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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The first aim of this class is to build the vocabulary and knowledge students need to read like writers. The second aim of this class is to examine closely some of the structural possibilities for creative nonfiction writing. Students will do extensive reading of both creative nonfiction and analysis of creative nonfiction. Writing assignments may include imitations of others' writing and analyses of one's own writing.
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3.00 Credits
American women writers before 1900 wrote in a wide range of styles and addressed a wide range of themes, including especially gender politics, slavery and racism, work and labor, and religion. Genres will include poetry, fiction, drama, autobiography, manifesto, slave narrative, and other nonfiction.
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3.00 Credits
American women writers since 1900 have written in a wide range of styles and genres, and have addressed a wide range of social and political issues. Works will include poetry, fiction, drama, autobiography, and other nonfiction. Themes will include gender, race, class, sexuality, and their intersections in works by American women writers.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the relationships between medicine and literature. We will read, discuss, and interpret a wide variety of literature from different canonical periods to better understand how the "medical arts" developed historically into what we now consider the "science of medicine." Along the way we will look at how medical issues inevitably involve historically specific cultural biases and, at times, disguise these biases in the supposedly neutral terms of an empirical discourse. Additionally, we will explore social and cultural issues related to the profession of medicine, including power dynamics in the doctor-patient relationship, how doctors and patients define health similarly and differently, and the impact of gender on a doctor's practice of medicine, as well as on the patient's medical experience.
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3.00 Credits
This team-taught interdisciplinary course combines literature, film and biology for study by students in all disciplines, and includes a place-as-text trip to the South Carolina Low Country and Savannah, Georgia regions. It focuses on the culture and ecology of the area from Charleston to Hilton Head, South Carolina, by examining the region through selected works and the life of popular author Pat Conroy. It will involve study of the ecology and current environmental concerns of the Low Country and Savannah regions, as well as examinations of its history and architecture. We will also discuss media and film interest in and influence on the area and will examine excerpts from other more academically significant authors whose fiction employs the region as setting. Opportunities for community service on site will be available.
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3.00 Credits
This course will employ fiction, non-fiction, and film to contextualize and illustrate the societal challenges of youth abuse. As a result, students will gain knowledge of and be able to articulate, verbally and in writing, information about the various forms of abuse; the challenges victims face; negative and optimal victim responses to abuse; the social, cultural, economic, and psychological factors associated with abusers' behaviors; the historical background of youth abuse; and contemporary community and organizational methods of dealing with victims and abusers. The class will include presentations by speakers and a service learning trip to an Eastern Kentucky facility for previously abused adolescents.
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3.00 Credits
Race, Ethnicity, and Film will familiarize students with the basic principles of film theory alongside the history of cinematic depictions of race and ethnicity in a chosen genre, historical period, or tradition.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Individual Work is designed to accommodate highly individualized projects in creative or professional writing or cultural and literary studies that students will define in discussions with instructors who would oversee and direct the projects. Such projects should always be designed and approved in advance of enrollment, and they are always subject to the approval of the department.
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3.00 Credits
While the general area of focus for this capstone seminar will vary from instructor to instructor, it will address some advanced topic within the area of English literature and/or literary studies and will function much more like a seminar than is typical of earlier courses in English. Ideally coming near the end of a student's overall program of study in A&S English, this course serves to satisfy the capstone requirement with reference to the General Education baccalaureate competencies for English majors. By the end of this course, students should have developed the skills and knowledge appropriate to wrapping up the degree program in English and to succeeding in the next stages of a career after graduation.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the fiction and nonfiction of several African American authors, paying particular attention to the ways in which their ideas about gender, identity, history, and culture inform their aesthetic projects. The course will examine similarities and differences in the writers' political stances as well as their uses of for in order for students to gain a nuanced and complex understanding of the writers within the tradition of African American literature.
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