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4.00 Credits
Serves graduate students interested in the theory and practice of teaching writing at the undergraduate and secondary school level. Focuses on reading of research and texts in the field, regular writing assignments, and classroom observation and simulation. Pei.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces graduate students to the concepts and practices of contemporary literary and cultural criticism. Surveys poststructuralist, psychoanalytic, Marxist, new-historicist, postcolonial, feminist, and gender theory, bringing these perspectives to bear on key literary and historical texts. (Also listed as GCS 405 and SPAN 405. ) Bromberg.
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4.00 Credits
Surveys feminist approaches to literary analysis and production, examining poetry and fiction that engages with sex, gender, and sexuality, while also studying feminist literary criticism, literary history, feminist theory, gender theory, and queer theory in literary context. Bergland, Bromberg, Hager, Mercier.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the wide variety of Victorian literature written for children, from fairy tales and nonsense verse to didactic fiction and classic examples of the Victorian bildungsroman. Authors studied may include Lewis Carroll, Charles Kingsley, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Dinah Mulock Craik, Christina Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charlotte Mary Yonge, and Rudyard Kipling. Hager.
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4.00 Credits
Studies a recent work in critical or cultural theory in depth & applies it to the analysis of multicultural and popular cultural narratives (to novels & stories by writers working within & outisde Anglo-American tradition to television & film series). Examples of theoretical approaches include aesthetic theory, post-colonialism, and new historicism. Hager.
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4.00 Credits
Reading writers including Hawthorne, Alcott, Twain, Susan Warner, Thomas Bailey, Aldrich, and Margaret Sidney, this class will consider the role of religion, the classed and gendered nature of writing for children, and the way the family is depicted and disciplined. We?ll also take up the question of slavery, women?s suffrage, and industrialization in the children?s literature of the period. Hager.
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4.00 - 8.00 Credits
Involves a semester long independent research and writing project culminating in a paper of approximately 30-40 pages under the supervision of a faculty member with expertise in the subject area. Requires permission from the program director and a proposal approved during the semester before the course is taken. Staff.
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4.00 Credits
Concentrates on the writing of personal narratives and essays. Encourages structural and stylistic experimentation, imitation of models, and testing of ones limits as a writer. Requires short critical exercises to sharpen consciousness of form and technique in non-fiction. Pei.
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