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4.00 Credits
This course deals with autobiography as a form of personal expression. It explores a major compulsion among writers to look back on their growth and examines the need to communicate the historic vision to the next generation. The interaction between the inner and the outer world, between the quest for personal freedom and the demands for social conformity provides for a vigorous examination of the process of individual growth. Interpretive essays and a research paper are required. The course stresses training in quotation, citation, and research methods. Offered each year.. Prerequisite: EC II placement.
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4.00 Credits
This lecture/discussion course examines literary texts concerning the situation of the outsider - the individual under different forms of isolation from society - in exile, loneliness, marginality, estrangement. Texts will include background essays, poems, novels, stories. Authors range from Ibsen to Sexton and include Baldwin, Camus, Wright, Rhys, Chopin, and Lawrence. Essays, journals and a research paper are required. Offered periodically. Prerequisite: ECII placement. .
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion on themes and subjects which reject popular "Indian" stereotypes and present customs, mythologies, and contemporary statements which illuminate concerns about lands, communal existence, concepts of freedom in Native American literature. Students will concentrate on reading, writing, and research techniques, using themes drawn from the whole body of Native American expression. Offered each year. Prerequisite: EC II placement.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of narratives written by slaves concerning their experiences under slavery. Background readings introduce students to conditions described in narratives written by Douglass, Brent, Washington, among others. Interpretive essays and a research paper required. Offered periodically. Prerequisite: EC II placement.
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4.00 Credits
Autobiographies of African-Americans studied from the perspective of literary form, personality development, and cultural identity. Ranging from the slave narrative to modern autobiographical expressions: poems, journals, letters,stories. Interpretive essays and a research paper required. Offered periodically. Prerequisite: EC II placement.
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4.00 Credits
Historically, poems, short stories, novels and plays have frequently focused on the tangled relationships of men and women. Currently, men and women around the world are examining their roles and relationships. Young people, especially, are struggling to discover how they want to relate to, live with, and love each other. Students in the course will read and write in an attempt to better understand various solutions to these age-old problems. Offered periodically. Prerequisite: ECII placement.
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4.00 Credits
A study of representative novels by contemporary African-American writers ranging from Wright to Naylor. Reference will be made to parallel representation of similar themes in Black poetry and autobiographical literature. The literary works will be related to major historical events and social change in the African-American community. Interpretive essays and a research paper are required. Offered periodically. Prerequisite: EC II placement.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines some of the archetypical myths found in various cultures and traces the content and function of folklore and mythology and their incorporation into formal works of literature. Reference to similarities, origins, and significances. Critical essays and a research paper required. Offered periodically. Prerequisite: ECII placement.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the shifting perspective of Shakespeare's comic vision. The early treatment of farce, interspersed with occasional romantic touches, gives way to the sunny world of the romantic comedies where love is the subject of both joy and laughter. Consideration of the more sober overtones when laughter becomes tinged with bitternes . Interpretive essays and a research paper required. Offered periodically. Prerequisite: ECII placement.
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4.00 Credits
This lecture/discussion course focuses on developing students' abilities to understand, analyze and write about literature of natural scientists and other acclaimed authors. Included are works by Lewis Thomas, Henry David Thoreau, Carl Sagan, Paul Theroux, Isaac Asimov, and Rachel Carson. Interpretive essays and a term paper are required. Offered Periodically. Prerequisite: ECII placement or equivalent
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