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3.00 Credits
Contemporary networks of global capital and information technologies provide the motivation for the reading strategies of this course. The course will examine literary texts from a variety of global contexts from the perspective of globalism and nationalism. Prerequisite: A 100-level humanities course. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Humanities Department Course Attributes: Communications Requirement, Humanities Requirement
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Study of poetry and imaginative prose, including an analysis of the theoretical, literary, and socio-cultural contexts of these works. The course may include creative writing by students. Prerequisite: A 100-level humanities course. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Humanities Department Course Attributes: Communications Requirement, Humanities Requirement
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Study of Shakespeare's work before 1600, focusing on the histories, early comedies and tragedies. Close reading of the plays' language and form, and emphasis on the place of drama in early modern culture. Syllabus varies but is likely to include Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, Parts 1 and 2 of Henry IV, Henry V, Hamlet. Prerequisite: A 100-level humanities course. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Humanities Department Course Attributes: Communications Requirement, Humanities Requirement
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Study of Shakespeare's work after 1600, focusing on the middle and late comedies and tragedies and the romances. Close reading of the plays' language and form, and emphasis on the place of drama in early modern culture. Syllabus varies but is likely to include Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Coriolanus, Othello, King Lear, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest. May be taken independently of LIT 337. Prerequisite: A 100-level humanities course. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Humanities Department Course Attributes: Communications Requirement, Humanities Requirement
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Study of major dramatists and movements in the theater since Ibsen and Strindberg, with special emphasis on such writers as Chekhov, Shaw, Brecht, O'Neill, Ionesco, and Pinter. Prerequisite: A 100-level humanities course. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Humanities Department Course Attributes: Communications Requirement, Humanities Requirement
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Designed to introduce students to the variety of professional theater performances in and around Chicago. Main emphasis on seeing plays, ancient to contemporary; essays and oral reports; study of dramatic genres and theater history. Prerequisite: A 100-level humanities course. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Humanities Department Course Attributes: Communications Requirement, Humanities Requirement
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Examination of the style and language of film as shown in a number of feature films, with emphasis on the various ways individual directors use the cinema for personal and cultural ends. Prerequisite: A 100-level humanities course. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Humanities Department Course Attributes: Communications Requirement, Humanities Requirement
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An examination of works by Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, W.E.B. DuBois, Richard Wright and other black writers. The course includes formal and ideological analysis, emphasizing both nationalism and transnationalism in black culture. Prerequisite: A 100-level humanities course. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Humanities Department Course Attributes: Communications Requirement, Humanities Requirement
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A survey of great American novelists, poets, and dramatists who have lived and worked in Chicago from the time of the Great Fire to the present day, and who have made Chicago one of the great world literary centers. Writers discussed include such figures as Theodore Dreisler, Carl Sandburg and Richard Wright. Prerequisite: A 100-level humanities course. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Humanities Department Course Attributes: Communications Requirement, Humanities Requirement
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Study of such writers as Steineck, Frost, Eliot, Anderson, O'Neill, Hemingway, Cather, Wolfe, Faulkner, and contemporary writers such as Updike and Toni Morrison. Prerequisite: A 100-level humanities course. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Humanities Department Course Attributes: Communications Requirement, Humanities Requirement
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