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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
Credits: 3. This course surveys the development of African American literature from its beginning to 1945.
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2.00 Credits
Credits: 3. This course surveys the development of African American Literature from 1945 to the present.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3; can be repeated with a change in content up to 9 credits. Consult departmental Web site. Survey of traditions in American women's writings. The course may cover a wide range of texts or focus on a single theme, genre, period, literary movement or cultural tradition. Topics may include women's writings about feminism, family, work, nationalism or social justice; women's autobiography, poetry, experimental prose or domestic fiction; nineteenth-century literature by women, contemporary women's poetry or colonial women's writing; realist, postmodern or sentimental fiction by American women; African American, New England, Native American, Southern or working-class writing; Chicano, Latina or lesbian literary traditions.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3; can be repeated with a change in content up to 9 credits. Consult departmental Web site. This course focuses on some of the rich cultural traditions found in American literature. Topics may include Gay and Lesbian, Jewish American, Chicano/a, Latino/a, Native American, Southern and other literatures.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3; can be repeated with a change in contact up to 9 credits. A variable topics or survey course focusing on the major issues, movements or themes in the study of Asian-American literature and culture from the beginnings to the present. Topics may include Kung-fu films, cultural nationalism and feminism, model minorities, Angel Island literature, Asian-Americans in film and media, and several major authors. Consult departmental Web site.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3; can be repeated with a change in content up to 9 credits. Consult departmental Web site. Topics may include one or more genres such as the novel, detective novel, political novel, historical novel, utopian fiction or Western; drama; short story; sermon traditions; African American cultural forms, African American folklore; long poem, lyric, philosophical poem, oral poetry; nature writing, autobiography, captivity narrative; narratives of exploration; political oratory; postmodernism; coming-out stories; humor.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3; can be repeated with a change in content up to 9 credits. Consult departmental Web site. A variable topics course focusing on one or more of the major issues, movements, forms, or themes in the study of American literature and culture before 1800. Topics may include narratives of exploration and encounter, Puritan and/or Enlightenment writings, captivity and slave narratives, traditions of spiritual autobiography, post-colonial approaches to colonial rhetoric and poetry, and/or in-depth studies of selected writers.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3; can be repeated with a change in content up to 9 credits. Consult departmental Web site. A variable topics course focusing on the major issues, movements, forms or themes in the study of American literature and culture before 1900. Topics may include the American Renaissance, literature and abolition, African American novels and poetry, romance and romanticism, race and sexuality, the rise of the short story, realism, naturalism, representations of the city, representations of the South, tropes such as the Noble Savage or the American Girl, and/or in-depth studies of selected writers.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3; can be repeated with a change in content up to 9 credits. Consult departmental Web site. A variable topics course focusing on one or more of the major issues, movements, forms or themes in the study of 20th Century American literature and culture. Topics may include Modernism, Post-Modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, Depression-era literature, American writers in Paris, consumer society, American fiction since 1945, poetry, Civil Rights literature, rhetorics of imperialism, and/or several major authors.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3; can be repeated with a change in content up to 9 credits. Consult departmental Web site. A variable topics course focusing on one or more of the major issues, movements, forms or themes in the study of American literature and culture. Topics may include masculinity and femininity in literature, lesbian possibilities in popular culture, feminism and womanism, traditions of gay self-representation.
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