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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Presents the contextual and equitable aspects of African American literature as an integral part of American literature, in the hope that strategies of racial and gender dominance will give way to a wider appreciation of literary art. Weaver.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Discusses the novels of major American writers of the last 60 years, including such authors as William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, William Styron, John Gardner, and Anne Tyler. George, Staff.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Analyzes the possibility of viewing fiction by African Americans as constitutive of a distinctive genre of literature. Highlights certain repeated themes and rhetorical patterns found in fiction by African Americans, but asks if race itself is what finally determines the makeup of the genre. Authors include Douglass, Baldwin, Ellison, Washington, Wright, and others. George.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Studies personal, family, and cultural conflicts created by the tensions between ethnic and American loyalties in fictional and non-fictional works by African American, Jewish, Native American, Asian American, Latino, and other authors. Focuses on the dilemma of affirming the values of ethnic identity in a civilization professing the virtues of assimilation. Bergland.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. This course is a survey of major plays from Europe, the United States and Africa. Dramatists may include Sophocles, Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Molire, Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, O'Neill, Brecht, Beckett, Hansberry, Fugard, and August Wilson. Social and political contexts of theater, performance practices, and writing about drama. Leonard, Weaver.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem hrs. Explores 19th and 20th century literature written by and about women. Considers how women writers have challenged conventional notions of who women really are and who they long to become. Studies writers including Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Louisa May Alcott, Mary Shelley, Dorothy Canfield, Jhumpa Lahiri, Ahdaf Soueif, and others. Hager.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Serves as an introduction to film analysis by teaching the basics of mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, and sound as well as fundamental principles of film narrative, style, genre, and theory. Films chosen from a number of different historical periods and national contexts, including classical Hollywood cinema. Leonard, Staff.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Introduces literary criticism and the study of literary genres, historical periods, and major authors. Considers how we read, analyze, and write about literature from different critical perspectives. Specific genres, periods, and authors vary from semester to semester. Includes frequent, varied writing assignments. Required for all English majors. Hager, Leonard.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Presents African American autobiographies as involved continually in literary attempts to redefine both American history and African Americans themselves. Investigates how these works blur the lines between self and community, fact and fiction, in the efforts to dialogue with previous representations of African American identity. Authors include Jacobs, Angelou, Douglass, Baldwin, DuBois, Gates, Hurston and others. George.
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4.00 Credits
4 sem. hrs. Introduces literature of the 17th century through study of the metaphysical wit and cavalier poetry of Donne, Herbert, Marvell, Milton, and Jonson; the prose of Bacon and Browne; and the poetry of Phillips, Wroth, and Amelia Lanyer. Themes include manuscript and print culture, public politics and private culture, and sex and religion. Wollman.
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