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4.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to wide range of American poetry from its beginnings in the literature of exploration in the early seventeenth century to the late nineteenth century. We will be spending most of the course investigating the richness of the early American poetic tradition that provides an important backdrop to the emergence of better-known American poets, such as Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley, Walt Whitman, or Emily Dickinson. Throughout the course, we will consider how poetry reflects and considers contemporary concepts of gender, race, class, sexuality, and national identity. Prerequisite(s): ENG 100; for students in CWR, ENG, SEN, or ELE-Language Arts, ENG 100 and ENG 181. At least once in a three-year cycle. Credit: 4
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4.00 Credits
Study of an author, a literary form, a sequence of texts, or specific area or genre of creative writing, or some other special topic not included in the regular curriculum. Prerequisite(s): To be determined for each course. (Pass/Fail option) Every year. Credit: 4
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4.00 Credits
In this course we will study a diverse range of representations of ethnicity in literature and film. The course will likely include the study of several filmed adaptations in conjunction with their literary sources. The course will also likely require some attendance at films outside the regular class meeting times (possibly a screening of a recently released movie or possibly in conjunction with a campus film series or a nearby film festival). Prerequisite(s): ENG 100; for students in CWR, ENG, SEN, or ELE-Language Arts, ENG 100 and ENG 181. (Pass/Fail option) Once every two years. Credit: 4
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4.00 Credits
Study of selected fiction by nineteenth- and twentieth-century American and British women. This course explores women's literary traditions from feminist perspectives. Prerequisite(s): ENG 100; for students in CWR, ENG, SEN, or ELE-Language Arts, ENG 100 and ENG 181.(Pass/Fail option) Every two years. Credit: 4
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4.00 Credits
A study of poetry that constitutes a literary tradition for women, beginning with tribal poetry and Enheduannas hymns to Inanna and progressing to the work of contemporary women poets. Considerable class time will be devoted to close reading of individual poems and their gendered relationship to the cultures they both mirror and reinvent. Students will undertake an in-depth study of a contemporary poet and will develop a portfolio that defines their own poetic heritage. Prerequisite(s): ENG 100; for students in CWR, ENG, SEN, or ELE-Language Arts, ENG 100 and ENG 181. (Pass/Fail option) Every two years. Credit: 4
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4.00 Credits
Study of the development of the short story, from writers such as Chekhov and Conrad to contemporary writers. Prerequisite(s): ENG 100; for students in CWR, ENG, SEN, or ELE-Language Arts, ENG 100 and ENG 181. (Pass/Fail option) Every two years. Credit: 4
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4.00 Credits
A brief history of literary nonfiction, especially the essay, will lead to an examination of the most important modern and contemporary writers of what John McPhee has called "the literature of fact." Prerequisite(s): ENG 100; for students in CWR, ENG, SEN, or ELE-Language Arts, ENG 100 and ENG 181. (Pass/Fail option) Every two years. Credit: 4
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4.00 Credits
Study of literature in English by writers from formerly colonized regions, such as Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia, with some attention to the context of colonization and decolonization. Prerequisite(s): ENG 100; for students in CWR, ENG, SEN, or ELE-Language Arts, ENG 100 and ENG 181. (Pass/Fail option) Every two years. Credit: 4
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4.00 Credits
This course is designed to extend writing skills through the study and application of rhetorical and stylistic principles in nonfiction prose. The concept of the essay, formal and informal, is the centerpiece. Prerequisite(s): ENG 100. (Pass/Fail option) Every year. Credit: 4
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4.00 Credits
This course deepens and extends the understanding of fictional form and the writing process as studied in the earlier course. Workshop format. Individual conferences and attendance at readings may be required. May be taken twice for credit. Prerequisite(s): BFA, ENG, SEN major or ELE/LA concentration, and ENG 210 ENG 219 or HON 275H, or permission of instructor. (Pass/Fail option) Every year. Credit: 4
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