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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Offered on Demand Includes readings in Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes demonstrating the vitality and beauty of ancient Greek literature and exemplifying Greek views of life, death, and the sanctity of human personality. Images from Greek sculpture and architecture supplement these readings. This course meets the CLAC I Literature requirement. Prerequisite: Six (6) credits of English at the 1000-level.
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Offered on Demand Includes in-depth studies of works by Dante, Moliere, Voltaire, Dostoevsky, and Kafka from the fourteenth century to the present. Images from painting, sculpture, and architecture supplement these readings as well as perspectives from history, philosophy, art, and religion. 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 Studies the image of teenage years in a variety of contexts, cultures, and time. Using art, film, and literature, as a basis of comparison, the course will examine the problems that beset the adolescent, interfering or stimulating growth and maturity. Conditions of setting, foreshadows, elements of plot and character, and rules of dramatic action, are definitions applied to the works under study. Prerequisite: Six (6) credits of English at the 1000-level.
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3.00 Credits
Fall Semester Pursues quests for self, community, discovery, loss and redemption, starting with Homer’s Odyssey, traveling through Boccaccio’sDecameron, and exploring the voyages of Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.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 Considers what it means for women to be part of 19th century British and American literature as characters and as authors, including selected poetry, fiction, and non-fiction by 19th century women writers in their respective historical and social context, paying particular attention to the ways female writers approach authorship with respect to their culturally defined roles as daughters, wives, and mothers. 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 Examines carefully the depiction of individuals who find themselves opposed by a larger society, to admire the courage and the daring, to lament the clashes, the losses, and the victims. An examination of iconoclasts or movers and shakers in all of the major areas depicted in the assigned literature and films, including education, business, government (criminal justice), science (medicine), religion, and the military. Prerequisite: Six (6) credits of English at the 1000-level.
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3.00 Credits
Alternate Spring Semesters Helps students learn more about how literature and the legal system respond to and create human cultures and values through their shifting responses to the most important issues of all time. Readings include U.S. Supreme Court cases as well as popular fiction with themes of law, attorneys, and legal issues. 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 Fall Semester Shares the vital experience of significant literature that has been targeted for political, religious, sexual, or social content. Course analyzes government documents, novels, poetry, drama, film, and political treatises within the context of their social milieus. Students will articulate their own carefully reasoned responses to these texts and to the sometimes-conflicting values of free speech and responsibility. 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
This course explores roles of animals (horses, dogs, wolves, etc.) throughout the history of literature, including the Bible, fairy tales, film, poetry, scientific discourse, horror and humor. How do humans understand themselves in relationship with animals? Do animals talk, think, feel, have souls, and teach important lessons? Prerequisites: Six (6) credits of English at the 1000-level.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the depiction of physical handicaps through the history of literature, including fairy tales, novels, plays, film, poetry, scientific discourse, and humor. How do people deal with and overcome the physical disadvantages life thrusts upon them - from illness to conditions of impairment of senses? Prerequisite: Six (6) credits of English at the 1000-level.
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