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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 Students will survey writings in African-American literature form its inception through 1954, the year of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling that outlawed segregation. Studying distinguished writers of poetry, drama, essays, narratives and prose fiction, students will attend to the historical, cultural and political contexts in which the works were produced.
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Prerequisite: ENGL102 Many of the freedoms and rights that African-Americans enjoy today began with the historic 1954 Brown vs Board of Education ruling that outlawed segregation. Starting with this pivotal time in American history and continuing to the present, students will survey African-American poetry, drama, essays, narratives and prose fiction with close attention paid to their historical, political and cultural contexts.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 This course provides an introduction to Chaucer’s poetry and Middle English through readings in The Canterbury Tales.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 The course surveys the literature of the early 18th century with emphasis on the works of Pope, Swift, Gay, Addison and Steele.
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Prerequisite: ENGL 102 The course examines the writings of several major 18th-century figures, such as Johnson, Boswell, Fielding, Richardson, Goldsmith and Burney.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 The course focuses on the generative-transformational theory of syntactic structure as applied to the English language. It includes selected readings on various aspects of linguistics.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of a foreign language course at the second semester level or consent of the department The course introduces language as a context-dependent phenomenon. Contexts and factors influencing linguistic choices, such as gender, style, setting topic and others are discussed. Attention is given to multilingual societies standard varieties and dialects, bilingualism, language policies and planning, language contact phenomena, pidgins and creoles. The course compares and contrasts non-Western and Western linguistic contexts and draws examples from a variety of languages. (Formerly LANG 324) (CHUM; CMCL)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 This course traces the history and development of a female literary tradition among English-speaking women writers. The dominant stages, images and themes and genres within this tradition will be explored through the work of writers such as Bradstreet, Killigrew, Wheatley, Wollstonecraft, Dickinson, Eliot, Browning, Rossetti, Gilman and Chopin.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 English-speaking women writers in the female literary tradition developed a number of dominant themes in a range of literary genres. The accomplishment of 20th-century women authors will be shown through such writers as Lowell, Woolf, Wharton, Porter, Hellman, Brooks, Lessing, Plath, Oates, Atwood and Morrison.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 This course examines American fiction from 1900 to 1945, an era in which writers moved from the tradition of realistic fiction to the radical reinvention of literature in an effort to grapple with technological change, transformations in gender and racial norms and the traumas of World War I and the Great Depression. Authors studied might include Kate Chopin, Jack London, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zora Neal Hurston, William Faulkner and John Steinbeck.
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