011/2012)
LITS 3316 (E33P): Postcolonial Literature I
LITS 3317 (E33Q): Postcolonial Literature II (not offered in 2011/2012)
LITS 3319 (E33S): The Sonnet (not offered in 2011/2012)
LITS 3402 (E34B): Classic American Prose Fiction
LITS 3501 (E35B): West Indian Literature: Special Author Seminar (Lorna Goodison)
(Earl Lovelace & Erna Brodber - not offered in 2011/2012)
LITS 3502 (E35D): West Indian Literature: Special Author Seminar
(Austin Clarke - not offered in 2011/2012)
LITS 3503 (E35C): Derek Walcott, Poet (not offered in 2011/2012)
LITS 3601 (E36A): African Literature I
LITS 3701 (E37A): African American Literature
LITS 3702 (E37B): African American Women Writers (not offered in 2011/2012)
LITS 3801 (E38A): Environmental Literature (not offered in 2011/2012)
LITS 3911 (E39K): Major Authors: William Butler Yeats (not offered in 2011/2012)
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COMPARATIVE CARIBBEAN LITERATURE
HUMN 1101 (AR11A): Introduction to Comparative Caribbean Literature I: Afro-Caribbean Poetry
(not offered in 2011/2012)
HUMN 1102 (AR11B): Introduction to Comparative Caribbean Literature II: Women's Writing
(not offered in 2011/2012)
HUMN 2201 (AR22A): Literature and Ideas in the Caribbean I
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HUMN 2202 (AR22B): Literature and Ideas in the Caribbean II (not offered in 2011/2012)
HUMN 3199 (AR311): Research Topics in Comparative Caribbean Literature (not offered in 2011/2012)
M.A. GRADUATE COURSES
LITS 6001 (E60A): Twentieth Century Literary Theory
LITS 6026 (E60Z): Research and Writing for Publication (not offered in 2011/2012)
LITS 6004 (E60D): Caribbean Poetics
LITS 6105 (E61E): Postcolonial Literatures and Theories I (not offered in 2011/2012)
LITS 6202 (E62B): Women, Fiction and Gender
LITS 6203 (E62C): Women, Poetry and Gender (not offered in 2011/2012)
LITS 6404 (E64C): Postcolonialism and Shakespeare Criticism (not offered in 2011/2012)
LITS 6501 (E65A): Special Topics in West Indian Literature: Writing the Nation in Jamaican Poetry
LITS 6701 (E67A): Modern African Literature (not offered in 2011/2012)
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STAFF
Norval Edwards, B.A. (UWI), M.A., Ph.D. (York, Ontario), Senior Lecturer & Head of Department
(Room 20 Sir Roy Augier Building)
Carolyn Allen, B.A., M.A. (UWI), M-Ps-L. (Bordeaux), Temporary Lecturer
(Room 46 NAB)
Michael Bucknor, B.A. (UWI) M.A., Ph.D (Western Ontario), Lecturer
(Room 50 NAB)
Carolyn Cooper, B.A. (UWI), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto), Professor
(Room 37 NAB)
Garfield Ellis, Dip. (J.I.M.), M.F.A (Univ. of Miami), Temporary Lecturer
(Room 29 NAB)
Mawuena Logan, B.A. (Benin), M.A., Ph.D. (Iowa), Senior Lecturer
(Room 34 NAB)
Anthea Morrison, B.A., (UWI), Maitrise, Doctorat de 3 eme cycle [Ph.D] (Paris), Senior Lecturer
(Room 3 Sir Roy Augier Building)
Rachel Moseley-Wood, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (UWI), Mona, Lecturer
(Room 41 NAB)
Tanya Shirley, B.A. (UWI), M.F.A. (Univ. of Maryland), Temporary Lecturer
(Room 55 NAB)
David Williams, B.A., M.A. (UWI), Senior Lecturer
(Room 54 NAB)
Edward Baugh, BA (Lond-UCWI), MA (Queen's, Ontario), Ph.D. (Manc.) Professor Emeritus
Mervyn Morris, BA (Lond-UCWI), MA (Oxford), Professor Emeritus
Maureen Warner-Lewis, B.A. (UWI), M.Phil. (York, England), Ph.D. (UWI), Professor Emerita
Elizabeth Wilson, B.A. (Newton College), Dip. Ed. (London Univ.), M.A., PhD. (Michigan State),
Senior Lecturer (Adjunct)
Mrs Cordella O’Gilvie, Administrative Secretary
(Room 19 Sir Roy Augier Building) Tel.927-2217 or 927-1661, Ext.2396
Mr Doniq Salmon, Secretary III
(Room 19 Sir Roy Augier Building) Tel. 927-2217 or 927-1661, Ext. 2396
Sir Roy Augier Building (formerly Old Arts Block); NAB = New Arts Block
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WELCOME TO
THE DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURES IN ENGLISH!
The beginning of an academic year, especially at the start of a new programme, is a time of high expectations, and perhaps
inevitably some anxiety, as you find your way around offices and try to ensure that you satisfy all requirements. Be assured
that this Department is committed to offering the support and guidance you will need as you begin or as you continue your
studies. We are proud that in the student polls conducted in the past year, the Department of Literatures in English has
consistently scored high marks both for customer service to all those who come to the office, and in the teaching
evaluations completed by students at the end of each semester. We take your views and your concerns seriously: do not
hesitate to ask for advice when you need it, either by consulting one of the departmental secretaries (Room 19, Sir Roy
Augier Building) or by making an appointment to speak with your lecturers, or with the head of department, as appropriate.
At the same time, we expect you to adhere to the Department's standards by regular attendance (which is indispensable for
tutorials), conscientious preparation for classes, and of course meticulous preparation of coursework assignments including careful documentation of all critical sources.
Remember also to have fun! It is our hope that you will enjoy an area of study which offers insights into human
psychology, social relations, politics, history and culture. The options that a degree in Literatures in English offers are
diverse: in the course of this year, we will organize one of our regular seminars on the topic of career choices. At one such
gathering, we were fortunate to have the insights of three successful graduates, one working as a copywriter, one as a
University administrator, and the third as a banker; all emphasized that the skills of careful research and analysis which had
been acquired or reinforced while they were students of this department had proven to be invaluable in their career of
choice. In previous years, graduates in areas such as public relations, publishing, journalism and law have made similar
presentations. We are proud to count among our graduates distinguished creative writers, the best known of whom is Nobel
Laureate Derek Walcott, and take this opportunity to encourage those of you who have an interest in this area to consider
taking one of the two courses in creative writing presently offered by the Department. Students are also encouraged to
attend the various book launches, readings, public lectures, and seminars regularly sponsored by this department. In recent
years, the Department has hosted conferences on West Indian Literature and on the Late Louise Bennett-Coverley,
organized book launches by Lorna Goodison, Olive Senior and our own Professor Emerita Maureen Warner-Lewis; and
hosted public lectures by popular entertainers such as Vybz Kartel and Tanya Stephens. The year ahead also promises to be
a full and exciting one, so please check the departmental notice board regularly, and do not hesitate to contribute your own
ideas about activities in which you would like to see us participate.
