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3.00 Credits
An introductory course designed to help students develop useful analytical skills for the study of film. Our goals are to gain familiarity with cinematic techniques and to acquire an understanding of the historical evolution of film. We will learn to employ the technical vocabulary of film studies and will view films representing a variety of styles, genres, periods, and filmmakers. A. Smith
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An introduction to black American writers, the course exposes students to a variety of genres, to diverse reading strategies, to the social and historical roots of African-American experience, and to the interplay between classic texts and popular media. Washington
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This course provides students with an introduction to the theory and methodology of literary study by focusing on three questions: What is a literary text How do we read a literary text How do we write about a literary text By considering the rhetorical, aesthetic, and ideological issues that determine literary value, students examine their assumptions about literature. Required of all English majors and minors. Staff
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How is literary history constructed What is the canon of "great works," and how is it formed This course inquires into the specific cultural practices that construct "literature," engaging students in an exploration of canon formation, marginalization, intertextuality, and influence. Readings are chosen from British, American, and Anglophone literatures and from various genres; texts from at least three literary periods are studied in depthFalbo, I. Smith
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Theatre is perhaps our most ancient art, beginning with religious rituals like the Abydos Passion Play in ancient Egypt, through the Dionysian festival in Ancient Greece, the liturgical plays of Medieval Europe, to today's secular forms. The course will focus on how theatrical forms changed from time to time and culture to culture, considering historical context, periodicity, genre, conventions, style, theatrical spaces, acting styles, and technical effects. Westfall, O'Neill
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3.00 Credits
A survey of literature from Beowulf to Milton; major writers, movements, and forms are viewed in their historical contexts. Normally closed to seniors. Staff
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A survey of literature, chiefly poetry, from the Restoration through the nineteenth century; major writers, movements, and forms are viewed in their historical contexts. Normally closed to seniors. Staff
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A study of American prose and poetry from the colonial period to 1870. Normally closed to seniors. Phillips
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This course introduces students to poetry and prose by representative writers of the late 19th and early 20th century. Normally closed to seniors. Staff
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3.00 Credits
English 215 is a one-semester course designed to provide the student with an appreciation of American poetry, fiction and drama by presenting the achievements of classic American writers of the late seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in their historical context. By reading and discussing in class a number of representative works of William Bradford, Benjamin Franklin, James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and others, students should develop greater analytic power, literary insight and deeper understanding of the main currents of historical American thought (3 Credits).
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