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3.00 Credits
Students will work collaboratively and individually on a variety of tasks: organizing initial solicitation of submissions to Freshwater by designing and writing posters and flyers to send to educational institutions, as well as designing advertisements to solicit submissions from the general public; organizing and completing a variety of mailings; working on the preliminary planning of the festival, by analyzing the previous year's event, in order to learn from triumphs and disasters; organizing the annual student poetry contest, whose winners will read at the festival with their work included in Freshwater, including designing a poster and flyer and doing a mailing; preliminary reading and critiquing of submissions to Freshwater; creating and writing acceptance and rejection letters to send in response to submissions; critiquing the magazine, with an eye to improving the next issue; discussing the work of possible workshop leaders for the festival and contacting those poets to invite them to participate; working on the ongoing task of finding funding to support the magazine, through contacting local merchants and organizations for donations, and exploring grant possibilities. Students will also be required to write and revise at least five poems, working in a workshop setting to discuss and critique each other's poems, which will then be submitted for possible publication in Freshwater. (Formerly ENG 240.) Prerequisite: Grade of "B" in ENG* 101 and Permission of Instructor.
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Students will continue and/or complete some of the tasks begun in Poetry Magazine Production I, but their main focus will be to work collaboratively and individually on the following tasks connected with the magazine and the festival: the final analysis and selection of poetry for Freshwater, including sending letters of acceptance and rejection, with suggestions for rewriting when appropriate; designing the layout of the magazine; working directly with the printer; editing and proofreading at various stages of the process; working on promotion and distribution of the magazine, including mailing of copies to published poets, contacting bookstores, sending out subscription copies, organizing additional readings by poets published in the magazine; organizing the festival, including publicity, such as designing and distributing posters and flyers, sending out mailings, writing and sending out press releases, and arranging interviews with various publications; final organization of workshops as well as readings by both workshop leaders and winners of the student poetry contest; finding volunteers to work with the Freshwater staff on the day of the festival; and a multitude of other tasks that are certain to require their attention when bringing out a magazine and organizing a poetry festival. As in Poetry Magazine Production I, all students will be required to write and revise at least five poems, working in a workshop setting to discuss and critique each other's poems, which will then be submitted for possible publication in Freshwater. (Formerly ENG 245.) Prerequisite: Grade of "B" in ENG 101 and Permission of Instructor.
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Selections from novels and novellas of the 20th century. Representative writers include John Updike, William Styron, James Baldwin, Flannery O'Connor, and Doris Lessing. Students study a writer of their choice in great detail. (Formerly ENG 109: Twentieth Century Novel.) Prerequisite: ENG* 102. Satisfies the Literature requirement.
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3.00 Credits
The nature and variety of poetry, some reasonable means for reading it with appreciative understanding, and ideas of how to evaluate it. Deals with such elements as imagery, the use of figurative language--metaphor, symbol, allegory, paradox and irony, for example--and the use of rhythm and meter. Focus is on how understanding these elements adds to the delight of reading and understanding poetry, as well as giving students the confidence to approach more advanced levels of reading literature, whether formally or informally. (Formerly ENG 212: Introduction to Poetry.) Prerequisite: ENG* 102. Satisfies the Literature requirement.
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Students examine theme, plot, characterization, language, writing technique, and structure of one play per week. Playwrights spanning epochs from Sophocles to Shakespeare to Miller to Fugard and August Wilson are read. Plans call for an energetic give-and-take and for each student to concentrate upon one playwright. The end goal of the course is to heighten students' involvement with the theater. (Formerly ENG 235: Drama as Literature.) Prerequisite: ENG* 102. Satisfies the Literature requirement.
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A survey of American life in literature. Poetry, fiction, essays, and dramatic presentations are all on the agenda. Students gain exposure to such giants in the country's literary past and present as Melville, Twain, Dickinson, O'Neill, Bellow, Frost, and Faulkner. Students undertake a concentrated study of a given writer. (Formerly ENG 201: Introduction to American Literature.) Prerequisite: ENG* 102. Satisfies the Literature requirement.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to Shakespeare's plays and the fundamentals of the genres. Students study at least one Shakespearean play intensively in addition to those covered by the class as a whole. Students explore a number of critical approaches to the study of Shakespeare. (Formerly ENG 210: Shakespeare: Tragedies and Comedies.) Prerequisite: ENG* 102. Satisfies the Literature requirement.
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The development of Russian Literature including early literature of the Czarist era and later post-revolutionary works. Readings include such writers as Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Yevtushenko, and Solzhenitsyn. (Formerly ENG 207.) Prerequisite: ENG* 102. Satisfies the Literature requirement.
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3.00 Credits
A chronological survey of representative works, including all pertinent genres, along with an exploration of the relevant forms of Black cultural expression that contributed to this voluminous, expunged, unique body of literature. Course will help students develop an awareness of Africanisms and an understanding of its historical, sociological and psychological dynamics; recognition of the diversity of sociopolitical views; and an ability to place Black literature aesthetically and thematically within the larger framework of American literature. (Formerly ENG 211: Black Literature.) Prerequisite: ENG 200. Satisfies the Literature requirement.
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3.00 Credits
A study of imaginative literature (fiction, poetry, drama) as it depicts relationships between the sexes. Roles and the evaluation of men and women in literature are stressed. (Formerly ENG 225: Men and Women in Literature.) Prerequisite: ENG* 102. Satisfies the Literature requirement.
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