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3.00 Credits
The source of pop culture phenomena such as Harry Potter, the Lord of the Rings, and James Bond, as well as recognized traditional literary masterpieces, Britain has produced novels, films, music, plays, and poems that have--for better or worse--spread across the world for centuries. Students will read and analyze works from a range of genres, spanning from the earliest tales of knights on quests through the dark gothic stories up to today's most recognized cultural icons.
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This course surveys the fundamentals and conventions of English grammar and syntax. Topics include lexical categories, phrase structure, clause structure, modification, subordination, punctuation, and language acquisition. Additional attention is given to matters of style in order to sharpen students' prose. This course is recommended for those pursuing degrees in English, Professional Writing, Elementary Education, and English Secondary Education although open to any student wishing a deeper understanding of English grammar.
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Poetry is among the most fundamental human activities. From our most distant origins all the way down to the present day, from landmark occasions to our daily lives, people sing, pray, protest, aspire, love, and grieve in verse. This course engages these traditions by studying poems old and new to illustrate the traditions and aesthetic theories of the art. It is writing intensive, galvanizing skills in analysis, interpretation, research, and critical writing; therefore, it meets General Education requirements for category A4.
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3.00 Credits
We have always found the Irish to be a bit odd. They refuse to be English. These words uttered by Winston Churchill point to the tenacious character of Irish culture to be forcibly unique despite the impact of colonialism and conflict. Such an identity is fiercely present in a centuries-old body of Irish literature that appeals to a reader's sense of history, humor, revolution, and romance. From ancient Celtic mysticism to medieval folklore, political nationalism to 1:5lobal revolution, contemporary thrillers to gothic horror, ever-present humor to bleak tragedy, the Irish literary tradition canvasses all genres and forms in a way that is uniquely Irish. This course will offer students an opportunity to experience all of this in an effort to truly understand what it means to be Irish.
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3.00 Credits
Explore a variety of literary forms and styles in this introductory study of literature. Students will learn about both form and meaning by learning about the history, methods, and aesthetics embedded in the study of the written word. The course will be broken down into three units, fiction, drama, and poetry with further exploration of sub-genres including song lyrics, television and film scripts and screenplays, biographical writing, podcasts, and more. In addition to reading and experiencing exemplary works in each genre, students will also create works within each genre allowing them to experience first-hand, the process of writing and composing literature.
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3.00 Credits
Uncanny fantasy stories, slasher movies, and heavy metal mt1sic are just a few examples of the unpopular culture the course considers. Beginning with the weird fictions of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, we'll read, watch, and listen through the twentieth century, unearthing significant movements and texts in unpopular culture, in America and elsewhere, and socio political responses to these weird fictions. Through close analysis of fiction, films, and other media, students examine the parameters of aesthetic taste, good and bad, and consider the social at1d cultural work that underground, alternative, and sub-sub genre texts do. Throughout we will consider why and how so many of those texts have proven so su111risingly popular, so strangely pleasurable, and oddly important.
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3.00 Credits
Advanced technologies, both mechanical and digital; alien lifeforms, both monstrous and beautiful; and space exploration, of planets near and far: these themes have been imagined in the amazing stories and weird tales of science fiction since its emergence. This course examines classic and contemporary stories of science fiction, focusing on film, novels and short fiction, and graphic narrative. Students will address some of th genre's most popular and most innovative texts, and will engage its history and development. Space odysseys, wars among the stars, and some even stranger things will appear as we read, discuss, and think critically about the enduring importance and artistic joys of science fiction.
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3.00 Credits
A genre approach to film study designed to introduce the general student to basic concepts in film criticism, aesthetics and history.
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3.00 Credits
This course uses an Ecocritical approach to representative works in American literature that contemplate nature and reflect on humans' relationship to the natural world. This course is suitable for both majors and non-majors.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers literary analysis of works which employ sports as a metaphor for the human condition, its social behavior, and the roles of men and women within it. The authors represented include: Robert Coover, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, Rita Mae Brown, John Updike, Harry Crews, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, David Mamet, and Samuel Beckett.
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