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3.00 Credits
Advanced study in literature for yound adults, grades 7-10. Evaluation and selection of recent books in the area as well as the history of the genre. Criteria for selection: Book lists, indexes, professional literature in the field. Individual work on problem of special interest.
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3.00 Credits
Preparation for effective teaching of literature in the elementary school; wide reading of books for young children; story selection and story telling; authors and illustrators of children's books; classrom methods of stimulating creative expression; individual and group reading guidance.
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3.00 Credits
A two-week intensive session offering creative writing specializations in different forms and genres and whole group work covering a range of topics and approaches.
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3.00 Credits
In this class, we will explore theories of applied and service learning in Composition Studies. In particular, we will focus on prison literacy issues and we will contribute to the production of Stateville Speaks, a newsletter written by and for all inmates of Illinois state prisons and housed at NEIU. This class will meet for nine straight days and our class time will be split between discussion and analysis of the class readings and on work needed to help produce Stateville Speaks.
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3.00 Credits
A foundation course that will build on existing skills and prepare for further graduate-level studies, with a goal of contextualizing and conceptualizing critical attitudes and approaches to literary text. Its aim is to provide advanced critical and scholarly tools for understanding literature and will address crtiticism and critical method, close reading and analysis and bibliographical and research technique. Required in the first year of study in the Literature Concentration.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the prolific literary production associated with the reign in England of Richard II (1377-1399), including the works of Chaucer, Gower, Langland, the Gawain poet, Julian of Norwich, and others. Using various approaches, course will investigate the period's innovation, its relation to British literary tradition and to 14th - 15th-century historical change.
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Advanced study of Shakespeare's work, organized by theme. This course will explore a number plays grouped together by an organizing principle (such as "Shakespeare and History," "Shakespeare and the Other," "The Roman Plays," "Romance"). These works will also be placed in their historical context, paying close attention to genre, structure, and language. Students will aslo study thoretical approaches to Shakespeare's work in reading of contemporary critical works.
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of English dramatic works from circa 1580-1642, including Marlowe, Greene, Middleton, Marston, Dekker, Jonson, Webster, and Beaumont. This course will pay particular attention to genres that dominate outside the Shakespeare canon (revenge tragedy, city comedy, tragicomedy), as well as detailing the social, cultural, and intellectual developments that characterize this golden age of English stagecraft.
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3.00 Credits
The metaphysical tradition in seventeenth century poetry and its impact on modern poetry, including works of Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Vaughan and Traherne and critical studies of Johnson, Grierson, Eliot, Leavis, Williamson and others.
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3.00 Credits
Study of a turbulent and exciting "century of revolutions" by concentrating on the figure most associated with seventeenth-century English literature, John Milton. We will read all of his major peotry as well as some significant prose writings. We will also attempt to contextualize Milton in his period by studying other major figures such as Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, and John Bunyan.
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