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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Continuing the introduction begun in ENG 2271, this course spans the Romantic, Victorian, modern, and contemporary periods. Again, its scope is broad: from Songs of Innocence to A Room of One's Own, from Manfred to Kurtz, Frankenstein's monster to Godot, from Heathcliffand Aurora Leigh to J. Alfred Prufrock and Stephen Dedalus, from the early Romantic poets' Neoplatonism to the somber mood and modes following the cataclysmic First World War. Prerequisite: ENG 1061. Highly recommended: ENG 1310. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the formal and philosophical features of American literature through the Civil War, particularly those features that resulted from the exhilarating yet complex, even contradictory, new American character. Reading includes fiction, poetry, and essays that characterize and illustrate colonial, Romantic, and Civil War era literary endeavor. Prerequisite: ENG 1061. Highly recommended: ENG 1310. Fall.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the formal and philosophical features of American literature from the Civil War to the present, particularly those features wrought by the Civil War, by urbanization, by advances in science and psychology, and by the two world wars. Reading includes fiction, poetry, and drama that characterize and illustrate literary regionalism, realism, naturalism, and modernism-and that begin to characterize contemporary American literature by, and against, those traditions. Prerequisite: ENG 1061. Highly recommended: ENG 1310. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
A professional literature for children barely existed before the nineteenth century. This course focuses on such writers as Carroll, Lear, Alcott, Stevenson, and Andersen, with some attention given their few predecessors, their contemporaries, and the twentieth century writers who followed them. Prerequisite: ENG 1061 and at least sophomore standing. Highly recommended: ENG 1310. Fall.
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3.00 Credits
Including Beatrix Potter, A. A. Milne, Kenneth Grahame, J. M. Barrie, Maurice Sendak, and a variety of other authors, this course examines twentieth century trends in children's literature. Particular focus is given the development of books designed exclusively for children, the use of fantasy as a counterpane to reality, and the issues evolving from realistic fiction for children. Prerequisite: ENG 1061 and at least sophomore standing. Highly recommended: ENG 1310. Spring.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Freshmen and sophomores do independent and substantial scholarly or creative work. They should decide upon the goals, scope, and method of their project with a cooperating instructor. They must then have their project approved in writing by both the instructor and the department chair before registering for the course. Signed contract required at time of registration.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the writing demanded of many liberal arts graduates in their work. Students practice drafting, revising, and editing a variety of documents-including letters, procedures, reports, evaluations, and proposals-for audiences and purposes related to students'prospective careers in such fields as publishing, the fine arts, the social and natural sciences, history, mathematics, and literature and language. The course emphasizes clarity, concision, and correctness as qualities of effective style. Students use computers as tools for writing, Prerequisite: ENG 1061. Highly recommended: ENG 2010. Fall, odd years.
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3.00 Credits
Students practice the art of writing non-fiction that interests and entertains as it informs the reader. After writing short autobiographical pieces and character sketches, students concentrate on topics of their choice. For example, they may write about personal experiences or family histories, interesting individuals, or communities, nature or the environment, or other topics from their major fields of study or prospective careers. While drafting, revising, and editing their work, students apply fundamental strategies for writing effective narration and description. Prerequisite: ENG 1061 recommended: ENG 2010. Periodically. Spring 2011.
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3.00 Credits
For Literature majors and others, who learn how to help college students through the process of writing essays and research papers and to assist English department faculty in teaching writing courses and evaluating student writing.
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3.00 Credits
This course studies a selection of important texts of the epic tradition, from its ancient beginnings (including Homer) to its rebirth as an English poetic form. Issues considered may include translation, influence, orality and literacy, and the claims of poetry on the epic scale. Prerequisite: ENG 2260 or equivalent*. Highly recommended: ENG 1310, ENG 2161, and ENG 2162. Fall, odd years.
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