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Students register for English 458 in the winter semester. Majors writing an honors thesis register for both English 457 and 458. [W3] Normally offered every year. Staff.
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Although Geoffrey Chaucer is called "the father of English poetry," critics note that the poet often aligns himself with the figure of the child. This course examines a selection of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in which children appear as figures of innocence, violence, pathos, and futurity. Students investigate nineteenth- and twentieth-century rewritings of Chaucer's tales as children's literature. For the service-learning component of this course, students read and discuss these modern rewritings with local schoolchildren. In addition, students produce an original collection of Chaucer's tales for children. Enrollment limited to 12. K. Bowen.
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Familial and social relationships, which contribute so centrally to our physical, spiritual, and mental identities, encode our ancestral ties to the past. As an instructive presence, the ancestor figure is both an essential part of African American communities and also is central to their representative literatures. Using works by various African American writers, especially Langston Hughes, Gloria Naylor, David Bradley, John Edgar Weidman, and Toni Morrison, students analyze the ways in which ancestors function as complex repositories of black culture and history. In the literary imagination of many black writers, the ancestor may be represented as a living person, a spirit, or a cultural artifact and plays an integral role in the conceptualizing black identities. Enrollment limited to 25. T. Robinson.
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This course investigates drama as a political forum. Some attention is given to Western historical uses such as Greek tragedy and Shakespeare's history plays, but the course focuses primarily on contemporary works. Visiting artists speak about their plays and performances. Students analyze texts, but also respond to current political issues by writing and staging their own scenes. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 20. C. Malcolmson.
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3.00 Credits
The events of September 11, 2001, serve as a powerful reminder of how public trauma, private grief, and cultural memory are not simply "events" in the lives of individuals or societies but are "mediated" by aesthetic productions-literary fiction, poetry, narrative film, theatre, visual art, and comics. Students consider examples of all of these texts and media in order to explore the concept of a "post-9/11" American public culture. They also address how catastrophic events, political violence, and individual deaths are grieved and remembered at the intersection of personal expressions of loss and public acts of memorialization. Enrollment limited to 25. E. Osucha.
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This course focuses on literary and nonliterary texts on the relationship, bonds, and boundaries between humans and dogs. Although the primary focus is on fiction, poetry, and film, readings may be drawn from multiple disciplines and perspectives-including biology, psychology, philosophy, religion, and environmental studies-that consider the evolution of humans and other animals, the rights of nonhuman animals; interspecies communication; human-animal bonds; animal-human healing partnerships and pet-assisted therapy; and cross-cultural differences and similarities in individual and societal treatment of dogs. Students are required to undertake service-learning at local veterinary hospitals, animal shelters, therapy-dog settings, or boarding kennels. Enrollment limited to 15. L. Shankar.
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What criteria determine that some aspects of experience are regarded as newsworthy and others not What conventions determine how to represent this news What are the boundaries between journalism and other nonfictional narratives (history, essay, documentary, biography, for example) What tensions exist between "all the news that's fit to print" and commercial, consumer-based media This course considers how diverse media collect, represent, and comment on the "news," drawing on media and cultural studies, discourse analysis, and narrative theory to critically explore both dominant media representations in the United States and alternatives to it, especially in foreign presses and/or alternatively supported media. C. Malcolmson, C. Taylor.
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3.00 Credits
A study of one or two major directors of film such as Chaplin, Griffith, Renoir, Ford, or Bergman; or a study of a major genre of the film. Students view and discuss relevant films. Lectures on related aspects of the art of the film. Enrollment limited to 30. S. Freedman.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed for strong student writers who want to work in a collaborative setting to improve their expository writing and editing skills, to learn more from other people's perspectives, and to explore the importance of drafting and revising. Students discuss selected readings, ranging from considerations of mechanics and style to essays exemplifying good nonfiction prose. They also maintain an individually designed reading program. In addition to regular class meetings, students meet in smaller tutorial groups several hours a week to read and comment extensively on the assignments written by them and their classmates. Prerequisite(s): submission of a short graded essay from any Bates course prior to registration. Enrollment limited to 16. Instructor permission is required. E. Hansen.
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3.00 Credits
A study of Shakespeare's plays in performance, intended to acquaint the student with problems that are created by actual stage production in the interpretation of the plays. Students see Shakespearean productions in various locations, including London and Stratford-on-Avon, England. Prerequisite(s): Two of the following: English 213, 214, and 215. Enrollment limited to 15. Instructor permission is required. Staff.
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