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3.00 Credits
Goal To introduce students to various genres of African literature and to consider some of the challenges of cross-cultural analysis of literature. Content Students will read, analyze, and write about selected oral epics, plays, poems and/or novels. Taught Alternate years. Prerequisites WIS 101 or ENG 101 Gen. Ed. Category Critical thinking; cross-cultural. Credit 3 hours.
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Goal To provide an opportunity for intermediate-level independent study. Content Independent work of interest to the student and approved by the instructor and department chair. Taught Fall, Spring. Prerequisites Permission of instructor and department chair. Credit 1-6 hours.
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Goal To study a movement, theme, genre, era, or writer(s) in British Literature before 1750. The focus of each seminar will vary. Representative topics might include Chaucer, Elizabethan drama, 18th century satire, women writers of the early modern period, history of the English language, or the rise of the novel. Content Texts by poets, dramatists, essayists, and/or novelists as appropriate to topic. Critical essays pertaining to relevant works. Taught Spring. Prerequisites ENG 201 or 202, ENG 210 Credit 3 hours; S-course.
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Goal To study a movement, theme, genre, era, or writer(s) in British Literature after 1750. The focus of each seminar will vary. Representative topics might include fiction of the Romantic period, literature of empire, modernism, the Brontes, twentieth-century British theatre, or Victorian women poets. Content Texts by poets, dramatists, essayists, and/or novelists as appropriate to topic. Critical essays pertaining to relevant works. Taught Fall. Prerequisites ENG 201 or 202, ENG 210 Credit 3 hours; S-course.
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3.00 Credits
Goal To study a movement, theme, genre, era, or writer(s) in American literature. The focus of each seminar will vary. Representative topics might include southern women writers, the American novel, American drama, American modernism and postmodernism. Content Texts by poets, dramatists, essayists, and/or novelists as appropriate to topic. Critical essays pertaining to relevant works. Taught Annually. Prerequisites ENG 211 or 212, ENG 210 Credit 3 hours; S-course.
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3.00 Credits
Goal To study a movement, theme, genre, era or writer(s) focusing primarily on works outside the American and English traditions. The focus of each seminar will vary. Representative topics might include Chinese poetry, the African novel, revolutions in world literature, the Russian novel. Content Texts by poets, dramatists, essayists, and/or novelists as appropriate to topic. Critical essays pertaining to relevant works. Taught Alternate years. Prerequisites ENG 210 Credit 3 hours; S-course.
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3.00 Credits
Goal To introduce students to the principles of rhetoric in composition and criticism and to teach them to improve their writing. Content Theories of rhetoric and composition with emphasis upon word choice, rhetorical tropes, argument, supporting materials, structure, and style. Taught Alternate years. Prerequisites WIS 101 or ENG 101, and ENG 111 or permission of instructor. Credit 3 hours.
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Goal To enable advanced students to develop their skills writing poetry, fiction, and/or drama. Content Drafts of student work, professional models of writing, texts on the craft and business of creative writing. Taught Alternate years. Prerequisites ENG 161 or permission of instructor. Credit 3 hours.
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3.00 Credits
Goal To allow students to concentrate on a major writer, genre, a theme, or a limited period of literary history. Content Topics vary, depending on student needs and interest. A student may take no more than two special topic courses. Representative special topics might include Arthurian literature, , Irish literature, or Gothic literature. Taught Alternate years. Prerequisites WIS 101 or ENG 101; ENG 111; ENG 210; ENG 201, 202, 211 or 212; or permission of instructor. Credit 3; 3 hours.
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3.00 Credits
Goal To enable senior English students to apply their accumulated knowledge to critical analysis of selected issues in literary studies. To encourage independent thought and judgment while providing a forum in which students demonstrate their knowledge of current research and their ability to communicate that knowledge effectively. Content Study and discussion of literary and critical texts. Content may vary from year to year. Taught Spring. Prerequisites Senior standing and successful completion of ENG 210, three from ENG 201, 202, 211, 212, and one 300-level ENG course, or consent of instructor. Credit 3 hours; S-course.
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