Finally, it is worth reminding our students of the significance of the use of the plural form "literatures" in the name of the
Department. The point is that you will not be simply studying the literature of England, but rather a variety of literatures,
mainly from the Caribbean, North America, Europe and Africa, reflecting different social and cultural contexts.
The Department celebrated its sixtieth anniversary in 2010, an occasion which reminds us that the UWI experience is not
just a fleeting moment, but one defined by a rich tradition of academic pursuits, and, more importantly, by a sense of
community, by the friendships and collegial relations established, by the consolidation of a regional identity, and by a sense
of accomplishment and sheer joy derived from the many extra curricular activities available on campus. We wish for you,
the new generation of students of Literatures in English, an equally rich and fulfilling time at Mona.
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HOW TO USE THIS PAMPHLET
The main information that this pamphlet contains is the list of prescribed, highly recommended and
recommended books for each course offered in the Department in 2009/2010. Prescribed texts are books which
each student must acquire in order to pursue the course. It is left to the student to determine how many of the
other texts to acquire. The highly recommended and recommended texts listed in this pamphlet are only those
that the bookshop is asked to stock. Lecturers are likely to recommend other texts which will normally be
available in the Library.
Each course in the Faculty is assigned a code which identifies the department, the course and the level of the
course. "LITS (E)" is the code for the Department of Literatures in English and the number immediately
following indicates the level: LITS 1 [E1] = Level I course (e.g. LITS 1001 [E10A], LITS 1002 [E10B]), LITS
2 [E2] = Level II course (e.g. LITS 2003 [E20C], LITS 2201 [E22A]), LITS 3 [E3] = Level III course (e.g. LITS
3103 [E31C], LITS 3205 [E32E]).
THE MAJOR IN LITERATURES IN ENGLISH:
Students who declare a Major in Literatures in English (at least 12 courses or 36 credits) MUST take LITS
1001 [E10A], LITS 1002 [E10B] and LITS 1003 [E10C]. All students who wish to read Level II or Level III
courses in English must have passed the Level I course in the particular genre. For example, LITS 1001 [E10A]
is required for all Level II and III courses in Poetry, LITS 1002 [E10B] is required for all Level II and III
courses in Prose Fiction, and LITS 1003 [E10C] is required for all Level II and III courses in Drama. However,
please note that a few courses may have more than one Level I course as prerequisites.
Each of the above courses lasts for one semester, with 3 contact hours each week. Normally, coursework is
assessed for 40% of the marks available and, at the end of the semester, there is a written examination for the
remaining 60%.
All students declaring a Major in Literatures in English must by the end of their final year have passed the
following Level II or Level III courses, with no course counting more than once:
(1) a course in West Indian Literature
(2) a Poetry course
(3) a Shakespeare course
(4) a Modern Prose Fiction course
(5) a course in Critical Approaches or Literary Theory (such as a "Key Issues" course)
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COURSES (Names and Codes)
LITS 2004 (E20D) LOVE, DEATH AND POETRY
PROSE FICTION/WEST
INDIAN
POETRY
LITS 2006 (E20F) BORDERLANDS CINEMA
FILM
LITS 2103 (E21C) MODERN PROSE FICTION
PROSE FICTION
LITS 2107 (E21G) AFRICAN/DIASPORA WOMEN’S NARRATIVE
PROSE FICTION
LITS 2108 (E21H) MODERN AMERICAN LITERARY PROSE
PROSE FICTION
LITS 2113 (E21M) WRITING AFRICA FROM THE DIASPORA
PROSE FICTION
LITS 2201 (E22A) DRAMA I
DRAMA
LITS 2201 (E22B) DRAMA II
DRAMA
LITS 2207 (E22G) INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE
SHAKESPEARE
LITS 2301 (E23A) KEY ISSUES IN LITERARY CRITICISM I
LITERARY THEORY
LITS 2304 (E23D) KEY ISSUES IN LITERARY CRITICISM II
LITERARY THEORY
LITS 2503 (E25C) WEST INDIAN POETRY
LITS 2505 (E25E) WEST INDIAN DRAMA
POETRY/WEST INDIAN
PROSE FICTION/WEST
INDIAN
DRAMA/WEST INDIAN
LITS 2511 (E25K) WEST INDIAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
WEST INDIAN
LITS 2603 (E26C) CREATIVE WRITING (POETRY)
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LITS 2604 (E26D) CREATIVE WRITING (PROSE FICTION)
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LITS 2706 (E27F) REGGAE POETRY
POETRY
LITS 3001 (E30A) MODERN POETRY
POETRY
LITS 3103 (E31C) THE CITY IN FICTION
PROSE FICTION
LITS 3111 (E31K) CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE FICTION
RESEARCH PAPER *
LITS 3113 (E31M): AFRICA IN THE BLACK ATLANTIC IMAGINATION
PROSE FICTION
LITS 3203 (E32C) THE ROMANCE
PROSE FICTION
LITS 3204 (E32D) SHAKESPEARE I
SHAKESPEARE
LITS 3205 (E32E) SHAKESPEARE II
SHAKESPEARE
LITS 3316 (E33P) POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE I
RESEARCH PAPER *
LITS 3317 (E33Q) POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE II
RESEARCH PAPER *
LITS 3319 (E33S) THE SONNET
POETRY
LITS 3402 (E34B) CLASSIC AMERICAN PROSE FICTION
PROSE FICTION
LITS 3501 (E35B) WEST INDIAN LITERATURE: A SPECIAL AUTHOR SEMINAR (*eg. Lorna Goodison)
RESEARCH PAPER *
LITS 3502 (E35D) WEST INDIAN LITERATURE: A SPECIAL AUTHOR SEMINAR (Austin Clarke)
RESEARCH PAPER *
LITS 3503 (E35C) DEREK WALCOTT, POET
POETRY
LITS 3601 (E36A) AFRICAN LITERATURE I
PROSE FICTION
LITS 3701 (E37A) AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE
PROSE FICTION
LITS 3801 (E38A) ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE
PROSE FICTION
LITS 3911 (E39K) MAJOR AUTHORS: WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
POETRY
Level II
HUMN 2201 (AR22A) LITERATURE AND IDEAS IN THE CARIBBEAN I
LITS 2504 (E25D) THE WEST INDIAN NOVEL
Level III
AREAS
* - Does not count for afore mentioned requirements.
