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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Selections from major American writers prominent after 1920. Includes the works of such writers as Eliot, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Frost, Hemingway, Arthur Miller, O’Neill, Steinbeck, Stevens, Tennessee Williams, and William Carlos Williams. After 1800. Satisfies the humanities distribution requirement. Three hours a week.
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Examination of modern approaches to composition and communication. Emphasis on finding the purpose and determining the audience for effective communication through submission of several written papers as well as an oral presentation. Careful reading of modern rhetoricians such as Burke, Kinneavy, Moffett, and Flower. Prerequisite: EN 105A or exemption. After 1800. Satisfies the humanities distribution requirement. Three hours a week.
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3.00 Credits
Study of American writers of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Includes such writers as Toni Morrison, Andre Dubus, Amy Tan, August Wilson, Marsha Norman, Adrienne Rich, and Denise Levertov. After 1800. Satisfies the humanities distribution requirement. Three hours a week.
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3.00 Credits
Study of the development of American drama during the last third of the twentieth century. Emphasis on social and cultural context, emergence of women and minority playwrights, shifting dramatic techniques. Some reference to the modern period (e.g., O’Neill, Hellman, Williams, Miller), but primary focus on playwrights such as Henley, Hwang, Mamet, Norman, Rabe, Wagner, Wasserstein, A. Wilson, L. Wilson. After 1800. Satisfies the humanities distribution requirement. Three hours a week.
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Focused study of selected works in relation to a common issue, topic, theme, or tradition. May satisfy before or after 1800, depending on particular course. Previous course titles include: Milton and Revolution, Trans-Atlantic Romanticism, and Poets of New England. Satisfies the humanities distribution requirement. Three hours a week.
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Study of selected writers and works outside the mainstream of traditional literary study, with attention to the question of canonicity. May satisfy before or after 1800, depending on particular course. Satisfies the humanities distribution requirement. Three hours a week. Representative Cultural Diversity offerings: American Indian Renaissance Study of the flourishing of Indian poetry and fiction over the last two decades. Writers such as Leslie Silko, Louise Erdrich, N. Scott Momaday, Dee Brown, and Wendy Rose. American Literature by Women of Color Study of minority women writers such as Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and Hysaye Yamamoto. Emphasis on how issues of gender and race impacted the literary careers of these women. Twentieth-Century Drama and Performance by Women A study of selected plays and performances by female dramatic artists from the early 20th century to the present, with emphasis on works from the 1950s through the 1990s; some attention to pre-twentieth-century plays. Selections from such writers as Susan Glaspell, Marsha Norman, Caryl Churchill, Ntozake Shange, Anna Deavere Smith. American Women’s Fiction Study of short stories, novels, and biographical fiction produced by women in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Explores traditionally masculine American myths and values from a feminine perspective, emphasizing the changing position of women in American culture. Particular attention to social, political, and philosophical influences on American women writers such as Jacobs, Davis, Chopin, Wharton, Morrison, Erdrich, and Tan. Postcolonial Literature Study of twentieth-century writers and works from former colonies in Africa, the Caribbean and Asia in their historical and cultural contexts. Writers may include Achebe, Ngug, Sidhwa, Rushdie, Harris, Prerequisite: Junior status. Twentieth-Century Caribbean Writers Study of twentieth-century writers and works from the Anglophone Caribbean in their historical and cultural contexts. Writers may include Lamming, Cliff, Rhys, Selvon, Brathwaite and others. After 1800.
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3.00 Credits
Practice and criticism in a workshop format for those interested in writing fiction, poetry, drama, or other literary forms. Prerequisite: EN 105A or exemption or permission of instructor. Satisfies the humanities distribution requirement. Three hours a week.
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3.00 Credits
Discussion and critical evaluation of students’ original creative works in a workshop format. Designed for students with a previous background in creative writing and an understanding of the conventions of the genre in which they are working. Prerequisite: EN 320-324A or permission of instructor. Three hours a week.
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3.00 Credits
Study of a work, author, or topic in seminar format. Restricted to juniors and seniors. Prerequisite: EN 205A or EN 206A or permission of instructor. May satisfy before or after 1800 or cultural diversity requirement depending on particular course. Satisfies the humanities distribution requirement. Three hours a week. Representative seminar offerings: Shakespeare’s Corporeal Art: The Human Body as Material and Symbol in Shakespeare Study of the human body as theatrical medium, verbal image, and theme in selected plays, with attention to Renaissance scientific and social contexts which bear upon the rich store of corporeality in Shakespearean drama. Topics for investigation include: body as theatrical presence onstage; body as metaphor; the grotesque body; gendered bodies; clothing and the body; the body in pain; the body as corpse. Reading from such plays as Richard III, King Lear; Measure for Measure, and Titus Andronicus. American Memoir Study of the personal memoir as literary genre and as personal/cultural artifact. Discussion focuses on theory of autobiography/memoir, cultural context of memoirs, gender and memoir, truth and memoir. Requirements include reading in the theory and application of the genre, writing analyses of published memoirs, and composing individual memoirs. Readers, Writers, and Books: Seminar in Textual Scholarship Introduction to issues and methods in textual scholarship, including modern theories and practices in editing literary texts for publication. Attention to the impact of the book trade on the production and reception of literary works. Sessions in McQuade Library’s special collections.
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3.00 Credits
Practicum in tutoring, accompanied by readings in Writing Center theory and written reflection on issues in the tutoring of writing. Prerequisite: permission of Writing Center Director. May be taken only once for credit.
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