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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
For students studying in a foreign country through the auspices of Raymond Walters College. BoK: LT., DC. Credit Level: U. Credit Hrs: 1.00-6.00
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
An individualized program in reading and/or research developed jointly by the student and the instructor, subject to instructor approval.
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2.00 Credits
This course is restricted to students who have completed Engl 102 or 112 under quarters or Engl 1902 under semesters. The course emphasizes critical reading and writing, advanced research and argument skills, and rhetorical understanding of language as it is used in different discourse communities.
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3.00 Credits
This course prepares students to succeed in courses in literary and cultural studies. Students will be introduced to the kinds of texts and the critical vocabularies used in the fields of literary and cultural studies. This writing-intensive course will require students to draft, develop, and revise analyses of a range of texts. Students will integrate appropriate research materials into their own writing so as to demonstrate their understanding of the conventions, terminology, and research methodologies specific to literary and cultural studies.
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3.00 Credits
This course prepares qualified undergraduate students to tutor in the McMicken Writing Center.
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3.00 Credits
The course Early American Fiction contains as its principal texts those short stories and novels written by American authors and published mainly between the close of the American Revolution (1783) and the end of the Civil War (1865). The choice of authors studied will vary with instructor, and may include Susannah Haswell Rowson, William Hill Brown, Hugh Henry Brackenbridge, Hannah Foster, Charles Brockden Brown, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville and others.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the writing of American realists and naturalists as well as other forms of literary expression in the period.
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3.00 Credits
This course, the first offering in the Creative Writing Fiction Track of the English major, introduces and develops aspects of the writing of fiction. Students read and analyze a diverse selection of published fiction, using these works as models for their own writing.
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3.00 Credits
The literature of early America is populated by characters (discoverers, explorers, early settlers, Founding Fathers, natives, and slaves) and events (the voyages of Columbus, the founding of Jamestown, the landing of the Pilgrims, the Salem witch trials, the signing of the Declaration, and the War of 1812) that have assumed a seminal and symbolic significance in the American imagination and in American history and literature. The course features many genres of literature not ordinarily subjects of study, including promotional and travel literature, sermons, memoirs, and essays, as well as the more familiar forms of the short story, poetry, and the novel. Major figures include Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Brockden Brown, and Washington Irving.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the distinct American poetic traditions that arose in the nineteenth century and underlie the practice of poetry in the present, and to the major figures who contributed to that tradition and their trademark poetic styles. The choice of poets studied will vary with instructor, and may include major poets such as Whitman, Dickinson, Emerson, and Poe, minor poets such as William Cullen Bryant and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and others.
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