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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A study of various types of advanced exposition, formal and informal essays, and the principles of the short narrative, with collateral readings and practice in original writing of the various forms studied.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the craft of creative writing. The course will focus on the development of a portfolio of poetry and short fiction through workshop discussions and individual conferences, along with collateral readings on the creative process, literary terms, and forms.
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3.00 Credits
Ability to type strongly recommended. Combined lecture-workshop approach to special forms, styles, and problems encountered in writing for industry, business, and technology. Includes writing of mechanism description, process analysis, instructions, formal and informal reports, research reports, proposals; also includes audience analysis, technical editing, and use of graphics.
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3.00 Credits
A study of Modern Poetry from 1900 to 1950. The course will focus on modernist movements, including Imagism, Vorticism, Futurism, Expressionism, Dada, and Surrealism. Readings will include major poets from America, Britain, and the Continent, such as Yeats, Lawrence, Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Williams, Moore, H.D., Hughes, Cullen, Stramm, Ball, Arp, Desnos, Breton, Mayakovski, and others.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the poetry of the latter half of the twentieth century. Poets studied may include Wright, Wilbur, Bishop, Berryman, Roethke, Plath, Brooks, Olson, Snyder, Ginsberg, O.Hara, Bly, Rich, Angelou, and others.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: EN 101 and one of the following: EN 202, EN 204, EN 232, or permission of the Languages, Literature, and Philosophy Department Chair. A study of major literary works from emerging postcolonial societies in Africa, the Caribbean, South and Central America, and Asia after 1945. Authors studied may include Ngugi Wa Thiong.o, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Jean Rhys, Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipul, Mahasweta Devi, and Salman Rushdie.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Six (6) hours of English. Introduction to major theories, methodology, and strategies of teaching English as a second language including an introduction to the historical background of methods used for teaching languages to non-native speakers and to various strategies that have been proposed in the field to improve listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. This task-based class will also focus on syllabi and lesson plan preparations.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Six (6) hours of English. A survey of the major theories of language acquisition, including theories of first language acquisition, theories of second-language acquisition, theories of language learning, styles and strategies of language learning, effect of personality and sociocultural factors on second language learning, and communicative competence with an emphasis on methods of acquiring a second language.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to both traditional stereotypes of women in literature and new ways to analyze literature by and about women. Using introductory feminist critical texts, students will learn to focus on what literature says and implies about women: their nature, their roles, their place in society. Readings may include works by Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes, Flaubert, Woolf, Stein, Welty, Atwood, Walker, Rich, and others.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the major movements in the evolution of African-American literature from the eighteenth century to the present. It includes literary genres such as autobiography, fiction, poetry, and drama. Authors may include Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker.
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