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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Hours by arrangement. Prerequisite: Consent of department chair. Signed contract required at time of registration. General Policy Statement: Students write critical and/or research papers in all English Department courses. NOTE: Literature courses are designated by an "(L)" after the course title.
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1.00 Credits
Students whose test scores indicate underdeveloped writing skills must enroll in this course. Through close study of their own writing and the writing of others, these students learn the essentials of writing, particularly grammar and usage, sentence structure, punctuation, and mechanics. Credit for this course does not count toward diploma requirements. Concurrent enrollment in ENG 1010 is required. Every semester.
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3.00 Credits
This course asks students to consider and apply the variety of formal strategies by which accomplished readers interpret, appraise, and appreciate fiction, poetry, and drama. Literature majors should complete this course their first year. Prerequisite: EDU 0030, ENG 0040/ENG 1010, or equivalents. Every semester.
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3.00 Credits
Primarily concerned with writing that explains or elaborates and writing that persuades, this course builds upon the foundation laid by ENG 1061. Further emphasis is given grammar and mechanics, development and style, with particular attention paid the skills of critical thinking and the strategies of persuasion. Literature majors must complete this course their first or second year. Prerequisite: ENG 1061. Spring. Fall, even years.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to creative writing, this course is designed for the beginning writer or student interested in learning about writing original poetry, short stories, or creative non-fiction. Prerequisite: ENG 1061. Periodically, Spring 2010.
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3.00 Credits
This course investigates salient texts from a variety of different cultures, most of which are related to one another by origin or influence. The booklist changes each time the course is offered, and texts are chosen for the contributions they can make to students' knowledge of world literature and ability to contextualize the events, texts, and persons of today's world. Recent selections have included Plato's Symposium, the Bhagavad Gita, the Koran, Poems of Rumi, and Dante'sParadiso. Prerequisite: ENG 1061. Highly recommended: ENG 1310. Fall, even years.
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3.00 Credits
In the novels, poetry, and essays read for this course, the major religious traditions confront modernity. Among the changes to which these texts respond are: the voyages of exploration and discovery, the religious warfare that shook Europe in the seventeenth century, the Enlightenment and its violent triumph in the French Revolution, and the modern experience of world war. Prerequisite: ENG 1061. Highly recommended: ENG 1310. Spring, odd years.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a representative sampling of biblical, classical, medieval, Renaissance, and modern modes of thought, feeling, and expression. Reading includes examples from the Bible, classical epic and tragedy, medieval allegory or romance, Shakespeare, satire, and the nineteenth century novel. Prerequisite: EDU 0030 or equivalent, ENG 1061, and at least sophomore standing. Every semester.
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3.00 Credits
This course is available to new students with considerable accomplishments in high school and on college entrance exams. It is a study of readings comparable to those in ENG 2260 and involves frequent and significant writing about those readings. Upon successfully completing this course, students are exempted from ENG 1061. Prerequisite: invitation from department chair. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the major authors, genres, and motifs of English literature from its inception to the end of the neoclassical period. A wide range of materials is presented, from the development of the English language and its Anglo-Saxon base to masterfully crafted rhymed couplets, from the Canterbury pilgrims to Dr. Faustus, from the Red Crosse Knight and Oroonoko to Satan and a cat named Jeoffry, from Grendel to Gulliver. Prerequisite: ENG 1061. Highly recommended: ENG 1310. Fall.
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