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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Studies some of our nation's most central texts selected from the expression prompted by slavery, the Civil War, westward expansion, and rapid social and intellectual changes. Includes writers such as John Burroughs, George Catlin, Mary Boykin Chesnutt, Frederick Douglass, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ulysses S. Grant, and Harriet Jacobs. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.
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3.00 Credits
A study in the second generation of the American literary experience when such leading writers as Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, and Whitman, acting under the varied impulses of Puritanism, Romanticism, and idealism, created the first universal vision of human experience to appear in American literature. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.
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3.00 Credits
American literature from the Civil War to World War I. Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Henry James, W. D. Howells, Kate Chopin, and fellow Realists wrote about the average person in the light of common day. Their works show how American writers were increasingly influenced by science, business, and art. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.
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3.00 Credits
Theories and methods of teaching secondary school English language arts, instructional planning, and integration of composition, literature, and language. PREREQ: ENGL 275. COREQ: ED-CIFS 401 and ED-LTCY 444.
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3.00 Credits
The literary merits of works by representative Western writers such as Wallace Stegner, Owen Wister, H.L. Davis, John Steinbeck, and Willa Cather. Also discussed are regional values and Western types such as the mountain man, the cowboy, and the pioneer. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.
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3.00 Credits
This course studies the varied literary movements in British fiction against the background of British historical and cultural change in the 20th century. Representative writers will include such names as Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Joyce Cary, Doris Lessing, William Golding, Fay Weldon, Wole Soyinka, Peter Carey, Martin Amis, Jeanette Winterson, Anita Brookner, and Margaret Forster. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.
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3.00 Credits
A comprehensive investigation of the form and modes of modern American thought and literary directions through a study of representative fiction of the 20th century. Readings will be selected from such American writers as Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Richard Wright, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, Saul Bellow, Ishmael Reed, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Paul Auster. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.
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3.00 Credits
A study of plays, theory, and dramatic practice as they developed in the twentieth century, including such playwrights as G. B. Shaw, J. M. Synge, Sean O'Casey, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill, Samuel Beckett, Lorraine Hansberry, Tom Stoppard, Peter Shaffer, Caryl Churchill, Athol Fugard, August Wilson, and Wole Soyinka. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.
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3.00 Credits
Study of what folklore is, its written and oral traditions, and its different genres. PREREQ: ENGL 102.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of traditional Native American world views and belief systems as reflected in oral narratives and written literature. Study topics include aspects of cosmology, religious life, seasonal round, and life cycle as presented in the oral redactions of specific tribal/culture areas and in the literary poetry and prose of major creative writers. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.
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