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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 111 - English I. This course is a survey of the science fiction genre from literary and theoretical points of view. The course will draw on stories, novels and films that call special attention to science fiction's concern with such social phenomena as overpopulation, pollution, increased technology, and mind control.
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Prerequisites: ENGL 111 - English I and PSYC 103 - Introduction to Psychology or permission of instructors. Psychology and L iterature is a team-taught course that examines novels, plays, short stories, fairy tales and poems through the lens of psychology.Works by authors such as William Shakespeare, Arthur Miller, Fyodor Dostoevsky and J.D.Salinger may be stud-ied from the perspectives of psychologists such as Sigmund Freud, B.F.Skinner, Erik Erikson, Carl Rogers and Carol GT illigan. his course is taught by two instructors (one from Psychology and one from English) and may be taken for either Psychology or English credit, but not both.
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Prerequisite: ENGL 111 - English I. African American Literature surveys the literature of African Americans from Colonial times through the present including the Colonial Period, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Aesthetics, and the Neo-Realism movement. In order to understand the oral and written traditions, students read a variety of types of texts such as folktales, spirituals, short stories and novels. Students also read contemporary literary criticism by African American and non-African American theorists.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 111 - English I. This course is a study of the works of Shakespeare through reading in a selection of history, comedy, tragedy and problem plays as well as selected minor works. In addition to the literary aspects of the plays, students study the staging conventions of Elizabethan England and explore the social and historical context in which the plays were written and first performed.
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Prerequisite: GPA of 3.5 or permission of instructor. In spite of the unprecedented degree and rate of change in our times, Shakespeare provides modern readers across the globe a universal touchstone of constancy. We recognize his models of human contrariness; we identify with the power of pathos and magic and madness of characters both centuries old and contemporary. The unifying focus of the course is on the characteristics that make Shakespeare's language such an effective and enduring medium of meaning. Students use diverse critical perspectives as they read a variety of Shakespeare's texts, including selected sonnets; represen166 RVCC 2008-2009 Catalog ? For updated information, visit www.raritanval.edu tative tragic, comic, and historical plays; and the often-neglected "problem plays" - "Measure for Measure," and "Troilus and Cressida." Students may also view one or more performances of plays and do an in-depth study of any additional play using online research.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 111 - English I. A study of the nature and value of comic forms and traditions, from basic elements such as puns and jokes to significant works of comic vision in literature and the arts. (The course will consider, for example, the differences between verbal and visual comedy; between high comedy and low comedy; between wit and humor; between Groucho and Harpo.) The course will nourish a broader, deeper, more subtle awareness of the ways in which comedy expresses and sustains the human spirit.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 111 - English I. A chronological study of English literature through the 18th century including authors such as Chaucer, Moore, Shakespeare, Donne, Montagu, Swift and Behn. Students will examine the authors' ideas and the development of literary forms in a historical context. Religion, politics, gender roles, science and philosophy are discussed in terms of their impact on these writers.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 111 - English I. Achronological study of English literature since the 18th century including authors such as Keats, Austen, Yeats, Woolf, Joyce, and Lessing. Students will examine the authors' ideas and the development of literary forms in a historical context involving Darwinism, Industrialism, women's issues, and World Wars I and II.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 111 - English I. Shakespeare on the Page and on the Screen is an interdisciplinary, team-taught course that studies plays of William Shakespeare from both literary and cinematic perspectives. Students will read selected comedies, tragedies, and histories by Shakespeare in conjunction with exemplary film versions of these plays, both classic (by directors like Laurence Olivier and Orson Welles) and recent (by directors like Kenneth Branagh and Trevor Nunn). The themes explored in this course include: poetic language and cinematic language, Shakespearean imagery on the page and on the screen, and Shakespeare in a modern, multicultural context. Students who complete this course will have a fuller understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays and the medium that most frequently delivers him to audiences today. Students may take this course for credit in English or Film Studies. Students who take this course for credit in English cannot also get credit for ENGL-233.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 111 - English I. The course looks at the way language works in different contexts, for different purposes, and from diverse disciplinary perspectives. Historically, rhetoric was considered to be the foundation on which critical thinking, effective communication, and self-knowledge was built. In contemporary rhetoric, culture and media are part of this foundation. This course will explore primary texts in the form of literature, film, scientific discourse, journalism, political propaganda as well as secondary sources within the disciplines of rhetoric and writing studies. The course serves students interested in English, education, journalism, communications, film studies, and other liberal arts and social science programs of study.
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