Arts & Letters

Master of Letters

Students enrolled in the Master of Letters (M.Litt.) degree program have two options:

• completion of nine courses (27 credit hours) and a master’s thesis of 50-75 pages.
• in lieu of writing the thesis, students may elect to take two additional courses for a total of eleven (33 credit hours).

In either case, students must have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) or better in order to graduate.

Doctor of Letters

Students enrolled in the Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) degree program must complete ten courses (30 credit hours) plus two required seminars: The Joy of Scholarly Writing: Beginning the Dissertation Process, and Liberal Studies: What They Are, What They Do, for a total of 36 credit hours with a cumulative average of 3.1 (on a 4.0 scale) or better. All D.Litt. students must prepare and successfully defend a nine-credit (for a total degree requirement of 45 hours) doctoral dissertation of 150-220 pages.

There are two required courses for the Doctor of Letters program:

1. ARLET 801 Liberal Studies: What They Are, What They Do
   This ungraded (S/U) seminar should be taken in the first year of coursework. This course is offered each semester only on Tuesday evenings, 7:00-9:30 pm.
2.  ARLET  905 The Joy of Scholarly Writing: Beginning the Dissertation Process

Students derive most value from the course if they enroll in their last or penultimate semester and are ready to begin the dissertation process. In order to enroll in The Joy of Scholarly Writing students must have earned 24 or more credits.

Doctor of Letters Concentrations:

D.Litt. candidates also do a concentration of 4 courses, which should be selected to achieve congruence and connectedness.  D.Litt. students must declare a concentration prior to registering for their 6^th course.  Some A&L courses may serve different concentrations, depending on content and subject to consultation with one’s advisor. The revised available concentrations are:

• Historical Studies
• Literary Studies
• Global Studies
• Studies in Spirituality
• Writing (required for proposing a creative writing dissertation)
• Fine Arts and Media Studies
• Irish/Irish American Studies
• Teaching in the Two Year College: this concentration has a required foundation course, ARLET 701, Introduction to the Two-Year College, offered fall semester only; a minimal grade of B is required in this course in order to continue in the concentration.  The second and third courses are chosen from A & L courses in one’s potential discipline of teaching.  The fourth course is a supervised internship for a semester in a class at the County College of Morris (daytime classes only). Potential interns must be approved by both Drew and CCM.

Concentration in Writing

M.Litt. and D.Litt. students may choose from a wide variety of writing-focused courses as part of their studies in the Arts and Letters program. In keeping with the interdisciplinary nature of the program, students can explore writing through several different genres: essay, poetry, short story, prose, academic writing, and more.

Irish/Irish-American Studies Concentration

M.Litt. and D.Litt. students may enroll in the Irish/Irish-American Studies concentration beginning with the Fall 2004 semester. Study in this interdisciplinary concentration focuses on the literature, history, politics, and culture of Ireland and Irish America. Courses offered include such topics as Contemporary Ireland: 1922-Present, Irish and Irish-American Literature for Children and Young Adults, The Great Hunger: The Great Irish Famine, Constructions of Irish-American Identity, Celtic Archeology, Northern Ireland, Commemoration and Memory in Irish History, Irish History Through Film; Researching Irish History: Archives and Archival Research; Modernism and Irish Literary Revival, James Joyce, Irish History to the Normans, Normans to the Irish Civil War (1922), and The Irish in America. Five courses are required for the concentration.

About Admissions

The Arts and Letters program offers graduate-level interdisciplinary studies that explore the foundation and development of civilization in relationship to contemporary societies. Degrees offered: Master of Letters (M.Litt.) & Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.).

Requirements for Application

A complete application for either the M.Litt. or the D.Litt. requires:

• An essay response as outlined in the application packet;
• A personal statement;
• The completed application form;
• A non-refundable application fee of $35.00, check payable to “Drew University;”
• Official transcripts from all post-secondary institutions.
• Two letters of reccomendation.

The Graduate Record examination (GRE) is not required. However, international applicants whose first language is not English are required to submit TOEFL scores that are not more than two years old.  Additionally, applicants who have received their Bachelor’s degree from a foreign university, even if English was the language of instruction, must submit TOEFL scores that are not more than two years old.  Students from the following countries are exempt from this requirement: Canada, UK, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland, and Australia.

Please note that an M.Litt. or other recognized master’s degree in the humanities is a prerequisite for applying to the Drew D.Litt. program.

