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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
1-12 Cr. Non-classroom experience in the fi eld of English. Placements are off campus and may be full- or part-time and with or without pay. Credit for experience must be sought prior to occurrence, and learning contracts must be submitted before the end of the fi rst week of the semester. See the experiential learning: internship section of this catalog for more details. Restricted to students with freshman and sophomore standing. Graded CR/NC.
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3.00 Credits
1-3 Cr. Independent reading and/or research under the guidance of an English faculty member. Refer to the academic policy section for independent study policy. Independent study contract is required. May be repeated for credit.
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3.00 Credits
3 Cr. Intensive study of major British novels since 1900, by such authors as Conrad, Forster, Joyce, Lawrence, Ford, Woolf, Huxley, Waugh, and Greene. The course may survey a number of novelists or focus on works by one or two writers. Prerequisite: 104. G6, G9
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3.00 Credits
3 Cr. This course emphasizes British novels and stories (and, late in the semester, American fi lms) set in what we now call "developing" or "third-world" countrieIt explores the ways the West has defi ned itself in its relationship with Africa and the East, how British authors presented non-Europeans, and what this reveals about the British themselves. Authors include Defoe, Kipling, Conrad, Maugham, Forster, and others. Prerequisite: 104. D, G6, G9
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3.00 Credits
3 Cr. Taking up where English 103 leaves off, this course examines the formal elements of argument: claims, warrants, support, induction, deduction, logical fallacies, and classical argumentative structures. Students analyze arguments and create their own in original essays. Recommended for Pre-law program. Prerequisite: 104. W
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3.00 Credits
3 Cr. Multi-cultural study of works by Asian, Middle Eastern, African, Central and South American, and Mexican writers, including such authors as Achebe, Soyinka, Head, Gordimer, Tan, Endo, Mishima, Mahfouz, Allende, Amado, Borges, Garcia Marquez. Prerequisite: 104. D, G6, G9
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3.00 Credits
3 Cr. Designed for writers with experience in expository writing, this course emphasizes development of a distinctive and effective writing style and an awareness of the writing process, including invention and revision. Critical skills are developed through reading and analysis of contemporary writing. Prerequisite: 104. W
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3.00 Credits
3 Cr. Designed for writers with experience in expository writing and interest in pursuing creative work in fi ction. Students read with an emphasis on craft, intention, and effect, and practice artistic observation, description, exposition, and narrative as they build toward fi nished fi ction pieces in various styles. Prerequisite: 211. G5, G9. W
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3.00 Credits
3 Cr. Designed for writers with experience in expository writing and interest in pursuing creative work in poetry. Students read a wide variety of poetic works with an emphasis on craft, intention, effect, and varieties of meaning in poetry. Students practice artistic observation, description, fi gurative language, and the craft of poetic structure as they build toward fi nished poems in various forms. Prerequisite: 211. G5, G9. W
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3.00 Credits
3 Cr. Planning and writing of feature articles suitable for newspaper and/or magazine publication, including human interest, color, seasonal, how-to-do-it stories, profi les, narratives, essay-reviews. Emphasis on interviewing, research, informationgathering techniques, story structure, style, tone, reading and analysis of published feature articles by professional authors. Prerequisite: 103. W
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