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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Major developments of American literature, culture, and thought from the pre-Columbian period to the 19th century. Emphasis is on American Indian oral literature, European visions, the formation of an Anglo-American literary tradition, the Enlightenment, and the American Revolution. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Fall, alternate years, beginning 2000.
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3.00 Credits
Examines major developments in American romanticism, realism, and naturalism in the context of 19th-century American culture. Emphasis on such writers as Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, Douglass, Stowe, Twain, James, Howells, "local color" authors, Chopin, Crane,and Dreiser. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
Studies modern and contemporary texts by U.S. writers, with an emphasis on historical, aesthetic, and critical perspectives that link the texts to major movements such as Naturalism, Realism, and Postmodernism. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Every third semester.
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on a particular theme, period, movement, or genre. Emphasis may be aesthetic, historical, or cultural. May be repeated as topics change. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Every third semester.
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3.00 Credits
Examines literary traditions of African American cultural practitioners, including relations between oral and literary works, performance and reading, tradition and innovation. Texts by Black writers from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries are read in conversation with those from the contemporary moment. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Annually.
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3.00 Credits
Explores American Transcendentalism. Intensive reading and discussion of such writers as Emerson, Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Whitman. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the major American Indian writers of the 20th century; emphasizes the American Indian literary renaissance. Historical, cultural, and aesthetic contexts are explored. Authors include Momaday, Silko, Welch, Erdrich, Hogan, and Rose. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
Examines literature from Europe, with an emphasis on specific topics such as the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and Modernism. Authors may include Dante, Petrarch, Cervantes, Diderot, Voltaire, Proust, Mann, Kafka, Pirandello, Beckett, Bachmann, Duras, and Tolstoy. May be repeated as topics change. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Annually.
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3.00 Credits
Examines texts from the Ancient World: Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. May be repeated as topics change. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Every third Spring.
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3.00 Credits
Compares literatures such as those of Canada, the United States, and Central and South America. Attention to topics such as the writer's voice, interrogation of traditions, the constructions of literary geography. May be repeated as topics change. Prerequisites: ITW 101 and one 200-level English course. Alternate years.
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