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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of the leading currents, issues, and debates in feminist literary theory, including gendered voice, difference vs. equality feminism, essentialism, and queer theory. Students will read theoretical and literary selections from nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first century feminists.
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3.00 Credits
A study of a selection of Shakespeare's earlier plays, including among others, The Comedy of Errors, Richard II, Richard III, Henry IV Parts I and II, Henry V, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night, and of the social, historical, and literary background necessary for their understanding and appreciation. Recordings, movies, and, when possible, "live" and TV productions are utilized.
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3.00 Credits
A study of a selection of Shakespeare's later plays including among others, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Troilus and Cressida, the Winter's Tale and The Tempest, and of the social, historical, and literary background necessary for their understanding and appreciation. Recordings, movies, and, when possible, "live" and TV productions are utilized.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on honing the analysis and production of contemporary digital texts by extending longstanding academic conceptions rooted in the printed word alone. Specifically, the course examines how emerging areas within Rhetoric and Composition such as visual rhetoric, digital writing, and multimodal style are vital in cultivating sophisticated, responsive methods of analysis and production in a variety of online texts. Students will familiarize themselves with issues surrounding the creation, revision, and deployment of digital texts to better understand the complex rhetorics involved when arranging words, images, sounds, coding languages, available designs, fonts, colors, and spaces to make new kinds of 21st century texts and arguments.
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3.00 Credits
What is a word? And what, for that matter, are questions? Learn what we mean by meaning in this exploration of the nature of language. Using a descriptive approach, we will discover the building blocks of language including the structure of speech sounds, words, and sentences. Beyond this, we will touch upon techniques in applied linguistics and semantics. In doing so, we will analyze everyday assumptions about the "correct" way of speaking and discuss the legitimacy of World Englishes.
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3.00 Credits
This is a course in which students participate in critical analysis and interpretation of an international selection of classic works of literature from Greek drama to modern absurdist stories that create the theme of crime and punishment.
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3.00 Credits
This course investigates the crucial role that story plays in creating impactful campaigns within new and emerging media environments. Particular attention will be paid to the ways in which story continues to be one of the most important rhetorical tools in community and social movements seeking change. Readings will draw from a wide range of disciplines including rhetoric, literacy studies, marketing, public relations, communication studies, social media theory, cognitive psychology, and social movement studies.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an in-depth study of literature from the Romantic period (l 780s l 830s), including poetry, novels, and essays. Encompassing themes as diverse as political revolution, sublime nature, and individual rebellion, Romanticism represents a significant departure from previous literary periods and a significant influence on subsequent literary movements.
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3.00 Credits
Students of Introduction to Afro-Caribbean Literature study various genres and authors from West Indian countries, including Cuba, Haiti, Martinique, Jamaica, and Trinidad. Authors' works were originally written in English or translated into English. While students will examine selected Afro-Caribbean texts from within the traditional model of literary criticism, including writing style and skill, content significance, and thematic representation, they will also engage the text's informing agents, including the critical, socio-political, cultural, and historical motivations that influence the authors' texts.
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3.00 Credits
The course is devoted to analysis of poetry .and poetics written by American authors during the period currently referred to as the long nineteen- sixties, encompassing the late nineteen-fifties' intensification of the Cold War through the mid-nineteen-seventies, when the Vietnam War and Watergate hearings drew to a close. Students will read closely a variety of poetic forms, both free verse and traditional, produced by authors associated with numerous schools and movements, including the Beats, the confessional poets, the New York School, the language poets, and Black Arts. Students will examine significant poetics produced during the period, and will discuss those theories alongside popular cultural appropriations of poetical form. Students will read canonical and non-canonical texts, and will think through texts' social, political, and aesthetic contexts, situating the works in two turbulent decades of American culture.
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