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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys various forms of literary, dramatic, and film comedy, emphasizing how comic writers and directors use structure, character, tone, and convention to create comic forms, including festive comedy, satire, comedy of manners, farce, and black comedy.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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The course analyses significant developments in the British novel that occurred between the end of the 19th century and the contemporary period, paying particular attention to the experimental novelists whose innovations radically changed the novel as a literary form.Writers include such figures as Joseph Conrad, D.H.Lawrence, James Joyce, A.S.Byatt, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie and Zadie Smith, and Virginia Woolf.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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This course covers the modern and contemporary (post-modern) periods of drama, which is to say, from the 1850s to the present.Students read plays by such major Western dramatists as Buchner, Ibsen, Shaw, Pirandello, Chekhov, and Brecht, as well as the odd minor, non-canonical, and/or non-Western writer.Run mainly as a seminar, this course emphasizes close reading and requires participation in class discussions in which students demonstrate grasp of dramatic conventions, form, structure, themes, as well as context and/or the cultural-material conditions under which each play was written and produced.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the psychological, sociological, and physical effects of the American environment from the East to the West coast through essays, drama, novels, and poetry.Through the writings of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Nathaniel West, Wendell Berry, Philip Levine, M.Scott Momaday, among many others, students study the connection between place and soul as the sociological history of America unfolds chronologically.Students better understand their identity rooted in a particular place through the mirror of the literature.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the film industry's historical dependency upon literary properties and conducts a comparative analysis of specific films adapted from novels, plays, short stories, and poems.The course provides students with a historical and critical perspective on the film as an art form.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to selected transcendentalists and the flowering of intellectual and social life in America from 1830 to 1865, this course explores the relationship between literature and the cultural and political history of the period, including a study of paintings, photographs, and other material culture.Authors include Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Douglass, Davis, Whitman, and Dickinson.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the evolution of post-Civil War realism and the subsequent naturalistic movement in American literature.Topics include the rise of social activism, literary journalism, and documentary photography; theories of social elevation and the Black intellectual; changing roles of women and the construction of gender; neurasthenia and theories of medical treatment; and the impact of economic theory and technology on literature.Authors include Twain, James, Crane, Washington, Du Bois, Norris, Wharton, Chopin, and Gilman.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course traces the development of the modern American writer from the post-World War I era through the Depression and to the period immediately following World War II.Authors include Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Frost, Steinbeck, O'Neill, Mailer, Lowell, Bellow, and others.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines significant developments in American fiction and poetry from the period immediately following World War II to the present.Authors include Salinger, Updike, Bellow, Vonnegut, Malamud, Barth, Pynchon, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Sexton, and others.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on novels, short stories, and poems written by Native-American writers during the 20th century.For purposes of background, the course also covers a number of significant works composed prior to this century.Students examine texts primarily for their literary value, but also consider the broad image of Native-American culture that emerges from these works.The course also examines the philosophical, historical, and sociological dimensions of the material. This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. ( Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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