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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course is required of all English majors and minors as well as all English Education majors. It is the gateway course to English studies, introducing students through close reading of a variety of texts to the basic elements of the genres of literary study (fiction, poetry, drama), the terminology used in the profession, how to conduct effective scholarly research, and how to write critical essays on a variety of genres using the stylistic format of the profession. Every semester. This course is required of all English majors and minors as well as all English education majors. It is the gateway course to English studies, introducing students through close reading of a variety of texts to the basic elements of the genres of literary study (fiction, poetry, drama), the terminology used in the profession, how to conduct effective scholarly research, and how to write critical essays on a variety of genres using the stylistic format of the profession. Every semester.
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This course introduces students to a select group of critically acclaimed contemporary authors (e.g. Joseph Heller, Edward Albee, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Sylvia Plath, Norman Mailer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Toni Morrison, August Wilson, Salman Rushdie, Phillip Roth, Orhan Pamuk) and explores some of the most important contemporary issues as represented in their works. Every spring.
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A selection of literary texts from different periods, cultures and genres, designed to introduce students to literary study.
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A second selection of literary texts from different periods, cultures and genres, designed to introduce students to literary study. The course does not presume knowledge of texts covered in ENG 160.
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A third selection of literary texts from different periods, cultures and genres, designed to introduce students to literary study. In addition students will be introduced to a variety of contemporary critical methods. Successful completion of either Literature I or Literature II is recommended but not required before taking this course. Every semester.
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A third selection of literary texts from different periods, cultures and genres, designed to introduce students to literary study. In addition students will be introduced to a variety of contemporary critical methods. Successful completion of either Literature I or Literature II is recommended but not required before taking this course. Not for major credit for English literature or English Education majors.
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A survey of selected plays from the nineteenth century to the present and an overview of the dramatic theory and criticism that influences and is generated by these plays. Emphasis is placed on acting, directing, and design considerations consistent with the plays and theories. Alternate spring semesters.
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Students will read a variety of poems from different cultures, time periods and aesthetics and learn how to enter into the figurative and metaphoric language that poems employ. They will also have an opportunity to write and discuss their own poems with the aim of further understanding poetic language. Alternate spring.
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A survey of recent fiction and non-fiction that provides an overview of the cultural and social trends found in works of contemporary literature and essays. The course develops students' abilities to examine whether the literature and essays generate culture or culture generates literature and essays. A key focus of the course will be on the real or imagined nature of the differences between fiction and non- fiction. The completion of at least one 100-level course is desirable before taking this course. Fall semester.
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A survey of American literature from its beginnings to the end of the Civil War designed to foster students' ability to read literary texts critically and to provide them with the knowledge and skills for more focused study at advanced levels. Every fall.
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