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3.00 Credits
An in-depth treatment of the picture storybook, from Beatrix Potter to contemporaries such as Arnold Lobel and Maurice Sendak. Primary concerns include format, the complementarity of picture and print, the meanings communicated through this "picture language," and the imageas a visual text read by the child. Prerequisite: ENG 2260 or ENG 2270. Highly recommended: ENG 1310, ENG 2411, and ENG 2412. Spring, even years.
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3.00 Credits
Folk tales constitute "the bare bones of narrative"; this course examines that narrative's oralliterary, cultural, folkloric, historical, psychological, archetypal, and philosophical components, as well as tale variants-from different cultures or as adapted to other literary genres such as the short story and poetry. Both world tales and "Household Tales" of the Brothers Grimm arestudied. Prerequisite: ENG 2260 or ENG 2270. Highly recommended: ENG 1310. Fall.
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3.00 Credits
Designed to investigate the systematic nature of English grammar, this course draws from both structural and transformational linguistics. It analyzes sentence structure-how to identify, expand, and transform the basic sentence patterns; it studies the assorted forms and functions of words, phrases, and clauses; and it examines the relationship between grammar and rhetoric, particularly by way of cohesion, rhythm, emphasis, and punctuation. This course also considers the evolution of English grammar. Prerequisite: ENG 1061. Highly recommended: ENG 2010. Fall.
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3.00 Credits
With such possible topics as the fantastic and children's series books, this course offers a variety of subjects from children's literature for further exploration and study. The topic is announced at registration. Students may take this course more than once, but only one offering can count as an elective within the concentration. Prerequisite: ENG 2260 or ENG 2270. Highly recommended: ENG 1310, ENG 2411, ENG 2412. Spring, even years.
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3.00 Credits
This course enables faculty and students to explore a subject that is treated only briefly, or not at all, in other English courses. The subject of the course is announced at registration. Students may take this course several times, but they may use it only once to meet an elective within a concentration. Prerequisite: ENG 2260 or ENG 2270. Highly recommended: ENG 1310. Periodically.
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3.00 Credits
This course enables faculty and students to explore diverse topics in the art and craft of writing, including writing and style, advanced argumentation, and advanced poetry writing. The content of the course is announced at registration. Students may take the course more than once, and additional credits may be applied toward completion of the writing minor when course content is substantially different. Prerequisites: English 1061. Highly recommended: at least one WI course.
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1.00 - 12.00 Credits
See section on Individualized Educational Experiences. Permission of department chair required. Open to junior Literature and Communication majors only. Signed contract required at time of registration.
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3.00 Credits
Registration by permission of department chair only. Signed contract required at time of registration. Credits to be arranged.
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3.00 Credits
An advanced course in writing original poetry, short stories, or creative non-fiction, this offering is intended for students with a demonstrated competency in writing, as well as a knowledge of basic elements of literature. Interested students must submit a writing sample to the instructor. Prerequisite: at least junior standing and permission of instructor. Periodically. (Spring 2009).
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3.00 Credits
This senior seminar studies the variety of critical approaches by which accomplished readers interpret, appraise, and appreciate fiction, poetry, and drama. Not only do students consider the nature and purpose of literary criticism, but they also analyze and apply the principles that define such approaches as formalism, historicism, reader-response criticism, mimeticism, and intertextualism. Prerequisite: ENG 1310 and ENG 2260 or ENG 2270. Fall.
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