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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the themes of horror and the grotesque inherent in the horror genre by examining some of the seminal texts of horror fiction (Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and short stories by such writers as Poe and Dinesen). The course will trace the ways in which symbolic and thematic elements have been re-inscribed in later works of fiction and film. The course will explore the manner in which these texts reveal cultural themes, values and ideologies.
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This course emphasizes the skillful writing of expository and persuasive job-related communications within a variety of professional contexts: from researched technical reports and written business communications to legal reports and professional journal articles. The course provides the student with advanced research skills, greater mastery of the principles needed to develop an organized, concise, lucid writing style as well as with a more sophisticated comprehension of the rhetorical principles and mechanics of professional writing.
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3.00 Credits
Advanced writing will instruct students in advanced compositional elements. The course is designed to prepare the student for the expectations of the professional world with regard to writing styles, language, tone and voice. Not specifically application driven, course content will focus on the following areas: basic and more advanced rules of grammar and punctuation, advanced argumentative and persuasive structures. The course seeks to be holistic in scope, by focusing on transferable skills and material, rather than on a series of formal outlines for reports. Students will complete assignments that focus upon building competence in the production of writing within a professional standard. Some assignments will cover the following areas: writing effective personal statements, writing effective proposals, essay polishing, dictions, tone and voice as persuasive tools.
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3.00 Credits
Cities have existed as sites of human culture for the thousands of years they have been in existence. They mark fundamental changes in human life (nomadic to static, agrarian to industrial, etc.). As a result, they have become symbolic of both decadence and decline and modernity and education. Seen as centers of commerce, politics and products of all types, they have been described, transcribed, and inscribed into many artistic, philosophic, and literary works. This course will examine the image of the city in the literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Though primarily concerned with literature, the course will also look at the city in film, philosophy, and criticism.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the relationship between literature and film, the course carefully studies the progress of film adaptation and the attendant concerns of metaphor, symbol, and characterization as they apply to prose fiction and film. The student is encouraged to critically assess film adaptations of the fictional works of such authors as Joseph Conrad, John Updike, James M. Cain, Vladimir Nabokov, Judith Guest, Franz Kafka and others. The course also deals with the status of the director and screenwriter as the film medium’s expositors and interpreters of the literary canon.
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3.00 Credits
From the glamour of Broadway and West End productions of The Producers and Rent, to gritty protest dramas and the avant-garde contemporary theatre is a vibrant and amazingly diverse art form. This class will examine an overview of the dramatic literature of the last 30 years, with an emphasis on the 21st Century. In so doing, students will be discussing a wide range of related issues, including the varying production styles and techniques involved with each script and the broader cultural and social framework that makes these works possible. As with any class that deals with the dramatic arts, our discussions of these plays will be framed by the viewing and analysis of many performances, both live and on video.
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