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3.00 Credits
American Jewish Fiction analyzes the shifting grounds of Jewish American Literature and the quandary of Jewish American writers, who manifestly draw from their Jewish ethnic experience, and at the same time find themselves deeply enmeshed in the diverse experiences of their mainstream American counterparts. Potential focuses for the course include Jews, race, and ethnicity; Jewish writers and gender; Jewish literature and the American canon; and the links between Jewish American fiction and film. This is a cross-listed course (JUDC2059/ENGL2059).
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An online course that explores classic and contemporary works of children's fantasy, with discussion of the values and lessons they convey. Topics include the historical meaning and influence of early rhymes and tales on societies that created them and contemporary social issues related to children's literature.
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The course focuses on major fictional texts, authors and movements that characterize African literature from colonial and postcolonial periods. It will also examine the literary representation of tradition and modernity, religion and education, gender and class, as major themes and motives in African fiction.
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The course focuses on major dramatic texts, playwrights and forms of theater specific to drama in modern African literature. It will also examine the literary motives and themes represented in this literary genre.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction for non-majors to the technical language, themes and genres that structure film as a cultural product and as a mode of visual and verbal story-telling. Topics include significant genres (westerns, cult films, adaptations, animation, film noir), issues (representations of gender, class, race, subcultures), or artists (Coen Brothers, Ford, Scorese, Rita Coolidge).Prereq:15Engl02. BoK:LT
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This course examines a distinctive period of creativity and innovation in U.S. filmmaking occasioned by a cluster of historical forces. Responding to a string of big-budget failures under the old studio system, producers began to support young, marginal filmmakers who rebelled against cinematic and social mores and transformed the cinema from a producer's medium to a director's medium. Key texts will include Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Mike Nichols' The Graduate (1967), John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy (1969), Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972), Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974), and Robert Altman's Nashville (1975). Students will interact with this material using digital capture and video editing techniques to create presentations animated by excerpts (film clips) of various films.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the varieties, strategies, and ethics of public discourse. After reviewing foundational rhetorical and discursive concepts, students learn to use these concepts to analyze and produce discourse that performs civic work, whether on behalf of a segment of the public or for nonprofit organizations.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the distinctive character of the major literary genres (drama, poetry, prose) with close attention to the techniques of interpretation and the fundamentals of literary theory.
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3.00 Credits
A study of selected books of the Old Testament; analysis of the literary and philosophical importance of these books; written essays to document the students' understanding of the literature.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the literature of the New Testament, with particular attention to literary genres and general attention to comparative ancient and modern literature. The significance of historical, political, sociological, and religious influences on writing and interpreting literature will be examined. Some attention to applicability of New Testament literature to contemporary issues.
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