Application Timeline

Please keep in mind this timeline for application:

• Completed applications are accepted for all three terms (fall, spring and summer).
• Notification of acceptance is usually sent 2-3 weeks after the complete application is received.
• All applications must be received at least two weeks prior to the start of the semester for which the student is applying. Contact the Graduate Admissions Office for term start dates.

Non-degree seeking students

Those who hold a bachelor’s degree and would like to take a course before matriculating into the Arts & Letters or Medical Humanities programs may apply for admission as a non-matriculated, or “Graduate Special” student.  This is an excellent opportunity for prospective students to familiarize themselves with graduate study at Drew before committing to a degree program.

Graduate Special students may enroll in up to two courses for a total of up to 6 credits, pay fees and tuition, earn course credit, and have their work recorded on their transcript. Admission as a Graduate Special student does not guarantee an offer of admission to a degree program, however credits completed as a Graduate Special student may be used to fulfill requirements for a degree program if he/she applies and is accepted as a matriculated student in the future.  Graduate Special students are not eligible for financial aid or scholarships.

The Graduate Special application is available for downloading below. A complete Graduate Special application requires:

• Official transcripts showing completion of a bachelor’s degree from an accredited four year college or university
• Brief explanation of your motivation for applying for Graduate Special student status
• $25.00 processing fee

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Cost of Attendance

For a more information on tuition and fees, please review the Business Office’s site.

Financial Aid

There are three forms of financial aid for Arts and Letters students:

• There is a limited number of merit scholarships available for full-time Arts & Letters students. These awards range from 25% to 75% of tuition and are awarded based on the academic record presented through the application. Please contact the Graduate Admissions office for more information.
• Full-time teachers of accredited institutions (secondary and higher education) qualify for half-tuition scholarship. Qualified applicants should submit an affidavit of employment with their applications. This affidavit must be resubmitted each year. No student may receive more than one-half tuition scholarship. Note that this scholarship does not apply to the optional summer term.
• Senior citizens age 62 or older are entitled to a half-tuition reduction. Qualified applicants should make an appointment with the Office of Financial Aid where they need to present legal proof of age and complete a Senior Citizen Certification form. Note that this discount does not apply to the optional summer term.
• Students may apply for federal financial aid by completing a Free Applications for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Forms are available in the Graduate Admissions Office or online at www.fafsa.ed.gov.

Learn more about financial aid in the graduate school.

Courses Offered

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ARLT 107 - Formerly ARLET 107 - The Medieval Mind (3)

This course is intended as a sequel to "Dante and his World";therefore only students who have taken that course or who are very familiar with "The Divine Comedy" should enroll. In addition to an in-depth reading of select cantos of the entire "Commedia", students will read Dante's "minor works," including La Vita Nuova, Il Convivio, de Vulgari Eloquentia, and de Monarchai.
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 108 - Formerly ARLET 108 - Studies in European History (3)

Topics vary and are announced at the time of registration.

ARLT 114 - Formerly ARLET 114 - The Classics (3)

Topics include: Classical Roots, Modern Revisions: Eclectic Electra; Gods, Great Men, and Little Women; Re-Making Myth: Joyce's Journey. Course may be repeated.
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 115 - Formerly ARLET 115 - The English Bible (3)

Topics include: the Old Testament; the New Testament and Apocrypha.
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 118 - Formerly ARLET 118 - Medieval History (3)

Topics include: Magic, Madness, and Mayhem in the Middle
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 122 - Formerly ARLET 122 - Topics in Modern Philosophy (3)

Topics include: Education, Equality, and Our Ideals of Justice; Progress Pro and Con: Modernity as a Problem.
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 130 - Formerly ARLET 130 - Studies in Ancient History and Society (3)

Topics vary and are announced prior to registration. Course may be repeated
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 201 - Formerly ARLET 201 - Enduring Social and Political Problems (3)

Topics include: the Search for the Good Community; Creative Breakthroughs in Politics; Protection Against Genocide.

ARLT 204 - Formerly ARLET 204 - Studies in Shakespeare (3)

Topics include: Shakespeare's Use of Language; Plays of Intrigue; Clowns, Confusions, Crimes, and Couples: Shakespeare's Comedies and Romances.
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 205 - Formerly ARLET 205 - The Age of Reason (3)

No description is available for this course.

