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3.00 Credits
3 credits Prerequisite: (ENC 1101 or ENC 1121H or IDS 1101H). This course is designed to survey the major fiction, poetry, drama, and essays of selected African writers through the twentieth century. It emphasizes issues and ideas that have influenced African-American literary expression and explores personal responses to the African-American experience as reflected in American culture. It examines African-American literature through four periods: Slavery, The Civil War and Reconstruction, The Harlem Renaissance, and The Contemporary Period. It traces human experience as it unfolds in African-American literature, exploring the historical background, social issues, and ideologies of each period and the impact of the African-American experience upon American culture. This course requires substantial reading, library research, and the composition of the research paper. 47 contact hours.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Prerequisite: ENC 0020 or EAP 1695 or a satisfactory score on the SPC placement test. A survey of the major aspects of American folklore. This course is designed to increase the student's general knowledge of folklore in the United States; to familiarize the student with major techniques for collecting, editing, and evaluating folklore; to familiarize the student with major scholarship in the field; and to develop within the student a sense of appreciation of folklore. This course has a substantial writing requirement. 47 contact hours.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits "G" Prerequisite: (IDS 1101H or ENC 1101 or ENC 1121H) and (REA 0002 or EAP 1695) or appropriate score on the placement test. This is a course designed to survey American literature to 1865, with special emphasis on the Romanticism and Realism as well as methods of library research, writing of the research paper and the paper of literary interpretation. Included are selected works of major writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson. This course partially satisfies the writing requirements as outlined in the General Education Requirements. Credit is not given for both AML 2010 and AML 2010H. 47 contact hours.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits "G" Prerequisites: (IDS 1101H or ENC 1121H) or (IDS 1101H or ENC 1121H and acceptance into the Honors College ) or approval of the program director. This course is designed to be a humanistic and interdisciplinary study of American literature from its origins in the 17th Century through the 19th Century. Special emphasis will be given to the literary movements of 19th Century Romanticism and Realism. Representative selections from each period are critically examined for interpretation, historical background, artistic qualities, and philosophy, with emphasis on human values and application to life. This course also stresses methods of research and emphasizes writing research-based papers, including literary interpretation and critical analysis. Independent research and interdisciplinary connections will also be encouraged for students to make connections to other related areas of humanities, philosophy and literature in the Honors Program. This course partially satisfies the writing requirements outlined in the General Education Requirements. Credit is not given for both AML 2010H and AML 2010. 47 contact hours.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits "G" Prerequisite: (IDS 1101H or ENC 1101 or ENC 1121H) and (REA 0002 or EAP 1695) or appropriate score on the placement test. This is a course designed to survey American literature from 1865 to the present. Included are selected works of major writers such as Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Henry James, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, T. S. Eliot, E. E. Cummings, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamud, Flannery O'Connor, James Baldwin, James Dickey, and Sylvia Plath. This course also stresses methods of library research and emphasizes writing of the research paper and the paper of literary interpretation. This course partially satisfies the writing requirements outlined in the General Education Requirements. American Literature to 1865 is not necessarily a prerequisite to this course. Credit is not given for both AML 2020 and AML 2020H. 47 contact hours.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits "G" Prerequisites: (ENC 1121H or IDS 1101H) or (IDS 1101H or ENC 1121H and acceptance into the Honors College ) or approval of the program director. This course is designed to be an interdisciplinary study of American literature from the 19th century to the present. Special emphasis will be given to the literary movements of the 19th and 20th century. Representative selections from each period are critically examined for interpretation, historical background, artistic qualities, and philosophy, with emphasis on human values and application to life. This course also stresses methods of research and emphasizes writing research-based papers, including literary interpretation and critical analysis. Independent research and interdisciplinary connections will also be encouraged for students to make connections to other related areas of humanities, philosophy and literature in the Honors Program. This course partially satisfies the writing requirements as outlined in the General Education Requirements. Credit is not given for both AML 2020H and AML 2020. 47 contact hours.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits "G" Prerequisite: (ENC 0020 and REA 0002) or EAP 1695 or satisfactory score on the SPC placement test. This course is an introduction to the science of man and his culture, defining the branches of anthropology, its methods, and its relation and contributions to the other disciplines. Emphasis will be given to the universal and the unique aspects of man's adaptation to his environment and to his biological origins. This course partially satisfies the Gordon Rule writing requirements outlined in the General Education Requirements. 47 contact hours.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits "G" Prerequisite: (ENC 0020 and REA 0002) or EAP 1695 or satisfactory score on the SPC placement test. This course is a survey of the broad field of Anthropology and an explanation of selected contemporary problems. The origin of these problems and alternate solutions, derived from a cross-cultural approach, will be considered. This course partially satisfies the Gordon Rule writing requirements outlined in the General Education Requirements. 47 contact hours.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Prerequisite: Permission of Program Director. This course includes a study of Spanish life and character as it manifests itself in history, regional personality, celebrations, music, legendary figures, art and architecture. Special emphasis will be given to the southern part of Spain, Andalusia, which preserves the diverse cultural heritage of Europe, Africa and the Orient (Near East). This course is offered as a part of the Semester Experience Abroad program in Seville, Spain. 47 contact hours.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits "G" Prerequisite: (ENC 0020 and REA 0002) or EAP 1695 or satisfactory score on the SPC placement test. This course is the study of the influence of culture on human behavior. The course deals with cultural variations and similarities in the areas of subsistence techniques and technology, family and kinship, social order and disorder, and world view. This course partially satisfies the Gordon Rule writing requirement outlined in the General Education Requirements. 47 contact hours.
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