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3.00 Credits
Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, and Alterity. Readings in deconstructive theory and its relation to ethics and the question of the "other." With Levinas and biblical texts as background, a reading of Derrida's late texts on the gift, hospitality, the question of the nation, and his rethinking of the idea of tradition in a transnational context, examining sources for postmodern thought in religious texts and philosophy. Prerequisite: EN271 or a philosophy course. Four credit hours. L.
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4.00 Credits
The representation of cross-dressing in literature from the 16th through the 20th century, including cinematic adaptations of these texts and films treating the practice. How cross-dressing and disguise in film and literature challenge or even reinforce gender boundaries. Readings include Middleton's The Roaring Girl, Henry Fielding's The Female Husband, Isaac Bashevis Singer's Yentl, and David Hwang's M. Butterfly. Four credit hours. L.
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4.00 Credits
A focus on the unique and still largely marginalized literary contributions of African-American women novelists, poets, essayists, and playwrights during the 19th and 20th centuries. Writers will be discussed in context of the issues central to their work, including magical realism, race, (re)membering the female body, (black) feminism and literary production, and reconstructing black womanhood. Four credit hours. L, U. BRYANT
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4.00 Credits
Horror, especially gothic horror of the American variety, always masquerades as something else; it can usually be found "playing in the dark," in Toni Morrison's phrase, or beneath a monster-other mask. Surveying horror's effects--the narrative strategies that make horror fiction so horrifying--is a focus, but emphasis is on learning to use various critical tools, Jungian myth, psychoanalytical, feminist, and race criticism to explore the deeper, semiotic relation of signs and signifying that codify the cultural meaning behind the monster masks--werewolves, shapeshifters, vampires, succubi, demons, and (extra)terrestial aliens--that conceal a humanity too terrifying to confront consciously. Four credit hours. L, U.
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4.00 Credits
An intensive course in the practice of public speaking, with special attention to current political and social issues and the development of an effective and persuasive platform personality. Attendance at campus debates and speech contests required. Four credit hours. MILLS
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3.00 Credits
An advanced "group independent" workshop, providing a capstone experience to creative writing concentrators and minors working in fiction, drama, or creative nonfiction. Students will focus on a semester-long prose project, which may include the short story, the novella, memoir, creative nonfiction, playwriting, or a screenplay. Prerequisite: English 377 or 378, and permission of the instructor. Two to four credit hours. SPARK
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3.00 Credits
An advanced "group independent" workshop, providing a capstone experience to creative writing concentrators and minors working in poetry. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Two to four credit hours. BLEVINS
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3.00 Credits
A service learning class in which Colby students teach the writing of poetry at community elementary schools. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Four credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
An independent, substantial project approved by the department. The student will work in close consultation with a faculty member. Students are responsible for selecting their faculty tutor and submitting their proposal by May of their junior year. Prerequisite: A 3.25 grade point average in the major and approval from a faculty tutor. Two to four credit hours. FACULTY
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3.00 Credits
Individual projects exploring topics for which the student has demonstrated the interest and competence necessary for independent work. Prerequisite: Permission of a project advisor and the chair of the department. One to four credit hours. FACULTY
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