Course Category: MA Active
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Tolkien Illustrated: Picturing the Legendarium
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of Tolkien illustration and its visual, contextual, and critical analyses.
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Graduate Diploma Capstone Project
The Capstone project is an optional add-on to the Graduate Diploma in Language and Literature at Signum University.
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Race, Gender, and the Other in Tolkien’s Middle-earth
This course explores the issues of race, sexuality, gender, and Othering in the mythological legendarium of J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Ursula K. Le Guin: Worldbuilder
This course explores the major science fiction and fantasy works of Ursula K. Le Guin, how they relate to her literary theories and social interests, and how she envisioned and revisioned the worlds of her imagination.
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Tolkien’s Wars and Middle-earth
This course explores the life of J.R.R. Tolkien and the impact his experiences had on his work, with a particular focus on the World War I and World War II time periods.
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Tolkien’s World of Middle-earth
In this course, students will read Tolkien’s critical essays, translations, and imaginative stories to explore how his world and his myth developed over time.
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Tolkien’s Poetry
In this class, we will examine Tolkien’s short poetic works in detail, taking a chronological look at Tolkien’s career through the window of his poetry.
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Tolkien in Context
This course examines how Tolkien’s subcreated world of Middle-earth engages with issues and concepts relevant to readers, including racism, immigration, the place of women, the ongoing battle of good versus evil, environmental concerns and the rise of technology.
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Tolkien & Tradition
This course helps students learn to evaluate Tolkien’s works both individually and comparatively, judging them in the context of each other as well as of their sources.
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Thesis Semester III: Thesis Revision and Presentation (Language & Literature)
This is the third of three semesters devoted to the final thesis in the graduate program in Language & Literature.