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3.00 Credits
The American Dream is examined through literary works. Differing views of the American character are analyzed through significant writers, from the Puritans to the present, with the purpose of gaining a better understanding of the American experience. Major authors include Emerson, Hawthorne, Fitzgerald, Faulkner and others. Prerequisites: EN 101, EN 102; Every Other Year, Fall
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisites: EN 101, EN 102
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3.00 Credits
Independent Study
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3.00 Credits
This course explores readings in literature dealing with a single author, theme, or specific problem. The course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Specific titles are announced from time to time. Prerequisite: one course from EN level 200; Every Other Year, Spring
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3.00 Credits
This advanced writing course focuses on the reading, analyzing and writing of creative nonfiction. Students read essay and book-length works of creative nonfiction with an emphasis on understanding authorial presence, issues of audience, questions of truth and memory and artistic techniques. Students are asked to employ what they learn from studying masterworks of creative nonfiction to their own longer works of creative nonfiction. Prerequisite: EN 201 or EN 202; Every Year, Spring
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3.00 Credits
This course presents a study of the major critical theories of literature: formalism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, new historicism, and cultural studies. Readings from primary theoretical texts pay special attention to understanding and researching different modes of criticism currently used, and comprehending how these modes aid in interpreting a work of literature. This course is recommended in the junior year. Prerequisites: two courses from EN level 200 or 300; Every Year, Fall
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This course assumes some familiarity with the abiding features of argumentation. Between reading a variety of texts about how various disciplines construct argumentative discourse, students keep journals and write a series of short essays that build toward a longer research essay. Students also listen to invited QU professors from across the disciplines regarding how arguments are made and are expected to make oral presentations in relation to their chosen area of research. Prerequisite: one course from EN level 200; Every Other Year, Spring
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3.00 Credits
This course presents a survey of readings in world literature dealing with explorations by sea and on land. Concentration is on the journey motif in fiction, fantasy and nonfiction, including the idea of discovery and survival in new and changing worlds. Authors include Shakespeare, Voltaire, Melville, Dana, Verne, Conrad, Crane,Wells, Hemingway, Bradbury and others. Prerequisites: one course from EN level 200; Every Other Year, Spring
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This lecture/discussion course examines the tradition of epic poetry in the Western world. Poems discussed include, or are selected from, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, Beowulf, Dante' s Infern o and Milton' Paradise Lost. The distinguishing qualities of the epic, the historical, cultural and social backgrounds also are examined. Prerequisite: one course from EN level 200; Every Other Year, Fall
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3.00 Credits
The literary form and history of autobiography are considered, from St. Augustine's Confessions to Rousseau,Wordsworth, and selected contemporary authors (e.g., Russell Baker, Claude Brown, Maxine Hong Kingston, etc.). Attention is paid to cultural and psychological changes in selfnarrative. Prerequisite: one course from EN level 200; Every Other Year, Spring
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