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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
This course is a reading and “workshop” introduction to the fundamental working modes (poetry, fiction, drama, and creative non-fiction) of creative writing, based in a broad survey of literary approaches and viewed from the standpoint of the writer.
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4.00 Credits
Significant literary works representing cultures of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Includes such authors as Basho, Mo Yan, Mishima, Yosano, Ruben Dario, Borges, Garcia Marquez, Vargas Illosa, the griot Kouyate, Maran, Achebe, and Soyinka. Cross-listed with MLA 204.
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4.00 Credits
Selected works of American literature illustrating American myths central to our culture's self-conception. Includes such writers as Franklin, Thoreau, Twain, Hemingway, Ellison, and Arthur Miller.
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to the tradition of African-American literature and its underlying historical experiences, cultural values, and modes of literary expression.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Honors standing or permission of university Honors Program. This course will examine the Black urban experience in texts by African American authors writing over the course of the 20th Century. Our scope of consideration will include migration to northern cities at the end of the Civil War, the Black Migration during the First World War and patterns of racial development, as well as racial discrimination in the Black urban community. Literary interpretation will focus on ways in which the Black community reacted to and circumvented racist legislation in urban planning and landscape. Students will learn to consider the literature within a socio-historical context. Our approach to examining literature will be interdisciplinary and literary texts will be presented in chronological order, with attention to identifying and analyzing connections between historic and contemporary issues facing urban environments.
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4.00 Credits
Literature reflecting the women's movement in America. Initial focus examines 19th-century bi-racial origins and ideologies to establish definitions of womanism as distinct from feminism and to frame readings of women's movements across ethnic and cultural communities in America over the 20th century.
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to literature by Native Americans, with emphasis on their cultural diversity and their struggle for national survival and identity.
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4.00 Credits
The study of poetry written in English, with emphasis on its forms and distinctive characteristics. Students will develop their ability to analyze literary texts and to write persuasive essays about them. Particular attention will be paid to understanding some principal genres of poetry. The course will include poets, both women and men, from several different historical periods in which English verse has been composed, and poets from the diverse national/ethnic groups who have written in English. To place English poetry in the context of world literature, some poems composed in other languages will be read in translation. This course introduces English majors to research and critical techniques needed for the baccalaureate study of literature. Alternate for ENG 102 with approval.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Honors standing or permission of University Honors Program. Successful completion of ENG 101 and ENG 102 or ENG102H is required for eligibility. ENG 240H is an Honors version of the standard ENG 240 (Introduction to Poetry). It aims to equip students with the critical vocabularies and techniques necessary to effectively analyze, discuss, and write about poetry. ENG 240H students gain new insights into the ways in which poems function by attending to the formal elements of poetry and discovering how poetic form relates to meaning. The class considers a variety of poetic traditions and explores how particular genres or forms have been reinvented within and across various literary cultures.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to analyzing and writing about literature, focusing on the genres of fiction and drama. Students will learn techniques for reading analytically and critically and for writing critical/research papers on fiction and drama. The course will examine the generic characteristics of a variety of types of fiction and drama, including works written in English by men and women from diverse ethnic/cultural groups and some translated works illustrating various national traditions. Alternate for ENG 102 with approval.
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