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3.00 Credits
SPRING A study of a broad range of literature for pre-adolescents and young adults from middle school through high school age. This course places emphasis on book selection that considers developmental needs and interests, Christian values, and universal themes, as well as understanding established criteria for Newbery and other literary awards. Attention is given to exploring methods of using literature in teaching. Fee. (Also EDU 240X) Prerequisites: ENG 131 and ENG 132
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3.00 Credits
FALL This course provides an historical Introduction to Dramatic Literature and the theater. Beginning with Greek tragedy and continuing through the Middle Ages to the Contemporary theater, students will read selected plays from the Western and Eastern traditions. Offered alternate years (Fall 2008).
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3.00 Credits
SPRING A study of traditional English grammar, focusing on its system, terminology, and applications, especially in the middle school and high school classroom. The writing component deals with selected topics in the rhetorical nature of language and the practice of various types of literary, professional discourse. Prerequisites: ENG 131, ENG 132, COM 133
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4.00 Credits
4 cr. The reading of appropriate fiction andwriting of short weekly pieces and a final short story. The class includes presentations on technique. Students need not be English majors. Work fromthis class is often published in the St. Scholastica literary journal, Out of Words.
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4.00 Credits
4 cr. Reading and discussion of poetry to learn technique from published poets. A final portfolio of poetry required which will include students' choice of their best work. Students need not be English majors. Work from class is often published in the St. Scholastica literary journal, Out of Words.
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3.00 Credits
FALL Through the literature studied in this course, students gain exposure to various genres by twentieth-century writers from African, Asian, and Eastern European cultures. Offered alternate years (Fall 2009). Prerequisites: ENG 131 and ENG 132
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4.00 Credits
4 cr. Survey of American literature (poetry,essays, short stories and novels) beginningwith Anne Bradstreet in the 17th century and including such authors as Irving, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Twain, et al. The course focuses on writers' responses to the political, social and literary concerns of the period, as well as tomore general human concerns. Some attention to issues of form.
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4.00 Credits
4 cr. Survey of works by American poets and prose writers from the late 1800s through the 1990s. Poets include Dickinson, Frost, Williams, Stevens, Eliot, H.D., Marianne Moore, Plath,Wilbur and Rich. Novelists include Cather, Faulkner, Hemingway, Malamud, Walker, Morrison, Updike, Nabakov, O'Brien and Erdrich; American dramatists include Miller, O'Neill, Shepard, Albee and Williams.Short story writers include Anderson, Chopin, Cheever, O'Connor, Mason, Beattie and Oates.
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4.00 Credits
4 cr. Chronological survey of the development of the American short story as well as a survey of selected short story theory and criticism. Students will read stories by more than 30 American short story writers, beginning in the 18th century and continuing into the present decade. Discussion will focus on themes, the contexts in which the stories were written and story structure.
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