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3.00 Credits
Focuses on one of the great periods in the history of literature. It has appropriately been called the American Renaissance. Writers covered might include but not be limited to Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson. Prerequisite: GWAR certification before Fall 09; or WPJ score of 80+; or 3-unit placement in ENGL 109M/W; or 4-unit placement in ENGL 109M/W and co-enrollment in ENGL 109X; or WPJ score 70/71 and co-enrollment in ENGL 109X. Graded: Graded Student. Units: 3.0
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Introduction to the terminology and structure of traditional grammar; analysis of the standard rules for agreement, punctuation, pronoun reference, etc.; introduction to social variance with respect to usage-standard vs. non-standard; and a description of the English sound system (vowels and consonants) and its relationship to standard orthography (sound/letter correspondences) spelling rules. Prerequisite: ENGL 1A or equivalent. Graded: Graded Student. Units: 3.0
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Designed to help students gain an understanding of the diversity as well as the similarities among various Asian American writers. How do the categories of race, gender, and class affect the way different characters construct their cultural experiences and fashion their personal identities? By studying the variety of processes through which different protagonists "become American"--through assimilation, appropriation, or "translation"--students should arrive at a better understanding of how we all construct our own identities. Prerequisite: GWAR certification before Fall 09; or WPJ score of 80+; or 3-unit placement in ENGL 109M/W; or 4-unit placement in ENGL 109M/W and co-enrollment in ENGL 109X; or WPJ score 70/71 and co-enrollment in ENGL 109X. Graded: Graded Student. Units: 3.0
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Covers short stories and novels spanning the century and including women writers from a variety of nationalities, class, cultural and ethnic groups. Emphasizes what Virginia Woolf calls "the delicate transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age" and works with the writers presented so as to elicit the developing strands of influence and critique that bring these disparate writers into a common dialogue. Prerequisite: GWAR certification before Fall 09; or WPJ score of 80+; or 3-unit placement in ENGL 109M/W; or 4-unit placement in ENGL 109M/W and co-enrollment in ENGL 109X; or WPJ score 70/71 and co-enrollment in ENGL 109X. Graded: Graded Student. Units: 3.0
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Focuses on the ways in which women writers of the 19th and 20th centuries concern themselves with questions of the differences in male and female experience and how those differences affect their writing. Students will study the portrayal in fiction of the evolution of the "modern woman"--with the conflicts between self and other, dependence and independence, love and power that are part of that process. Graded: Graded Student. Units: 3.0
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Focuses on women writers primarily from the early 20th century with an emphasis on how gender expectations affect people, society, novels, poems. Students study the theme of awakening, the roles that families, friends, class, social expectations and conditions play in the development of individuality and self-awareness. Examines implications of power relationships and certain areas of conflict, such as those between self and other, repression and expression, inner and outer, dependence and independence, love and power. Graded: Graded Student. Units: 3.0
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Conducted by lecture and discussion. Students see a selection of the best, most enduring, most influential films made during the last hundred years and explore the historic, aesthetic, and philosophical reasons these films have generally been acknowledged as masterpieces. Graded: Graded Student. Units: 3.0
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3.00 Credits
Note: May be repeated for 6 units of credit. Graded: Credit / No Credit. Units: 3.0
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Focuses on the role of the director in the creation of excellent films. Students will view, analyze, and discuss memorable films by great directors, concentrating on their personal styles, cinematic strategies, and typical themes. Representative examples will include such filmmakers as Chaplin, Keaton, Renoir, Welles, Ford, Truffaut, Bunuel, Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Bergman, and others. Graded: Graded Student. Units: 3.0
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3.00 Credits
Students see a selection of films adapted from novels, short stories, or other literary works; read the original work from which the film was adapted; and explore the history, aesthetics, and craft of adapting fiction to film. Graded: Graded Student. Units: 3.0
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