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3.00 Credits
LiteratureThis is an introductory survey of selected masterpieces of world literature from ancient times to the Renaissance. The emphasis will be on epic poetry, tragedy, comedy, romances, essays, and satire by writers such as Sophocles, Homer, Euripides, Aristophanes, Lucretius, Virgil, Rabelais, Montaigne, and Cervantes, stressing their influence on contemporary works. Prerequisite: ENG 12 or permission of instructor. Three class hours a week. 3 credits Fall
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LiteratureThis is an introductory survey of masterpieces of world literature from the Renaissance to the present. Representative works of neoclassicism, romanticism, realism, naturalism, and the 20th century by writers such as Moliere, Voltaire, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Ibsen, Strinberg, Pirandello, Kafka, Brecht, Sartre, Camus, and Ellison will be included. Prerequisite: ENG 12 or permission of instructor. Three class hours a week. 3 credits Spring
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LiteratureA survey of the seminal authors who wrote in English from the medieval period to the mid-eighteenth century such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Congreve and Swift. Besides the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment are studied for their generic developments (in comedy, lyric and satire) and their cultural history. Some emphasis on reading aloud. Prerequisite: ENG 12 or permission of instructor. 3 credits Fall
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LiteratureConcentrating on Romantic poetry and the novel, this second semester deals with English writers from Wordsworth to D.H. Lawrence. Topics include women and society, individualism versus industrialism, and the novel from Jane Austen through V.S. Naipaul. Periods include the Romantic, the Victorian and the Twentieth Century. Prerequisite: ENG 12 or permission of instructor. Three class hours a week. 3 credits Spring
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LiteratureThis course studies the significant writers and trends in American literature from the pre-colonial period through the mid-nineteenth century and also explores the literature's historical and cultural contexts and its development. Included are writers such as Dekanawidah, Anne Bradstreet, Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley, Samson Occom, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, and Walt Whitman. Prerequisite: ENG 12 or permission of instructor. Three class hours a week .3 credits Fall
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IIThis course studies the significant writers and trends in American literature from the Civil War through the end of the twentieth century and also explores the literature's historical and cultural contexts and its development. Included are writers such as Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Edith Wharton, Countee Cullen, Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurston, Elizabeth Bishop, Arthur Miller, Allen Ginsberg, Ralph Ellison, Flannery O'Connor , Louise Erdrich, Tennessee Williams, and N. Scott Momaday . Prerequisite : ENG 12 or permission of instructor. Three class hours a wee k.3 credits Spring
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WritingStudents will read short stories, novels, autobiographies, speeches, essays, poems, memoirs, and plays by some of the most celebrated writers in the world today. In reading literature written in the past two decades by and about African American women, students will examine the historical, cultural, and social dimensions of African American women' s experiences. These writers-winners of National Book Awards, Pulitzer Prizes, and Nobel Prizes for Literature-raise fundamental issues relevant to men and women of all races and ethnicities. The writings of Maya Angelou, Octavia Butler, Rita Dove, Audre Lorde, Terry McMillan, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, and others will be explor ed. Prerequisi te: ENG 12 or permission of instructor. Three class hours a w eek.3 credits offered alternate Spring semeste
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Students immerse themselves in one great author. Plays are broadly selected such as two comedies, a history, a "problem play," three tragedies and a romance. Class critiques of film and videotape interpretations, and attendance at one live production . Prerequisite : ENG 12 or permission of instructo r.3 credits Spring
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NovelsStudents will read wildly different novels by award-winning writers who touch on common themes and concerns of Native American experience, while simultaneously suggesting the diversity of that experience. These Blackfeet, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chickasaw, Chippewa, Creek, Gros Ventre, Kiowa, Modoc, and Pueblo writers take control of their own image-making as they explore Native American experiences from before the European invasion to the present. Writers include Michael Dorris, Louise Erdrich, N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, James Welch, and others. Prerequisite: ENG 12 or permission of instructor. Three class hours a week. 3 credits offered alternate Fall semesters
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1.00 Credits
EnglishThis is a one semester course on a specific topic in English. Topics will be announced each semester. Prerequisite: ENG 12 or permission of instructor. Three class hours a week. 3 credits Not offered every year
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