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Course Criteria
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Studies particular texts in their historical, philosophical, and social contexts. Students will practice using evidence from those various contexts to sharpen their sense of how literary works steer the reader toward conclusions about the value of the world each text presumes for itself. Readings will be drawn from more than one genre within a particular historical period. Prereq: ENGL 250 or department approval
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Considers texts which focus on the American Civil War for thematic and generic purposes. Prereq: ENGL 250 or department approval
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Examines the genre of the novel written in English, setting it in historical and cultural context. Traces the development of the novel, locating in even its earliest examples characteristic methods and concerns. Explores the prose narratives and epistolary writing of the 17th century as influential predecessors of the novel genre, progressing from that base to studying key examples of novels from the 18th century through the present. Prereq: ENGL 250
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Studies how works of fiction, poetry, journalism, biography, and cinema are set in the context of sports and the sporting experience. Explores how these texts define, comment on, and shape the sports context. Prereq: ENGL 250 or department approval
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3.00 Credits
Studies particular texts in their historical, philosophical, and social contexts. Students will practice using evidence from those various contexts to sharpen their sense of how literary works steer the reader toward conclusions about the value of the world each text presumes for itself. Readings will be drawn from more than one genre within a particular historical period. Prereq: ENGL 250 or department approval
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Surveys texts drawn from such writers as Hughes, Dubois, Wright, Morrison, Giovanni, Reed, Douglas, etc. Prereq: ENGL 250 or department approval
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Surveys a range of texts drawn from such writers as Silko, Erdrich, Momaday, Black Elk, Vizenor, Welch, and Apes. Prereq: ENGL 250 or department approval
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Surveys a range of texts drawn from Irish American authors. Prereq: ENGL 250 or department approval
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Surveys a range of texts drawn from such authors as Bellow, Roth, Ozick, Gluck, Malamud, Ginsberg, and Elkins. Prereq: ENGL 250 or department approval
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Studies texts focusing on the Latino/a experience in the United States. The course will consider the history of immigration, assimilation, resistance, and bi-lingualism which have marked writers placing their vision within the frame of Latino/a history; it will pay particular attention to how such texts set forth a Latino/a experience as both part of and as also distinct from other cultural strands in the United States. Includes such writers as Villareal, Rodriguez, Perez-Firmat, Zamora, Alvares, Islas, and Pena. Prereq: ENGL 250 or department approval
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