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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the rich and varied tradition of great British women writers of the nineteenth century. Studying works by Mary Shelley, Austen, the Bront?s, Gaskell, and Eliot, we consider each writer's treatment of such women's issues as education, marriage, and happiness. Prerequisite: EN 105, ID 220 or EN 211, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Images of women in twentieth-century fiction, drama, and poetry will be revealed in the works of Elizabeth Bowen, Edna O'Brien, and Eavan Boland, as well as those of Yeats, Joyce, Synge, and O'Casey. The course focuses on the literature's reflection of roles of contemporary women. Prerequisite: EN 105, ID 220 or EN 211, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Students begin by exploring a definition of "rhetoric"as practiced by a broad range of writers. They examine how writers use rhetorical devices, both classical and modern, to explain their positions and develop their arguments. Writing assignments include students' own persuasive papers on topics chosen from a list of current social issues. Articles from present-day news media and other sources serve both as works to analyze and as models to emulate.
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3.00 Credits
Study of the nature of myth and myth-making including the principal myths and legends of the Greeks through their literature and of the Romans, chiefly through Ovid. Prerequisite: EN 105, ID 220 or EN 211, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A junior seminar that traces a single theme and kind of literature-tragedy-as it develops and changes overtime, beginning in ancient Greece, moving through Renaissance England and France, and into twentiethcentury America. Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Students travel to a selected location such as London, Dublin, or Greece for intensive study of the literature and drama of that culture. Course includes guided tours of theatrical and literary sites and an in-depth study of a variety of literary works and plays in performance, as well as attendance at theatre performances and lectures and completion of assigned papers.
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3.00 Credits
An intense study of American culture and literary forms reflected in significant works by American writers. Relevant literary criticism and the potential impact of gender and race will be considered. Prerequisite: EN 105, ID 220 or EN 211, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of one geographical region ("place") as acontributing influence in American literature. The course will focus on one area such as Concord (Massachusetts), Harlem, the South, the West. Prerequisite: EN 105, ID 220 or EN 211, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A variety of satires from Gulliver's Travels to 1984 will be studied, among them the works of Swift, Pope, Austen, Lewis Carroll, Huxley, Orwell, and Waugh. Prerequisite: EN 105, ID 220 or EN 211, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of postcolonial literature in English, primarily from Africa, India, and the West Indies. Examines issues of colonization and decolonization. The historical contexts and the aesthetic and political challenges posed in texts by Chinua Achebe, Buchi, Emecheta, Ama Ata Aidoo, Ngugi was Thiong'o, Nadine Gordimer, J. M. Coetzee, Salman Rushdie, and V. S. Naipaul. Prerequisite: EN 105, ID 220 or EN 211, or permission of instructor.
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