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3.00 Credits
(3 Credits) Although with increasing education for women, published women's writings became more common in the 19th century, British and American literature remained largely male dominated for decades to come. This survey course of literature by and about women will attempt to deal with this discrepancy. Emphasis is on changing voices and concerns of women as related in their writing. Students read, write about, and discuss representative samples of writing in the major traditions of women's literature written in English. The course includes essay and journal writing, as well as a community-based research project. (Prerequisite: BENG120)
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3.00 Credits
(3 Credits) This course presents children's language and literature from a developmental perspective. Students examine various genres in order to choose appropriate literature for the developmental stages of children from birth through pre-adolescence. Students participate in a variety of language and literature activities, including research, critical observation, original projects, and story hour presentations. (Prerequisite: ENG120)
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(3 Credits) A study of the most basic forms of reasoning and their linguistic expressions. This course provides an introduction to the traditional theory of the syllogism, contemporary symbolic logic, the nature of scientific reasoning, and the relationship between logic and language. (Prerequisite: ENG120)
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits Local literature is read in the context of the canon of New England literature. Students discuss, read, and write about the Yankee perspective as revealed in poetry, essays, stories, and novels by Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont writers. (Prerequisite: BENG120)
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3.00 Credits
(3 Credits) Beginning with a series of individualized exercises and readings, the student will proceed to develop, draft and revise at least one good short story. The class is conducted as a writing workshop in which each student is expected to produce three to five pages of writing each week. (Prerequisite: ENG120)
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3.00 Credits
(3 Credits) An overview of how America's best-known thinkers, authors and poets have reflected and influenced culture, this course takes an historical approach to studying literature from colonial to contemporary times. (Prerequisite: BENG120 or POI)
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3.00 Credits
(3 Credits) Early American, modern and contemporary short stories are read closely and analyzed for theme, plot development, character study, and author's style, as well as for the literary and historical periods they represent. (Prerequisite: ENG120)
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3.00 Credits
(3 Credits) A basic course in public speaking emphasizes the act of speaking and the modes of oral presentation. (Prerequisite: ENG120)
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits Students examine commonly held myths and stereotypical beliefs of American culture and learn to analyze and evaluate content and style in literary works using multiple levels of thinking. In so doing, they aspire to refine, reshape, and expand their thinking and writing skills, and their personal perspectives. (Prerequisite: BENG120)
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3.00 Credits
(3 Credits) In this course students will examine the roles women played in the history of America from the post-colonial period to the dawn of the modern era. Emphasis will be placed on women in New England, and particularly New Hampshire. We will employ both text and film. Each student will also be responsible for some outside reading and a short paper about an individual woman living during the time period under discussion. (Prerequisite: ENG120)
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