ARLT 206 - Formerly ARLET 206 - American History (3)

Topics include: Literature of the American Civil War; War Comes Again: The Civil War and WWII; The Great War: Its Impact on Culture and Politics; Political Philosophy and Political Health; Religion and the Prohibition Movement.
Course may be repeated. Same as: PSDC - Formerly POSDOC+725

ARLT 207 - Formerly ARLET 207 - Topics in African American History: (3)

Topics vary and are announced at registration.
Same as: PSDC - Formerly POSDOC+745

ARLT 208 - Formerly ARLET 208 - Topics in American Intellectual History: (3)

Topics in American Intellectual history vary with instructor interest and expertise.
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 210 - Formerly ARLET 210 - Studies in American Political Thought (3)

Studies in the thought and the text of modern thinkers. Topics vary and are published prior to registration.
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 211 - Formerly ARLET 211 - Historical Studies (3)

Topics include History Imagined: Literature Opens the Annals. Course may be repeated as topic changes.

ARLT 214 - Formerly ARLET 214 - American Culture (3)

Topics include: Frederick Olmsted, Central Park, and the Idea of Urban Landscapes in 19th-Century America; Contributions of William and Henry James; No Ordinary Time: America on the Homefront During WWII; Legacies of the Family: Domestic Revolutions in America from Colonial Times to the Present; Ireland and America.
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 215 - Formerly ARLET 215 - Studies in British History (3)

Topics include: Charles Dickens in His Time; John Locke and 18th-Century Literature; The Age of Trollope; Perspectives on Gender, Class, and Race in Victorian England.
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 218 - Formerly ARLET 218 - European Intellectual History (3)

Topics include: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Balzac's Human Comedy; St. Petersburg: the Biography of a City; Selected 19th-Century Writers.
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 220 - Formerly ARLET 220 - Studies in European Literature (3)

Topics include: Humanism and Renaissance in Italy

ARLT 225 - Formerly ARLET 225 - History of Rhetoric (3)

Rhetoric, most typically defined as "the art of persuasion," has had a variety of descriptions based on the describer and his or her historical context. This class will study the changing definitions of rhetoric from 5th-century B.C. Greece to contemporary American culture and why those changes took place. Students will also be asked to analyze rhetoric's relation to politics, religion, law and cultural identity from antiquity to the present day.

ARLT 230 - Formerly ARLET 230 - Vatican Councils I & II (3)

This course seeks to understand the Council's decrees in context: first, in relation to its predecessor to which it was integrally related, historically and otherwise; second, by considering the philosophical, theological, cultural, historical, political and social influences which brought about the convocation of both councils and the final documents. Students are guided through original texts and assisted in evaluating how the teachings of these councils have been "received" within the Catholic Church, and how they have in turn had an impact on ecumenical, interreligious and political affairs.

ARLT 231 - Formerly ARLET 231 - The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (3)

In this course, students first read, then see, the plays being presented by The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in their theatre on the Drew University campus.

ARLT 232 - Formerly ARLET 232 - Topics in Archival Research (3)

Topics include: The Irish Immigrant Experience.
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 233 - Formerly ARLET 233 - Archives: History and Methods (3)

A study of the theory and practice of religious archives, arranging, describing, evaluating, and using primary source documents in the collections of the United Methodist Archives and History Center. Focuses on preservation, micrographics, scholarly editing, and oral history. Guest lecturers. Each student develops a project based on a collection in the Archives.
Signature of instructor required for registration. Same as: CHST - Formerly CHIST+735

ARLT 234A - Formerly ARLET 234 - Studies in Irish History and Literature (3)

This course will trace the way in which the history and culture of Ireland have been represented in visual images from 1800 to the present day. The main representations will be films, photographs, cartoons and wall murals.The course will examine how these images have been used to reinforce nationalist and unionist, Catholic and Protestant caricatures, both within Ireland and elsewhere. it will also explore the emergence of cultural stereotyping, which has ranged from affectionate views of "paddy" (drunk, stupid, but loveable) to more sinister ones (dangerous, furtive, violent). Other visual stereotypes will also be examined, such as images of 'the west' (spiritual, mystical, unspoilt) compared with images of 'the north' (dark, unknown,threatening). Be prepared to challenge these and other stereotypes.
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 240 - Formerly ARLET 240 - Studies in Church History (3)

Topics vary and are announced prior to registration.
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 245 - Formerly ARLET 245 - Topics in Economics: (3)

Courses examine different aspects of the field of Economics.

