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3.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
Learning Through Composing. Three semester hours. Examines to what extent and how composing influences learning and knowledge, how the nature of knowledge is affected by composing and the kinds of knowledge transformations that occur through composing. Includes attention to uses of writing for learning across the curriculum.%
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3.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
History and Theory of Rhetoric. Three semester hours. A study of the major theories and theorists of rhetoric from classical times to the twentieth century. Emphasis varies from semester to semester. Attention is given to such theorists as Aristotle, Sophists, Plato, Cicero, Quintilian, Perelman, Richards, Weaver, and Moffett. May be repeated for credit when the emphasis changes.%
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3.00 Credits
Early American Literature. Three semester hours. This course examines the rise of American narrative through the nation's colonial and early national periods, expecially in British North America between 1620 and 1820. Topics for consideration could include exploration of how such narratives as the memoir, captivity narrative, sermon, and novel fostered the invention and formation of Americanness and American literature, examination of the fundamental ideas, myths, and intellectual concepts that still influence the ways in which Americans think about themselves and their societies and consideration of how anxieties about race, class, gender, and religion informed the creation of literary texts in early America.%
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3.00 Credits
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3.00 - 6.00 Credits
Thesis. Three to six semester hours. Required of candidates seeking the 30-hour Masters. Graded on a satisfactory (S) or unsatisfactory (U) basis.%
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3.00 Credits
American Literature in Transition: From Civil to World Wars. Three semester hours. This course investigates the ways in which th literature of the United States relfected the country's rapid political, industrial, economic, and social transformatins between 1865 and 1914. Topics for discussion could include the rise of literary realism, the significance of American regional writing, a growing emphasis on vernacular traditions, the impact of immigration the phenomenon of the New Woman and the uses of naturalistic writing to capture America's ever-changing urban landscape.%
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3.00 Credits
Approaches to Critical Theory. Three semester hours. A study of major trends in critical theory from Plato and Aristotle to the present. Primary focus is on various approaches to analyzing literature, including formalist, psychological, Marxist, structuralist, feminist, reader-response, and new historicism.%
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3.00 Credits
American Modernities. Three semester hours. Studies in various aspects of the period in American writing from the turn of the centruy to the Second World War. Special emphasis will be placed on the multifaceted and experimental nature of American literary modernism and the ways in which it was informend by the various social and art movements during this period. Subjects for analysis could include writings of the Lost Generation, the war novel, the influence of the visual arts on written texts, proletarian writing, the growing hybridity of generic form and literary representations of the Jazz Age as well as the Great Depression.%
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