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1.00 Credits
Supervised practical work in journalism or communications. This course may be taken only by application and by permission of the department. One credit hour, pass/not passed marking.
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4.00 Credits
This course will explore theories of writing, current research on writing as a process, and the theory and ethics of peer tutoring and evaluation. Extensive reading of texts on the composition process and rhetorical theory. The course is specifically designed to provide training for Writing Center tutors, but will be useful to any student interested in exploring the teaching of writing. Open to sophomores, juniors and seniors by permission of the instructor. Students must submit two writing samples for evaluation. This course does not count toward the English minor. Enrollment limited to 17 students. S. Shoemaker
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4.00 Credits
Major American Writers
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4.00 Credits
A study of major works by four or five American women writers. Authors may include: Brad- street, Dickinson, Wharton, Cather, Petry, Bishop, O'Connor, Morrison and Danticat. Open to students who have taken course 220, or are juniors or seniors. Enrollment limited to 20 students. J. Rivkin, D. Greven
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4.00 Credits
Major plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries-including Marlowe, Jonson and Webster-with some attention to background, conventions, language and structure; but with emphasis on the plays as theatrical scripts, the reinterpretation of them in the light of changing dramatic theories and their place in the modern repertory. Open to students who have taken course 220, or are juniors or seniors. Enrollment limited to 20 students. A. Bradford
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to contemporary literary theory with an emphasis on how theory translates into critical practice. The course covers the following: formalism, structuralism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, post-structuralism and deconstruction, feminism, gender studies/queer theory, and ethnic and postcolonial theory. It also draws on theoretical texts to interpret and re-interpret King Lear, The Aspern Papers, selected poems by Elizabeth Bishop, and The Bluest Eye. This is the same course as Gender and Women's Studies 304. Open to students who have taken course 220, or are juniors or seniors. Enrollment limited to 20 students. J. Rivkin
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4.00 Credits
The development of a modern idiom in poetry. A study of poets including Yeats, Eliot, Pound, W.C. Williams, Auden and Wallace Stevens. Open to students who have taken course 220, or are juniors or seniors. Enrollment limited to 20 students. J. Gordon
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4.00 Credits
A close study of poetry written between 1940 and the present. Open to students who have taken course 220, or are juniors or seniors. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Staff
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4.00 Credits
A chronological review of the major English-language poets since World War II. Poets studied will include Thomas, Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Heany, Rich, Bishop, and Ashbery. J. Gordon
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4.00 Credits
An exploration of the careers of five or six of our contemporaries and near-contemporaries. This may begin with work like that of Roethke (d. 1963), Bishop (d. 1979), Hayden (d. 1983), or Matthews (d. 1997), but will also include poets still active among us, such as Kinnell, Glück, Levine, Dove, Ashbery, Doty, etc. C. Hartman
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