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3 hours credit Children's Literature is a course designed for students interested in bringing children and books together. It is especially for students with English or Education majors, for pre-school or elementary school teachers, for parents, for those working with children in day-care centers, for librarians, and for parents and grandparents. The course would also be beneficial for those exploring the field of writing and illustrating children's books. Students will identify children's needs and interests, learn the criteria for choosing books for children, and demonstrate the means by which children and books can be brought together. Students will read, examine, and critique a variety of children's literature selected by author, genre, and historical time period.
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3 hours credit This course covers a representative selection of classical and contemporary English and American verse, along with foreign-language poetry in translation. Students will have an opportunity to study poetry ranging from traditional styles to experimental forms. This course is a literature class, not a creative writing workshop.
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3 hours credit Introduction to Fiction explores the short story and the novella and fosters an understanding of the essential vocabulary of literary criticism through class discussion and the writing of scholarly literary analysis.
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3 hours credit This course surveys the history of movies, with special emphasis on important films, directors, movements, and techniques. The students will become familiar with the rise of Hollywood and the studio system, several film genres and their evolution, and the chronological growth of film from the silents to the emergence of today's independent filmmakers both from the United States and on a global level. Films will be shown and discussed in class.
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3 hours credit This course investigates the formal, thematic, and stylistic characteristics of Science Fiction in a variety of formats such as the short story, the novel, and film. Students can expect a broad overview of the genre, including authors from the 19th and 20th centuries, and ending with any contemporary developments in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and/or related areas.
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3 hours credit This is an introductory course to the representative literature of women authors beginning in the late seventeenth-century through the twentieth century. The literature will be explored from the historical, social, and literary perspectives while seeking to articulate gendered roles and identities. The course will address issues such as the social construction of gendered roles and identities; the perceptions of women's strengths and weaknesses; women's self-perception; and the varying ways in which women negotiate their positions as subordinate members in a society that privileges males. Different literary forms will be studied, including poetry and short stories. While the focus will be on common themes and perspectives, the course will also address differences in women's writing based on race, class, and ethnicity. The selections will include literature from the dominant culture, from minority cultures within the United States, as well as literature from international female authors.
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3 hours credit This course introduces world myths that pervade cultures of both ancient and modern civilizations, enabling students to recognize and write about allusions to such myths found in art, architecture, and literature.
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3 hours credit This course examines one of the most popular literary genres: the short story. The popularity of the short story may arise from its conciseness in form, its focus on one major event, theme, or character. Stories include both nineteenth century classics and contemporary works. In addition to investigating the literary elements that form the short story genre, students may expect to study important schools of literary criticism and important movements within the history of the short genre.
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3 hours credit This introductory course to the Bible as literature exposes students to the study of the Old Testament as literature. Selected readings from the Old Testament will be subjected to the scrutiny of literary and gendered analysis. The question of dates and authorship will be discussed. Students will learn about some of the different types of literature to be found in the Old Testament. Additionally, the materials will be analyzed in terms of imagery, symbolism, metaphor, theme, purpose, diction, voice, etc.
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3 hours credit Detective Fiction offers students a chronological overview of the genre. Several styles and authors will be covered, including the rise of the hard-boiled style of the 1930s and the 'noir' styleof the 1950s, the rise of the 'cozy' mystery, and the evolutionof the genre in the United States and globally. Various novels and short stories will be covered.
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