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4.00 Credits
Designed as a senior capstone, this course will enable students to reflect upon pedagogical problems, particularly as they have been evidenced in student teaching; refine personal educational philosophies; complete a research project; and complete a professional portfolio to present at job interviews and to graduate admission committees. Prerequisite: completion of student teaching. (For December graduates, the course can be taken the May term prior to student teaching).
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4.00 Credits
An introductory course in literature designed to guide students critical thinking about literary works of various kinds, prose, fiction, poetry, and drama. Students will be given practice in discerning the distinctive features of individual texts, while developing their sense of literature's role in cultural life. Limited to first-year students and sophomores or by permission of instructor. II Humanities
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the study of poetry as a verbal art. Students will focus intensely on language and the ways in which poems develop meaning through a complex patterning of linguistic features. Students will also be guided in thinking of poetry's value in cultural life. Not a creative writing course. Limited to first-year students and sophomores or by permission of instructor. II Humanities
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4.00 Credits
A study of film as a major contemporary art form. Topics include film technique and aesthetics, the history of motion pictures, and genres. At least one film viewing each week. II Humanities
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A study of short fiction and novel-length works by selected writers primarily from the English-speaking world. Examines the intellectual and cultural backgrounds of these selected works of fiction and develops a comprehensive understanding of the literary techniques through which the fiction writer shapes his/her work. Authors studied may include Flannery O'Connor, James Baldwin, Joyce Carol Oates, Toni Morrison, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Atwood, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. IV
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4.00 Credits
Regular writing and class discussion of original manuscripts. Emphasis in any term may be on fiction or poetry and will vary with the instructor. Students wishing to enroll must present satisfactory evidence of ability and serious interest in creative writing. May be repeated once for credit with written permission of the program director. Standard or CR/NC grading. IV
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Selective study of the comic mode, with some consideration of satire, in literature and film. Selections may be chosen from such authors as Aristophanes, Petronius, Rabelais, Shakespeare, Moliere, Austen, and Shaw, and from filmmakers like Chaplin, Capra, Bunuel, and Kubrick. May be used to satisfy a distribution requirement in humanities. IVW
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to African literature from Anglophone (English-speaking) countries. The course will focus on clarifying forms of narration that attract African writers as well as issues such as the place of intellectuals and narrative art within contemporary African cultures, language and audience, language and politics, and tradition and modernity. The course will be supported by journalistic and video material, as well as series of feature films by African directors. Works studied will be by Achebe, Emecheta, Nhuhi, Dangarembga, Ata Aidoo, Ogot, and others. Prerequisite: sophomore standing or above. IIIA or IV
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4.00 Credits
A study of the ways in which recent American writers represent nature and of the meaning and viability of an ecological culture. The course will allow students to become aware of how literature (essays, fiction, poetry) explores different ways of naming our relation to the land, to other life forms, and, of course, to other humans. Among the writers studied are Barry Lopez, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gary Snyder, and Denise Levertov. IVW
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4.00 Credits
A survey of major issues in the study of women in literature, covering a representative sample of women writers. Questions will be raised about the nature and effects of patriarchal thinking on women and women writers, about the ways in which women's problems emerge in women's writing, and about the ways in which women writers image reality. Prerequisite: At least one ENG course. WS 1004 is recommended preparation. Also listed as WS 2144. IV W
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