NB - All Level III Courses have Level II prerequisites
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GENERAL INFORMATION
1. REGISTRATION
Each student reading a course in English must register with the Department at the beginning of the academic
year, in addition to registering with the University and the Faculty.
Students should promptly report to the Department Secretary any change of name, address or telephone number.
2. CLASSES
Courses comprise lectures and tutorials. For tutorials, students are divided into small groups which meet with a
tutor for an hour once a week. While attendance at lectures is optional (though highly recommended),
attendance at tutorials is compulsory. (See also #5 below.)
3. ESSAYS AND OTHER WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS
Each course requires from the student a specified amount of written work. Deadlines are set by individual tutors.
Students are expected to observe these deadlines.
Tutors are willing to discuss graded assignments and may insist that students with serious weaknesses attend a
discussion session. Grades assigned and comments made become a part of the student's undergraduate record in
the Department.
Written work demands some originality of ideas, clarity of expression, logical organisation of thought and
acceptable presentation of material. Marks will be deducted for work that is improperly presented or
documented, or that has a significant number of grammatical or other errors. Plagiarism will be dealt with
severely. Each student should collect from the Department Office a copy of the pamphlet Notes on Essay
Writing, which offers basic guidance.
4. NOTICE BOARD
Students should read the notice board outside the Departmental office (Room 19) regularly for information
about courses and other activities.
5. EXAMINATIONS
Any student who misses a significant number of classes can be debarred from sitting the final exam as set out in
the General Examination Regulations 22:
"Any candidate who has been absent from the University for a prolonged period during the term
for any reason other than illness, or whose attendance at prescribed lectures, classes, tutorial or
clinical instructions has been unsatisfactory, or who has failed to submit essays set by his teachers,
may be debarred by Senate on the recommendation of the Faculty Board concerned, from sitting
any University Examination."
The Department insists on punctual and regular attendance at tutorials and on active participation in classes. All
assignments must be submitted. Students who do not submit their prescribed coursework are significantly
reducing their final marks.
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6. THE MARKING AND GRADING SCHEME
GRADE
A+
A
AB+
B
BC+
C
CD+
D
F
GPA
86% and above
70%-85%
67%-69%
63%-66%
60%-62%
57%-59%
53%-56%
50%-52%
47%-49%
43%-46%
40%-42%
0%-39%
First Class Honours
Upper Second Class Honours
Lower Second Class Honours
Pass
MARKS
4.3
4.0
3.7
3.3
3.0
2.7
2.3
2.0
1.7
1.3
1.0
0.0
(Weighted GPA 3.60 and Above)
(Weighted GPA 3.00 -3.59)
(Weighted GPA 2.00-2.99)
(Weighted GPA 1.00-1.99)
7. DEPARTMENTAL PRIZES
Every year the Department recognises excellence by awarding a prize (usually books/book tokens) to the best
student in Literatures in English in each of the three years. In addition, the Department usually nominates a
student entering the final year of the English Major for the Anna Hollar Prize. There is also the Vicens Prize for
outstanding performance at Level II. In 2000-2001, the Department introduced the Derek Walcott Prize for
Poetry. In 2006-2007, the Brodber/Pollard Prize for creative writing was offered for the first time to the student
achieving the highest marks in E26D.
8. CONSULTATION/COUNSELLING
Members of the Department have regular office hours for students wishing to consult them outside of lecture
and tutorial times. Please try to observe these arrangements whenever possible.
Part-time students who find it difficult to contact staff outside of teaching and office hours are advised to make
an appointment by telephone.
Whenever problems arise, students should seek counselling from the Head of Department or any other member
of staff. If approached early, lecturers can often help to find solutions. Consultations are treated confidentially.
9. DEPARTMENTAL CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE
This Committee comprises members of the Department together with student representatives. For each course,
students elect a Class Representative who provides a link between the class and the Department on the
Departmental Consultative Committee (DCC). In this way, students can make an input into the Department's
deliberations about its academic programme, the nature and quality of its teaching, and the relationship between
students and staff.
Meetings are normally held at least once in each semester and are primarily concerned with matters affecting the
Department which students wish to discuss. However, academic and related problems, or suggestions for
improvement of courses and teaching should be discussed with the lecturer/tutor concerned before being brought
to the Consultative Committee. The Department is always ready to discuss with students any serious grievances.
Students, if not satisfied, may also raise matters with the Dean.
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COURSES AVAILABLE for 2011/2012
[Unless otherwise stated, all courses are one semester long and for three credits each]
SEMESTER I
SEMESTER II
LITS 1001 (EI0A) [DAY only]
LITS 1002 (EI0B) [EVENING only]
LITS 1003 (EI0C) (DAY only]
LITS 1006 (EI0F)
LITS 1007 (E10G)
LITS 1001 (EI0A) [EVENING only]
LITS 1002 (EI0B) (DAY only]
LITS 1003 (EI0C) [EVENING only]
HUMN 2201 (AR22A)
LITS 2004 (E20D)
LITS 2103 (E21C)
LITS 2107 (E21G)
LITS 2202 (E22B)
LITS 2301 (E23A)
LITS 2505 (E25E)
LITS 2603 (E26C)
LITS 2108 (E21H)
LITS 2503 (E25C)
LITS 2511 (E25K)
LITS 2604 (E26D)
LITS 2706 (E27F)
LITS 3103 (E31C)
LITS 3316 (E33P)
LITS 3701 (E37A)
LITS 3001 (E30A)
LITS 3113 (E31M)
LITS 3203 (E32C)
LITS 3204 (E32D)
LITS 3402 (E34B)
LITS 3601 (E36A)
COURSES AVAILABLE SEMESTER I
LITS 1001 (E10A): INTRODUCTION TO POETRY (DAY only)
Lecturer in charge:
Dr Michael Bucknor
[Room 50 - New Arts Block]
An introduction to methods and techniques of critical appreciation of poetry. The lectures will be complemented
by assignments in critical analysis of a variety of poems from the prescribed text and elsewhere.
