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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Seminar, three hours. Discussion of how Western textual system restricts cultures of colonized peoples to encounter with Europeans. As means of understanding limits to European frame of reference, reading of English literary works alongside their postcolonial counterparts. Investigation of how reversal of perspective affects telling of tale. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Engagement of theoretical and literary texts about experience of living in exile and questioning of political and poetic possibilities and limitations that this condition brings about. Exploration of relationships between exile, poetic expression, freedom, memory, writing, and collective identification. Clarification of difference between "exile by choice" and "forced exile," proceeding to distinguisbetween exile understood in terms of (modernist) literary trope - and sociohistorical condition of living in exile, asking what does it mean to think about exile in comparative terms P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: one course from 1A, 1B, 1C, 2AW, 2BW, 2CW, or English Composition 3 or 3H. Introduction to new set of African authors and attempt to discern similarities or differences they may have with major authors such as Achebe, Ngugi, Armath, Soyinka, etc. P/NP or letter grading.
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2.00 Credits
Seminar, three hours. Designed to bring together students undertaking supervised tutorial research in seminar setting with one or more faculty members to discuss their own work or related work in discipline. Led by one supervising faculty member. May be repeated for credit. P/NP grading.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar, three hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Study and discussion of limited periods and specialized issues and approaches in literary theory, especially in relation to other modes of discourse such as history, philosophy, psychology, linguistics, anthropology. Development of culminating project required. Consult Schedule of Classes for topics to be offered in specific term. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.
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3.00 Credits
Tutorial, three hours. Limited to juniors/seniors. Individual intensive study, with scheduled meetings to be arranged between faculty member and student. Assigned reading and tangible evidence of mastery of subject matter required. May be repeated for credit. Individual contract required. P/NP or letter grading.
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3.00 Credits
Tutorial, three hours. Limited to senior comparative literature honors students. Development and completion of honors thesis or comprehensive project on comparative topic selected by student and written under supervision of core faculty member. Students expected to meet regularly with supervisor throughout term. No more than one course may be used to fulfill four-course requirement for Comparative Literature majors. May be repeated once for maximum of 8 units. Individual contract required. Letter grading.
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3.00 Credits
Tutorial, three hours. Requisite: course 100. Limited to juniors/seniors. Supervised individual research or investigation under guidance of faculty mentor. Culminating paper or project required. May be repeated for credit with consent of chair. Individual contract required. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 2AW or 4AW. Study of major texts in world literature, with emphasis on Western civilization. Texts include major works and authors such as Iliad or Odyssey, Greek tragedies, portions of Bible, Virgil, Petronius, St. Augustine, and others such as Gilgamesh or Tristan and Iseult. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 2BW or 4BW. Study of major texts in world literature, with emphasis on Western civilization. Texts include works and authors such as Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Dante's Divine Comedy, Boccaccio's Decameron, Cervantes' Don Quixote, Shakespeare, Calderón, Molière, and Racine. P/NP or letter grading.
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