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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on the black poet's place in the history of American poetry. Considers black poetry as both written words and spoken words.
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4.00 Credits
Investigates problems of crime and justice as reflected in literature from ancient to contemporary works. The secondary focus is the law itself as literature, such as explorations of case files and other legal material. Readings encourage students to discover the changing nature of the criminals-heroes or victims or villains-and to deal with the social, psychological, and political facts that define them.
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4.00 Credits
Explores how authors represent the religious, moral, ethical, and social conflicts arising from the acquisition, use, and misuse of political power.
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4.00 Credits
Examines historically the discovery methods and models of literature and science, exploring one or more of the following areas: the relationship of the methods and models of literature and science; the treatment of scientific methods and models in literature; and the use of literary devices, techniques, and traditions in scientific texts. Readings are drawn from a combination of scientific and literary texts.
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4.00 Credits
Offers an introduction to syntax, the theory of sentence structure. Explores how to do syntactic analysis using linguistic evidence and arguments. Focuses primarily on English, with some discussion of the syntax of other languages. Other topics include syntactic universals and the relation between syntax and semantics.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on meaning and how it is expressed in language-through words, sentence structure, intonation, stress patterns, and speech acts. Considers how content, logic, and speakers' and listeners' assumptions affect what sentences can mean and how linguistic meaning is determined by one's perceptual system or cultur
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4.00 Credits
Studies the linguistic and social history of the English language from its Anglo-Saxon beginnings to the present. Examines the changes in the sound system, sentence structures, vocabulary, semantics, and spelling that have occurred. Considers issues in language change: the influence of foreign invasion and migration, differences in dialect, and the emergence of English as a "world" language.
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4.00 Credits
Investigates the relationship between language and gender. Topics include how men and women talk; the significant differences and similarities in how they talk, why men and women talk in these ways, and social biases in the structure of language itself.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on one of a range of topics from the perspective of current linguistics, such as American dialectics, language and law, women's and men's language, words and word structures, or issues in linguistics and literature.
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1.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2006. Offers additional intermediate academic experience by exploring course-related topics in greater depth with the professor. Available only to courses approved by the University Honors Program.
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