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Course Criteria
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3.00 - 6.00 Credits
Students register through the department chairperson for three (3) semester hours in two (2) different semesters or six (6) semester hours in one (1) semester.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on understanding historical and contemporary rhetorical conceptions of style in order to foster more sophisticated invention, analysis, and production of 21st century compositions. Specifically, the course examines the idea of style from its ancient understandings rooted in orality up to modern iterations rooted in multimodal composition and digital writing.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides graduate students with an introduction to the field of Indigenous Rhetorics, including its rhetorical traditions and practices, issues, problems, history, and cultural contexts of various indigenous communities. The goal of this advanced course is to build on students' existing knowledge about the rhetorical strategies, techniques, and tactics of contemporary indigenous peoples in several genres: creative nonfiction, academic scholarship, stand-up comedy, journalism, political and legal documents, and web presence. Specifically, students will engage with the works of writers, thinkers, performers, artists, and speakers in specific contemporary indigenous communities as these practitioners strive to carve space for their voices and perspectives in the crowded space of modern intellectual thought and practice. This course focuses primarily on Native American Rhetorics. This course is appropriate for those interested in Composition & Rhetoric, Literature and Media Studies. This class may also include the opportunity for digital storytelling, blogging, interviewing, and community engagement. This is an elective course for all English MA students.
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3.00 Credits
A critical examination of the effectiveness and significance of symbol and myth in literature is undertaken.
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3.00 Credits
STUDIES IN BIOGRAPHY
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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
This course includes a comprehensive introduction to the phonology, morphology, syntax, and dialects of American English. The problems of language which arise in elementary and secondary education are discussed. Open to students taking linguistics for the first time.
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3.00 Credits
One of the following topics: (A) Descriptive Linguistics - a survey of linguistics, emphasizing the descriptive approach to the sound and grammatical systems of language; (B) American Dialects - a study of the geographic and social varieties of spoken American English; (C) History of the English Language - an investigation of selected topics in Old, Middle, and Modern English will be covered.
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3.00 Credits
STUDIES IN OLD ENG LIT
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3.00 Credits
In generating broad familiarity with Chaucer's backgrounds, sources, and achievement, this course seeks to provide understanding of his place in literature, together with some facility in reading Middle English texts.
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