Instruction:
2 lectures and 1 tutorial per week
Evaluation:
Best 4 coursework assignments
Final 3-hour examination (2 answers)
40%
60%
Prescribed Texts:
Arp, Thomas R and Greg Johnson. Sound and Sense (12th Wadsworth Publishing ed. pb)
LITS 1002 (E10B): INTRODUCTION TO PROSE FICTION (EVENING only)
Lecturer in charge:
Professor Carolyn Cooper
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th
[Room 37 - New Arts Block]
Focusing on four novels of the 19 and 20 centuries, arising out of varying cultural contexts, the course
provides an introduction to key issues in the study of prose fiction. John Peck's How to Study a Novel is a highly
recommended text. In his "Preface," Peck notes that "[l]iterary criticism is an activity, like any other, with its
own rules and well-established modes of conduct. But these rules are seldom, if ever, explained to the
newcomer. He or she is likely to be thrown in at the deep end, and, in a confused sort of way, from the
observation of others, expected to establish what the rules are." The purpose of this course is to guide students
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into an understanding of some of the "rules" that "govern" literary criticism; and to enable the application of
these in the study of representative novels.
Instruction:
2 lectures, 1 tutorial per week
Evaluation:
Coursework assignments (to be announced)
Final 2-hour examination (2 answers)
40%
60%
Prescribed Texts:
Achebe, Chinua. A Man of the People (Heinemann pb)
Brontё, Charlotte. Jane Eyre (Penguin pb)
Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin pb)
Swarup, Vikas. Q & A: A Novel (Slumdog Millionaire) (Scribner pb)
Highly Recommended Texts:
Abrams, M. H. A Glossary of Literary Terms (Thomson Wadsworth pb)
Peck, John. How to Study a Novel (Palgrave pb)
LITS 1003 (E10C): INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA (DAY only)
Lecturer in charge:
Ms Carolyn Allen
[Room 46 - New Arts Block]
Playtexts use both poetry and prose, but as a performing art drama is sharply distinct. Just as much as musical
notation, a playtext is in a special language that demands specific skills of interpretation. This course provides
an introduction to reading, seeing, and writing about drama: there is history (of theatres, of acting, of
production) to learn, and some theory to absorb, but we will then turn to complete plays and put those lessons
into practice.
Instruction:
2 lectures and 1 tutorial per week
Evaluation:
2 essays
Tutorial presentation(s)
Final 2-hour exam (2 answers)
30%
10%
60%
Prescribed Texts:
Pinter, Harold. The Birthday Party (Macmillan pb)
Rhone, Trevor. Old Story Time (Heinemann pb)
Shakespeare William. Othello (Cambridge Univ. Press pb)
Sophocles. The Theban Plays (Penguin pb)
Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire (Penguin pb)
LITS 1006 (E10F): INTRODUCTION TO FILM
Lecturer in charge:
Dr Rachel Moseley-Wood
[Room 41 - New Arts Block]
Literacy may be defined as ‘the capacity to interpret and negotiate a system of signs’. While most people in
modern societies are already familiar with the system of signs that operates in mainstream or commercial
cinema, the course seeks to introduce students to basic elements of film language, theory and practice in order to
foster a critical and more sophisticated understanding of the rules, conventions and structures that govern film.
The course will sensitise students to the complexity of meaning produced in films and will introduce them to the
vocabulary of film criticism. Students will be required to view and analyse a core of six films. In addition, they
will also be required to attend regularly scheduled screenings that will feature older films, independent, foreign
and third world films, documentaries and ethnographic films. These screenings will both enhance students’
study of the six core films as well as increase their exposure to film practices outside of commercial or dominant
cinema.
Prerequisite:
None
Instruction:
Two one-hour lectures and one two-hour screening session per
week, plus one tutorial hour per week.
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Evaluation:
Tutorial presentation
Review journal (comments, reviews, responses to films screened)
Essay (2,000 words)
Final in-course test
10%
10%
30%
50%
Recommended Text:
Sikov, Ed. Film Studies: An Introduction. (Columbia University Press pb)
Hill, John, Pamela Church Gibson et al. Film Studies: Critical Approaches (Oxford University Press pb)
LITS 1007 (E10G): READING AND WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE
Lecturer in charge:
Dr Anthea Morrison
[Room 3 - Sir Roy Augier Building]
Guidance and practice are provided in the following: how to read the literary genres of prose fiction, drama and
autobiography; how to write literary essays using basic principles of argumentation and paragraph organisation;
and how to evaluate the critics and use them discriminately. While a close reading approach to literature is
encouraged, some emphasis is placed on ways in which cultural and other contextual factors of production can
affect meaning in the work. Similarly, in the evaluation of critical commentaries, the importance of the critic's
theoretical approach is addressed in a preliminary way. Guidance is also provided in the general management of
learning and study activities.
Instruction:
2-hour seminar, 1 tutorial
Evaluation:
3 in-course assignments including two major essays
100%
Prescribed Texts:
Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun (Vintage pb)
Obama, Barack. Dreams from My Father (Three Rivers Press pb)
Rhys, Jean. Voyage in the Dark (Penguin pb)
Roberts, Edgar V. Writing About Literature (Prentice Hall pb)
LEVEL 2/3 COURSES AVAILABLE SEMESTER I
HUMN 2201 (AR22A): LITERATURE AND IDEAS IN THE CARIBBEAN I
Lecturer in charge:
Dr Anthea Morrison
[Room 3 - Sir Roy Augier Building]
This course focuses on selected issues in writing across the Caribbean, including the following topics (with
emphases which may vary from time to time): the treatment of history, nationalism, gender concerns, neocolonialism, anti-imperialism and Marxism, religion, choice of language, narrative technique, orature, magic
realism, Caribbean literature as counter-discourse.
Prerequisite:
'A' level literature or one literature course from Department of Modern Languages and
Literatures or Literatures in English
Instruction:
2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial
Evaluation:
1 seminar-type presentation
1 term-paper
1 two-hour exam
Prescribed Texts:
Carpentier, Alejo. The Kingdom of This World (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux pb)
Danticat, Edwidge. The Dew Breaker (Vintage pb)
Garcia, Cristina. The Aguero Sisters (Ballantine pb)
Roumain, Jacques. Masters of the Dew (Heinemann pb)
10%
40%
50%
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LITS 2004 (E20D): LOVE, DEATH AND POETRY
Lecturer in charge:
Ms Tanya Shirley
[Room 55 - New Arts Block]
Emphasizing diversity of attitude and technique, the course will examine a range of poems dealing with love and
death, perhaps the two most pervasive themes in poetry.
