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3.00 Credits
Description: This course presents an overview of American Literature from the end of the Civil War to 1945. It may include authors and works from the Gilded Age, Progressivism, World War I, the Expatriates, the Jazz Age and the Harlem Renaissance. The course studies the role of literature to express and influence social, economic, and cultural realities of the United States. Specific topics and texts vary according to instructor and student preference and may include Twain, Bierce, Dickinson and Whitman. Prerequisites: EH200 Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course provides a study of canonical authors and works of the British Isles from medieval times to the modern era. Depending on instructor and student preference, texts and authors may include Beowulf, Chaucer, Langland, Malory, Donny, Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, Austen, Wordsworth, the Brontes, Tennyson, Arnold, Conrad and Woolf. Prerequisites: EH200 Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course surveys British literature from 1660 to the present. It will combine historical, cultural, and linguistic approaches in the study of various literary genres, considering along the way what shapes definitions of language, tradition, nation, and literature. Readings, class discussions, research and writing assignments aim to give students a broad look at a number of canonical writers, intellectual movements, and influential changes that have accompanied the development of British writing since the Restoration. The course is intended for majors and non-majors alike. Prerequisites: EH200 Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course surveys significant writings in Eastern and Western tradition, from ancient Babylonian civilization to the English Restoration. Selected texts depend on instructor and student interest and may include Gilgamesh, Greco-Roman mythology, Homer's Odyssey, the Old and New Testaments, Indian epic, Dante's Divine Comedy and Japanese haiku. Prerequisites: EH200 Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
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3.00 Credits
Description: The second of two world literature surveys, this course concentrates on literary works from the English Restoration to the modern era. The primary goal for the course is to define the role of literature as it occurs through a wide range of social, cultural and geographical contexts. Selected texts depend on student and instructor interest and may include Voltaire, Borges, Mahfouz, Tagore, Mishima, Garcia Marquez and Achebe. Prerequisites: EH200 Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course is an introduction to the writing of creative short fiction, poetry, and personal essay. As students workshop their own writing and offer feedback to the writing of classmates, they are exposed to a variety of writing techniques in all three genres in order to help develop their own writing style and voice. Emphasis is placed on the importance of revision and writing as a process. Prerequisites: EH200 Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course is intended to provide the opportunity to offer introductory courses in English that would not normally be a part of the Husson curriculum. As such the topics will depend upon the interests of students and faculty. Prerequisites: EH200 Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course will investigate literacy from a sociocultural and linguistic perspective. Students will be defining and operationalizing the term "literacy" and striving to understand the various types of literacy that currently exist in American society. Furthermore, students will study how being adept in various literacies define group membership and serve as a gateway of access to various levels of American social stratification. Furthermore, beginning with pre-school aged children, students will investigate how literacy and the value of literacy is transmitted culturally and how that transmission weighs heavily on future involvement in literacy events. Prerequisites: EH123 AND EH124 Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course examines the novel as it develops in western and European culture from about 1800 through the present. Students will read approximately eight to ten novels per semester from a variety of cultural and historical periods. Students will become acquainted with the relevant historiographical sources, theory and issues pertaining to the period and write a variety of short papers for this course. Prerequisites: EH123 AND EH124 AND EH200 Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This survey course will introduce students to the study of the nature of human language. During the course, students will be exposed to origins of human language, myths about language, language principles, writing systems, phonology/phonetics, morphology, syntax, psycholinguistics, social linguistics, first and second language acquisition, historical linguistics, and language and politics, semantics and pragmatics. The goal of this course is to expose the students the complexity of human language. Prerequisites: EH123 AND EH124 AND EH200 Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
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