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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Fall Semester Includes discussions of major authors from the fourteenth century through the eighteenth century. Emphasis is on the reasons for each author’s enduring popularity and the ways in which his or her works have relevance today. This course meets the CLAC I Literature requirement. Prerequisite: Six (6) credits of English at the 1000-level.
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3.00 Credits
Offered upon Demand Studies syntax and semantics. Education students will find this course helpful in preparing for the teacher certification exams. Students will relearn parts of speech, the parts of sentences, rules of grammar, punctuation and spelling and discuss the theory behind them. The teaching method will be a combination of reading, memorization, and practice exercises.
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3.00 Credits
Spring Semester Includes major authors from the nineteenth century to the present. Emphasis is on the reasons for each author’s enduring popularity and the ways in which his or her works have relevance today. This course meets the CLAC I Literature requirement. Prerequisite: Six (6) credits of English at the 1000-level.
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3.00 Credits
Fall Semester Surveys American literature through the late nineteenth century. Course covers American literature up to the time of the Civil War. This course meets the CLAC I Literature requirement. Prerequisite: Six (6) credits of English at the 1000-level.
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3.00 Credits
Spring Semester Examines currents in American fiction, poetry, and drama of the past 100 years, including themes of urbanization, mechanization, modern racism, various forms of alienation, and liberation. This course meets the CLAC I Literature requirement. Prerequisite: Six (6) credits of English at the 1000-level.
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3.00 Credits
Offered on Demand Takes an American studies approach to a number of authors whose work is particularly representative of a segment of the American psyche. Conditions of setting, foreshadows, elements of plot and character, and rules of dramatic action, are definitions applied to the works under study. This course meets the CLAC I Literature requirement. Prerequisite: Six (6) credits of English at the 1000-level.
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3.00 Credits
Offered Periodically Includes readings from the poetry, drama, and short fiction, emphasizing the American South as a wellspring of literary energy, bright and dark, past and present. This course meets the CLAC I Literature requirement. Prerequisite: Six (6) credits of English at the 1000-level.
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3.00 Credits
Offered Periodically Examines new and innovative American literature and trends. Students will identify what works in American literature and what may be read by the next generation. Critical assessment of such authors of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry. This course meets the CLAC I Literature requirement. Prerequisite: Six (6) credits of English at the 1000-level.
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3.00 Credits
Alternate Fall Semesters Examines African American literature from the perspective of the loosely named ‘American’ Experience. Thus, students will examinevarious texts by African American authors that depict, uphold and/or critique the experience of African American peoples in the Americas. (Same course as AFAM 2150). This course meets the CLAC I Literature requirement. Prerequisite: Six (6) credits of English at the 1000-level.
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3.00 Credits
Offered Periodically Considers gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered identities, communities, and experience: their representation and creation through various genres and forms of literature and film and their cultural and historical variations; also investigates the mutual influence of literature and politics, the forces shaping desire, the relationship between language and identity, codes, the implications of various speech acts and silences, the paradigm of the “closet,” gay aesthetics/style, and the cultural impact of gay, lesbian, and transgendered artists, as well as Queer Theory.
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