Upper-Level BHP Courses Fall 2025
BHP 206 Honors Seminar: Politics/Literary
Professors Seiwoong Oh (English) and Frank Rusciano (Political Science)
M/W 2:50-4:20 p.m.
Core Substitutions: CAS-Aesthetic Perspectives: Lit or Social Perspectives | EDU-Lit or Social Science Elective | NBCB-Humanities or Social Science Elective
Students will analyze literary texts in the context of selected political periods and ideologies, going beyond literary content to understand how language, genre, and structure mirror, otherwise represent, or criticize the political order within which the author writes.
BHP 217 Music and Literature
Professors Justin Burton (Music) and Kelly Ross (English)
M/W 1:10-2:40 p.m.
Core Substitutions: CAS–Aesthetic Perspectives: Fine Arts or Aesthetic Perspectives: Lit. | EDU-Lit | NBCB-Humanities or Liberal Arts
Developing music literacy can help us become better readers, and, on the other hand, literary methodologies can help us become better listeners. In this class we will study music and literary terminology in order to recognize and analyze patterns and forms in both sonic and linguistic artworks. We will investigate these works in their social and political context in order to gain an understanding of the art informed by interdisciplinary practice.
BHP 290 Shakespeare: Page, Stage & Screen
Professors Ivan Fuller (Theatre) and Vanita Neelakanta (English)
M/W 1:10-2:40 p.m.
Core Substitutions: CAS–Aesthetic Perspectives: Fine Arts or Aesthetic Perspectives: Lit. | EDU-Lit | NBCB-Humanities or Liberal Arts
This course aims to explore, in depth, the translation of Shakespeare’s texts into performance by combining theatre history, cinematic adaptation, and textual analysis with a strong emphasis on practical, creative, and collaborative work. We will study 5 plays over the course of the semester and consider each as a performance piece as well as a literary artifact. Each play will be examined from multiple perspectives that are theatrical/performative/cinematic (staging, costume, sets, dramaturgy, camera, editing) as well as literary (historicist, psychoanalytic, gender and sexuality focused, Marxist, eco-critical, post-colonial), thereby bridging the artificial divide between Shakespeare as literature and Shakespeare as performance.
BHP 305 Inclusive Education and Representations of Disability
Professors Lauren Delisio (Special Education) and Laurel Harris (English)
M/W 1:10-2:40 p.m.
Core Substitutions: CAS-Lit | EDU-Lit | NBCB-Humanities or Liberal Arts
This course explores how literature, film, television, and other media portray disability in ways that contribute to –or challenge – clinical concepts. This course particularly attends to the representation of the education of students with disabilities, and to how literary and cultural texts aim to educate their readers and viewers about disability.