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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the field of American ethnic literature, with special emphasis on post World War II formations of ethnic culture: Asian American, Native American, African American, Latino, and Jewish American. Highlights issues, themes, and stylistic innovations particular to each ethnic group and examines currents in the still-developing American culture. (CD, D)
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3.00 Credits
Writers of the mid-nineteenth century, including Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Melville. (D)
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3.00 Credits
Selected topics in the relationship between literature and film, such as film adaptations of literary works, the study of narrative, and the development of literary and cinematic genres. (D)
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3.00 Credits
Novels and short fiction by such writers as Brown, Cooper, Irving, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, and Davis. (D)
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3.00 Credits
Historical overview of drama in America, covering such playwrights as Boucicault, O'Neill, Hellman, Wilder, Williams, Inge, Miller, Hansberry, Albee, Shepard, Norman, Mamet, and Wilson. Also listed as THE 375. (D)
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3.00 Credits
Readings and critical analysis of American poetry from its beginnings to the end of the nineteenth century, including Bradstreet, Emerson, Longfellow, Melville, and Poe, with particular emphasis on Whitman and Dickinson. (D)
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3.00 Credits
Survey of writings on Jewish topics or experiences by American Jewish writers. Explores cultural and generational conflicts, responses to social change, the impact of the Shoah (Holocaust) on American Jews, and the challenges of language and form posed by Jewish and non-Jewish artistic traditions. (CD, D)
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3.00 Credits
Study of Southern literature from its beginnings to the present. Emphasis on major writers such as Tate, Warren, Faulkner, O'Connor, Welty, and Styron. (D)
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3.00 Credits
Reading and critical analysis of autobiographical texts in which the ideas, style, and point of view of the writer are examined to demonstrate how these works contribute to an understanding of pluralism in American culture. Representative authors may include Hurston, Wright, Kingston, Angelou, Wideman, Sarton, Chuang Hua, Crews, and Dillard. (D)
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3.00 Credits
Study of such writers as Twain, James, Howells, Crane, Dreiser, Wharton, and Cather. (D)
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