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The course will introduce students to the fundamental elements of poetry such as rhythm, meter, and imagery. With an emphasis on the close reading and analysis of poems, students will explore ways to read and enjoy a poem. Students will also write critically about poetry and study the socio-cultural contests in which specific poems were written. Meets LAC outcome: AIB7. A Studies in Literary Genre course. 3 crs.
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How do writers make the ordinary extraordinary To find out, students read stories by masters of the form. The course focuses on elements of fiction and a study of the craft of short story writing and provides an understanding and appreciation for this literary form. Meets LAC outcome: AIB7. A Studies in Literary Genre course. 3 crs.
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The origins, history, and development of the novel are the main elements of this course. The discussion will embrace such concepts as point of view, stream of consciousness, the Bildungsroman, realism, the unreliable narrator, and will look at current and future directions of the novel. Meets LAC outcome: AIB7. A Studies in Literary Genre course. 3 crs.
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As Art Spiegelman notes, "Comics may no longer be the 'realname' for a narrative medium that intimately intertwines words and pictures, but isn't necessarily comic in tone." In the '80s a new name, "The Graphic Novel" was coined fothis burgeoning genre. This course will focus on some of the recent classics in this genre, including several graphic memoirs that bear witness to historical events. Students will also read current criticism and theory, as they examine how images and text work together to inform our interpretations of graphic narratives. Meets LAC outcomes: AIB7, HCD5. 3 crs.
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The course begins with short works from nineteenth-century nature writers Thoreau and Muir, moves through the turn of the century, and ends with contemporary nature writing, including works by Annie Dillard. Meets LAC outcome: AIB3. 3 crs.
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When writers, filmmakers, and theorists imagine the society of the future, they are actually judging the world of the present and how it seems destined to evolve in the future. Increasingly in the modern era, the representations of society, factual or fictional, are more critical than congratulatory, portrayed not as utopias but dystopias. Students will examine some of these works, literary and cinematic, not only to understand their critique of society and culture but also to discern possibilities for social change. Meets LAC outcome: AIB4. 3 crs.
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E.M. Forster once said that "plot has memory and time built into it." The thematic approach of this course includes the reading and discussion of Marcel Proust's Swann's Way , theclassic work in the literature of memory. Other writers to be read include Garcia Marquez, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf. Meets LAC outcome: AIB7. 3 crs.
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This course examines three authors, each with a vision of the afterlife. Students examine the traditional and contemporary understandings of belief (or not) in that afterlife through three great works of literature: Paradise Lost, The Inferno, and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Dante deals with the problem of human sin and notions of heaven and hell; Milton deals with the pre- and post-lapsarian worlds and his own struggle with his Trinitarian beliefs; Blake projects a whole new cosmology through the eyes of a prophet-himself. While not theological in nature, the course will discuss the literature from the Christian context of the times in which each work was written. Meets LAC outcome: AIB4. 3 crs.
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Students travel the world through the narrative texts of authors such as Twain, Naipaul, Eco, or Theroux. How do industrialization, modernization, and globalization change the perception of the cityscape, environment, and the self The voyage of rediscovery, various modes of seeing others, and the narrative expectations of travel literature form the basis of inquiry. Meets LAC outcome: AIB3. 3 crs.
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3 crs. See page 83.
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