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Course Criteria
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This course looks at literature gathered by theme. Each semester will be different. It will select from subjects like the Literature of Business and Work, The Search for Identity, Good and Evil in Literature, the Literature of Love and Sex, Sport Literature, Crime and Literature.
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The course examines the connections as well as the divergences of literature written at a particular time. Each semester will choose a particular focus. Examples include the American Renaissance, The 1920s, The sixties, and Literature of the 21st Century.
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Starting before the United States existed, this course looks at the written and oral literature that defined America, from the time only Native Americans lived here through the middle of the Nineteenth Century. We will read the stories of slaves and settlers, Native Americans and newcomers, revolutionaries and artists. Included will be such authors as Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman.
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For a century and a half, American writers have been trying to understand and express what it means to live in the modern world. From Mark Twain to Ernest Hemingway to Toni Morrison, these authors examine love, sex, war, race, gender, conflict, and community in a country where life always seems racing to be faster, bigger, stronger and more complex.
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3.00 Credits
The short story is the newest form of literature, and in some ways the most challenging for the writer, who must compact drama and theme into a few short pages and make it seem real. This course will look at short stories from all over the world and examine themes and styles while examining what they have to say to us and about the author and society that produced them.
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3.00 Credits
Poetry can be simple, maddening, inspired and inspiring, thunderous and soft, melancholy and raucous, intricate and still ? in short, everything that we are. It is epic as Homer, seductive as a love sonnet; its forms are as various as human experience, its voice as personal as your own. Poetry is, at one and the same time, a mirror and a window, revealing to us our deepest selves and providing a way to see beyond ourselves. Introduction to Poetry offers an opportunity to explore words, life, and the relationships they can build.
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Muriel Rukeyser once wrote, "The universe is made of stories, not atoms." Fiction Writing centers on making our own universes through the creation of story and on the discovery of the universe within each of us, the stories of which we are made. Through discussion and revision of their own work as well as the reading of published pieces, class members find their own voices, hone their skills, and release the energy of their own creative expression.
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3.00 Credits
Intensive practice in a variety of approaches to professional writing tasks: memoranda, correspondence, proposals, and both brief and longer reports.
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3.00 Credits
This course is useful for all students wishing to improve and perfect their reading, writing, and critical thinking skills. Students will analyze passages to help them read more efficiently. They will learn the rules of grammar and punctuation in a meaningful way to allow them to write both correctly and effectively.
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3.00 Credits
The novel is the genre of literature that gives the author the most extended opportunity to create a world and the people in it. This course will look at the many strategies novelists have used to move us, teach us, scare us, entertain us, and understand us. We will study how authors have developed new ways to tell a story, trying to keep up with the constant changes in the world and the attitudes of the people around them.
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