This course is one of the core requirements of the English major and seeks to cover a range of literary forms (poetry, drama, and fiction), familiarize students with critical approaches to texts, and practice literary analysis (in class discussion and in writing) and research skills: all to be better prepared for advanced level courses. 

Although it makes no claims to offer a comprehensive study of love across time, the theme “Reconsidering Love” allows us to look at literature across a wide historical range to find transformations and recurrent themes. 

Texts to be studied include: Metaphysical love poetry, William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, LGTBQ+ and Queer Poetry, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Mohsin Hamid's Exit West, and Sally Rooney's Normal People.