Prerequisite:
LITS 1001 (E10A)
Instruction:
2 lectures, 1 tutorial per week
Evaluation:
Tutorial presentation
One coursework essay/textual analyses
Final 2-hour exam (2 answers)
10%
30%
60%
Prescribed Texts:
Donne, John. Selected Poems (Oxford Univ. Press pb)
Goodison, Lorna. Selected Poems (Univ. of Michigan Press pb)
Hardy, Thomas. Selected Poetry (Oxford Univ. Press pb)
Johnson, Trevor. A Critical Introduction to the Poems of Thomas Hardy (Macmillan pb)
Highly Recommended:
Peck, John. How to Study a Poet (Macmillan pb)
LITS 2103 (E21C): MODERN PROSE FICTION
Lecturer in charge:
Dr Norval Edwards
[Room 20 - Sir Roy Augier Building]
The course will examine approaches to Modern British and American Prose Fiction in the 20th century, from the
traditional to the experimental. It will explore some of the techniques and concerns of modem fiction, through a
detailed study of four texts.
Prerequisite:
LITS 1002 (E10B)
Instruction:
2 lectures and 1 tutorial per week
Evaluation:
One coursework essay (2,500 words)
Two in-class tests
Class presentation
Final 2-hour exam (2 answers)
20%
16%
4%
60%
Prescribed Texts:
Faulkner, William. Intruder in the Dust (Signet pb) eBook available from Lecturer
Greene, Graham. The Power and the Glory (Penguin pb)
Joyce, James. Dubliners (Penguin pb)
Lawrence, D. H. Sons and Lovers (Penguin pb)
Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse (Penguin pb)
Highly Recommended:
Beja, Morris, ed. James Joyce: Dubliners and a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: A Casebook (Macmillan pb)
Beja, Morris, ed. Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse: A Casebook (Macmillan pb)
Ford, Boris ed. New Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol. 7: From James to Eliot (Penguin pb)
Salgado, Gamini, ed. D.H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers: A Casebook (Macmillan pb)
LITS 2107 (E21G): AFRICAN DIASPORA WOMEN'S NARRATIVE
Lecturer in charge:
Professor Carolyn Cooper
[Room 37 - New Arts Block]
Beginning with the analysis of one Southern African and one West African novel, the course defines indigenous
African feminist perspectives from which to compare the diasporic African-American and Caribbean texts. The
authors' use of narrative conventions and modes such as autobiography, the bildungsroman, the romance, the
quest/journey motif, dreams, visions and awakenings suggests a tradition of female discourses that cross lines of
race, class, ethnicity and gender. These female-authored African/Diasporic narratives employ "mainstream"
canonical literary techniques while .simultaneously sharing discursive strategies with other feminist texts that
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contest the hegemony of the phallocentric, literary canon. Techniques of oracy, for example, constitute an
alternate, privileged discourse for these African/Diasporic women writers.
Prerequisite:
LITS 1002 (E10B)
Instruction:
Two lectures, one tutorial per week
Evaluation:
One 2,500-word typewritten essay
Two tutorial presentations
Final 2-hour examination (2 answers)
20%
20%
60%
Prescribed Texts:
Aidoo, Ama Ata. Changes (Feminist Press pb)
Brodber, Erna. Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home (New Beacon pb)
Dangarembga, Tsitsi. Nervous Conditions (Women's Press pb)
Kincaid, Jamaica. Lucy (Farrar, Straus, Giroux pb)
Marshall, Paule. Praisesong for the Widow (Penguin, pb)
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby (Penguin pb)
LITS 2202 (E22B): DRAMA II
Lecturer in charge:
Mr Brian Heap
[Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts]
The course will examine 6 modern plays in detail from literary and dramatic angles, and will focus especially on
the theatre as a forum for ideas.
Pre-requisite:
LITS 1003 (E10C)
Instruction:
2 lectures and 1 tutorial per week
Evaluation:
1 essay
2 in-class tests @ 8% EACH
Class tutorial presentation
Final 2-hour exam
20%
16%
4%
60%
Prescribed Texts:
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot (Faber pb)
Ibsen, Henrik. Four Major Plays. Vol. 1. Ed. R. Fjelde (Signet pb)
O’Neill, Eugene. Long Day’s Journey into Night (Faber pb)
Pinter, Harold. The Birthday Party (Faber pb)
Strindberg, A. Miss Julie & Other Plays. Ed. Henry Carlson (Signet pb)
LITS 2301 (E23A): KEY ISSUES IN LITERARY CRITICISM I
Lecturer in charge:
Dr Michael Bucknor
[Room 50 - New Arts Block]
Interpretation (establishing the meaning[s] of the text) is an integral part of literary appreciation. This course
examines the issues which arise from the idea and practice of interpreting literary texts. The aim is not to teach
us how to interpret, but to make us understand what it is we do when we interpret, and what considerations
ought to be taken into account in trying to deal with the issues. If, in the process, our critical and interpretative
skills are enhanced, so much the better.
Prerequisite:
Six (6) credits from any of the following level 1 courses: HUMN 1101 (AR11A) or
HUMN 1102 (AR11B) or LITS 1001 (E10A) or LITS 1002 (E10B) 0r LITS 1003
(E10C) or LITS 1007 (E10G)
Instruction:
2 lectures, 1 tutorial per week
Evaluation:
3 written assignments
Final examination
Prescribed Texts:
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby (Penguin pb)
LITS 2301 (E23A) Course Reader (copies available at Ditto)
40%
60%
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LITS 2505 (E25E): WEST INDIAN DRAMA
Lecturer in charge:
Ms Carolyn Allen
[Room 46 - Old Arts Block]
An introduction to West Indian drama in English, with attention to sources, historical development, major
writers and modes, as well as performance practices and the ideas which inform them. The study of the plays
will consider the differences between the dramatic text as an object of literary study and the playtext or script as
a 'blueprint' for performance.
The course undertakes a historical survey of the development of theatre in the West Indies with reference to some of the
most prominent playwrights, including Errol Hill, Derek Walcott, Trevor Rhone and Dennis Scott. A comparative study of
three two-handers (Walcott, Rhone, Williams) will be followed by three contemporary plays (Contemporary Caribbean
Drama - Sistren, Hippolyte, Strachan) all in an attempt to answer questions like:
a. What makes a play West Indian?
b. How do indigenous, traditional forms influence theatre practice?
c. To what extent and how does the theatre respond to political issues in the nation(s)/region?
