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3.00 Credits
The Bible and Literature II focuses on texts from the New 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 Gospels, the Pauline epistles, and Revelation. 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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3.00 Credits
Taught in English. This is an advanced course in film studies. Topics include national and post-national cinemas, genres, film movements, and film theory. The course consists of film screenings, readings in film theory, and discussions of films and texts. May be repeated.
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3.00 Credits
This course, required for English majors in the Rhetoric and Professional writing track, offers a common foundation for understanding, theorizing, and applying rhetorical principles and for developing advanced writing skills.
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3.00 Credits
Students will improve and heighten their ability to observe and interpret the language that is used in various disciplines, professions, and "communities," whether formally or informally structured. As a secondary goal, students will also consider ways in which they might effectively and responsibly participate in the language of a given social/professional domain. Students will look at conventions of language in a variety of discourse communities (i.e. science/medicine, the law, business/public relations/advertising, government, and the public sphere). This course may revolve around a theme or specific topic (e.g. health, environment, food) and may include a service-learning component.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (c. 1596) in historical perspective. It explores the place of the Jews in premodern Christian European society and the backdrop against which Shakespeare composed his play. A close reading and in-depth study of the play serves as a vehicle for examining the social, economic, and political status of the Jews in the early modern period. Film versions of Merchant of Venice will be used to illustrate the play's iconic status in Western theatrical tradition and raise questions about the complexity of Jewish stereotypes, artistic representation, and historical reconstruction.
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3.00 Credits
The term "Rhetoric" has come to have a culturally accepted history, theory, and culture, one which spans only the Western world, begins with Aristotle, ends with current political applications, and is populated and theorized primarily by men. This course seeks to explore and re-envision rhetoric as it is created, understood, and used by non-traditional sources: women, non-Western thinkers, and those without "cultural capital." This course may include a service learning component and it may use a rhetorical concept or particular alternative rhetoric (e.g. feminist) as its theme.
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3.00 Credits
Students will be introduced to the idea of research as inquiry and as a knowledge making enterprise. By examining a variety of research methods and methodologies, students will learn how researchers develop an idea, plan a research project, go about gathering data (whatever "data" may be), perform analysis, and present their work. The course builds on the understanding that decisions about study design and the inclusion/exclusion of information impact the reception and interpretation of the reseach as knowledge.
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3.00 Credits
This course will take up special topics current and relevant to the practice of professional writing, but not covered in other courses. Students will explore, both theoretically and practically, the interrelation of written, oral, graphic, and digital communication within technical rhetorical contexts based on a common topic or theme.
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3.00 Credits
Students will learn to use the digital tools of the 21st century to publish professional documents for multiple purposes and audiences. Projects include writing, design, and production of web materials, flyers, brochures, presentations, and marketing materials. Projects may be client focused.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, students will learn to use the digital tools of the 21st century to publish professional documents for multiple purposes and audiences. Projects include the design and production of flyers, brochures, presentations, and marketing materials. This course is print focused, and projects may also be client focused.
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