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3.00 Credits
Fall and spring semesters. 3 semester hours. This course is an introduction to college writing. Students critically read and discuss texts, learn that writing is a process, experiment with academic prose, develop the skills necessary to create and support a thesis, practice incorporating research into their analysis, and develop grammatical and stylistic competence. Further, working in collaboration with a second discipline, students learn to integrate knowledge. Students keep a portfolio of their work, which includes a self-evaluation of their writing progress. Required of all students entering as freshmen as part of the Rocky Freshman Experience.
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Fall and spring semesters. 3 semester hours. Designed to follow First-Year Writing, students analyze texts and create effective writing based on their insights. Students practice generating questions that lead to the formation of complex thesis and effective support. Building on the idea of integrated knowledge, students develop strategies aiding them in cross-disciplinary and multi-cultural reasoning. They compose essays deploying diverse strategies, such as definition, classification, comparison/contrast, analysis, and argumentation. Students keep a portfolio of their work, which includes a self-evaluation of their writing progress. Prerequisite: ENG119.
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Spring semester. 3 semester hours. An examination of selected literature produced by Native American writers such as Momaday, Welch, Erdrich, McNickle, Silko, and others. Students will consider genre, history, and politics as they relate to this literature. Emphasis is given to the oral tradition and its relationship to contemporary American writing.
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Fall semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. This course is a study of selected topics in African American literature and criticism. Topics vary but may include such areas as the literature of civil rights, African-American memoir, captivity and freedom narratives, African-American poetry, theories of race and class, and Black feminist writing, among others.
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Fall semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. This course is an interdisciplinary study of the relationship between photography and the literature, art, politics, and history from the nineteenth-century to the present. It introduces theories of photography as well as works of individual artists.
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Spring semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. An introduction to the relationships between novels and short stories and the films adapted from them. Explores fiction and films that represent a variety of authors, periods and genres, ranging from westerns to science fiction.
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Fall semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. This course provides an introduction to the world of Shakespeare's plays and the opportunity to experience and analyze the dramatic works of England's greatest writer. Emphasis is on close reading of selected Shakespeare tragedies, comedies, histories, and romances. Students view various performances in order to understand and appreciate the dramatic, literary, and historical backgrounds of the plays.
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Fall semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. Focusing on script analysis, students consider diverse trends in play-writing and theatrical performances over the past hundred years as viewed through the works of the major playwrights of Europe and the United States. Trends studied include realism, expressionism, surrealism, cubism, and absurdism. This course encourages cross-cultural understanding.
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On demand. 3 semester hours. Students in this course explore the world of travel writing through the diverse narratives of selected contemporary and classic travel writers. The course emphasizes literary analysis, with particular attention paid to understanding the cultural and historical contexts of this literature.
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3.00 Credits
Spring semester, alternating years. 3 semester hours. Students explore how a variety of writers through time have represented the tragedy, trauma, and psychology of war. The course covers fictional and non-fictional works from various historical and literacy periods as well as genres such as epic and lyric poetry, romance, and drama.
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