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3.00 Credits
Course content covers the internal development of the English language from its roots in Indo-European to Modern English as currently spoken in the world. These linguistic changes are examined in the context of external, historical and cultural circumstances. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 203 or consent of instructor. Three Hours, Fall, Odd Years
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3.00 Credits
This course deals with the concepts of literary genre within the context of the historical environment which inspired and shaped them. Major English authors, who lived in four different sections of England, will be selected from writers of essays, poetry, drama, and fiction. Their lifestyles will be studied and their homes and towns visited for observing the influences and inspirations they held for the authors. This course will satisfy three hours of the Humanities/Fine Arts general education requirement. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 123. Three Hours, May, Even Years
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3.00 Credits
This course examines native oral traditions and selections by main authors in the United States from the pre-colonial period through the Puritan times and the Civil War era. Emphasis will be on both the texts and the social, historical, philosophical, and Christian influences on America's early literature. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 203 or consent of instructor. Three Hours, Fall, Even Years
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3.00 Credits
This course examines selections by key American authors from the Civil War era through the present day, including those of racial and ethnic minority. Emphasis is on both the texts and the social, historical, philosophical, and Christian influences on America's post-1865 literature. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 203 or consent of instructor. Three Hours, Spring, Odd Years
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3.00 Credits
This course covers selected American literary works from earliest native oral traditions, to Christopher Columbus and the Age of Discovery, to Walt Whitman, and finally to the Transcendentalists. Particular emphasis is placed on Puritan writing and works from the Romantic Age. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 203 or consent of instructor. Three Hours, Fall, Even Years
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an intensive study of the divergent modernist movements, styles, and writers in the United States from the Civil War era to World War II. Among the authors to be examined are Henry James, Gertrude Stein,Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot,William Faulkner, and Ernest Hemingway. The student will also study the various influences on the rise and development of modernism, including anthropology, psychology, philosophy, political theory, psychoanalysis, and World War I. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 203 or consent of instructor. Three Hours, Spring, Odd Years
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3.00 Credits
This course examines selected writings by representative American authors of racial and ethic minority, including Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans. Among the authors to be examined are Frederick Douglass, Richard Wright, Carlos Bulosan, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, N. Scott Momaday, Maxine Hong Kingston,William Least Heat Moon, Richard Rodriguez, Denise Chávez, Leslie Marmon Silko, Amy Tan, and Louise Erdrich. Emphasis is on genre, theme, style, and aesthetics as well as on the political, historical, cultural, and intellectual context of multicultural literature in the United States. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 203 or consent of instructor. Three Hours, Fall, Odd Years
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3.00 Credits
This course offers a study of the significant works by key British authors from the Middle Ages through the Restoration. The texts are examined in their relation to Christianity, philosophy, and history. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 203 or consent of instructor. Three Hours, Fall, Odd Years
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3.00 Credits
This course covers literature of the British Restoration and continues with British literature to the present. Course themes include the changing view of Christianity, Modernism and Post-Modernism. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 203 or consent of instructor. Three Hours, Spring, Even Years
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3.00 Credits
Within the context of the author's life, and Elizabethan and Jacobean culture, representative comedies, tragedies, histories, and romances will be studied. Attention will be paid to performance aspects of the texts, through film versions and acted scenes. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 203 or consent of instructor. Three Hours, Fall, Even Years
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