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3.00 Credits
Students will explore the way poets use words in concentrated form to convey sensory, emotional, imaginative, and intellectual experience. Students will practice close and full reading of a variety of poems, noting imagery, figurative language, sound, and tone.
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Students will explore the short story form and its various effects. Students will improve critical reading and thinking skills by reading a variety of short stories, examining the essential techniques of short fiction, and considering multiple perspectives on a work of fiction.
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Students will explore the novel form and its various effects. Students will improve critical reading and thinking skills by reading a variety of novels, and examining the essential techniques of longer fiction, and considering multiple perspectives on a work of fiction.
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3.00 Credits
Topics in Literature.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the discipline of literary studies, focusing on writing about literature using multiple critical lenses. The students write sophisticated essays analyzing literature and synthesizing critical sources while developing their understanding of audience and tone in writing.
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Students will study literature written for children and young adults, from birth through high school, to effectively select, evaluate, and appreciate this literature. Course material includes various formats (picture books, early readers, chapter books, middle grade books, young adult novels, or graphic narratives) and genres (traditional literature, fantasy, realism, historical fiction, factual books, or poetry). Topics include supporting young readers' selection of and responses to literature; studying the history of children's and young adult literature; responding to censorship and controversy; and introducing children and young adults to books about diversity (race, ethnicity, disability, etc.) and to works by under-represented populations and from a variety of cultures.
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Studying William Shakespeare's writing is a journey of discovery. This course is designed to start students on that journey as they discover the power of Shakespeare's language as well as his uncanny and modern insight into human nature. Students will read, discuss, and write about Shakespeare's plays and poems.
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3.00 Credits
Students examine the six major novels of Jane Austen in sequence (NORTHANGER ABBEY, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, MANSFIELD PARK, EMMA, and PERSUASION). This course offers an excellent opportunity ot chart how an author develops the skills of characterization and plot development.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines classic literary works of the Victorian era through the lens of the Sherlock Holmes series of detective stories, investigating key themes and concerns of the agesuch as social class, the status of women and children, the role of science, and ethicsas they are represented in literature of the period.
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3.00 Credits
This course gives students an introduction to literature by African American writers representing multiple experiences and historical periods. The students will study various genres and will analyze the literary works in cultural and historical context through both discussion and written assignments.
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