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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. The course examines the style, narrative techniques, symbols and historical setting of the Old Testament and New Testament writers. L, C
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. This course is an introduction to mythology, with an emphasis on the myths, epics and plays of ancient Greece and Rome. These may include the works of Homer, Euripedes, Hesiod, Virgil, Ovid and others. L, C, ART
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. This course presents works by significant ethnic writers, such as James Baldwin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Zora Neale Hurston, M. Scott Momoday, Toni Morrison and Leslie Marmon Silko. L, C, ART
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. In this course, we will encounter the poetry, fiction, journals, essays, speeches, and songs of nineteenth-century African-American writers. By paying close attention to the personal as well as cultural forms of expression, we will observe how the anguish, joy, and even the mundane aspects of the early African-American experience translate into a distinct canon of literature. Representative authors include Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Frances E.W. Harper, Pauline Hopkins, and W.E.B. Dubois. L, C, ART
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. This course surveys the major periods, genres, and authors of African-American literature in the twentieth century. This course also connects African-American literature to the representation of Blacks in music, film live performance, media, and society in general. Representative authors include James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, and Toni Morrison. L, C, ART
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. Significant stories by some of the world's great writers are read and analyzed to show the evolution of the short story form. L
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. This course will serve as an intensive introduction to the interconnected genres of science fiction and fantasy. We will read a number of significant authors and texts on three related levels; defining specific formal and thematic elements of each; thinking about some of the main sub-categories and periods through which the genres have developed; and working to develop overall concepts and definitions about the genre's form, content, and goals. ART Prerequisites: ENGL 1000 and 1200.
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. In this course, we will develop techniques to read, understand, perform and appreciate poetry. Through exposure to a wide variety of poetry, we will examine the mechanics of poetic form and also consider the function of poetry in the world, its future and the formation of personal identities through language.
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. This is the first course in a two-semester survey on the history of theater, from its roots in pre-history through the Greeks, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and ending with Moliere. This course examines the times of Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Moliere, among others, discovering how they were products of their times and how their work contributed to shaping those times. Focus is on western theater, but also included are theater traditions of East Asia, India, Oceania and Africa, such as Balinese Dance Theater, Noh, Bunraku, and Chinese Opera. L, C, ART, GDAN
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3.00 Credits
3 cr. 3 hr. This is the second course in a two-semester survey on the history of theater from the late-Renaissance to the present. This course examines Restoration drama and works of such playwrights as Ibsen, Brecht, and Beckett, among other, discovering how they were products of their times and how their work contributed to shaping those times. Focus is on western theater, but also included are theater traditions of East Asia, India, Oceania and Africa, as living traditions and new voices. ART, GDAN
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