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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Studies personal, family, and cultural conflicts created by the tensions between ethnic and American loyalties in fictional and non-fictional works by African American, Jewish, Native American, Asian American, Latino, and other authors. Focuses on the dilemma of affirming the values of ethnic identity in a civilization professing the virtues of assimilation. Bergland, Staff.
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4.00 Credits
This course is a survey of major plays from Europe, the United States and Africa. Dramatists will include Sophocles, Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Moliere, Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, ONeill, Brecht, Beckett, Hansberry, Fugard, and August Wilson. Social and political contexts of theatre, performance practices, and writing about drama. Gullette.
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4.00 Credits
Explores 19th and 20th century literature written by and about women. Considers how women writers have challenged conventional notions of who women really are and who they long to become. Studies writers including Jane Austen, Charlotte Bront?, Louisa May Alcott, Mary Shelley, Christina Rossetti, Jhumpa Lahiri, Ahdaf Souerif, and others. Hager, Mercier, Bergland, Bromberg.
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4.00 Credits
Serves as an introduction to film analysis by surveying Hollywood genres and international classics. Includes a variety of films by directors such as Hitchcock, Eisenstein, Scorsese, Godard, and Denis. Barr.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the English major, 199 provides a grounding in the skills and questions basic to the study of literature: how to trace an image, how a novelist constructs a character, what a poet is doing with meter and rhyme, and how to make comparisons between different texts. Required for all English majors. Bergland, Bromberg, George, Hager, Leonard, Pei, Perry, Weaver, Wollman.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces literary criticism and the study of literary genres, historical periods, and major authors. Considers how we read, analyze, and write about literature from different critical perspectives. Specific genres, periods, and authors vary from semester to semester. Includes frequent, varied writing assignments. Required for all English majors. Hager, Bromberg, Mercier.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces students to the main schools of theory in cinema and media studies, including realism, montage, auteur theory, genre, semiotics, psychoanaylsis, feminism, queer theory, critical race theory, reception theory, star studies, third and accented cinemas. Course will include weekly screenings of film, television, and media texts.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces literature of the 17th century through study of the metaphysical wit and cavalier poetry of Donne, Herbert, Marvell, Milton, and Jonson; the prose of Bacon and Browne; and the poetry of Phillips, Wroth, and Amelia Lanyer. Themes include manuscript and print culture, public politics and private culture, and sex and religion. Wollman.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses upon the works of major American writers and defines and analyzes how the sentiments and attitudes of the Romantic and Realist periods become intertwined with race in the literary process of imagining and representing American identity. George.
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4.00 Credits
Considers the development of the English novel, with emphasis on narrative technique and the cultural history of the novel in the 18th century. Novelists may include Behn, Fielding, Burney, Austen, Walpole, Shelley, and Dickens. Bromberg.
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