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3.00 Credits
This course explores the filmed stories that come out of written literature. For instance, Tom Jones, the novel, is condensed and simplified; Romeo and Juliet is shortened and parts are cut down. Sometimes, as with Dorian Gray, we have several movie attempts. In this course we read texts that have been filmed, see the films, and do written analyses of the relative success/ failure of the efforts. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150.
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3.00 Credits
This course will survey Irish writing in English, with emphasis on the literature of the early 19th century to the present. It will consider, in particular, works of major figures such as James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, G.B. Shaw, Seamus Heaney, and Brian Friel, as well as the contexts of Irish history and cultural politics. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150. (LTII)
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3.00 Credits
Gothic fiction, a reaction against comfort, security, political stability, and commercial progress, resists the rule of reason. It began with the 1764 publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, and prospered through its steady reference to crags and chasms, torture and terror, and the supernatural - clairvoyance, dreams, ghosts. This course studies a series of representative texts that establish and sustain the genre from the 18th century to now. Prerequisite: EN 1110/EN 1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150. (LTII)
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3.00 Credits
A study of some of the most recognized and noteworthy long fiction of the prior twenty-five years, the course will consider the work of writers such as Toni Morrision, Philip Roth, Ian McEwan, A. S. Byatt, David Lodge, and Salman Rushdie, as well as recent theories of the novel and cultural contexts that bear on the creation, publication, and reception of such works. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120 or EN 1140 or EN 1150.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers a selection of fiction and poetry by women and about issues traditionally considered important to women. Fiction includes, but is not limited to, works by Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather, Alice Walker, and Rachel Ingalls. Poetry includes, but is not limited to, works by Emily Dickinson, Gwendolyn Brooks, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and Rita Dove. Essays by such authors as Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Catherine McKinnon, and Mary Daley are used to complement the poetry and fiction. The course begins with consideration of Virginia Woolf's contention that in order to create, a woman needs an independent income and a room of her own. Emphasis is on the works of literature as literature. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150. (LTII)
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3.00 Credits
This course will analyze works of literature that explore the Catholic faith, the sacramental experience of Catholicism, and Christian spirituality depicted in human relationships with Christ. The course further highlights issues common to major writers across the centuries, e.g., problems of evil and sinfulness, anguish over personal salvation, the beauty and goodness of God's creation, the unconditional love of God. To accomplish these aims, the course introduces students to poets like John Donne, George Herbert, and Gerard Manley Hopkins; narrative artists like Graham Greene, Flannery O'Connor, and Ron Hansen; dramatists like Thomas Bolt and T.S. Elliot; spiritual autobiographers like Thomas Merton and Therese of Lisieux. Prerequisites: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150. (LTII)
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to the foundations of screenwriting, including generating ideas, finding a subject, building characters, developing a plot through a beginning, a confrontation, and a resolution, designing individual scenes to advance the story, building momentum for an audience, and achieving a convincing climax. The primary purpose of the course is the production of a complete written script that fulfills the specialized needs of this particular writing genre. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines rhetorical history and theory as it started in classical Greece, developed in ancient Rome, was modified in medieval times, and matured into modern times. The use of rhetoric as a practical force, as a base in the academic tradition, as part of modern media (including the work of Walter J. Ong), and as a necessary part of pedagogy in teaching is reviewed in its methods and concepts as a valuable principle in human communication. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150. (LTII)
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the teaching of writing, both in theory and in practice, by considering an array of approaches, methods, and techniques that inform current research on best practices in composition pedagogy. An intensive, upper-division seminar that focuses on techniques needed by secondary-school teachers of English, topics may include designing writing assignments, the role of reading in writing, teachers' comments and feedback, and assessment. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150; junior, senior or graduate standing; or department approval.
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3.00 Credits
Intensive course in the writing of reports usual in business, institutions and government. Includes research, layout and graphics. One original project required. Prerequisite: EN 1110/1120, or EN 1140, or EN 1150.
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