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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
A closely supervised practical experience in a professional setting for upper class English majors and minors. Internships may be taken by individual arrangement through the department with a local host company or agency, or as part of The Philadelphia Center, the Chicago Semester, the New York Arts or the Washington Semester programs. At the discretion of the department, up to four credits may be applied toward the student's major or minor requirements; otherwise, the credits (up to a total of eight) will constitute elective credits within the department. The general guideline for credit is 3 hours per week for a semester for each credit. Normally taken on a pass/fail basis. One to Eight Credits Both Semesters
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4.00 Credits
A cumulative study of the conventions governing spoken and written Standard English, designed to model creative learning strategies that are easily adaptable for future teachers, and to develop editing and writing skills in addition to mechanical competence. Four Credits Both Semesters, May Term
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3.00 Credits
An examination, using a comparative model, of how literature, over time, reflects and records intellectual, perceptual, and aesthetic changes. Recent topics include The Middle Ages and Medievalism; Country Life and Its Literature; Arthurian Literature; Walt Whitman's America; American Conversion Narratives, 1620-1970; Literature and the American Environment; Donne and Milton; Women on Trial; The House of Gothic; Medieval Romance. May be repeated for additional credit with a different topic. Two or Four Credits Both Semesters
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3.00 Credits
An examination of how literature interrogates and revises received traditions. By focusing on sequences of works, juxtaposed works, or the works of a single author, it examines imitations, critiques, and transformations within formal literary categories and within canons. Recent topics include History and Development of the Short Story; Contemporary Women's Poetry; From Page to Screen: Contemporary Literature and Film Adaptation; The Liar in Literature; Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; War Stories; ReWritings; On the Road - The Travel Narrative in American Literature; Telling Lives - Studies in Women's Autobiographical Prose. Two topics are offered every semester: 1. Shakespeare, 2. Literature for Children and Adolescents. May be repeated for additional credit with a different topic. Two or Four Credits Both Semesters
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3.00 Credits
An examination of literary works as cultural artifacts, examining how they not only record and reflect the dynamics of social and cultural difference but also influence or resist change. Under investigation will be conflicts and modifications in cultural identification, how literature draws upon the lives and times of its authors, and how race, class, gender, and other forms of difference generate social and cultural tensions and express and embody them in literature. Recent topics include African Literature; Religion, Race and Gender in the Literature of Antebellum America; Shakespeare's Sisters; Salinger and Potok; Romanticism and Revolution; The Latina/o Novel; Culture and 19th- Century American Novels; "American" Autobiography; Sentimental Fictions; BannedBooks; Literature in an Anxious Age (1865-2003). Three topics are offered annually: one dealing with ethnic American literature (Fall), History of the English Language (Fall), and African American Literature (Spring). May be repeated for additional credit with a different topic. Two or Four Credits Both Semesters
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4.00 Credits
A study of and experience in applying methods of teaching grammar, discussion, literature, and composition in the secondary school. Required for Secondary Certification. Recommended with an English minor as well as a major. Should be taken after or concurrently with Education 360, and before student teaching. Four Credits Both Semesters
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2.00 Credits
A one-week study of methods of teaching primary or secondary English in one of these areas: grammar, discussion, literature, composition. Intended for prospective and practicing teachers. This workshop is not a substitute for English 380, Teaching of Secondary School English. Individual course titles will be announced by mid-April of each year. One or Two Credits Summer Only
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3.00 Credits
IDS 389 may be awarded up to sixteen credits of English at the discretion of the department. The Great Lakes Colleges Association, Inc. Arts Program, presently based in New York City, involves the student in a full semester study of and involvement in the arts. At the discretion of the department, a portion of the credits earned in this semester may be applied toward the student's major requirements. Otherwise, the credits will constitute elective credits within the department. Sixteen Credits (Maximum) Both Semesters
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3.00 Credits
An author or authors, genre, or special topic, usually in British or American literature. May be repeated for additional credit in a different field of study. Two to Four Credits (One or Two Credits During August Term) Offered Occasionally
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4.00 Credits
A workshop for students with demonstrated ability and commitment to the craft of writing fiction. Students write and edit three or four pieces of fiction. A revised story of publishable quality is expected by the end of the semester. Prerequisites: English 354 or equivalent, a writing sample, and permission of the instructor. Four Credits Spring Semester
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