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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The study of English beginning with the Indo-European language family up to and including varieties of English spoken around the world today. Both outer history and the inner history of phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon will be addressed. 3 hrs
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a survey of African American literature from its beginnings to the " Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's and '30's . Areas of interest will include abolitionist literature (especially Slave Narratives), turn -of-the-century literature and the Harlem Renaissance. This course will examine any or all of the following literary forms: fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography and essay. It will view African American literature in its historical and cultural contexts. Prerequisite: None. 3 hrs
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the Africian American Novel in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the emphasis will be on the period from the 1920's to the present. The novels will be examined in their historical and cultural contexts. Offered: On demand 3 hrs
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3.00 Credits
A survey of African American literature from its beginnings to World War I. This course will cover a range of authors, several genres, and culture forms, which may include fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography, essay, oral, contact and/or slave narratives, folklore, and songs. 3 hrs
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3.00 Credits
An intensive study of American literature since World War II, concentrating on the profound literary changes following that war, as a new kind of poetry, fiction and drama emerges which chronicles the simultaneous dissolution of old values and the efforts to establish new ones. Writers such as Lowell, Roethke, Ginsberg, Ellison, Salinger, Bellow, Mailer, Baldwin, Flannery O'Connor, Pynchon, Katherine Anne Proter, Heller, Richard Wright, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, and Edward Albee will be considered along with others, as American writing develops in our time. 3 hrs
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course will focus on representative authors and works from the Greek and Roman Classical periods, such as Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Plato, the Greek Lyrics, Virgil, Horace, Juvenal, Ovid and Plautus. 3-4 hrs
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3.00 Credits
A study of the position of women within the traditions of western rhetoric. Students will examine the rhetorical practices of women s they pursue both public and private goals. Christine de Pizan. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Hannah More, Maria Stewart, Frances Willard, Ida Wells-Barnett, Meridel Le Sueur, and Gloria Anzaldua are among the female rhetorians who may be studied in this course. Prerequisite: Successful completion of the WEPT. Offered: On Demand 3 hrs
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3.00 Credits
A study of women writers that focuses on genre, i.e., texts that share a common set of conventions. The course will explore the conventions associated with a particular genre in various historical periods and consider the ways in which gender and genre intersect in shaping texts and their interpretation. Prerequiste: Successful completion of the WEPT Offered: On Demand Restrictions: None 3 hrs
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3.00 Credits
A study of women's literary culture in a specific historical period either as broadly defined as Medieval or Renaissance or as narrowly defined as a decade or movement ( e.g., 1960's, abolitionist movement). This course includes women writers across multiple boundaries (e.g., national, generic, racial, sexual, socio-economic). Content will change depending on the instructor. Prerequisite: Successful completion of the WEPT 3 hrs
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3.00 Credits
A detailed examination of the development of the novel in the 18th-century. The course emphasizes the evolution of the novel from such predecessors as rogue literature, the picaresque story and the romance, due to changing social realities. The novelists studies may include Austen, Behn, Fielding, Godwin, Haywood, Richardson, Smollett, and Sterne. Prerequisite: None Restricitions: None 3 hrs
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