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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of issues in educational inquiry and advocacy through engagement in carefully designed service learning opportunities. Prerequisites: permission of the instructor and community supervisor, including negotiation of a jointly approved learning contract. (1-4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
Opportunities for students to assume selected teaching roles and responsibilities in carefully supervised course contexts. Prerequisites: demonstrated proficiency in the area of study and permission of the instructor. (1-4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
Instruction and practice for writing in college. This course does not satisfy the requirements for the English major or minor. Every year. (4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
The focus of this course the development of skills for writing poetry and prose through a close study of the techniques involved in these forms, analysis of model literary works, and frequent writing exercises. This course must be completed at Macalester as a PREREQUISITE for the further study of creative writing at Macalester. Every semester. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
A writing-intensive course in traditional and non-traditional literatures, each section of which will have a different focus, topic, or approach; recent offerings have examined the short story, major women writers, new international writing, and the literary Gothic. Every year. (4 credits) Introductory and Intermediate Courses Note that students must take one class from those numbered in the 100s other than 101 and 120, as a prerequisite for literature courses numbered 300 and above; English 120, taken at Macalester, is a prerequisite for all further creative writing courses. Advanced Placement credit does not count as a prerequisite, though English 125, taken at Macalester, does count.
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4.00 Credits
American literature contains a greater variety of voices than most other national literatures. Each section of this course explores some aspect of that wide range of voices and may include the writing of women, of minority groups, or of various sub-groups from the dominant literary culture. Consult the detailed course descriptions in the English department or on its web page for the content of individual sections. Every year. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
A study of a variety of poetry across a large span of poetic history. The course will develop various analytic skills, especially close reading as a basis for interpretation, familiarize students with poetic forms, and consider new approaches to literary study. Every year. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
A study of plays, varying from year to year, meant to illustrate in a broad if selective fashion, the history of the genre in the Western tradition from Greco-Roman antiquity through to the modern theater. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
A study of a variety of novels that exemplify literary traditions from realism to postmodernism. Students will analyze narrative structure, examine literary tropes, and attend to voice. Readings might include works by authors such as Daniel Defoe, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Richard Wright, J. M. Coetzee, Toni Morrison, or Salman Rushdie. Every year. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
A course designed to pair selected works of literature with major trends and topics in literary theory, likely to cover some relevant landmarks in the history of poetics, philosophy, psychology, linguistics, anthropology, sociology and/or political activism. Particular texts will vary. Every year. (4 credits)
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