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This course will introduce students to screenwriting. They first will learn the syntax of film--the various kinds of shots and how those shots can be combined to create meaning or to tell a story. They will then learn how their own ideas can be transcribed into scripts. They will try their hands at three of the main modes of screenwriting: each student will write a brief documentary, and adaptation, and an original story. Students also will screen and discuss examples of these three kinds of movies.
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This course deals mainly with discussion, interpretation and critical evaluation of selective texts from the world's drama (from the Greeks to the present) emphasizing genres and periods. Consideration also will be given to the ideas, structures, styles, and techniques of dramatic literature. Prerequisites: ENGL 0101 and ENGL 0102. (formerly ENGL 0387)
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A reading of exemplary models of the genre by early to modern writers, such as Richardson, Fielding, Austen, Dickens, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Joyce and Faulkner. Origins, theory, and shaping influences in the development of the novel will be considered. Prerequisites: ENGL 0101 and ENGL 0102.
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Introduces students to the study of rhetoric and the characteristics of persuasive discourse. Theories, principles, and methods of persuasion, from classical to contemporary, will be discussed. Topics explored include ethical issues, types of evidence, and the persuasive use of language and symbols. Students will have the opportunity to analyze and construct a variety of persuasive messages, such as editorials, speeches, and media campaigns. Prerequisites: ENGL 0101 and ENGL 0102.
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A study of the development of the novel as a genre, its literary origins and its relationship to society. Readings begin with 18th-century novelists such as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, and Sterne and continue with 19th-century representatives: Austen, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, and Conrad.
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Introduces the field of queer theory as a framework for approaching literary texts by and about GLBT individuals that explore and challenge seemingly stable identity categories of gender and sexuality and their intersections with race, class and ability. Recognizing queer theory's roots in social activism, GLBT social movements, history, culture and identity, participants will explore some of the major critical trends in queer theory. Particular attention will be paid to literary texts and understanding the socio-cultural frameworks within which they are produced, with consideration of issues such as global diversity, oppression, and social activism. Prerequisite: ENGL 0102.
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A study of the outstanding English literature of the eighth through fifteenth centuries. Poems, dramas, sermons, and other prose works will be studied in their literary and historical traditions perspectives.
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A study of the man and his works including Paradise Lost and selected poetry and prose.
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(3) A study of the tragedies and histories of Shakespeare including some consideration of his sources, his use of Elizabethan ideas, and his theatre.
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(3) A study of the comedies and romances, including some consideration of Shakespeare's sources, his use of Elizabethan ideas and his theatre.
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