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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Spring semester. 3 semester hours. Students study examples of creative nonfiction and practice writing their own. They also gain experience-incorporating research into their prose. Prerequisite: ENG1 19.
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3.00 Credits
Fall semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. Students examine the Renaissance as expressed in British literature. Typical subjects of study include the early humanism of More, the courtly poetry of Wyatt and Surrey, the sonnets of Drayton, Sidney, and Wroth, the chivalric romance of Spencer, the satire of Nashe, the drama of Kyd, Marlow, Shakespeare, Webster, Jonson, and Ford, the essays of Francis Bacon, and the poetry of Donne, Herbert, Herrick, and Marvel.
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3.00 Credits
Fall semester. 3 semester hours. This course teaches concepts, practices, and skills for communicating technical, scientific, or business-related information. Topics include understanding how people read, designing documents, incorporating graphics, writing about statistical results, rewriting, editing, and using the Internet. This course may be especially useful for non-English majors, providing them with the tools and techniques to communicate their messages effectively. Prerequisite: ENG119.
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3.00 Credits
Fall semester. 3 semester hours. This course introduces students to current controversies in literary criticism. The course discusses approaches to literary analysis such as deconstruction, cultural criticism, and post-colonialism. Students typically use a casebook method, observing how critics from divergent backgrounds interpret a single text. Students critique these various approaches and refine their own critical practices.
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3.00 Credits
Fall semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. This course examines a wide range of British Romantic texts. Students read and analyze selected works against the literary, historical, and philosophical background of late 18th and early 19th century England. Representative authors include Blake, Radcliffe, Wordsworth, Wollstonecraft, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and DeQuincy.
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3.00 Credits
Spring semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. This course surveys the rise and development of the British novel. It includes an analysis of such Eighteenth-century writers as Defoe, Sterne, Fielding, Radcliffe, and Burney; early Nineteenth-century writers such as Austen, Shelley, and Scott; such Victorian novelists as Dickens, the Bronte sisters, Eliot, Thackeray, Trollope, and Hardy; and such Modernists as Conrad, Woolf, Joyce, Forster, and Lawrence.
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3.00 Credits
Fall semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. This course is a comparative study of the environmental imagination as expressed in literature. By reading and discussing a wide range of literary texts, students investigate the question "What is nature?" In contrast to environmental science, environmental philosophy, or environmental policy, emphasis is placed upon the form of expression as well as the ideas presented by the various writers considered. Representative authors include Henry David Thoreau, Mary Austin, James Baldwin, Louis Owens, and Jane Hirshfield.
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3.00 Credits
Fall semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. Students examine the extraordinary quickening of American writing in the years before the Civil War. of central concern are the different visions of "America" these literary texts propose. Authors may include Emerson, Hawthorne, Poe, Thoreau, Child, Fuller, Douglass, Whitman, Jacobs, Melville, and Dickinson.
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3.00 Credits
Spring semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. This course explores how the communication medium, whether smoke signals, newspapers, television or the Internet, influences human communication. With each change in technology, communication changes. These changes alter what it means to be human. Students must be able to understand the power of the media to better manage its influence in their personal and professional lives.
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3.00 Credits
Spring semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. Considers literary realism and naturalism in terms of its philosophy, influence, and development during the period in American culture that Mark Twain called "The Gilded Age." Authors may include Twain, James, Jewett, Chopin, London, Norris, DuBois, Crane, Frederick, and Dreiser.
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