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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
(Hum; 4 cr; =[Th 3451]; offered when feasible; summer) Same as Th 3451. A study-abroad course in London and Stratford that concentrates on Shakespeare's plays in performance. Exploration of the relationship between plays as written scripts and the decisions directors and actors make when they stage productions. [Continuing Education course]
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3.00 Credits
A selection of readings that introduces and challenges the concept of the "frontier" as uncivilized land open foracquisition.
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5.00 - 10.00 Credits
An on- or off-campus learning experience individually arranged between a student and a faculty member for academic credit in areas not covered in the regular curriculum. Research Seminar: A research-based study of a literary subject that forms a capstone experience for majors.
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3.00 Credits
Prose and poetry of early medieval England (650-1100) in translation and in Old English (which is studied), with attention to material (manuscripts) and cultural contexts and to reception history.
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3.00 Credits
(HDiv; 4 cr; prereq 1131, two from 2201, 2202, 2211, 2212, #; offered when feasible) This seminar uses selected literary texts, primary historical sources, and theoretical materials to examine the literary and cultural movements undertaken by African Americans during what is popularly called the "nadir" in their history. Authors may include FrancesHarper, W.E.B. DuBois, Pauline Hopkins, James Weldon Johnson, and Charles Chesnutt.
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3.00 Credits
Study of imaginative writing (poetry and prose) about the earth, and an examination of the ways that language transforms or shapes our perceptions of the natural world. In addition to the primary literary works, students read selections about our understanding of the natural world from science, philosophy, and ecocriticism.
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3.00 Credits
Joyce's Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses, with attention to the biographical and historical contexts.
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3.00 Credits
Hum; 4 cr; prereq 1131, two from 2201, 2202, 2211, 2212, #; offered when feasible) Popular writing by American women in the historical context of industrial expansion, the development of modern conceptions of home and workplace as separate spheres, and the emergence of U.S. consumer culture.
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3.00 Credits
Study of tricksters and conjurers in American Indian and African American literature, in particular their ability to maintain traditional practices and subvert the dominant culture and imposed cultural norms. Special attention given to cultural and historical contexts and questions of power, identity, cultural difference, and assimilation.
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3.00 Credits
Study of plays and films from the Restoration until today that involve a rewriting or revision of a Shakespearean play. Through detailed analysis of these revisions, students explore questions about the authenticity of the Shakespearean "original" and howpeople from other time periods have appropriated his plays for their own purposes.
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