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3.00 Credits
This is a study of Southern literature in its distinctive social and aesthetic contexts. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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This is a study of American fiction and poetry since World War II as it relates to literary traditions and cultural movements. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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The course traces writing from its very beginnings, looking at such topics as memory, literacy, and scribes; the Gutenberg Bible and moveable type; public and private libraries; reading practices; subscriptions and periodicals; newspapers and political power; broadsheets; and book publishing. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
This course will cover analytical approaches to the study of mass culture. It will examine cultural texts such as popular fiction, advertising, television, popular music, popular magazines, and cyberculture. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
This course will cover a range of “texts” from American mass culture including popular fiction, advertising, television, popular music, popular magazines, and cyberculture. The course will emphasis methods of analyzing these texts and examine questions they raise about the nature of popular culture in America. The course will explore what these products of mass culture have in common, what distinguishes them from other cultural artifacts (such as those of high culture and folk culture), and the political and social implications of those differences.
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This is a capstone course for students in the New Media track of the CIT program. Students will undertake a project that serves as a bridge between the Humanities curriculum and the Information Technology coursework. Students will plan, propose, and develop an individual project that uses applied technology (e.g. multimedia) to create a highly interesting, hands-on, interactive exploration of a set of ideas the student has developed. As with all other CIT courses, this class will be writing intensive, requiring a formal proposal, a weekly journal of the students’ thinking and research, and a final report (15-20 pages) that synthesizes and explores. Students must demonstrate the project to a small audience, making a formal oral presentation. This course is normally offered only in the spring. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours lecture per week.
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3.00 Credits
This is a capstone course for students in the New Media Track of the CIT program. Students will undertake a project that serves as a bridge between the Humanities curriculum and the Information Technology coursework. Students will plan, propose, and develop and individual project that uses applied technology (e.g. multimedia) to create a highly interesting, hands-on, interactive exploration of a set of ideas the student has developed. As with all other CIT courses, this class will be writing intensive, requiring a formal proposal, a weekly journal of the students’ thinking and research, and a final report (15-20 pages) that synthesizes and explores. Students must demonstrate the project to a small audience, making a formal oral presentation. The Honors Senior Project is for the superior student, and admission to this course is by invitation of the English faculty to selected students who have been admitted to the Honors Program. Students are expected to demonstrate advanced, superior skills in research, writing, oral presentation, and creation of the technological component. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
This is a study of African American literature, with emphasis on historical, philosophical, and cultural contexts. Topics include the oral tradition, autobiographies, the Harlem renaissance, and literary criticism and theory. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
This is a study of works by major figures in modern and contemporary literature. The course examines the responses of novelists, poets, and prose writers to the issues of the century. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
This is a study of the English language from its beginnings in the fifth and sixth centuries to its worldwide expansion in the twentieth century. The course examines the chronological development of language from Old to Middle to modern English, including phonetic, syntactic, and lexical changes. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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