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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Treats the experiences of native American people of North America as they are revealed in historical documents and literary works. May be taken to fulfill either English or History requirements. Students must register accordingly. (Interdisciplinary)
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3.00 Credits
Surveys the history of art and literature produced by women since the feminist movement of the 1970s. Works explore representative themes of historical, cultural, and political developments associated with the movement. (Interdisciplinary)
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3.00 Credits
Investigates the origins of the novel in the United States, beginning with Huckleberry Finn and continuing through the works of Crane, Anderson, Fitzgerald, and others. Major focus of the course is the ability to explicate intelligently. (Interdisciplinary)
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3.00 Credits
This course will treat the experiences of African-American people in the United States as they are revealed in historical documents and literary works. It may be taken to fulfill either English or History requirements. Students must register accordingly. (Interdisciplinary)
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3.00 Credits
The course surveys selected nature writings from the Western and Eastern worlds by past and contemporary writers of both genders. Poems, short stories, essays, and excerpts from journals, biographies, and novels are examined for their contributions to our understanding of nature, self, and spirit; inner places and outer spaces; and the uncultivated versus the civilized. This is a representative list.
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3.00 Credits
This course presents an overview of themes, techniques, styles, and issues characteristic of modern American drama. Included in the course is a selection of some of the most well known plays of the era as well as some that are considered more avant garde. This course includes such playwrights as Eugene O'Neil, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman, Sam Shepard, and Edward Albee.
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3.00 Credits
Examines romanticism in nineteenth-century American literature as part of the emotional/rational duality that has persisted in human nature at all times and places; as the descendant of the European romanticism that revolutionized thought and action on the Continent and in England, and as the counterpart of contemporary international struggles on behalf of the global environment, national self-determination, and the integrity of the individual.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines a variety of representative contemporary American novels.
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3.00 Credits
Explores American identity since the mid-twentieth century, through history and literature.
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3.00 Credits
Through reading major works in several genres, students will investigate the massive transformations in rural America during the last century and a half. The course studies how rural-based texts respond to issues of race, class, gender, and the environment- issues central to any definition of America. Authors include Willa Cather, John Steinbeck, Zora Neale Hurston, Luis Valdez, and Jane Smiley, among others.
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