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4.00 Credits
The massive migration north of African Americans after World War I resulted in a rich literary and artistic movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. Major African-American writers from this period through the Civil Rights era are studied, including: Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, W.E.B. DuBois, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison.
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3.00 Credits
Literature that arises out of oppression. Explores oppression through the imaginative response of the oppressed. Typical historical foci include the Holocaust; totalitarianism; and the experience of African Americans, Native Americans, and women.
Prerequisite:
[GES130; Contemporary Western Life and Thought (L) course; World Cultures (U) course] or [GES246; World Cultures (U) course].
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3.00 Credits
Compares important literary works from both the Christian and Islamic worlds from the Middle Ages to the present. Emphasizes literary and historical study, as well as vigorous dialogue and inquiry, as vital tools for understanding present-day Christian and Muslim cultures. A significant cross-cultural experience, involving interaction with Muslim communities, is required.
Prerequisite:
[GES130; Contemporary Western Life and Thought (L) course; World Cultures (U) course] or [GES246; World Cultures (U) course].
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4.00 Credits
Drama in performance, using the plays seen abroad during the England Term. Special attention paid to Shakespeare.
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3.00 Credits
As the environmental crisis has deepened, American nature writing has evolved into a richly creative endeavor that explores the complex interactions of nature, technology, and society. Students study environmental writing as a means for valuing biodiversity and for envisioning changes in global policies, applications of technology, and environmental ethics. Prerequisites: Laboratory Science (D) course; mathematics (M) course. (Carries cross-credit in Environmental Studies.)
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4.00 Credits
Major writers, movements, and themes in early 20th century literature in their historical and intellectual context. Emphasis on the rise of modernism in England, France, and America. Major figures include Eliot, Pound, Joyce, Hemingway, Lawrence, Woolf, Stevens, Williams, and Faulkner.
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4.00 Credits
Major writers, movements, and themes in literature published since World War II. Emphasis on responses to modernism, current trends, and the emergence of minority and women writers, especially in America.
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4.00 Credits
Selected British authors in conjunction with the places that inspired or were the focus of their work. Authors may include Chaucer (Canterbury), Joyce (Dublin), Wordsworth and Coleridge (Lake District), Hardy (Dorset), and Woolf (Bloomsbury).
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4.00 Credits
On-location study of the rise of modernism in literature and art in London, Dublin, and Paris in the early part of the 20th century. Focus on the intellectual and historical context, and on such figures as Eliot, Woolf, Pound, Joyce, Stein, and Hemingway.
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4.00 Credits
Close study in a specific topic or genre of literature. Emphasis on applying the skills of literature study to a closely focused topic.
Prerequisite:
ENL102; ENL202; ENL204; or consent of instructor.
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