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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Fall semester. 3 semester hours. This introduction to imaginative writing explores poetry and short fiction. The course is a workshop focusing on the stages of free writing, drafting, presenting, and revising poems and prose. Elements of poetry discussed include tone, voice, image, metaphor, and devices of sound, meter, traditional structure, and innovations. Elements of fiction emphasized include setting, character development, dialogue, plot, and conflict. Prerequisite: ENG1 19.
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3.00 Credits
Fall semester. 3 semester hours. Students are introduced to the genre of poetry. The course provides students with a foundation in the methods of detailed reading and analysis essential to an understanding of poetry and, more broadly, to the study of literature. The course addresses the basics of prosody, poetic devices such as diction, metaphor, image, tone, and major verse forms such as the sonnet, elegy, ode, ballad, dramatic monologue, and free verse. The texts reflect the continuity and variation in the history of British and American poetry and provide a sample of works from the 16th century to the present.
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3.00 Credits
Fall semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. Focusing on script analysis, this course provides a chronological study of the major theatrical periods of dramatic literature from the emergence of Greek tragedy in the fifth century BC to the development of European realism in the late nineteenth century. The course also encourages cross-cultural understanding.
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3.00 Credits
On demand. 3 semester hours. Content varies, including comparative literature topics, problems in literature topics, and language topics. This course may be taken more than once.
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3.00 Credits
On demand. 3 semester hours. This course examines literature written by and about people living in Montana and the western United States, including American Indians, women, and immigrants.
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3.00 Credits
Fall semester. 3 semester hours. The first in the sequence of two British literature surveys, this course provides an introduction to the formative period of British language and literature. Students read representative works from the Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, Renaissance, Restoration, and 18th century periods against their literary, historical, linguistic, and philosophical backgrounds.
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3.00 Credits
Spring semester. 3 semester hours. The second in the sequence of two British literature surveys, this course introduces students to Romantic, Victorian, Modern and Postmodern literature, analyzing selected texts, from the end of the 18th century to the end of the 20th, against their literary, historical, ideological, and cultural backgrounds.
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3.00 Credits
Fall semester. 3 semester hours. This course provides a survey of major literary works from the Puritan, Enlightenment, and Romantic periods. Emphasis is placed on such figures as Edwards, Franklin, Emerson, Hawthorne, Poe, Thoreau, Jacobs, Whitman, Douglass, Melville, and Dickinson. The literature is examined in the context of literary, historical, and philosophical backgrounds.
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3.00 Credits
Spring semester. 3 semester hours. This course provides a survey of major literary works since the Civil War. Emphasis is placed on such figures as Twain, James, Crane, DuBois, Chopin, Wharton, Toomer, Cather, Hughes, Hemingway, and Stevens. The literature is examined in the context of literary, historical, and philosophical backgrounds.
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3.00 Credits
Spring semester. 3 semester hours. This course introduces students to recent prose fiction, with special attention paid to non-Western and non-American works.
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