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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Myths, legends, epics, ballads, keens, fairy tales, folklore, poetry, plays, fiction, satire. Cliffs, dolmens, battlefields, passage tombs, ruined monasteries, ring forts, round towers, manor houses, cathedrals, colleges, modern cites. Rich in both great literature and spectacular landscape, Ireland reverberates in the world's imagination. Designed as a study-abroad exploration of Ireland, this course maps the relationship between the Irish landscape and its literature. Ireland boasts one of the world's richest and most influential literary traditions. Reading both classical and modern Irish literature provides opportunities for students to survey elements of its vital and at times troubled social and cultural history. Site visits buttress readings, illustrating the resonances of the landscape in the literature. This course meets General Education, Literature Minor, and English Major requirements.
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3.00 Credits
The world holds certain expectations for what we are able and unable to do, given the individual features of our bodies and minds. Writers across the globe have confronted these societal expectations by creating characters whose minds and bodies don't conform to the rules or norms that society places on them. In this course, we will read literary representations of people with cognitive, sensory, and physical impairments, and discuss what these representations reveal about cultural values and norms.
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3.00 Credits
This course considers friendship, one of the most important elements of human experience, and examines how it is represented in cultural texts (primarily literary works, but also works of film, television, video, and social media). Readings that have been important in the history of friendship, ranging from classical Greek and Roman to British and American texts, will provide background for understanding the ideas about friendship that we have inherited.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines powerful female figures, including goddesses, queens, and warriors, in mythical and literary texts and interprets their symbolic and cultural significance through the lenses of archetypal, mythological, and feminist literary criticism.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the relationships social, cultural, and artistic between literature and rock music. Course materials include works of literature, broadly conceived, that directly engage with or seek to represent rock music, and rock music that addresses, comments on, or is influenced by literary history and culture. The course explores the notion that rock music should be taken as seriously as literature, and the complementary notion that techniques of literary interpretation can be productively applied to rock's intensities, pleasures, and complexities. Readings will rock, listening will be loud.
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3.00 Credits
Take a linguistic tour through the history of the English language. Learn the origins of our eclectic English spelling, listen to the language of Anglo-Saxon warrior kings, and read ancient illuminated manuscripts dotted with runic letters. This course focuses on the origins and development of the English language, tracing linguistic changes from its Indo-European roots through to today, including the modern emergence of World Englishes. We will focus on cultural and historical developments that influenced Old and Middle English and give particular attention to literary texts from these periods. Throughout this course, students will gain familiarity with basic concepts and terminology of linguistics and engage in the process of research writing.
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3.00 Credits
This course, for students for whom English is not a native language, develops vocabulary, reading, and writing skills. It does not satisfy the English composition requirement. Grade: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory.
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3.00 Credits
German Comics in English examines German-language comics and graphic novels as reflective of cultural, social, and historical conditions. The course also focuses on aspects of comics theory, artistic practices, and narrative form. Students produce an original graphic novel at the conclusion of the course. Taught in English.
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3.00 Credits
This is an introductory writing course designed to increase students' writing proficiency and prepare them for the work of ENG 023. ENG 022 focuses on the writing process and provides an introduction to critical thinking and analytical writing. Students gain experience in writing in variety of genres which may include, but are not limited to, proposals, reviews, personal narratives, digital texts, rhetorical analyses, persuasive essays, reports, and critical analysis. Readings are assigned to provoke discussions, provide opportunities for the analysis and synthesis of arguments, and to generate essay topics. Particular attention is paid to topic generation, focus, purpose and development. In addition, mechanics of Standard Edited American English, which may include diction, grammar, syntax, usage, and structure, are addressed as part of the process of writing; however, the focus of this course is not grammar instruction. Students completing this course must still complete ENG 023 or ENG 025 to fulfill the General Education requirement in composition.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the work of Jane Austen in her multiple roles as the pioneering woman novelist of two centuries ago, the major canonical novelist she became recognized as in the twentieth century, and the living presence in contemporary culture that she remains. Approaches will include historicist, feminist, and multimedia.
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