ARLT 301 - Formerly ARLET 301 - Contemporary Studies in the Humanities (3)

Topics include: The Literary Response to HIV/AIDS; Modernist Literature; Humanity vs. Nature; Contemporary Poetry; Contemporary American Fiction; Living After Attack; The Importance of Being Witty. Course may be repeated.
Course may be repeated. Same as: PSDC - Formerly POSDOC+750

ARLT 304 - Formerly ARLET 304 - Studies in American Literature (3)

Topics include: The Yearning for Paradise; Images of the Garden in American Literature; American Gothic Fiction; Washington Irving and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; American Inheritors of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 306 - Formerly ARLET 306 - Images of the Future (3)

Topics include: The Image of the City.
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 310 - Formerly ARLET 310 - 20th-Century British Literature (3)

Topics include: Charles Williams; C.S. Lewis
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 313 - Formerly ARLET 313 - Psychopathology and Contemporary Life (3)

This courses focuses on mastering the "Sea of Storms" -- on the moon or in ourselves.
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 314 - Formerly ARLET 314 - Contemporary Uses of Mythology (3)

Topics include: Journey Back to Self; Tools of the Titans: Psychodynamic Myths. Course may be repeated.
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 318 - Formerly ARLET 318 - British Women Novelists (3)

Topics include: Jane Austen; The Brontë Sisters: Charlotte, Emily, and Anne.
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 319 - Formerly ARLET 319 - Topics in Literature: (3)

Selected Topics in Literature that vary by genre, figure, and focus from year to year.

ARLT 320 - Formerly ARLET 320 - Literature and Medicine (3)

No description is available for this course.

ARLT 321 - Formerly ARLET 321 - Studies in British Literature (3)

The modernist period in literature was one which concerned itself with the problem of knowledge. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the certainty of the Victorian sages gave way to a questioning of certain systems of faith (religion, science, nationalism, imperialism, etc.) that had not only been accepted as truth, but were also crucial to the construct of British modernity. Reading a handful of novelists who have become (to some extent) definitive of British modernism, this course seeks to identify specific preoccupations of the period and how those preoccupations impact narrative voice and structure. In doing so, students explore how modernist plots remap different fields of knowledge. Texts include works by Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, and James Joyce.
Course may be repeated. Same as: PSDC - Formerly POSDOC+753

ARLT 322 - Formerly ARLET 322 - Studies in World Literature (3)

Topics include: Introduction to Modern Japanese Literature.
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 323 - Formerly ARLET 323 - Studies in World Culture (3)

Topics vary and are announced at the time of registration.

ARLT 324 - Formerly ARLET 324 - Art of the Film (3)

Topics include: Women in Film; A History of the United States since 1918.
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 326 - Formerly ARLET 326 - Studies in Psychoanalysis (3)

See MDHM - Formerly MDHM - Formerly MEDHM+500 for course description.
Course may be repeated. Same as: MDHM - Formerly MDHM - Formerly MEDHM+500

ARLT 327 - Formerly ARLET 327 - Marriage and the Family (3)

Topics include: Family Structures and Medical Ethics; Marriage and Family Counseling.

ARLT 328 - Formerly ARLET 328 - Literature and Medicine (3)

Topics include: Medical Narrative; Literature of Aging; Contemporary Ethical Issues in American Literature; Literary Art and the Medical Mind.

ARLT 329 - Formerly ARLET 329 - 20th-Century America (3)

Topics include: Themes in 20th-century American Religious History; Democracy, Liberalism, and the Problem of Propaganda.

ARLT 330 - Formerly ARLET 330 - Topics in Holocaust Studies (3)

No description is available for this course. Course may be repeated.

ARLT 334 - Formerly ARLET 334 - Biomedical Ethics (3)

This course examines the major medical care issues facing the discipline, including ethical and religious concerns involving abortion, death and dying, and human experimentation.

ARLT 335 - Formerly ARLET 335 - Studies in Genocide (3)

Topics include: The Armenian Genocide and the Politics of Denial; Cultures of Violence: Genocide after 1945.
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 336 - Formerly ARLET 336 - Literature of the Holocaust (3)

Topics include: In Search of Anne Frank; Art from the Ashes.

ARLT 337 - Formerly ARLET 337 - Perspectives on the Holocaust (3)

This course provides multiple perspectives on the Holocaust, the near extermination of European Jewry and the brutal persecution of an extended mosaic of victims. As a watershed event, the Holocaust has radically affected our fundamental conceptions of the nature of human nature, the dimensions of evil, the existence of God, the power of bearing literary witness, the moral and political outlook for the future. Readings span the disciplines of history, psychology, literature, theology, and political science, each providing its own distinctive illumination as presented by a faculty member within the discipline, who lectures and participates at appointed sessions in interdisciplinary discussions. Course requirements include papers, journal entries, and a field trip to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
Same as HOST - Formerly HOST - Formerly HOLST+33 Course may be repeated. Same as: HOST - Formerly HOST - Formerly HOLST+33

ARLT 340 - Formerly ARLET 340 - Studies in Theatre and Playwriting: (3)

Topics vary and are announced at the time of registration.

