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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Postmodernism explores the relationship between art, science, and politics in contemporary philosophy. The course begins with a consideration of the legacies of Freud, Nietzsche, and Marx and continues with an analysis of such authors as Breton, Heidegger, Benjamin, Cortazar, Borges, Derrida, Foucault, Heisenberg, and Rorty. Uses film (including students' own short surrealist films), literature, and philosophical texts. Open to all students, it also fulfills the Honors Capstone requirement (cross-listed with Honors, Philosophy, and Political Science 402).
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4.00 Credits
A study of Chaucer's major works, with attention to the cultural and literary background and language of the period. (Maximum class size 20).
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4.00 Credits
A study of selected plays and the sonnets of Shakespeare, with attention to theatrical, cultural and literary background (cross-listed with Theatre Arts 452).
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4.00 Credits
A study of major works of Milton, with attention to his life and his significance in English literature.
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4.00 Credits
A study of works of one or more major American writers, with attention to the intellectual and cultural background and the literary contributions of each writer. Examples include Julia Alvarez and Toni Morrison, Ernest Hemingway and Edith Wharton, and David Mamet and August Wilson.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the works of one or more major authors from Great Britain, with attention to the intellectual and cultural background and the literary contributions of each writer. Examples include the poetry of John Donne and George Herbert, Jane Austen's England, and the politics of Thomas Hardy and D.H. Lawrence.
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on the works of one or more European authors with attention to the cultural environment in which they wrote and the influence of their writing on later artists. Examples of authors who may be chosen for this class include Dante, Flaubert, Lorca, Tolstoy, and Strindberg. (Maximum class size 20). Prerequisite: English 111.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the works of one or more major writers from outside the United States, Great Britain, and Europe with attention to the intellectual and cultural background and literary contributions of each. Examples of authors who may be studied in this course include Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe, and Anita Desai.
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4.00 Credits
Exploring the development of theories in Western literary criticism from Plato to the present, this course examines the major influences that have contributed to our collective understanding of what it means to read and write literature.
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4.00 Credits
This course approaches literature in relation to another field such as history, fine art or religion and may be cross-listed in that department. Examples include Celtic Fine Arts and Literature, American Print Culture, and the Bible as Literature.
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