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  • ShareEN 327 - Literature For Young Adults
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  • EN 330: Identity And Imagination in Literary Studies

    4.00 Credits
    Alverno College

    Prereq. CM 212; EN 250 or EN 310 or EN 311; EN 399 completed or concurrent - If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side.. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom. - Rumer Godden This course is designed to engage the student in the complex processes of reading and interpreting literature, to heighten her ability to discover meaning from a variety of literary works and genres, and to deepen her commitment to literary studies as a chosen discipline. The course not only prepares the student for participation in the discipline of literary studies, but it also equips her with the analytical frameworks and the intellectual habits of mind necessary to remain an engaged reader and passionate critic in her personal and professional lives. She examines the nature of being a reader of literature, explores the philosophical underpinnings of literary studies, and thinks deeply and communicates clearly about a variety of complex literary works and genres within their historical, cultural, and biographical contexts. The course also uses the Diagnostic Digital Portfolio (DDP) as a significant assessment tool. The DDP is the primary tool for self-assessment in this course, a process that the student continues as she moves forward in her more advanced English courses, and which culminates in a celebratory self-assessment experience in EN 430. Using the DDP, the student maintains a creative and critical list of works she has read and would like to read so she can be more fully prepared for the literary challenges of her personal and professional lives.
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  • EN 340: Series: Language And Writing

    3.00 Credits
    Alverno College

    Prereq. Integrated Communication Level 4 - This series of courses is for students interested in developing as writers and for students preparing to teach at the middle and secondary school levels. Courses include Creative Writing, Understanding English Grammar: Form and Function, and Facts and Features: Journalism Theory and Practice. In this series, the student studies a variety of rhetorical forms and styles, focusing on increasingly complex patterns of language and structure in literature and nonfiction. She also learns and practices a variety of forms and styles of creative and nonfiction writing.
    ShareEN 340 - Series: Language And Writing
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  • EN 360: Series: Genre Studies

    3.00 Credits
    Alverno College

    Prereq. Integrated Communication Level 4 - Courses in this series explore how and why we categorize literature by types, including testing out the boundaries of familiar classifications in fiction or nonfiction writing, such as poetry or autobiography. Courses include the Contemporary Novel and Autobiography. The student reads historical and contemporary works typically associated with a genre in order to infer characteristics of the type. She compares her experience as a reader with theoretical and applied articles about that type of literature, and builds her own analytical framework to represent the components of the genre being studied. She refines her understanding of a particular genre and expands her understanding of how it has been constructed by professional critics. Her creative writing experiments complement the analytical assignments in the course, providing another way to understand a genre and her own responses to it.
    ShareEN 360 - Series: Genre Studies
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  • EN 370: Series: Literature And Culture

    3.00 Credits
    Alverno College

    Prereq. Integrated Communication Level 4 - This series considers the relationship between literature and its cultural context(s). Courses include American Literature in the 1920s, the African-American Literary Tradition, and Images of the Heroine inWorld Literature. The student in EN 370 courses uses historical, ethnic, and feminist critical frameworks to analyze and respond to literature as an expression of and commentary on culture. In the process, she examines how the values and aesthetic principles of literary works challenge or reinforce her own thinking about life and art through creative and critical writing.
    ShareEN 370 - Series: Literature And Culture
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  • EN 380: Series: Major Figures

    3.00 Credits
    Alverno College

    Prereq. Integrated Communication Level 4 - This series, which includes a course on Shakespeare, provides the student the opportunity to develop ways of making an author's works increasingly meaningful for herself. She wrestles with questions to determine why an author such as Shakespeare stays alive as a recognized part of contemporary life, what we can learn about historical process from studying the data about an author, and how an author's work represents a multifaceted integration of literary techniques, artistic traditions, cultural values, and unique characteristics of a society.
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  • EN 430: Integrating External Assessment in English

    1.00 Credits
    Alverno College

    - This external assessment allows the student to evaluate and synthesize her learning in her intermediate and advanced English courses and her continuing work on her electronic individualized reading lists. She develops an English portfolio that highlights her development as a writer, reader, and scholar of literature. She prepares a formal presentation of her portfolio for the English Department. This assessment also includes a roundtable discussion of a contemporary novel, during which the student independently applies the critical frameworks she has learned in her academic program.
    ShareEN 430 - Integrating External Assessment in English
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  • EN 460: Series: Literary Forms

    4.00 Credits
    Alverno College

    Prereq. EN 250 or EN 310 or EN 311; EN 330 - This series, which includes a course on the 19th-century novel, allows the student to explore a genre by focusing on its origins, both cultural and literary. She examines the historical and cultural influences that contributed to the development of a genre, such as the religious climate, economics, education, and other contexts. Consideration of literary influences on genre encourages the student to explore definitions and functions of genre. She also analyzes ways that literary forms convey philosophical stances on what it means to be human and examines the relationship between literary form and her own aesthetic preferences.
    ShareEN 460 - Series: Literary Forms
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  • EN 470: Series: Issues in Criticism

    4.00 Credits
    Alverno College

    Prereq. EN 250 or EN 310 or EN 311; EN 330; Integrated Communication Level 4 - Courses in this series, which includes British modernism, explore why we value certain literary authors and their works. The courses raise questions about who establishes critical standards and under what circumstances they are challenged or changed. Featured in this series are literary periods, such as modernism, in which questions about the nature and function of literature are central and during which creative writers also play a critical role. The student hones her own critical skills, including raising and evaluating her own and others' critical questions, reading literary criticism, and writing critical responses. Questions about the value of "difficult" writers, changing historical reputationsof writers, the lasting impact of historical writers on contemporary literature and literary criticism, and the relationship of literature and other arts shape some of the subject matter of the course.
    ShareEN 470 - Series: Issues in Criticism
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  • EN 480: Series: Comparative Literature

    4.00 Credits
    Alverno College

    Prereq. EN 250 or EN 310 or EN 311; EN 330; Integrated Communication Level 4 - Topics change from semester to semester, but all courses in this series deal with some aspect of international literature. Through reading literature from different cultures, the student experiences a global sense of literature that puts her education in American and English literature into a wider context. While certain courses may focus on a canonical survey approach (by investigating literature from the ancient, medieval, and contemporary worlds), others may focus on the contemporary novel in Africa, Japan, China, India, and South America. Regardless of the particular approach, such an eclectic exploration allows the student to expand her investigation of how culture influences genre, meaning, and literary technique. It also allows her to strengthen her advanced-level abilities in communication, analysis, aesthetic engagement, and valuing in a global arena.
    ShareEN 480 - Series: Comparative Literature
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