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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A reading course in Shakespeare designed to give an in-depth knowledge of his representative comedies and romances. Prerequisite: EN 105, ID 220 or EN 211, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of representative history plays and close study of the major tragedies with special emphasis on characterization, structure, and theme. Prerequisite: EN 105, ID 220 or EN 211, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the poets and prose writers of the Victorian Period: Ruskin, Mill, Carlyle, Tennyson, the Brownings, Arnold, the Rossettis, Wilde, and Swinburne. We consider literary production as it relates to the writers' cultural and social milieu. Particular attention is given to the connection between literature and the arts. Prerequisite: EN 105, ID 220 or EN 211, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the major poetry of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, and Byron. Attention is paid to their prose (critical essays, journals, letters, etc.) as well as to their poetry and to the place of these writers in the context of the revolutionary changes in the political thought of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Prerequisite: EN 105, ID 220 or EN 211, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A study of modern drama from Ibsen and Chekhov to the present, including such dramatists as O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Pinter, Beckett, Hellman, Shange, and Childress. Emphasis will be placed on the dramatists' cultural ethos and the plays' style and structure. Prerequisite: EN 105, ID 220 or EN 211, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
An intensive survey of American poetry. The course will explore the potential impact of gender and race and will discuss relevant literary criticism. Prerequisite: EN 105, ID 220 or EN 211, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A study of American short fiction from Hawthorne to Updike. The course will focus on the short story, with some references to regional and ethnic writers. Prerequisite: EN 105.
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3.00 Credits
A comparative study of three major sixteenth- and seventeenth- century English poets whose personal, philosophical, and social concerns found such contrasting artistic expression. Prerequisite: EN 105, ID 220 or EN 211, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the themes, language, subjects, and visions present in novels and short stories by women of varying cultural heritages. Works will be interpreted against the background of women's struggle for political, social, and artistic liberation and within the context of influential literary criticism. Prerequisite: EN 105, ID 220 or EN 211, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course studies the literary and cultural contributions by Latino/a writers in the United States. The course focuses on the writings by Mexican-American, Cuban-American, Puerto Rican, and Dominican writers. Topics of study and discussion include the representation of ethnic, linguistic, sexual, and mythological identities. Issues such as immigration, bilingualism, transculturation, and "border" culture provide the theoreticalframework for the readings. Prerequisite: EN 105, ID 220 or EN 211, or permission of instructor.
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