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3 hours credit Introduction to Creative Writing is open to all students regardless of skill level or prior experience with creative writing. With this in mind, English 204 is an introductory course designed to explore the art and craft of writing poems and short stories. In this course, we will read and discuss classic and contemporary examples of poems and short stories with the goal of understanding and increasing our awareness of the aesthetic choices writers face when composing poems and short stories. In addition, we will examine the formal and technical aspects of poetry and short stories. To this end, this course will employ a workshop format (common to upperdivision creative writing courses) that will require students to submit original pieces of creative writing to the class for peer review.
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3 hours credit Designed for concise writing in the technical fields of computer science, engineering technology, electronics, drafting, construction management, and sciences, the course includes description tools and mechanisms, processes, analysis, editing, examination of literature in the major, and a field project. Technical management find this course useful. Prerequisites: Completion of ENGL-0101, Composition I, with a "C" orhigher.
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3 hours credit Early American Literature is a survey course which traces the origins of America's spiritual, political, and cultural growth from the Colonial Period to the Civil War. From the religious writings of authors such as Jonathan Edwards, Cotton Mather, and Anne Bradstreet, to the political writings of authors such as Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, and the Federalist Papers; from the antislavery writings of authors such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglas, and Henry David Thoreau, to the fiction of authors such as Hawthorne, Cooper, and Poe; students will come to understand the texts that serve as the foundation for much of what America has become today.
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3 hours credit Modern American Literature is a survey course which covers literature from the Civil War to the present. This course explores the birth of authentic American voices and themes. From local color writing and realism of the mid 1800's, to naturalistic writing in the early twentieth century, through imagism, surrealism, and minimalism; this is an exciting time in American Literature, producing nine Nobel Prize winners including Toni Morrison, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and Eugene O'Neil.
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3 hours credit Drama as Literature is a course designed to allow students the opportunity to study plays as a literary form as distinguished from studying plays as performance. The course will begin with a survey of Classical Greek drama and finish by investigating the currents of the modern and contemporary stages. The goal of this course is to develop a heightened sensitivity to the vital elements of drama including plot, characterization, setting, dialog, music, movement, and theme. Students will also examine various movements within dramatic history. Finally, students will apply critical methods of reading drama that will illuminate the intersection of class, race, gender, and power in the chosen plays.
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3 hours credit This is a survey course of African American literature and culture examining the aesthetics of the African American literary tradition and exploring the African American experience through the analysis of music, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama. The course content asks that we reconsider the sources of our knowledge of the past and to augment that knowledge through the voices of African Americans.
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3 hours credit Major British authors are studied within the context of their times and traditions. Through a variety of readings, including poetry, drama, and the essay, the class will explore the changing aesthetic, social, political, and ethical conventions of our literary heritage. Selected readings include English literature from Beowulf to the Neoclassical period. The survey may include works by Chaucer, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Milton, and others.
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3 hours credit Major British authors are studied within the context of their times and traditions. Through a variety of readings, including poetry, drama, and the essay, the class will explore the changing aesthetic, social, political, and ethical conventions of our literary heritage. Selected readings in English literature beginning in the Romantic period with William Blake and concluding in the twentieth century. The survey may include works be Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Yeats, Lawrence, Eliot, and others.
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3 hours credit This course surveys the literary traditions--from oral to contemporary literature-of tribes indigenous to the contiguous United States, fostering a familiarity with literary terms particular to understanding native literary elements, while examining American Indian influences on various periods of American literature through the discussion of and the writing of scholarly literary analysis.
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3 hours credit The literatures and cultures from six representative regions in Latin America are explored. These regions include the Southern Cone (Argentina), the Andean Region (Peru), Central America (Guatemala and Nicaragua), the Caribbean (Colombia and Puerto Rico), Mexico, and Chicana literature in the United States. By reading short stories, 2 novels, and a testimonial, students will reflect on such issues as self-identity, recognition of otherness, race, class, gender, marginalization, and encroachment.
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