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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Historical development of the English language from its beginnings to the present. Basic grammatical principles to deepen understanding of contemporary grammar. Prerequisite: EN 112.
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3.00 Credits
Both textual and performance analysis of Shakespeare's major works. Students will examine the themes, images, rhythms, and language of the plays, their contemporary relevance, and how text and the performance are interdependent. This is a Communication Intensive course. Prerequisite: One lower-level literature course. FA.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Study of adolescent literature, how to analyze and teach it, ways to incorporate literature in middle school and secondary classrooms. Primarily for middle school and secondary education students, but open to all students. Prerequisite: one lower level literature course. FA.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Selected topics to be determined by the department. Prerequisite: One lower-level literature course.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of the principal literary movements of the nineteenth century including Romanticism, Realism, and Naturalism. The course focuses on a variety of works, many of which are classics, but some show the diversity of writers in this century when American literature came into its own. Includes such writers as Poe, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Melville, Twain, James, Chopin, among others. Prerequisite: One lower-level literature course.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of a variety of writers of the twentieth century. While some have become classics, others demonstrate the diversity of a century characterized by voices struggling to be heard. It includes poetic as well as prose voices illustrating varying points of view. The course includes writers such as Faulkner, Hemingway, Cather, Silko, Morrison, Ransom, Frost, and Williams. Prerequisite: One lowerlevel literature course.
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3.00 Credits
Major works from the Romantic and Victorian Periods. Includes, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, Keats, Emily Bronte, Dickens, George Eliot and Hardy. Prerequisite: One lower-level literature course.
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3.00 Credits
Poetry, drama, and novels representing the Modern and Postmodern Periods. Begins with WWI poets such as Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, and Sigfried Sassoon and includes Joyce, Woolf, Amis, Carey, Selvon, McEwan, Coetzec, and Gordimer. Prerequisite: One lower-level literature course.
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3.00 Credits
The Advanced Creative Writing Workshop is an essential component of the English major. Students immerse themselves in the imaginative process of creating literature and completing a manuscript of poetry, a play, or a novella. The course provides critiques that are intense and technical. Students prepare portfolios of their creative writing and present their work before peers and faculty. Prerequisite: One 200 level writing course.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of the history of literary criticism, beginning with classical Greek thought and ending with post-structuralism. Focuses on specific literary works in relation to a wide range of analytical methods such as formalism, reader response, feminism, Marxism, New Historicism, and poststructuralism. Meets the Communication Intensive course requirement in the major. Prerequisite: One lower-level literature course.
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