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3.00 Credits
(3 credits) Students read and analyze examples of technical, scientific, and professional writing. Writing assignments may include formal and informal reports, sets of instructions, research papers, annotated bibliographies, literature reviews, process analyses, position papers, or mechanism descriptions. Revising and editing skills are taught. F,S,Su
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(3 credits)(=NMDC*231)(=DCD*231) This course is designed to provoke and cultivate students' imaginative and critical understanding of film and new media in various cultural contexts. The course promotes an active and critical engagement with film, new media texts, and media innovations as a means for analysis and critique within the broader framework of humanistic inquiry. Texts and films will vary by section. F,S
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3.00 Credits
(3) This course is an introduction to the interrelated elements of the multi-level system we know of as 'Language.' These different levels include: the production of speech sounds and their mental representations, the formation of those speech sounds into words that have meaning, the organization of those words into phrases and sentences, and the ways in which social factors interact with and cause variation at each of these levels of the language system. In this course, students use naturally occurring language data to scientifically analyze the rules underlying each of the different levels of the language system. This scientific study of the language system is referred to as 'Linguistics.' F,S.
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(3 credits) This course is designed to introduce students to works of literature in translation from the Eastern and/or Western literary and intellectual traditions. Drawing from a variety of texts, genres, and formats, each section will examine issues of cultural interaction and translation, emphasizing the significance of cross-cultural dialogue and transfer of ideas between world cultures, historical periods, and/or literary movements.
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3.00 Credits
(=CBAD*290)(3 credits) Students will gain valuable experience with some of the most important types of written and oral communication required in a business and professional context. F,S,Su.
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3.00 Credits
(3 credits)(Prereq: ENGL*101 and ENGL*102 with a grade of 'C' or better) A research-intensive course that offers English majors the opportunity to examine a critical issue current in the discipline of English studies and to participate in a rigorous exchange about this issue with their peers. Depending on the demonstrated scholarly expertise and active research agenda of the instructor, the course will explore a range of theoretical and historical models of reading and reception. English majors should take the course in the first semester of their junior year (or for more advanced majors, during the second semester of their sophomore year). Sections of the course will be offered in both fall and spring semesters and enrollment will be limited to 20 students. This course may be repeated for credit once under a different instructor. F,S
Prerequisite:
Take ENGL*101(6064) ENGL*102(6065); Minimum grade C;
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3.00 Credits
(3)(Prereq: ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of C or better) Students examine the history, movements and technical forms of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction using a combination of example readings and writing workshops. F,S,Su.
Prerequisite:
Take ENGL*101(6064) ENGL*102(6065); Minimum grade C;
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3.00 Credits
(3 credits)(Prereq: ENGL*101 and ENGL*102 with a grade of 'C' or better) In this course students will be familiarized with plays that represent the spectrum of Shakespeare's drama, including comedies, tragedies, histories, romances, and problem plays. We may approach these texts from cultural, theatrical, socio-historical, and literary perspectives, and read each play closely as an artistic construction, a script for popular consumption, and a commentary on the political atmosphere of a period both similar to and different from our own. We may also consider the present place of Shakespeare's drama in diverse cultures around the world. F
Prerequisite:
Take ENGL*101(6064) ENGL*102(6065); Minimum grade C;
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3.00 Credits
(3 credits)(Prereq: ENGL*101 and ENGL*102 with a grade of 'C' or better) This course develops students' knowledge of a wide range of new media, digital, and visual texts that are critically analyzed within particular social, historical, political, theoretical popular, and/or aesthetic contexts. Through various overlapping forms of representation (textual, digital, aural, visual), students explore recurring themes of new media and visual culture. The course features interactive and diverse approaches to assessment, from traditional papers to digital collaborations that show student engagement with visual and new media texts or performances and their literary/cultural contexts. F,S,Su
Prerequisite:
Take ENGL*101(6064) ENGL*102(6065); Minimum grade C;
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3.00 Credits
(3)(Prereq: ENGL*101 and ENGL*102 with a grade of C or better)This course develops students' knowledge of a wide range of American literary and cultural texts that are critically analyzed within particular social, historical, political, theoretical, popular, and/or aesthetic contexts. Through various overlapping forms of representation (textual, digital, aural, visual), students explore recurring themes of American culture including, but not limited to, American exceptionalism, race relations, the individual vs. the state, the meaning of nature, identity creation/identity crisis, and the politics of voice. The literary and cultural texts that students read, view, and listen to include canonical as well as less heralded titles that the instructor selects from these main sources: poetry, fiction, non-fiction, contemporary video, musical lyric, and/or cinema. The course features interactive and diverse approaches to assessment, from traditional papers to digital collaborations that show students engagement with American texts and their literary/cultural contexts. F,S
Prerequisite:
Take ENGL*101(6064) ENGL*102(6065); Minimum grade C;
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