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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the works of William Shakespeare. The works chosen for study offer a variety of themes as well as plot structures. The course considers his life, plays, and poetry along with the literary devices he employed.
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3.00 Credits
This literature course will explore texts by and about women. These texts will come from various eras; they will primarily be fiction, literary nonfiction, and poetry, but other genres may be included as well.
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on the reading and study of major works that are representative of this significant period or of literary forms in the history of literature during this time.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the literature of the early American settlers, of wilderness trials, of the Indian wars, and secret diaries. The course also covers the American Age of Reason and the Revolutionary War including Thomas Paine, Benjamine Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. It concludes with the American Romantic Era with Thoreau's "Walden Pond", the philosophical essays of Emerson, the stories of Hawthorne, Melville and Poe and the poetry of Whitman and Dickinson.
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3.00 Credits
Beginning with the works of Mark Twain, the literature of this course covers the influence of Darwinism, America's shifting from a nation of farmers to a nation of factory works, the disillusionment after WWI, the frantic values of the Roaring Twenties, the intellectual struggles of the Great Depression, and the efforts to define a modern literature.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the literatures of American Indian peoples, including legends from the oral traditions, songs, poetry, stories, and novels. A selection of literature from various times will be read, ranging from early legends to modern works.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the best of Western literature. The works chosen for study depict the western experiences from a variety of perspectives. Students will consider each work's literary merit, historical reliability and Western themes. Students will discuss the role Western literature has played in creating stereotypes about the West and how those stereotypes have affected the development of American literature and culture.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers a study of recognized texts of specific literary genres in order to acquaint students with salient authors, themes and historical characteristics of the genre. This course includes reading and discussion of texts, as well as the writing of analytical, critical, research-based and/or modeled essays.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the literature of film, its narrative, visual and technical components, with particular attention to selected feature length films of recognized directors.
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2.00 Credits
This course provides practical experience for students interested in producing a literary journal. Areas for participation include the editorial process of selecting fiction, nonfiction, poetry and other material to be published, as well as in the making of design and layout decisions. The goals are: 1) to provide the student with hands-on training and instruction in the various areas of production; and 2) to produce a student publication
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