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The literature of the medieval period is extraordinarily diverse. Course topics may include topics such as Arthurian Romance, Tolkien and his sources, Chaucer and the Politics of English, and Imagining East. Meets LAC outcomes: AIB4, HCD5. A Period Studies course. This course meets WID (Writing in the Discipline) outcome. 3 crs. Recent examples of courses offered in this area are the following: IMAGINING EAST. Violence and fascination between East and West reaches back to the Middle Ages, including the conflict of the Crusaders and silk road travelers such as Marco Polo. Students will read, in modern translation, European and Islamic literature to explore ways in which the Other can be represented or imaginatively contained. Students will also study early maps as both geographic and cultural narratives. A Period Studies course. 3 crs. CHAUCER. The reader falls asleep with a book and "awakens"to a dreamscape of "old books" and new visions; pilgrims set forthtoward Canterbury to spin tales of wicked humor and love gone bad. Chaucer's dream vision poems and Canterbury Tales have influenced generations of writers and form the heart of historical English literary studies. Chaucer's work is lyrical, bawdy, soulful-he is the master of English verse. This course studies Chaucer's pivotal place in the re-establishment of English as a vehicle for English national identity. The course also considers how a language "lives" in relation to politics and culture, includingcontemporary English. 3 crs.
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This course studies English literature, literary culture, and language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Topics may include, for example, literature of travel and exploration, seventeenth-century literature, visual culture, dramatic literature other than Shakespeare, the idea of the Renaissance, Spenser. Meets LAC outcomes: AIB4, HCD5. A Period Studies course. This course meets WID (Writing in the Discipline) outcome. 3 crs.
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In this interdisciplinary course, students examine eighteenthcentury literature in relation to social and historical texts and contexts. Examples of special topics for a particular term include home and domesticity; enlightenment religious and philosophical belief systems; or empire and colonialism. Meets LAC outcomes: AIB4, HCD5. A Period Studies course. This course meets WID (Writing in the Discipline) outcome. 3 crs.
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With attention paid to figures such as Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, or Shelley, special topics such as monstrosity or revolution are explored in this course. Meets LAC outcomes: AIB4, HCD5. A Period Studies course. This course meets WID (Writing in the Discipline) outcome. 3 crs.
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Nineteenth-century literature is presented in relation to social and historical texts and contexts. Special topics include women's writing; the construction of childhood; or culture and ethnography. Meets LAC outcomes: AIB4, HCD5. A Period Studies course. This course meets WID (Writing in the Discipline) outcome. 3 crs.
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This course examines literary works within the context of the Victorian era, during which time technological advances led to the rise of factories and the growth of urban centers throughout England. This cultural shift had a profound impact on literature, with novels such as Jane Eyre, Great Expectations, and North and South tracing the migration from the isolation of the countryside to the bustle of city streets. Meets LAC outcomes: AIB4, HCD5. A Period Studies course. This course meets WID (Writing in the Discipline) outcome. 3 crs.
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"Make it new," Ezra Pound wrote. This course explores theModernists' break from the past and their innovations in literary forms. Students read major writers from the period: James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Jean Toomer, Gertrude Stein, H.D., Zora Neale Hurston, Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, and more. Some of the central issues in the Modernist period are discussed: the crisis of meaning brought about by world war, the politics of style, and the dangers and openings residing in the Modernist approach to language. Meets LAC outcomes: AIB4, HCD5. A Period Studies course. This course meets WID (Writing in the Discipline) outcome. 3 crs.
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This interdisciplinary course examines contemporary literature in relation to social and historical texts and contexts. Examples of special topics include literature and chaos; hybrid identities; virtual culture; or global literacies. Meets LAC outcomes: AIB4, HCD5. A Period Studies course. This course meets WID (Writing in the Discipline) outcome. 3 crs.
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Focusing on the impossible origin and haunting affect of psychic trauma, this course explores such issues as monotheism and multiculturalism, eros and thanatos, history and narration, and, in general, the ethical and political interventions on contemporary life that psychoanalysis theory enables. Meets LAC outcome: HCC1. 3 crs.
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New science fiction has integrated the cyberpunk of the '80s and '90s with a whole new exploration of the impactsof technology on social organization and social being. In this course, students will read the work of a new generation of science fiction writers to consider how these writers address the cultural, ethical, and technological issues that confront denizens of the twenty-first century. Prerequisites: WR 222 or equivalent introduction to literature course, and one upperdivision literature course. Meets LAC outcome: AIB7. 3 crs.
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