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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. A study of the American novel from its beginning to the end of the 19th century. Emphasis on theme, technique, and cultural backgrounds of the novels. ( LA, AH2) Prerequisites: COMP 100; LITR 100 or LITR 150.
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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. Study of American fiction from the turn of the century to World War II. ( LA, AH2) Prerequisites: COMP 100; LITR 100 or LITR 150.
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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. Study of American fiction from World War II to the present. Prerequisites: COMP 100; LITR 100 or LITR 150. ( LA, AH2)
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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. Study of plays from 1930 through the 90s. Includes works by Odets, Steinbeck, Connelly, Anderson, MacLeish, Kaufman, Sherwood, O'Neill, Miller, Williams, and Albee. (LA, AH2) Prerequisites: COMP 100; LITR 100 or LITR 150.
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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. Reading and discussion of contemporary poetry, with consideration of the function of poets in the contemporary scene. Prerequisites: COMP 100; LITR 100 or LITR 150. ( LA, AH2) ALIT 240 The American Renaissance 3 s.h.
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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. A study of Realism in works by Twain, Howells, and James. Includes the generation of Crane, Norris, and London, and the rise of the naturalistic novel. ( LA, AH2) Prerequisites: COMP 100; LITR 100 or LITR 150.
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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. This course will introduce a number of writers who experienced the Civil War. Some were well known before the war began: Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Abraham Lincoln. Some became significant because of the war: Mary Chestnut, Generals Sherman and Grant, and Ambrose Bierce. Readings will also look at certain historical events in order to understand how the war touched so many kinds of writers: women, African Americans, poets, novelists, politicians, and soldiers from the North and South. Prerequisites: COMP 100; LITR 100 or LITR 150. ( LA)
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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. A study of works by black American writers since 1890. The forms studied will include novels, short stories, plays, and poems. Cross-listed as ALS 250. ( LA, AH2) Prerequisites: COMP 100; LITR 100 or LITR 150; or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. A consideration of Irish-American literature in all genres. Covers the works of James T. Farrell, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O'Neill, Mary McCarthy, Galway Kinnell, Robert Kelly, and others. Prerequisites: COMP 100; LITR 100 or LITR 150. ( LA, AH2)
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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. Analysis of James's theses and methods through close study of selected short stories and novels. Investigation of recent critical interpretations of these works. ( LA) Prerequisites: COMP 100; LITR 100 or LITR 150.
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