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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite, ENG 301. Students study short stories, novels, and novellas from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and/or North America. Can be repeated for credit with a different focus. Dependent upon its focus, this course might be used to satisfy one of the distribution requirements for English majors. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits.
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Prerequisite, ENG 301. Students concentrate on the writings of either one significant author or a group of authors who can be profitably studied together. Examples of major figures include, but are not limited to, Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Keats, Dickens, Hawthorne, Melville, Pound, Eliot, Woolf, Joyce, Proust, Kazantzakis, and Faulkner. Can be repeated for credit with a different focus. Dependent upon its focus, this course might be used to satisfy one of the distribution requirements for English majors. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite, Written Inquiry. An opportunity for in-depth study, this course may focus on a single theme, historical period, or group of rhetoricians. Possible topics include Early Rhetoric (Greek, Roman, early Christian, medieval and scholastic); History of Rhetoric from the English Renaissance to today; the Rhetoric of the American Slavery Debate, History of Women Rhetoricians, the Rhetoric of Technology. May be repeated for credit with different emphasis. Dependent upon its emphasis, this course might be used to satisfy one of the distribution requirements for English majors. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite, ENG 301. Other prerequisites vary according to topic. See instructor or syllabus. This course analyzes key themes, motifs, and principles which integrate philosophy, psychology, politics, sociology or the history of ideas with literature. Recent themes have included Poetics of the Novel; Writers Writing from the Margin, Women in Love and Other Emotional States; Poetry or Prose May be repeated for credit with a different focus. This course can be used to satisfy the diversity distribution requirement for English majors. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite, Written Inquiry. Readings in English translations of literary works from one foreign language such as Spanish, French, Russian, German, Italian, or Japanese. May be repeated for credit with a different focus. This course can be used to satisfy the diversity distribution requirement for English majors. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite, Written Inquiry. Influential critics' discussions about literature's moral value, the artist's creative process, and the relationship between art and life are considered from a historical perspective. Authors studied include Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Longinus, Sidney, Dryden, Johnson, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Arnold, and Wilde. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite, ENG 301. This course allows for the intensive study of significant movements in or theoretical approaches to literary and cultural studies. Possible topics include literary criticism to 1900, feminist theory, and poststructuralism. May be repeated for credit with a different focus. Dependent upon its focus, this course might be used to satisfy one of the distribution requirements for English majors. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite, ENG 301. Depending on the instructor, this course could focus on the emerging nations of Africa, the Middle East, or Central or South America. Writers and filmmakers that might be studied include Chinua Achebe, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, Ousmane Sembene, Peter Weir, or Satyajet Ray. May be repeated for credit with a different focus. Dependent upon its focus, this course might be used to satisfy one of the distribution requirements for English majors. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite, Written Inquiry. Participants will practice various techniques for helping student writers compose rhetorically persuasive discourse, perfect diagnostic and editing skills, design whole courses and individual programs for improvement and enhancement, and validate students' progress. Students may visit current composition classes and/or observe writing tutoring sessions overseen by experienced Writing Center tutors. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite, Written Inquiry. Students gain experience in the fields of business, industry, or academe. Work assignments relate to the major and may take place in law, editing, and business offices, print production and retail firms, newspapers, libraries, schools, or brokerage companies. P/NP. (Offered every semester.) 1-3 credits.
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