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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Explores creative nonfiction essays and essay writing through extensive reading, individualized research, and writing workshops. Students develop familiarity with the variety and history of creative nonfiction. Students use multiple research methods, drafting approaches, and writing styles to explore topics of their choice. Students combine academic and creative writing strategies in new ways to explore and analyze their experiences and the world around them. (Offered: Periodically) Prereq: ENG 112, 114, or 116
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3.00 Credits
Themes and methods of novelists of the modern western world. This course explores such topics as alienation and the failure of communication and gives attention to modern experiments in point of view, structure, and style. (Offered: Periodically) Prereq: ENG 112, 114, or 116
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3.00 Credits
Explores the history and development of the graphic novel, a hybrid genre that combines visual and written textual elements. Students read, discuss, and write about graphic novels exploring issues of power, sexuality, race, gender, class, and identity. (Offered: Periodically) Prereq: ENG 112, 114, or 116
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3.00 Credits
A study of American literature through writers representative of various ethnic groups in the United States. (Offered: Periodically) Prereq: ENG 112, 114, or 116
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3.00 Credits
A critical study of a selected group of plays by Shakespeare, approached by theme.The course will also give some attention to contemporary presentations or adaptations. Prereq: ENG 112, 114, or 116
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3.00 Credits
A critical examination of the impacts of technology on literature as expressed in poetry, fiction, essay, film, and electronic text. Students consider how technological developments from factory production and the railroad to the personal computer and genetic engineering have influenced literature, art, thought, communication, work, and community. (Offered: Periodically) Prereq: ENG 112, 114, or 116
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3.00 Credits
A study of various genres and periods of literary texts by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender writers. The course includes lectures and classroom discussions on the texts and their cultural and historical contexts. Students discuss how the texts relate to expressions of, and arguments about, being queer in a predominantly heterosexual world. Readings also address more general issues of marginalization, such as those involving gender, race, class, and age. The course is appropriate for any student interested in the way literature expresses human difference. (Offered: Periodically) Prereq: ENG 112, 114, or 116
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3.00 Credits
A critical and analytical study of the gothic tradition in both classic and modern supernatural literature, with some attention to film. Students examine the significance of the supernatural horror tale in its larger literary, social, and cultural context. (Offered: Periodically) Prereq: ENG 112, 114, or 116.
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3.00 Credits
A study of Latin American writings from the pre-Columbian era to the present. Emphasis on the social, political, and cultural forces that have shaped the voices of contemporary Latin American literature. Authors include Bartolome de las Casas, Andres Bello, Ruben Darlo, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Jorge Borges, Isabel Allende, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. (Offered: Periodically) Prereq: ENG 112, 114, or 116
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3.00 Credits
Examines science fiction from different cultural perspectives. Students explore critical and social contexts that inform science fiction, gain an understanding of its history and development as a genre, and analyze its contributions to contemporary culture as well as its place within the arts. Science fiction in multiple media, including film, television, and literature, may be studied. Students write critical essays on specific works and have the opportunity to produce creative works of their own. (Offered: Periodically) Prereq: ENG 112, 114, or 116
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