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2.00 - 4.00 Credits
Designed to provide majors with grounding in their careers, language and literature Internships are available in a number of specializations, where students work with succesful mentors at work sites: Legal Internships in courts and law firms, Publishing Internships in publishing house, and cultural Internships in Cultural institutions. Offered every semester. Prerequisite: EMS, and approval of Chair.
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4.00 Credits
This field experience "opens the text" and exposes students to sites and real world referents for literary texts. By examining and documenting aspects of literary contents, students learn to " demistify " books and gain experiential understanding of the writers' books and gain experimental understanding of the writers' world and see how the world becomes transformed into literature. Prerequisite: EMS.
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2.00 - 12.00 Credits
The internship in peer tutoring deals with the methodology and content of peer tutoring in language arts. Units include communiction skills for language arts tutoring the tutoring cycle, record-keeping, referrals, evaluating writing, the use of computers in tutoring, small group tutoring, long-range and short-range goals, recources for language arts tutoring. As part of the internship, students must spend six hours weekly in the Language House. Offered every semester. Prerequisite: EMS
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4.00 Credits
This course deals with contemporary issues of importance to those contemplating a profession in the field of educa- tion. It places special emphasis on improvement of reading, writing, and listening skills, making use of timely pro- fessional journal articles as a text. Topics include Writing Across the Curriculum, Standards and Assessment, Classroom Management and Initiation into Professional Life. Reading and discussion of the articles, analysis of grammatical structure, the development of writing skills for the classroom and for achieving success on State exams, and improvement of public speaking to be a successful public educator will be stressed. This course may be required as a condition of field placement in the School of Education. Offered every spring.
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4.00 Credits
The Jewish-Christian Bible, Greek epic and drama, and classics such as Dante's Divine Comedy have profoundly influenced European-American literature, including U.S. multicultural writers such as Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, and William Faulkner. This course examines how these classics shaped later culture through the glorification and criticism of war, male supremacy, and slavery, through ideas of fate, individual and universal salvation, etc. Readings may include selections from the King James version of the Bible, Homer, Aeschylus and/or Sophocles, Dante, and modern authors who have drawn on these sources. For majors, this course fulfills the Writing in the disciplines requirement. Offered periodically.
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4.00 Credits
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4.00 Credits
20th Century Literature Colonialism & Post- Colonialism. This course explores selected works of U.S. and British literature in the context of 20th Century history: imperialism, colonialism, and postcolonialism - "The Empire" and "The Empire Strikes Back." We shall read writing from the first half of the century - by such authors as Joseph Conrad, Gertrude Stein, Wilfred Owen, T.S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf - and its development and critique in more recent works by writers such as George Lamming, Doris Lessing, Joseph Heller, John Sayles, Jamaica Kincaid, and Zadie Smith. Offered annually. Prerequisite: EMS
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4.00 Credits
The art of drama is one of the legacies of Greece to the Western culture. In this course, the development of Greek tragedy and comedy is discussed; plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euriphides and Aristophanes are read, as well as 20th Century dramas based on these 5th Century works. Some attention is also given to the criticism of Greek tragedy by Plato and Aristotle. Offered periodically.
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4.00 Credits
This course aims to introduce students of widely differing backgrounds and academic preparation to Greek mythology. In addition to Homer's Odyssey which is read in its entirety, students read Hesiod's Theogony and other original source materials. The acquisition of knowledge of the myths paves the way for discussion of the following topics, among others: psychoanalytic and other interpretations of Greek myth, recurrent themes in myth, the relationship between myth and folktale, the transformation of myth by writers and artists, and the role of myth in a scientific and technological society. Offered annually. Prerequisite: EMS
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4.00 Credits
Selected plays by Shakespeare will be read and examined critically through discussion of these works and of the historical concept of the Elizabethan theater and world view. The focus will also be on the richness and variety of Shakespearean language and thought. Study includes close reading of some well known Shakespearean tragedies and comedies as well as viewing plays on film. Offered once every two years. Prerequisite: EMS
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