Prerequisite:
Instruction:
Evaluation:
LITS 1003 (E10C)
2 lectures, 1 tutorial per week
In-course test(s)
2 coursework assignments
Final 2-hour exam (2 questions)
10%
30%
60%
Prescribed Texts:
Hill, Errol. Plays for Today (Heinemann pb)
Rhone, Trevor. Two Can Play and School's Out (Heinemann pb)
Walcott, Derek. Remembrance and Pantomime (Faber pb)
Waters, Erika & David Edgecombe, eds. Contemporary Drama of the Caribbean (The Caribbean Writer's
Research Publications, University of the Virgin Islands pb)
Highly Recommended Texts:
Stone, Judy. Theatre: Studies in West Indian Literature (Macmillan pb)
LITS 2603 (E26C): CREATIVE WRITING, POETRY
Lecturer in charge:
Professor Mervyn Morris
[Room 29 - New Arts Block]
This is a workshop course in the writing of poetry. Students will be required to write regularly and to submit
new pieces of their work at least once a fortnight for workshop discussion.
Prerequisite:
Instruction:
Evaluation:
At least two pieces of original work submitted to the departmental office not later than
Friday, August 19
One 3-hour workshop per week
Final portfolio of work
100%
Portfolio Requirements: Not less than twenty (20) pages of poetry to be submitted at the end of week 13
Prescribed Text:
Kowit, Steve. In the Palm of Your Hand (Tilbury pb)
LITS 3103 (E31C): THE CITY IN FICTION
Lecturer in Charge:
Mr David Williams
[Room 54 - New Arts Block]
This course will analyze four or five novels which use the city, the definitive modern landscape, as a setting and
as an objective correlative. The texts will be chosen to demonstrate both a range of responses to urban life and a
sense of how changes in man's relationship with his cities have been measured and recorded in fiction.
Prerequisite:
Instruction:
Evaluation:
LITS 2103 (E21C) or LITS 2107 (E21G) or LITS 2108 (E21H) or
LITS 2113 (E21M) or HUMN 2201 (AR22A)
2 lectures, 1 tutorial per week
One term-paper (about 3,000 words)
Journal and tutorial presentations
Final 2-hour examination (2 answers)
30%
10%
60%
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Prescribed Texts:
Dickens, Charles. Hard Times (Penguin pb)
Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie (Bantam pb)
Petry, Ann. The Street (Houghton Mifflin pb)
Selvon, Samuel. The Lonely Londoners (Longman pb)
West, Nathanael. The Day of the Locust (Signet pb)
LITS 3316 (E33P): POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE I
Lecturer in charge:
Dr Norval Edwards
[Room 20 - Sir Roy Augier Building]
This course will introduce students to postcolonial literature by focusing on the depiction of the colonial
encounter in texts written by authors from formerly colonized regions of the world.
Prerequisite:
LITS 2301 (E23A) or LITS 2304 (E23D)
Instruction:
2 lectures, 1 tutorial per week
Evaluation:
1 essay (1,500 words)
1 library assignment/annotated bibliography (2,000 words)
Research paper (3,500 words)
20%
20%
60%
Prescribed Texts:
Coetzee, J. M. Waiting for the Barbarians (Penguin pb)
Duff, Alan. Once Were Warriors (Vintage pb)
Keneally, Thomas. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (Angus & Robertson pb)
Mudrooroo, Nyoongah. Doctor Wooreddy’s Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World (University of
Queensland Press)
Salih, Tayeb. Season of Migration to the North (Heinemann pb)
Wiebe, Rudy. The Temptations of Big Bear (McClelland & Stewart pb)
Highly Recommended Texts:
Ashcroft, Bill, et al. The Empire Writes Back (Routledge pb)
Ashcroft, Bill, et al. The Postcolonial Studies Reader (Routledge pb)
Boehmer, Elleke. Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures (Oxford Univ. Press pb)
Loomba, Ania. Colonialism/Postcolonialism (Routledge pb)
Memmi, Albert. The Colonizer and the Colonized (Beacon pb)
LITS 3701 (E37A): AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Lecturer in charge:
Dr Mawuena Logan
[Room 34 - New Arts Block]
This course explores a representative sampling of the literature produced by African-American writers, from the
antebellum era to the present. This semester the focus will be on the novel. The course seeks to acquaint
students with the subject matter and art of the writers, and with the socio-historical, political, and aesthetic
conditions that have enabled and shaped the creation, publication, and reception of these texts.
Prerequisite:
LITS 2103 (E21C) or LITS 2107 (E21G) or LITS 2108 (E21H)
or LITS 2113 (E21M) or HUMN 2201 (AR22A)
Instruction:
2 lectures, 1 tutorial per week
Evaluation:
Tutorial presentations and 1 term-paper (8-10 pages)
Final 2-hour examination (2 answers)
Prescribed Texts:
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Anchor/Doubleday pb)
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man (Penguin pb)
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God (Harper & Row pb)
Johnson, Charles. Middle Passage (Penguin pb)
Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon (Plume/Penguin pb)
40%
60%
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COURSES AVAILABLE SEMESTER II
LITS 1001 (E10A): INTRODUCTION TO POETRY (EVENING only)
Lecturer in charge:
Ms Tanya Shirley
[SEE COURSE DESCRIPTION FOR SEMESTER I]
[Room 55 - New Arts Block]
LITS 1002 (E10B): INTRODUCTION TO PROSE FICTION (DAY only)
Lecturer in charge:
Professor Carolyn Cooper
[SEE COURSE DESCRIPTION FOR SEMESTER I]
[Room 37 - New Arts Block]
LITS 1003 (E10C): INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA (EVENING only)
Lecturer in charge:
Ms Carolyn Allen
[SEE COURSE DESCRIPTION FOR SEMESTER I]
[Room 46- New Arts Block]
LITS 2108 (E21H): MODERN AMERICAN LITERARY PROSE
Lecturer in charge:
Dr Michael Bucknor
[Room 50 - New Arts Block]
This course looks critically at the terms "American" and "Modern" by using writers from different ethnic/cultural
backgrounds: Native-American, Euro-American, African-American, Caribbean-American, and Asian-American. Five texts
will be studied in detail, in relation to their particular sources.
Prerequisite:
LITS 1002 (E10B)
Instruction:
2 lectures and 1 tutorial per week
Evaluation:
Coursework (2 written assignments)
Final 2-hour examination
40%
60%
Prescribed Texts:
Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury (Vintage pb)
Hong-Kingston, Maxine. The Woman Warrior (Vintage pb)
Marshall, Paule. Brown Girl, Brownstones (Feminist Press pb)
Silko, Leslie Marmon. Ceremony (Penguin pb)
Wright, Richard. Native Son (Harper Perennial pb)
LITS 2503 (E25C): WEST INDIAN POETRY
Lecturer in charge:
Dr Michael Bucknor
[Room 50 - New Arts Block]
An introduction to the range of West Indian poetry in English.
