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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Examines the development of free verse, as well as more contemporary trends. Includes Eliot, Williams, Stevens, Frost, Roethke, Levertov, Plath, Creeley, and Dickey.
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on the most popular forms of American writing since the middle of the nineteenth century: journalism, magazines, best sellers, classics, and television scripts.
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3.00 Credits
Studies women writers, from Sappho to Sylvia Plath, with emphasis on how women write and the themes they treat in their writing.
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3.00 Credits
Investigates the short novels of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Crane, Conrad, Kafka, Cather, Joyce, O'Connor, Lessing, and Baldwin.
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3.00 Credits
Investigates the methods and techniques of several types of nonfiction: autobiography, personal and narrative essay, history, literary journalism, political humor, and the nonfiction novel. Authors include Joan Didion, Richard Rodriguez, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Jamaica Kincaid, among others.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the history, theory, and practice of literary criticism. Beginning with a study of classical sources, the course investigates how thinkers at various times have defined reading, writing, and the "literary" to analyze and evaluate texts.Much of the course is dedicated to twentieth-century literary theory, including psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, new criticism, reader-response, structuralism, deconstruction, new historicism, and post-colonial. This is a representative list.
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3.00 Credits
Examines works by American writers of different ethnic backgrounds who write about their particular cultural experiences. May include Asian-American, Hispanic, African-American, Native-American, and early European immigrant authors.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the literatures of the Mid and Far East, from Buddha to Chairman Mao, with emphasis on China, Japan, and India. Attempts to broaden the student's worldview through the literature and culture of "the other half of theworld." Includes visits to an authentic Japanese teahouse in New York City and to area Asian restaurants. Demonstrations of Oriental arts, such as Japanese Tea, karate, and origami.
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3.00 Credits
Enables students to acquire a critical awareness of how films work. Basic techniques and theories are explained and then illustrated by means of movie clips. Film classics are discussed and analyzed; students submit critiques of recent films.
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3.00 Credits
Studies selections from the poetry, essays, and fiction of five mystical writers: D.H. Lawrence, Wallace Stevens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Walt Whitman. Aims at generating an understanding of the metaphysical philosophy of each writer.
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