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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
An attempt to trace the evolution of this varied genre, and of its dominant character, the detective, as the "mystery's" curious and many sided variation on the questing hero. Beginning with the baseline concept of "gothic" and Mary Shelley's matchless horror epic, FRANKENSTEIN, our reading will follow the "tradition" with a sampler of writers serious and popular; (Poe, Wilkie, Collins, Arthur Conan, Doyle, Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, Georges Simenon, P.D. James, and Sara Paretsky), exploring why the form has enjoyed such relentless fascination cross cultures and for modernist and post-modernist alike. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Amer and Int'l Studies College Literature Department Course Attributes: MJ-LITR-Int'l Litr Selec-Am.Li
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This course will explore the meaning of mythology by examining a great variety of myths drawn from many different cultures. Although it will focus on three broad types of myth -- cosmological, fertility and hero narratives -- it will highlight the socio-historical circumstances that give each myth its particular meaning, as well as those aspects of the human condition that provide a common ground for this intricate web of meaning. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Amer and Int'l Studies College Literature Department Course Attributes: GE-TOPICS ARTS AND HUMANITIES, MJ-LITR-Litr Prior To 1800, MJ-LITR-Int'l Litr Selection
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3.00 Credits
This is an introductory course and prerequisite for all higher level linguistics courses such as, History of the English (or any other) Language, etc. In our case, however, its main purpose is to raise our students' linguistic awareness and thus their level of general literacy. We shall discuss the nature of human language, its mechanisms, structures, its many functions, genesis, and relationship to thought. The students get familiar with the basic terminology and methodology of linguistic studies. Examples will be drawn from several languages, but, of course, the emphasis will be on English. Special attention will be given to the most common transgressions against our standard literary American English 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Amer and Int'l Studies College Literature Department
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Multicultural literature examines the many, varied voices of American minorities whose visions extend from pre-colonial to contemporary periods. Poetry, fiction, drama, and non-fiction form the core of the course. The purpose of the course is to define the dynamism of American culture through American literature. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Amer and Int'l Studies College Literature Department Course Attributes: MJ-AMER-Amer Literature, MJ-AMER-Multicultural Studies
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A study of the development of the French novel into a major art form in the 19th and 20th centuries. Nineteenth century novelists such as Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, and Zola powerfully illuminate psycho-social problems and the new social conditions that created them. In the 20th century, writers like Proust, Gide, Malraux, and Camus have proposed new formulations of these problems. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Amer and Int'l Studies College Literature Department Course Attributes: MJ-INTL-Intl Comparative 'West, MJ-LITR-Int'l Litr Selection
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The earliest traceable influence on the development of western drama is that exerted by the plays performed in the amphitheater at Athens, most of which may now be lost, as are the plays of those early traditions that lead to the construction of such a theater. We do possess, however, several works by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes, all of which developed out of Athenian culture and were recognized for greatness in ancient texts of the period. These works were known to western dramatists since the time of their composition, and have helped to shape the development of that art. But of course this beginning must arise from very different ground than the works that follow, and for that reason, it presents its own difficulties to the reader. The course will provide a general familiarity with the authors listed above by reading representative works of each. We will try to see these works in the context of Greek myth, the culture of fifth century Athens, and the hints and fragments of earlier ceremony and drama. In this manner we may hope to bring a light to texts which otherwise may seem somewhat foreign to many interests we now require from our literature 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Amer and Int'l Studies College Literature Department Course Attributes: MJ-LITR-Litr Prior To 1800, MJ-LITR-Int'l Litr Selection
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course is designed to introduce students to the many historic, thematic, and stylistic concerns common throughout the literature of the Americas. From the colonization that disrupted Native populations, to settlement, slavery, revolution, immigration, and many other issues, New World nations share a common heritage that we will explore. We will, therefore, read works from throughout the Americas: Canada, the United States, Central and South America, and the Caribbean, and our readings will represent different genres, from pre-Columbian times through the present. We will engage with these texts by reading and writing about them, and by discussing them during our class time. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Amer and Int'l Studies College Literature Department Course Attributes: MJ-AMER-Amer Literature, GE-INTERCULT NORTH AMERICA, MJ-LITR-Int'l Litr Selection
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The course suggests an acquaintance with National Riches of Russia both in literature and art. A study of famous Pushkin's verse and a poem, Chekhov's stories; a survey of modern Russian literature (K. Paustovskly, A. Akhmatova). The second part introduces students to folk art: painting, music, decorative, trades. The students will discuss Russia, its people, traditions, past and contemporary life. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Amer and Int'l Studies College Literature Department Course Attributes: GE-TOPICS ARTS AND HUMANITIES, MJ-INTL-Intl Comparative 'West, MJ-LITR-Int'l Litr Selection
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The course will survey varieties of dramatic literature from the classical period to the 20th century. In addition to students with interests in literature and the theater arts, it is intended for other liberal arts students who wish to acquire a survey understanding of world dramatic literature. We will read and discuss drama, in both verse and prose, drawn from a variety of historical periods and cultural epochs. The course will emphasize the literary development of the dramatic form, the cultural context of theater production and consumption, and the manner in which drama, as the most social of the literary genres, allows us to view a society watching itself. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Amer and Int'l Studies College Literature Department Course Attributes: MJ-LITR-Int'l Litr Selection
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course will be an interpretation of the Spanish-American Literature. The material will introduce us to its social-economic and political situation through the exploration of masterpieces of Hispanic letters in English translations, considered comparatively as contributions for the main currents of thought and expression in the Americas. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Amer and Int'l Studies College Literature Department Course Attributes: GE-TOPICS ARTS AND HUMANITIES, MJ-LITR-Int'l Litr Selection
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