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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
Fall semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. Students explore language in human life. Topics to be covered include analyzing and describing languages, language and thought, language and culture, first and second language acquisition, and language change. Tools and techniques for linguistic analysis are used to examine phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.
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3.00 Credits
Fall semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. Students examine the major movement in Western art in the first half of the twentieth century as reflected in representative literary texts. Attention focused on the questions: What is modernism? What is its relation to naturalism and realism? How does literary art fuse with the other arts during this period? Authors may includeJoyce, Stein, Pound, Eliot, Williams, Cather, Toomer, Ford, Lawrence, Woolf, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner.
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3.00 Credits
Fall semester. 3 semester hours. Providing an introduction to writing print, broadcast, and multimedia articles and producing a professional publication, this course is strongly recommended for all students participating on the student newspaper.
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3.00 Credits
Spring semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. A study of religious issues, conflict, and hopes in modern literature. The works read will vary from year to year but will include such authors as Melville, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, and John Updike.
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3.00 Credits
Fall semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. This seminar requires focused study and consultation with a public school English/language arts teacher or other acceptable professional in the field. Hours will be arranged in consultation with the content area professor, the appropriate education professor, the student, and the professional mentor. The course focuses on English pedagogy with special attention to reading and writing instruction. Students study methods for creating a classroom conducive to learning, select materials for motivational and instructional purposes, incorporate technology in classroom strategies, evaluate and assess student work, integrate the language arts with other content areas, and examine the scope and sequence of literature and writing for grades 5-12. This seminar strongly emphasizes practical methodologies and is the capstone course for the English education major. Prerequisites: admission to the teacher education program, senior standing.
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3.00 Credits
Spring semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. Students examine American novels from the nineteenth-century to the present. Attention is given both to the genre of the novel as well as to the individual literary works. Content varies, but representative topics include the way in which personal and national identities are shaped or defined in the fictional texts, the role of the marketplace in influencing literary practice, and the relation between American fiction and philosophy.
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3.00 Credits
Spring semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. Students are introduced to the genre of the short story, emphasizing major American writers from the nineteenth century to the present. Particular attention is directed to historical and cultural backgrounds. Students cultivate skills in critical analysis by focusing on issues of character, plot, theme, point of view, setting, tone, style, and other literary devices as they function within the context of individual stories.
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1.00 - 15.00 Credits
On demand. 1-15 semester hours. This course is a guided work experience in an already established place of business. The student must arrange the internship in agreement with the instructor and the office of career services. The internship should relate to the student's major or minor area of study. Contract is required. Prerequisites: junior or senior standing.
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3.00 Credits
Spring semester. 3 semester hours. This course offers extensive imaginative work in a broad range of genres. Students explore the creative process and challenge themselves with longer and more complex assignments than in Imaginative Writing. They experiment with points of view other than their own and with styles of writing. They also work independently to produce a significant amount of polished work in a writing portfolio. Students keep a writing journal and have considerable input into the development of assignments. Prerequisite: ENG251.
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