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3.00 Credits
Intensive study of rhetorical and structural principles of the larger, more complex documents of business and industry. The course will cover business plans and proposals, grant proposals, reports, and more. A study of critical essays will enhance understanding of rhetorical principles and will inform students about the workings of non-profit organizations.
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6.00 Credits
The seminar begins on the Arcadia campus with study of the historical and philosophic backgrounds and the formal features of select modern English texts. Participants then travel to London. Visits to museums and libraries, and cathedrals and the English locales of works. (old #381) Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Capstone course for senior English majors, exploring contemporary literary theory and cultural criticism. Seminar format, with student reports and an individual term project. Prerequisites: Senior standing or permission of the instructor
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3.00 Credits
A broad introduction to the study of cinema from a historical perspective, with concurrent emphasis on the theoretical developments and modes of appreciation. Topics include: film technology and form, film genres, film and literature, film and theatre, authorship and cinema, narrative forms and interdisciplinary overview of analyzing cinema.
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3.00 Credits
A theoretical/critical exploration of the role of images in discourses of communication. The course examines the interaction of print and image culture from a historical context. Includes readings in the philosophy/semiotics/psychoanalysis of visual representations, the role of technological production and the power of discourse. Pedagogical, cultural and theoretical implications of the image culture are discussed.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the folk origins, the rhetorical features, and the literary influence of the American humor, examining ephemeral publications and works of literature.
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3.00 Credits
Intensive study of the major characteristics of the poetry of Romanticism, Symbolism and Modernism. Insights into the complex connections between Romanticism and Modernism will be gained through reading, analysis and critical writing.
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3.00 Credits
This graduate level seminar uses both prose and dramatic literature, and critical responses to these texts, to explore how Early Modern English society maintained and disseminated standards of conduct and behavior. We will be reading closely to unpack the role that these texts, as well as theater and literature in general, played in this process. We will be paying close attention to three different forms of crime or social deviance: roguery, cross-dressing, and witchcraft.
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3.00 Credits
Chronological examination of some of the best examples of the American short story from its beginnings to the present day. Emphasizes an historical perspective of changing forms and expressions of the genre and tests the validity of contemporary critical methods. Concentrates on prominent works of the following writers: Irving, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, James, Crane, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Porter, Oates and others. (old #438) Prerequisite: one course in American literature, American history, or literary criticism
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