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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course explores representative works of world literature from antiquity to the early modern period, within a framework that compares cultures and historical periods and invites consideration of both what is shared among cultures and what is unique about the culture from which each text emerged. With emphasis on critical thinking, reading, and writing, the course examines several major genres of literature and studies themes, forms, and styles in the literary texts. Prerequisites: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150. (LT I)
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3.00 Credits
This course explores representative works of world literature from the early modern period to the present, within a framework that compares cultures and historical periods and invites consideration of both what is shared among cultures and what is unique about the culture from which each text emerged. With emphasis on critical thinking, reading, and writing, the course examines several major genres of literature and studies themes, forms, and styles in the literary texts. Prerequisites: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150. (LT I)
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3.00 Credits
These courses provide a concentrated study of particular themes, genres, or periods of world literature, with emphasis on critical thinking, reading, and writing. The "Studies" courses explore a broad range of representative works of world literature within a framework that compares cultures and historical periods and invites consideration of both what is shared among cultures and what is unique about the culture from which each text emerged.
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3.00 Credits
From Homer's Odyssey, through Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Voltaire's Candide, and Conrad's Heart of Darkness, to Achebe's Things Fall Apart, journeys, voyages, and quests have thematically structured literary works, enabling readers to venture abroad, experience new worlds, and to reflect on what they and the characters in particular works have learned along the way as well as their ports of call. Prerequisite: Writing Proficiency, EN 1110/1120, 1140; EN/HR 1150; or equivalent. (LT I)
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3.00 Credits
This course examines a selection of major authors in the history of English literature with attention given to the developing traditions of English literature and to the use of various literary forms as they appear in the tradition. A selection is made from authors like the Beowulf Poet, Chaucer, the Pearl Poet, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Swift, Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge, Keats, Dickens, Browning, Hopkins, and Eliot. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150. (LTII)
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the art of writing poetry and fiction. Emphasis on writer-teacher conferences. Best productions are published in the Rockhurst Review, the student literary and arts publication. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150.
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3.00 Credits
A course designed to introduce the student to the principles of playwriting including the scenario, plot structure, character, thought, diction, and spectacle. Some attention is given to the requirements of play production in script-writing. Regular creative exercises, workshop readings in the class, and the writing of original drama are required. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150.
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3.00 Credits
Designed to assist students in mastery of writing techniques and to acquaint students with rhetorical principles and backgrounds useful in developing various types of written communication. Attention is given to rhetorical theories and their practical application through regular writing assignments. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150.
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3.00 Credits
The course covers four kinds of business documents: letters/memos, marketing/sales brochures, reports, and proposals. It includes editing strategies and techniques incrementally throughout the course. Design, graphics, layout, and analytical commentary are reviewed for structuring readable documents. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150.
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3.00 Credits
Designed to acquaint the student with the practical uses of stylistics by reviewing the place of vocabulary, syntax, register, and rhetorical context in written discourse as applied to specific goals of writing. Regular writing assignments are used to apply stylistic principles and readings are analyzed as models. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150.
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