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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Stresses mastery of essential vocabulary and primary grammatical structures through a situational approach. Students perceive that language is "living" and they discover by the thirdweek of the semester that they can already communicate in French. Class time is devoted to interactive practice. Conversational skills, pronunciation, and understanding are verified through regular oral exams. (Fall semester)
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4.00 Credits
Continuation of LF 101, this course also incorporates reading skills and exposes students to a wider range of cultural materials. Prerequisite: LF 101. (Spring semester)
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4.00 Credits
Historical overview of several genres of British Literature from the Renaissance to the 20th century, focusing on writers such as More, Spenser, Milton, Defoe, Bronte, Eliot, Joyce, and Beckett. Prerequisite: WR 121 or HS 101. Fulfills the Literary Perspective of the General Education requirements.
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4.00 Credits
Courses focus on specific themes or topics, such as literature of the city, artists in literature, or coming of age. All topics include literature in at least three genres (selected from poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama). Fulfills the Literary Perspective of the General Education requirements. May be repeated for credit if topics differ.
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4.00 Credits
Courses focus on literature produced by historically oppressed peoples in the U.S. and on specific themes or topics, such as slavery and freedom, American Indian multi-genre life-stories, or border identities. All topics include the study of literature in at least three genres (selected from poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama). Fulfills the Literary Perspective of the General Education requirements and the U.S. Diversity requirement.
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4.00 Credits
Examines fiction, poetry, and other genres by 19thand 20th-century American women such as Jacobs, Dickinson, Chopin, Kingston, Welty, Rich, and Morrison. Fulfills the Literary Perspective of the General Education requirements and the U.S. Diversity requirement.
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4.00 Credits
Courses focus on literature produced outside the U.S. in locations affected by imperial expansion. Specific themes or topics might include Literatures of the Asian Diaspora, Latin American Literature and Cinema, or Literature of Europe's Borders. All topics include literature in at least three genres (selected from poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama). Fulfills the Literary Perspective of the General Education requirements and the Global Diversity requirement.
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4.00 Credits
Examines a broad range of literary nonfiction works, present and past, paying particular attention to the craft within the nonfiction work but identifying relationships and similarities that literary nonfiction has with the novel and short story. Includes readings from such diverse forms as historical narrative, adventure travel and survival, memoir and the creative nonfiction essay, and other forms of factual writing artfully constructed. (Spring semester)
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4.00 Credits
Explores modern and postmodern traditions of poetry in the works of such 20th-century poets as Eliot, Stevens, Auden, Moore, Lowell, Bishop, Plath, Larkin, Rich, Ashbery, and, in translation, Neruda, Rilke, Herbert, Kazuk, and Tsvetaeva. (Spring semester)
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4.00 Credits
Survey of masterpieces of European literature, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, including such areas as the medieval romance and the epic, the Renaissance humanism of Rabelais and Montaigne, the Spanish Golden Age, Cervantes and Calderon de Barca and Sor Juana Innes de la Cruz, 17th-century classicism in Racine, Moliere, and Madame de Lafayette, Enlightenment literature, romanticism, realism, and symbolism in the continental poetry and fiction of the 19th century, the dramas of Chekhov and Strindberg, La Belle époque, and the early existentialism of Unamuno. (Semester varies)
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