Prerequisitie:
LITS 1001 (El0A)
Instruction:
2 lectures, 1 tutorial per week
Evaluation:
2 coursework essays
Final 2-hour examination (2 answers)
40%
60%
Prescribed Texts:
Baugh, Edward. It was the Singing (Sandberry Press pb)
Brand, Dionne. No Language is Neutral (McClelland & Stewart pb)
Brathwaite, Kamau Edward. The Arrivants (Oxford Univ. Press pb)
Collins, Merle. Lady in a Boat (Peepal Press pb)
Johnson, Linton Kwesi. Selected Poems (Penguin pb)
Nichols, Grace. I Is A Long Memoried Woman (Karnak House pb)
LITS 2511 (E25K): WEST INDIAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Lecturer in charge:
Dr Anthea Morrison
[Room 3 - Sir Roy Augier Building]
This course explores the issues of self-representation and cultural identity in West Indian autobiography. It examines the
function of autobiography in defining the West Indian subject and the relationship between individual and collective selfdefinition.
Prerequisite:
LITS 1002 (E10B)
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Instruction:
2 lectures, 1 tutorial per week
Evaluation:
1 coursework essay
2 autobiographical essays
Final 2-hour exam (2 answers)
30%
10%
60%
Prescribed Texts:
Danticat, Edwidge. Brother I’m Dying (Vintage pb)
Goodison, Lorna. From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island (Harper pb)
Kincaid, Jamaica. My Brother (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux)
Prince, Mary. The History of Mary Prince (Penguin Classics pb)
Rhone, Trevor. Bellas Gate Boy (Macmillan Caribbean Publishers pb)
Highly Recommended Texts:
Pouchet-Paquet, Sandra. Caribbean Autobiography: Cultural Identity and Self-Representation (Univ. of
Wisconsin Press pb)
LITS 2604 (E26D): CREATIVE WRITING, PROSE FICTION
Lecturer in charge:
Mr Garfield Ellis
[Room 29 - New Arts Block]
This is a workshop course in the writing of prose fiction. Students will be required to write regularly and to submit new
pieces of their work at least once a fortnight for workshop discussion.
Prerequisite:
At least two pieces of original work submitted to the departmental office not later than
Wednesday, August 13.
Instruction:
One 3-hour workshop per week
Evaluation:
Final portfolio of work
100%
Portfolio Requirements: Not less than thirty (30) pages of prose fiction to be submitted at the end of week 13.
Prescribed Text:
Burroway, Janet. Writing Fiction. 5th ed (Longman pb)
LITS 2706 (E27F): REGGAE POETRY
Lecturer in charge:
Professor Carolyn Cooper
[Room 37 - New Arts Block]
The course introduces students to fundamental issues in the study of poetry, providing them with the basic tools and
vocabulary of literary analysis. Focusing on the critique of reggae lyrics as poetry, the course traces themes and poetic
techniques in selected song-texts. In addition, students are required to pay attention to the socio-historical context out of
which the music emerges from its hybrid origins in both Jamaican folk forms and imported rhythm and blues. The
dancehall/ragga derivatives of 'classic' reggae are also included. The course begins with a survey of the development of
reggae music, employing the four-phase structure of the Island Records' compilation Tougher Than Tough: The Story of
Jamaican Music, which documents the period 1958-94. Post-1994 developments in the genre are taken into account. The
course then proceeds to analyze in detail representative song-texts from the body of work of at least five major song
writers/performers such as Burning Spear, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, the I-Three, Jimmy Cliff, Third World,
Steel Pulse, Lady Saw and Buju Banton.
Prerequisite:
None
Instruction:
Two lectures and one tutorial per week
Evaluation:
One 3,000-word research paper
Two tutorial presentations
Final 2-hour exam
30%
10%
60%
Prescribed Texts:
Barrow, Steve & Peter Dalton. The Rough Guide to Reggae (Rough Guides, 2001)
Prahlad, Swami. Reggae Wisdom: Proverbs in Jamaican Music (Univ. Press of Mississippi)
Tougher Than Tough: The Story of Jamaican Music (Island Records, 1993, Compact Discs)
Highly Recommended Texts
Cooper, Carolyn. Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
Hope, Donna. Inna Di Dancehall: Popular Culture and the Politics of Identity in Jamaica (University of the West Indies
Press, 2006)
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LITS 3001(E30A): MODERN POETRY
Lecturer in charge:
Mr David Williams
[Room 54 -New Arts Block]
This course will examine the transition and evolution of English poetry from the late 19th century to the poetry of the 20th
century and will consist of an in-depth examination of the work of several poets whose work is considered representative of
Modern British and American poetry in terms of their techniques, themes, and concerns. This semester the focus will be on
the work of T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats.
Prerequisite:
LITS 1001 (E10A) and LITS 2004 (E20D) or LITS 2503 (E25C) or LITS 2706 (E27F).
Instruction:
2 lectures and 1 tutorial per week
Evaluation:
2 in-class presentations
1 term paper (2,500 words)
Final 2-hour exam (2 answers)
10%
30%
60%
Prescribed Texts:
Elliot, T.S. Selected Poems (Faber pb)
Yeats, W.B. Selected Poems (Penguin pb)
Highly Recommended:
Unterecker, John. A Reader’s Guide to W.B. Yeats (Thames & Hudson pb)
Williamson, George. A Reader’s Guide to T.S. Eliot ( Faber pb)
LITS 3113 (E31M): AFRICA IN THE BLACK ATLANTIC IMAGINATION
Lecturer in charge:
Dr Mawuena Logan
[Room 34 New Arts Block]
The dispersal/dispersion of Africans throughout the Americas and elsewhere, occasioned essentially by the transatlantic
slave trade, created hybrid communities/nations of people of African descent worldwide—the African Diaspora. Taking its
cue from these traumatic events that have not ceased to preoccupy and shape the literary imagination of writers from the
Diaspora, this course seeks to examine the literary representations of Africa by these writers, with specific reference to
selected texts primarily from the USA and the Caribbean. Specific attention will be paid to issues/concepts such as: slavery,
middle passage, Diaspora, Pan-Africanism, identity, gender, and memory.
Prerequisite:
LITS 1002 (E10B) and HUMN 2201 (AR22A) or LITS 2103 (E21C) or
LITS 2107 (E21G) or LITS 2108 (E21H) or LITS 2113 (E21M)
Instruction:
2 lectures and 1 tutorial per week
Evaluation:
Tutorial presentations and 2 in-course tests
Final 2-hour examination (2 answers)
40%
60%
Prescribed Texts:
Angelou, Maya. All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes (Random House)
Césaire, Aimé. A Season in the Congo (Seagull Books)
Conde, Maryse. I Tituba, Black Witch of Salem (Ballantine Books)
Equiano, Olaudah. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (Penguin)
Johnson, Charles. Oxherding Tale (Scribner)
Recommended Texts:
Davies, Carole Boyce et al. eds. The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities (Indiana U.P.)
Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (Harvard U.P.
Gomez, Michael, ed. Diasporic Africa: A Reader (NYU Press)
Opoku-Agyemang, Naana. Ed. Africa and Trans-Atlantic Memories (Africa World Press)
Welsh-Asante, Kariamu. The African Aesthetic: Keeper of the Tradition (Praeger Paperback)
Wilentz, Gay. Binding Cultures: Black Women’s Unity in Africa and the Diaspora (Indiana U.P.)
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LITS 3203 (E32C): THE ROMANCE
Lecturer in charge:
Dr Rachel Moseley-Wood
[Room 41 - New Arts Block]
Beginning with Samuel Richardson’s prefiguring narrative, Pamela, the course analyses the evolution of the genre of the
Romance. Focusing on tropes of discovery and conquest, we will consider ways in which the project of “Romance”
encodes both patriarchal and colonialist notions of the body of the woman (and phallocentricism among men). The course
will also explore the degree to which Caribbean authors either replicate or transform the conventions of the genre to
accommodate local cultures/myth.
Prerequisite:
HUMN 2201 (AR22A) or LITS 2103 (E21C) or LITS 2107 (E21G) or LITS 2108
(E21H) or LITS 2113 (E21M)
Instruction:
2 lectures, 1 tutorial per week
Assessment:
One 3,000-word research paper
Final 2 hour examination
40%
60%
Prescribed Texts:
Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics pb)
Colleton, Lucille. Merchant of Dreams (Heinemann pb)
DeLisser, H.G. The White Whitch of Rose Hall (Macmillan pb)
Du Maurier, Daphne. Rebecca (Avon pb)
Orderson, J.W. Creoleana (Macmillan pb)
Richardson, Samuel. Pamela (Viking Press pb)
Woodiwiss, Kathleen. The Flame and the Flower (Harper Collins pb)
LITS 3204 (E32D): SHAKESPEARE I
Lecturer in charge:
Dr Victor Chang
[Room 55 - New Arts Block]
This will be a study of selected tragedies and history plays, with particular attention to Shakespearean dramaturgy and the
social contexts of the plays.
Prerequisites:
For English Majors: LITS 2207 (E22G) & LITS 2201 (E22A) or LITS 2202 (E22B) or
LITS 2004 (E20D) or LITS 2503 (E25C) or LITS 2706 (E27F)
For Non-Majors: LITS 2207 (E22G)
Instruction:
2 lectures and 1 tutorial per week
Evaluation:
In-class tests and 1 term-paper of at least 2,000 words
Final 2-hour exam (2 answers)
40%
60%
Prescribed Texts:
Shakespeare, William. Othello (Arden pb)
Shakespeare, William. Julius Ceasar (Arden pb)
Shakespeare, William. Richard III (Arden pb)
Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet (Arden pb)
LITS 3402 (E34B): CLASSIC AMERICAN PROSE FICTION
Lecturer in charge:
Mr David Williams
[Room 54 - New Arts Block]
This course will explore a representative sample of canonical American fiction within the context of the literary and
cultural currents that defined American society between the post-independence period and the modernist era.
Prerequisite:
LITS 2103 (E21C) or LITS 2107 (E21G) or LITS 2108 (E21H) or LITS 2113 (E21M)
or HUMN 2201 (AR22A)
Instruction:
2 lectures, I tutorial per week
Evaluation:
1 coursework essay
Journal & tutorial presentations
Two-hour final examination
Prescribed Texts:
Cooper, James Fenimore. The Pathfinder (Signet Classic pb)
30%
10%
60%
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night (Penguin pb)
Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms (Scribner pb)
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin pb)
Wharton, Edith. The House of Mirth (Penguin pb)
LITS 3601 (E36A): AFRICAN LITERATURE I
Lecturer in charge:
Dr. Mawuena Logan
[Room 34 - New Arts Block]
This course is intended as an introduction to the study of African literature in English with reference to representative texts
(prose fiction, drama, and poetry). We will examine the issues of colonialism and neo-colonialism, nationalism, gender
politics and the politics of literary form.
Prerequisite:
LITS 2103 (E21C) or LITS 2107 (E21G) or LITS 2108 (E21H)
or LITS 2113 (E21M) or HUMN 2201 (AR22A)
Instruction:
2 lectures and 1 tutorial per week
Evaluation:
Tutorial presentations and 1 essay (10 pages)
Final 2-hour examination (2 answers)
Prescribed Texts:
Achebe, Chinua. Arrow of God (Doubleday pb)
Aidoo, Ama Ata. The Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa (Longman pb)
Bâ, Mariama. So Long A Letter (Heinemann pb)
Ndebele, Njabulo. The Cry of Winnie Mandela (David Philip Publishers pb)
Ngugi, wa Thiong’o. A Grain of Wheat (Heinemann pb)
Kane, Cheikh Hamidou. Ambiguous Adventure (Heinemann pb)
Recommended Texts:
Achebe, Chinua. Hopes and Impediments
Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth
wa Thiong’o, Ngugi. Decolonizing the Mind
Davidson, Basil. Modern Africa: A Social and Political History (3rd Edition)
Memmi, Albert. The Colonizer and the Colonized
Harrow, Kenneth, ed. Faces of Islam in African Literature
40%
60%
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POSTGRADUATE STUDIES
The Department of Literatures in English accepts students to read for the Master of Arts (M.A.), Master of Philosophy
(M.Phil.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees.
M.A.
This degree comprises 6 taught courses plus a research paper, and may be completed in twelve (12) months by full-time
students, and twenty-four (24) months by part-time students.
Applicants for entry into this programme must have at least a Lower Second Class degree, with at least 8 Bs in Level II and
Level III undergraduate literature courses in English. Please note, however, that these are the minimal entry
requirements and not a guarantee of admission. The Department reserves the
right to select the best applicants each year.
M.PHIL.
This degree comprises a thesis (up to 40,000 words) and three taught courses (from those for the M.A. programme), which
will be taken during the first year. This is a two-year programme for full-time students. Part-time students will normally
take proportionately longer to complete it.
PH.D.
This degree is done by research and thesis (up to 60,000 words) only. The thesis is expected to make an original
contribution to knowledge.
Further information about the postgraduate programme may be obtained from the Department or our website
http://myspot.mona.uwi.edu/liteng/.