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The advanced studies in literature courses are designed specifically for the English major who is contemplating graduate study in English or Comparative Literature. Both courses are in-depth studies of British and American canonical texts. Not open to freshmen. Prerequisite: ENGL 201 and ENGL 202(W) or consent of instructor Offering: Alternate years Instructor: Staff
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The advanced studies in literature courses are designed specifically for the English major who is contemplating graduate study in English or Comparative Literature. Both courses are in-depth studies of British and American canonical texts. Not open to freshmen. Prerequisite: ENGL 201 and ENGL 202(W) or consent of instructor Offering: Alternate years Instructor: Staff
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Examination of generic conventions through study of exemplary literary texts and critical works. Emphasis will vary. (Possibilities include Lyric, Epic, Novel, Autobiography) Not open to freshmen. Prerequisite: ENGL 201 and ENGL 202(W) or consent of instructor Offering: Alternate years Instructor: Staff
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This course will offer students intensive readings in major theoretical texts from Formalism to the present. We will also examine the mutually influential relationships between recent literary theory and such disciplines as philosophy, anthropology, linguistics and psychoanalysis. Possible theories might include: Formalism, Structuralism, Deconstructionism, Reception Theory, New Historicism, Psychoanalytical Theory, Post-Colonialist Theory. Not open to first year students. Prerequisite: ENGL 201 and ENGL 202(W) or consent of instructor Offering: Alternate years Instructor: Staff
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Intensive study of a selected area. Prerequisite: Permission of the department; 3.5 g.p.a. in major Offering: On demand Instructor: Staff
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The Senior Seminar is a capstone experience for English majors who wish to undertake intensive independent research and writing on a literary text or topic of their own choosing, with the approval of the English faculty. The Seminar will provide instruction in framing a research question, developing a theoretical approach, conducting library research, evaluating criticism, and structuring a substantial essay. Seminar participants will write and revise their papers in stages, read and critique the papers of others, and present their papers aloud. Students who elect this senior experience must submit a proposal to the English faculty a semester ahead. General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Writing centered Prerequisite: ENGL 201 and ENGL 202(W) or consent of instructor Offering: Annually Instructor: Staff
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An introduction to environmental science designed to promote an understanding of the effect of human actions on the natural world. Topics include human impacts on atmospheric, aquatic, and terrestrial systems; human population dynamics; environmental perceptions and ethics; and the concept of sustainability. The course includes a service learning component. Lectures, discussion, films, readings. Offering: Every semester Instructor: Staff
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This course will give students a general introduction to environmental history, using a wide range of sources including history textbooks, popular writing about nature and the environment, nature documentaries, and the landscape. The course will challenge students to think critically about the study of history, how history articulates ongoing human efforts to understand and control nature, and how history investigates current debates about the environment. Topics include: deforestation and the development of the agrarian landscape in Western Europe; European colonization and the effect of European contact on native populations in North America; industrialization and the use and development of natural resources; the definitions, planning, and management of public spaces such as national parks, game lands and zoos; establishment of environmental standards; the emergence of conservation ecology; "green" politics and ecofeminism. Mode of Inquiry: Thinking Historically; Environmental Cluster Prerequisite: Closed to freshmen Offering: Spring Instructor: Bourque
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This course examines water resources over short- and long-time perspectives and over small and large geographic areas. Emphasis is placed on evaluating water resources from a multidisciplinary perspective. Topics include: surface and groundwater hydrology; water quality; and the legal, political and environmental aspects of water use. General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Writing centered Prerequisite: Consent of instructor Offering: Spring Instructor: Arabas
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This course provides an introduction to the study of plant and animal distributions, both past and present. This is a broad field which overlaps several other disciplines, including biology, geography and geology. The study of plant distributions will be emphasized and approached from historical, cultural and ecological perspectives. Applications of biogeographic knowledge and theory to conservation problems will also be discussed. The lab component will address quantitative aspects of biogeographic research. Prerequisite: ERTH 112, BIOL 125, or consent of instructor Offering: Fall Instructor: Arabas
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