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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. The significant texts of American literature from early Native- American oral narratives to Civil War texts in a variety of genres, including poetry, fiction, sermons, journals, letters, and other historical documents are surveyed. We examine how and why certain issues (such as American identity, Puritanism, cultural conflict, gender and racial equality) recur and evolve throughout early American literature. L, ART
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. This course surveys all genres of American writing from 1865 to the present, tracing the effects of social, economic, scientific and artistic turmoil on authors and their works. We explore the interconnections among succeeding eras of American literature: Realism, Modernism and Post-Modernism. L
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. This course surveys English literature from the first extant manuscript materials through the early 17th century. We trace themes, images and literary forms that concerned British writers for half a millennium. L, ART
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. This course explores the changing form of English literature during the most tumultuous period of English history, encompassing the civil wars and leading up to the Industrial Revolution. Selections include writings by Aphra Behn, Dryden, Swift, Pope, Gay, Anne Finch, and Equiano in the Neo-classical age, and Wordsworth, Charlotte Smith, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Byron and Mary Shelley in the Romantic age are explored. L, ART
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. This course surveys British writers from the Victorian era to the present, tracing their responses to the revolutionary changes in art, music, science and social and economic classes. Representative authors include Dickens, Eliot, Trollope, Barrett-Browning, Wilde, Shaw, Woolf, Joyce and Beckett, authors whose depiction of human nature challenged contemporary concepts of self and society. L, ART
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. See ENGL 2300. L, B, IDIS
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. This basic course in script writing for film, television and multi-image productions includes information on the preparation of proposals, treatments, storyboards and scripts. Script formats include documentary, educational, corporate and dramatic film/video writing. (Credit is not given for both ENGL 2320 and COMM 2320.)
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. See ENGL 2330. L, IDIS
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. This course presents a selection of major works from around the world, from ancient/classical traditions up to the 16th century. We examine shifts from oral to literate transmissions of various genres, including wisdom literature, epic and lyric poetry, drama, and narrative. Focus is on the Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman foundations of Western literature, and on the Confucian, Hindu/Sanskrit, Buddhist, and Islamic underpinnings of literary traditions in Asia and the Middle East. The course examines the multiple, equally valid ways that different cultural and literary traditions respond to human experience. L, C, ART, GDAN
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. This course examines a selection of major works from the mid-17th century to the present. We cover a wide span of cultures, narratives and genres from the onset of modernity to the present, as we move from the literatures of China to Europe and modern Japan, South Asia and other locales. By setting up various cultures in conversation with each other, students understand the ways in which modernity shapes itself through considerations of gender, class and race narratives. L, C, ART, GDAN
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