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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Studies selected archetypal stories and legends as well as games, riddles and proverbs to discover basic patterns and variations in the human experience. Includes materials from all parts of the world, and from a variety of perspectives, regarding such topics as creation, myths of the elements, the seasons, the loss of Paradise, Death, the Underworld, the Hero, the Great Mother, and the Trickster.
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3.00 Credits
Selections from both the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament will be discussed in considerable detail: Genesis, Exodus, Samuel, Kings, Ecclesiastes, Job, Matthew, Acts, and perhaps some selections from the prophets, Psalms, and other books as well. These books include stories about human origins, families, love, war, sex, betrayal, politics, prophets and kings, and the development of a stormy relationship between God and humankind. The books of the Bible also contain laws, histories, philosophy, and prophecies, all of which can help us understand the ancient cultures that so influenced the world.
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3.00 Credits
Considers writings of authors such as Homer, Dante, Goethe, Gustave Flaubert, Chekhov, Simone de Beauvoir, and Anna Akhmatova. Though they wrote in different ages and in different languages, such writers are often seen as contributing to a common European intellectual and literary tradition. Discusses the authors, their work, and their historical and social backgrounds, with an emphasis on their relevance to our own time.
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3.00 Credits
Today more is known about Jesus as a historical figure than at any other time in the past two thousand years. The same is true for the founding and development of Christianity and for the transition of Judaism into its modern form, both of which occur in the middle to late years of the first century of the Common Era. We will read the New Testament in the context of this knowledge, which comes from archeological discoveries and careful scholarly research. We will also look at samples of other texts from the period: the Apocrypha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and non-canonical gospels.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces students to important works from Beowulf to Virginia Woolf that contributed to the evolving British literary tradition. Readings are selected from a variety of periods and movements, such as the Renaissance and the Romantic revolution. The works are studied in their cultural and historical settings.
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3.00 Credits
Employing the methods of several disciplines, including literature, history, philosophy, and anthropology, introduces the dramatic and detailed documentation of the presence and legacy of Africans in Ancient America (or Pre-Columbian America). Explores the major genres, themes, and criticisms which compose the literary and cultural traditions of African Americans. Selected oral narratives, essays, slave narratives, poetry, short stories, autobiographies, drama, and novels will be critically studied. Attention is given to historical, cultural, and socio-political backgrounds.
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3.00 Credits
The United States has always been a contact zone, a meeting place of a variety of cultures. Introduces some of the diverse American literature produced between the 17th and 20th centuries. Students will learn about the many writers associated with the Boston area, such as Bradstreet, Alcott, and Thoreau as well as writers such as Douglass, Twain, Dickinson, and Cather from the diverse regions and cultural backgrounds within the United States.
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3.00 Credits
As the recent successes of Dances with Wolves and Pocahontas suggest, Americans are still fascinated with American Indian culture and history. Beginning with an examination of such media images of Indians, concentrates on introducing students to the variety of literary genres ¡ª novels, stories, poems, biographies, and treaty speeches ¡ª through which Native American Indians have chosen to represent their cultures and their experiences. In reading texts such a s Love Medicin e an d Reservation Blue s and authors including Sherman Alexie, Joy Harjo, and Zitkala-Sa, we will explore how characters deal with their complicated cultural inheritance. To understand the motivations of different characters and narrators, cultural issues such as Indian spirituality, gaming practices, Ghost Dancing, captivity, adoption, and ritualistic war practices will also be addressed.
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3.00 Credits
Develops the student's ability to recognize, analyze, and design effective structures of imaginative language and poetic form. Classroom methods include workshops to critique student work, in-class exercises, analysis and exposition of works by noted poets, and frequent writing assignments. The class is limited in size so that every student writer's work can get full attention.
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3.00 Credits
An intensive workshop in writing short stories and an exploration of the creative process. The material of the course is drawn primarily from students' own experience. The emphasis is divided between the technique of short-story writing and an analysis of the psychological difficulties faced by individual writers. Students will study the elements of fiction, analyze the stories of a contemporary writer, and apply what they learn in their own writing. They will also read work-in-progress and receive constructive suggestions from the group. Each student will be helped to conceive, write, and revise four complete short stories in the course of the semester. Visiting writers are frequently invited to sit in on a class. The class is limited in size so that every student writer's work can get full attention.
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