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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Survey of African-American literature (prose, poetry, and drama) from Olaudah Equiano through Toni Morrison and examines African- American literature as part of the field of diaspora studies. Also explores connections between African-American and Caribbean-American literatures conceived as literatures of the African diaspora. Fulfills the General Education U.S. Diversity requirement. (Fall semester)
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4.00 Credits
Explores the development of American drama in the 20th century from O'Neill, Williams, and Miller to contemporary writers such as Shepard, Mamet, Rabe, and Henley. (Semester varies)
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4.00 Credits
Study of representative American novels written before the 20th century, including works by such authors as Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Twain, Chopin, Wharton, and James. (Fall semester)
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4.00 Credits
Study of representative works of 20th-century American fiction. May cover authors from the first half of the century such as Anderson, Cather, Faulkner, James, Hemingway, Dreiser, Wright, Ellison, and Bellow; as well as more contemporary writers such as Roth, Coover, Nabokov, Morrison, DeLillo, Burroughs, Momaday, and Silko. (Spring semester)
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4.00 Credits
Exploration of works by contemporary international women writers within their social and political contexts. Readings include work by such writers as Nadine Gordimer, Jamaica Kincaid, Michelle Cliff, Mawal El Saadawi, Bessie Head, Luisa Valenzuela, and others. Fulfills the General Education Global Diversity requirement. (Spring semester)
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4.00 Credits
Special offerings in the study of prominent and emerging poets and schools of poetry. Emphasis on exploring the intersection between individual technique and aesthetic traditions, from the formal to the avant-garde to culturally and politically conscious expressions of the art. The course is principally concerned with poets writing in the English language, though important figures from other language traditions may be read in translation. May be repeated for credit if topics differ. (Semester varies)
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4.00 Credits
Special offerings in European Literature may include such topics as the Romantic Age, Russian Short Fiction, Absurd and Avant-Garde Theater, and the 19th century-European Novel, or topics related to special interests and expertise of the faculty. May be repeated for credit if topics differ. (Semester varies)
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4.00 Credits
Students study forms of poetry as used by historical and contemporary poets, and then write original poems in those forms (such as the sonnet, villanelle, haiku, sestina, syllabic, and renga), and genre forms (such as Surrealist, Expressionist, Anti-poem, Open Field, and Language poetry). (Spring semester)
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4.00 Credits
Special offerings in American Literature that concentrate on the study of particular authors, genres, or themes, or on topics related to the special interests and expertise of the faculty. May be repeated for credit if topics differ. (Semester varies)
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4.00 Credits
Special offerings in Global Literature that include such topics as South Asian Fiction, Latin American Short Fiction, Holocaust Literature, Post-Colonial Literature, and Magical Realism, or on topics related to the special interests and expertise of the faculty. Fulfills the General Education Global Diversity requirement. May be repeated for credit if topics differ. (Semester varies)
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