|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
1.00 Credits
Offered: Typically alternate years (next offered 2010-2011) Representative selections from fiction, poetry, and nonfiction prose of African-American authors from slavery to the present. Focus on historical and social conditions reflected in the works and relationships between African-American literature and other American literary movements. African Americans', Appalachians', and Women's Perspective and Arts Perspective. 1 Course Credit
-
1.00 - 2.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Determined by instructor Offered: Typically as student interest and faculty availability allow A course designed to meet the particular interests of student and faculty. Topics vary from year to year. See course description in the "Schedule of Classes." 1/2 to 1 Course Credit
-
3.00 Credits
Offered: Typically alternate years (first offered Fall 2009) This course introduces students to the literature of a specific time frame, which may or may not be chronological. The focus is generally on canonical works, as well as an introduction to criticism. May be repeated for credit, provided the topic differs from those previously studied. 1 Course Credit
-
1.00 Credits
Offered: Typically annually (next offered Spring 2009) Study of news and news-gathering techniques, the significance of mass media in our culture and the process of organizing and reporting news. Practice in analyzing and writing journalistic forms. 1 Course Credit
-
3.00 Credits
Offered: Typically Fall and Spring terms. Next offered Spring 2007. An imaginative writing course focusing on fiction; analysis of literary models; and frequent writing exercises. Conducted as a workshop, with student and instructor criticism of works. Poetry (P), fiction (F), and creative nonfiction (N) writing are offered in rotation. Students may take one or more sections, but an individual focus cannot be repeated for credit. This course may be used to meet the Arts Perspective. 1 Course Credit
-
3.00 Credits
Offered: Typically Fall and Spring terms. Next offered Fall 2007. An imaginative writing course focusing on creative nonfiction; analysis of literary models; and frequent writing exercises. Conducted as a workshop, with student and instructor criticism of works. Poetry (P), fiction (F), and creative nonfiction (N) writing are offered in rotation. Students may take one or more sections, but an individual focus cannot be repeated for credit. This course may be used to meet the Arts Perspective. 1 Course Credit
-
3.00 Credits
Offered: Typically Fall and Spring terms. Next offered Fall 2006. An imaginative writing course focusing on poetry; analysis of literary models; and frequent writing exercises. Conducted as a workshop, with student and instructor criticism of works. Poetry (P), fiction (F), and creative nonfiction (N) writing are offered in rotation. Students may take one or more sections, but an individual focus cannot be repeated for credit. This course may be used to meet the Arts Perspective. 1 Course Credit
-
3.00 Credits
Offered: Typically alternate years (first offered Fall 2009) This course will introduce students to a traditionally under-represented literature. It is intended to help students develop an understanding and appreciation of diversity through the study of the literature of women, ethnic/regional groups, or national literature in translation. May be repeated for credit, provided the topic differs from those previously studied. 1 Course Credit
-
3.00 Credits
Offered: Typically alternate years (first offered Fall 2010) This course will introduce students to the study of a single author or group of authors, generally (but not exclusively) canonical writers. Emphasis is on close readings of texts and writing analytical and response papers to primary works by particular authors. May be repeated for credit, provided the topic differs from those previously studied. 1 Course Credit
-
1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: GSTR 210 Offered: Typically alternate years (next offered 2011-2012) This course is an exploration of voices of women in the Caribbean. Students will read works by writers from the Anglo-Caribbean, French Caribbean, and Hispanic Caribbean. These writers represent the islands of Jamaica, Cuba, Guadalupe, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Barbados. Their works investigate issues of racial configuration, relationships between women, politics, colonialism, and post-colonialism, and the creation of the island space. We will look at the long, turbulent history of the island of Hispaniola from the perspective of both the Haitian and Dominican, the complex history of each of these island nations, and other important topics. African Americans', Appalachians', and Women's Perspective and World Culture (Non-Western) component of the International Perspective. NOTE: Noncredit for students who took this course as GSTR 209. 1 Course Credit
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2024 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|