ARLT 341 - Formerly ARLET 341 - Cultural Geography (3)

This course examines the natural features of geographic regions in order to understand how geographic causation affects regional political systems, economic opportunities, and social institutions.

ARLT 344 - Formerly ARLET 344 - Medical Sociology (3)

This course examines the important themes, dominant theoretical perspectives, and main methodological approaches involved in the sociological analysis of health care problems and their treatment.

ARLT 346 - Formerly ARLET 346 - European Cultural History (3)

Topics include: Alexander Pushkin: Texts and Contexts; The Life and Work of Vladimir Nabokov.
Same as: PSDC - Formerly POSDOC+752

ARLT 347 - Formerly ARLET 347 - Mystical Poetry from around the World (3)

This course examines mystical literature in verse form as it arises in different religious traditions from around the world. We ask why mystical revelations are so frequently expressed in poetry, and why many poets lean towards a mystical approach in their verse. The texts span the centuries from the Song of Solomon to Rumi, from zen poets to Emily Dickinson, Hart Crane and Seamus Heaney. Students are encouraged to develop their own definitions of mystical poetry and their own explanations for its appearance throughout the ages.

ARLT 348 - Formerly ARLET 348 - Studies in Poets and Poetry (3)

Topics include: "The Fatal Gift of Beauty": English Romantic Poets in Italy.
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 349A - Formerly ARLET 349 - Topics in Cultural History: (3)

Selected Topics in Cultural History that vary from year to year.
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 406 - Formerly ARLET 406 - American History Painting (3)

This course examines 18th- through early 20th-century American history painting as it related to its social, political, and cultural contexts.

ARLT 408 - Formerly ARLET 408 - The New York Semester on Contemporary Art (3)

This course is an introduction to contemporary art and criticism through discussion with major artists, critics, curators, and other art professionals in New York City and on the Drew campus.

ARLT 409 - Formerly ARLET 409 - Studies in Musicology (3)

Topics include: Romantic Opera: Rossini to Wagner; Chamber Music.
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 414 - Formerly ARLET 414 - Studies in Music History (3)

Topics include: Life and Work of Mozart; Life and Work of Brahms; The Music of Fin de Siècle Vienna; The Great Romantic Divide: Music from Mendelssohn to Mahler; J. S. Bach: His Life and Work.
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 415 - Formerly ARLET 415 - Studies in Book History (3)

Topics include: Gutenberg to Franklin: History of the Printed Book.

ARLT 416 - Formerly ARLET 416 - Topics in Art and Architecture (3)

Topics include: Russian Medieval Art and architecture; Christian Renaissance art.
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 417 - Formerly ARLET 417 - Studies in Drama and Theatre (3)

No description is available for this course.

ARLT 502 - Formerly ARLET 502 - The Politics of Gender in Medicine (3)

This course demonstrates how the dissimilar physiology and illnesses of men and women are, nevertheless, parallel.

ARLT 503 - Formerly ARLET 503 - The Cultural History of Medicine (3)

This course traces the story of medicine from pre-history to the present.

ARLT 506 - Formerly ARLET 506 - Topics in Science and Medicine (3)

Topics include: The History of Scientific Medicine
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 507 - Formerly ARLET 507 - Medical Biography (3)

Topics include: Giovanni Battista Morgagni.

ARLT 509 - Formerly ARLET 509 - Great Issues in Medicine (3)

Topics include: the future of biomedical science; illness of body, mind, and spirit; ethics and medical research.

ARLT 511 - Formerly ARLET 511 - Medicine in Politics (3)

This course considers the political implications of ancient and historical plagues, as well as the politics of alarming new global challenges, such as the immuno-deficient diseases, tuberculosis, Hanta virus, Ebola, and biological warfare.

ARLT 512 - Formerly ARLET 512 - Plagues in History (3)

This course examines the relation between the human population and the micro and macroparasites that interact with it.

ARLT 515 - Formerly ARLET 515 - Contemporary Medicine and Culture (3)

Topics include: Science, Medicine, and Faith.
Course may be repeated. Same as: MDHM - Formerly MEDHM+515 PSDC - Formerly POSDOC+803

ARLT 517 - Formerly ARLET 517 - Topics in the History of Science: (3)

Selected Topics in the History of Science that vary from year to year.

