. . .offered most recently during summer semester, encourages students to approach Shakespeare's plays as writing meant for performance. Though the course emphasis is on careful reading and analysis, much of any given class session is devoted to reading and discussing key scenes (as well as examining important staging conventions and customs specific to Elizabethan England). In addition to reading a handful of sonnets, tragedies, comedies, and histories, writing a few papers, and completing a final project, students will experience "live" Shakespeare by attending at least one professional performance.

. . .this course emphasizes both traditional material (Emerson, Mary Rowlandson and the heavies) and more unusual (in terms of ethnicity, gender, and viewpoint) readings, in order to deconstruct the American Myth rather than simply reinforce it. The way the material is handled also develops this theme of de- and re- construction by overhauling the language and perspective of the traditional literature survey—in other words, we use various mediums and various team discussions to do away with the "lecture" format. Students drive the class—even to point of helping create the reading list as the semester progresses.

. . .this class caters to the student who not only enjoys watching films, but arguing about them endlessly afterward. Students become acquainted with the language of film criticism and filmmaking, and at least once bring in their own clips to dismember and discuss before the class. Students also try their hands at the written review, at the academic level. As with most KCC classes, the structure of the class is centered around active participation of the students. Bring your intellect and imagination and be prepared for a semester of enlightening discussion and captivating films.

. . .this class is required for education majors, but for anyone who is or will be a parent, it’s a great class also. We read, study and analyze everything from nursery rhymes to Walt Disney movies. We write scripts and put on skits. You’ll learn about the Great Lakes, American folk heroes, and the real story of Columbus. This class reads a lot, but it’s literature you’ll enjoy.

. . .although each instructor’s approach to the course is different, LITE 105 always opens the mind to new ways to read poetry and short fiction, and new ways to interpret experiences. The drama study is tied into the College’s theatre performance for the fall semester. This year, "Working", a musical devolved from the Studs Terkel novel of the same name, is the theater we will study. We will read the book and contrast the two different presentations of the work. After this class, you can make anything you watch on TV interesting by analyzing it.

. . .this course is for the dissatisfied student. The one who believes s/he should know more about American History yet feels a void concerning the representation of African Americans in the storyline. Students will gain an appreciation for the impact African American literature has and continues to have in defining the social, historical and cultural experience of Blacks in America. Haile Gerima, a filmmaker, used the word "Sankofa," (Ghanaian vernacular) which translate, "We must go back and reclaim our past so we can move forward; so we understand why and how we came to be who we are today." Join us as we explore this chapter in American History. 

Using Western literature as a guide to explore the ideas we believe in and how we came by them, this course begins with the literature of Hebrew people and the Greeks and continues to the rebirth of humanism during the Renaissance.

Using Western literature as a guide to explore the ideas we believe in and how we came by them, this course begins with the literature of humanism during the Renaissance and traces the changes in our beliefs up to the present day.

Studies in the relationship of literature and literary study to a second discipline: science, philosophy, psychology, social science, or fine arts. The literary genre and period and the second area vary from semester to semester. Course may be repeated for credit toward graduation up to six credit hours.