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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduced students to the basic concepts of linguistics, the study of language, especially as they pertain to literary study. Each unit of the course will introduce specific information as well as an application to literature.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the foundational texts, both indigenous and immigrant, that have defined the study of American Ethnic Literature: Native American, African American, Hispanic, Asian, and European. Some attention is given to various minority discourse theories.
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3.00 Credits
This is a multi-topic course designed to explore the issues of gender, race, class, narrative styles and ethnic identities of America's ethnic authors, including texts by contemporary Native American, African American, Hispanic, Caribbean, and Asian writers. Typical topics will be ethnic women writers, the immigrant experience in American Literature, exile and return, and others.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an examination of those African American writers from the 20th and 21st centuries whose creative vision focuses on issues of race in selected fiction, poetry, and non-fiction essays.
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3.00 Credits
Using both the "high" and the popular literature from this period as well as legal documents, essays, and film, students will examine the peculiar phenomenon known as race in America, focusing specifically on how race difference impacts relationships.
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3.00 Credits
This course in 20th century American drama highlights works by playwrights who have shaped modernism and modernity on the American stage. While the course will touch upon the three giants of American modern drama (O'Neill, Williams, Miller), particular attention will be paid (pace Willy Loman) to works by women and people of color. By examining both alternative and canonical discourses, the students will engage in a genealogy of American drama to understand the politics, poetics, and legacy of modernity.
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to help students improve their command of English grammar in order to become more knowledgeable about their language, more accomplished speakers, and more effective writers.
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3.00 Credits
Jews and Race will look at the historical and aesthetic role of Jewish identity in American discourses about race and ethnicity. It will also focus on the relationship between Jews and other racial and ethnic groups in America and the ways in which Jewish American writers and intellectuals have participated in debates about America's changing racial and ethnic map.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the fiction, poetry, and prose of southern Appalachia in order to provide students with an overview of the styles, themes, and genres that Appalachian writers have used to define and represent the culture, history, and landscape of the region. We will also examine how Appalachian literature may be positioned in relation to "mainstream" American literature, southern American literature, and American ethnic literatures.
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3.00 Credits
The Bible and Literature I focuses on texts from the Hebrew Bible, or the Christian Old Testament, and the cultural afterlives of those texts. The biblical texts selected for study will vary from year to year, but recent examples include: the David story from 1 & 2 Samuel and 1 Kings; the expulsion from the Garden of Eden, Genesis 2-4; and the wisdom literature (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Job and certain Psalms). In addition to engaging in an in-depth, critical exploration of the selected books from the Bible, we will also examine many later cultural (i.e., theological, literary, musical, etc.) texts in which the biblical material and/or its themes is taken up and interpreted in various significant ways.
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