ARLT 520 - Formerly ARLET 520 - Listening to the Symbolic Language of the Body (3)

This course investigates the communication from the self to the self, often found in illnesses, ticks, hysterical conversions, muscle tightness and other ailments.

ARLT 522 - Formerly ARLET 522 - Women and Aging (3)

See MDHM - Formerly MDHM - Formerly MEDHM+505 for course description.
Same as: MDHM - Formerly MDHM - Formerly MEDHM+505

ARLT 524 - Formerly ARLET 524 - Topics in Developmental Studies (3)

Topics include: The Role of the Family in the Early Development of Object Permanence and Non-Existence
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 525 - Formerly ARLET 525 - Medicine and Ecology (3)

See MDHM - Formerly MDHM - Formerly MEDHM+810 for course description.
Course may be repeated. Same as: MDHM - Formerly MDHM - Formerly MEDHM+810

ARLT 526 - Formerly ARLET 526 - Topics in Sociology (3)

Topics are announced at the time of registration and vary from semester to semester.

ARLT 529 - Formerly ARLET 529 - Medicine and Culture (3)

See MDHM - Formerly MDHM - Formerly MEDHM+529 for course description.
Course may be repeated. Same as: MDHM - Formerly MDHM - Formerly MEDHM+529

ARLT 601 - Formerly ARLET 601 - Studies in Spirituality (3)

Topics include: British Spirituality in the Time of Chaucer; British and Irish Spirituality in the Age of St. Patrick; The Life and Work of Henri J. M. Nouwen; Christian Mysticism and Contemplative Spiritual Practice.
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 701 - Formerly ARLET 701 - Teaching In The Two Year College (3)

Taught by an Arts and Letters faculty member and faculty from the County College of Morris, this course focuses on cultures, missions, and practices of teaching in community colleges, especially in New Jersey. The Drew/CCM teaching team will introduce participants to central issues of teaching and learning in the community college sector of higher education. The course will explore the unique characteristics of community college students as well as the mission and history of the colleges. In terms of issues which present themselves, the course will consider the role of general education requirements, assessment, distance education, and the changing nature of the collective bargaining environment. Finally, the course will focus on practical issues: career transitions, syllabus design, writing courses and pedagogy, and the development of ones own teaching ethic as a potential faculty member.
This course is required for students proposing to do the D.Litt concentration in two-year college teaching.

ARLT 801 - Formerly ARLET 801 - Graduate Liberal Studies: What They Are, What They Do (3)

This entry seminar introduces D.Litt. students to the work of multiple disciplines in the Arts and Letters Program. It produces initial familiarity with fields of humanistic inquiry from among the program's seven concentrations: Historical Studies; Literary Studies; Global Studies; Studies in Spirituality; Irish/Irish American Studies; Fine Arts and Media Studies; and Writing. The seminar features a team of professors from several fields of study and practice taught in the CSGS, each of whom leads the seminar for two weeks. Through broad discussion and specific readings and assignments, classes preview what the individual disciplines "do" in our time. Students participate in the weekly conversations and write six short papers. The goal is to ground and enable each student's broad choices for D.Litt. work, from taking courses to conceiving the doctoral dissertation.

ARLT 900 - Formerly ARLET 900 - Tutorial (3)

No description is available for this course. Course may be repeated. Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered in fall and spring semesters annually.

ARLT 905C - Formerly ARLET 905 - Writing Practicum (3)

Topics include: The Art of the Essay; Creative Writing; Writing to Heal; The Joy of Scholarly Writing; Fiction Writing; Memoir and Autobiography.
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 910 - Formerly ARLET 910 - Painting and Drawing Practicum (3)

Topics include: The Watercolorist's Craft; The Art of Charcoal Drawing; The Portrait and the Pen. This course is repeatable.
Course may be repeated.

ARLT 911 - Formerly ARLET 911 - Travel Course (3)

Topics include: Lost City Found: Biblical Bethesda; Isle of the Saints: Ireland from the Celts to the Normans.

ARLT 950 - Formerly ARLET 950 - Travel Course: West Africa (3)

No description is available for this course.

ARLT 990 - Formerly ARLET 990 - M.Litt. Thesis (3)

No description is available for this course.

ARLT 999 - Formerly ARLET 999 - D.Litt. Dissertation (9)

No description is available for this course.

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