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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Students examine how literary texts pose moral questions and offer possible answers; students assess the value of engaging ethical issues through the reading and discussion of literary fiction.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introductory study of the issues raised by and about drama, focusing on texts from many different nations and time periods.
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3.00 Credits
Theatre in the US is always already in a state of crisis, as proclamations of theatre's imminent death, past demise, or future dismay recur. Whether the theatre is still dying, theatremakers continue to produce vibrant and vital work. This course will familiarize students with contemporary playwriting from 2000 to the present. Texts and approaches to contemporary drama will be discussed and analyzed to probe the aesthetic, cultural, social, political, and performative issues raised by the theatre of today. We will explore the ways in which theater and performance have contributed to both the construction and deconstruction of an American subjectivity and the identity of American drama. Students will gain practice in how to read plays, how to see plays in performance and finally, how to write about plays in our current moment.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys basic genres of folklore study as informed by primary and secondary readings in folkloristics and anthropology. The course will also introduce students to proverbs and folk speech, children's lore and games, riddles, magic, charms and incantations, witchcraft, ritual, seasonal festivals, folk drama, myth, oral epic and ballads, and the collection of folklore items from living informants.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to oral folktale from around the world. Through both hearing performances of folktales as well as reading them, students will learn the history and methods of folktale scholarship, how folktales were collected, and how performances might be represented in print.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the concept of the legend including contemporary and urban legend. Narratives involving horrors, ghosts, hauntings, and other historical legends will be examined as well as the multi-disciplinary approaches to these narratives. Students will write a paper on some aspect of the subject, which could be a collection of legends that they themselves make.
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3.00 Credits
This survey of contemporary critical theory introduces students to major schools and movements in the contemporary period that have shaped the study of literature and culture, such as New Criticism, Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Deconstruction, Feminist Theory, Psychoanalysis, Marxism, New Historicism, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Race Studies, and Queer Theory.
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3.00 Credits
Examines theoretical approaches to specific expressions of popular or mass culture, such as film, written text, and other visual media, or a particular tradition of cultural analysis.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to Critical Race Theory will introduce students to the central principles of the interdisciplinary field of critical race theory and its applications to literary and cultural studies. Students in this course will gain familiarity with a number of discourses of race, ethnicity, and racialization in the Anglophone world and learn how to apply critical race theory to their own analysis of texts.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines specialized topics or themes relating to critical theory. Sections may focus on major theoretical schools or movements, key questions or debates taken up by critical theorists, or approaches to studying particular texts, authors, periods, and so on. Please see instructor for specific details.
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