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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 or consent of instructor Class members will study the art and craft of creative nonfiction writing through the reading and discussion of published creative nonfiction and creative nonfiction written by students. The goal of this course is to improve writing through careful reading and refection, thoughtful discussion of and written response to student produced creative nonfiction. May be repeated once for credit.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 Class members will study the art and craft of fiction writing through the reading and discussion of published stories and stories written by students. The goal of this course is to improve writing through careful reading and refection, thoughtful discussion of and written responses to student produced fiction. This course may be repeated once for credit.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 Class members will study the art and craft of poetry writing through the reading and discussion of published poems and poems written by students. The goal of this course is to improve writing through careful reading and refection, thoughtful discussion of and written responses to student produced poetry. This course may be repeated once for credit.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 Problems of invention, composition, form and style solved through frequent practice and criticism of professional and student models and anecdotal evidence of professional writers. May be offered in short fiction, poetry or drama and repeated once for credit.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 Representative works by major American writers from the 17th century through the Civil War are studied. Included are such figures as Franklin, Wheatley, Poe, Emerson, Douglass, Hawthorne, Melville and Whitman. (CHUM; CWRT)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 Major American writers from the Civil War to the present are studied including such figures as Twain, Dickinson, James, Frost, Hemingway and Faulkner. (CHUM; CWRT)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 African-Americans have distinguished themselves artistically in many modes of expression, but perhaps none as profoundly as the novel. Tracing the development of this tradition that began before slavery’s end, students will read the works of writers such as Hannah Crafts, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker and Toni Morrison. The course will present these novels not only in their historical and cultural contexts but also in the evolving narrative tradition of African-American writers. Students will understand better how the human questions posed by familiar American authors are also explored by African-American novelists. (CHUM; CMCL; CWRT)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 This survey course will acquaint English majors with key American literary texts and literary-historical periods (colonial, early republican, romantic, realist, naturalist and postmodernism). Examining literature in the context of four hundred years of cultural and historical change, the course will investigate constructions of U.S. national identity as well as changes in literary conventions. Writers may include Bradstreet, Stein, Hemingway, Faulkner, Morrison, Pynchon and Alexie.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 This general introduction to Shakespeare’s plays is set against the background of his time and includes a detailed study of representative tragedies, comedies and histories. (CHUM; CWRT)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 Major literary texts are examined from the perspective of a common theme. In a given semester the course might concern itself with love, the family, madness, law, nature (as examples of particular themes) to illustrate how writers from diverse cultures and/or historical periods working with different genres shape imaginative responses to enduring themes. This course may be repeated for different topics. (CHUM; CWRT)
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