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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Advanced workshop in writing for the theatre with emphasis on developing the protagonist's relationship to other characters in the play through dramatic conflict, foreshadowing, dramatic irony, tension and dialogue.
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3.00 Credits
A practical orientation to the composing process for potential and already-practicing high school teachers. The course provides a theoretical and practical approach to the knowledge about rhetoric and composition that has recently come out of leading graduate schools. Spring semester.
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3.00 Credits
Close reading and critical study of selections from such authors as Winthrop, Bradstreet, Edwards, Franklin, Jefferson and Irving. Particular attention will be paid to the nascence of a sense of American identity, as the colonials struggled with what it meant to be a colonial American writer, their relationship to the mother country, their religious faith, their new country and its natives. Alternate fall.
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3.00 Credits
This course will cover the literary study of American Romanticism, Sentimentalism, Realism, Regional Realism and Naturalism. It will clarify the literary strategies engaged by various authors (in keeping with, but not limited to, those topics mentioned in the Rationale). It will include, variously, the authors generally considered as the major writers of the period, i.e. Cooper Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, Poe, Stowe, Howells, James, Chesnutt, Crane, Jewett, Freeman and Wharton. Alternate spring.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines how literature and film interact and mutually influence each other. May be repeated for credit. Every fall.
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3.00 Credits
This course studies literature outside of the Western world: literatures of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and postcolonial literature. This course may be repeated for credit provided that the post-colon subject matter is different. Alternate fall.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the literary artist's depiction of two wars, giving some attention to the issues that give rise to them, the areas in which they were fought, and the participants. The focus of the course will be on the literary conventions used in depicting the wars and the often-divergent points of view. This course may be repeated one time for credit provided that the subject matter is not the same. Fall semester.
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on two seemingly disparate American authors or two different American historical periods. Significant similarities and differences between authors and periods will be highlighted in order to gain a better understanding of the everchanging American cultural, social and literary climates. This course may be repeated for credit provided that the subject matter is not the same. Fall semester.
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3.00 Credits
Critical study of selected autobiographies and biographies. Analysis of various kinds of life writing from different periods, cultures and/or literary movements. This course may be repeated one time for credit provided that the subject matter is not the same. Fall semester every 3 years .
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3.00 Credits
A focused and in-depth study of a genre-related topic, e.g., tragedy, historical fiction, the Rise of the Novel, 19th century English Novel, Romantic Poetry, Modern English Drama, Genre and Gender. This course may be repeated for credit, provided the post-colon subject matter is different. Every spring. A focused and in-depth study of a genre-related topic, e.g., tragedy, historical fiction, the Rise of the Novel, 19th century English Novel, Romantic Poetry, Modern English Drama, Genre and Gender. This course may be repeated for credit, provided the post-colon subject matter is different. Every spring. Prerequisite: junior standing in the program or permission of the instructor.
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