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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 or ENGL 104 or ENGL 204H; Minimum grade C- Students will study in detail the dramatic and literary values of representative comedies, tragedies, histories and romances. Cross-listed: See ENGL 321
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program We speak and write every day, and yet language remains one of the greatest mysteries of our existence. Is it language that distinguishes humans from animals? Is it possible to trace the origins of human language? What is the relationship between speech and silence? Between language and experience? Between words and images? Between original and translation? What are the limits of language? Can we even define what language is? This interdisciplinary course will explore the mythological, philosophical, theological, linguistic, and literary dimensions of these and similar questions. Our readings will span 2500 years of reflections on language, from the Bible and Plato to contemporary inquiries. Along the way, we will encounter philosophers such as Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger, poets such as T.S. Eliot and Emily Dickinson, medieval mystics and modern linguists, and many other writers wrestling with the enigma of language.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Take ENGL 101; minimum grade C- This class will examine some of the major authors and literary movements in America after WWII, decade by decade, in order to read them closely, consider their timeliness and timelessness, compare the ways in which literature has maintained and defied previous conventions, and discuss how different kinds of outsiders established their voices. We will likely include short fiction by Flannery O’Connor and Sherman Alexie, novels by Ken Kesey, Toni Morrison, and Don DeLillo, memoir by Maxine Hong Kingston, and drama by Tony Kushner; poetry will likely include the Beats, Confessional poetry, and the Black Arts Movement, with an in-depth look at the work of contemporary poet Sharon Olds. Cross-listed: ENGL 323
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program The course will consider portrayals of natural and urban landscapes in American Literature and Art and what these portrayals tell us about American national identity, the American character, regional differences, and attitudes toward place and the natural world.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Minimum grade C- This course studies religious issues as treated in literature. Cross-listed: See ENGL 343
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 101, ENGL 104 or ENGL 204H; Minimum grade C- Students analyze literature from Asia, Africa and Latin America. Cross-listed: See ENGL 357
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 101, ENGL 104 or ENGL-204H A study of theatre from the ancient Greeks to the present. Students read and discuss plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Moliere, Wycherly, Ibsen, Wilde, Chekhov, Williams, Miller, Pinter and others. Cross-listed: See ENGL 370
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Minimum grade C- Mythology will be studied in primary sources (such as the works of Homer, Hesiod, Ovid, Virgil and the Greek dramatists). Its influence upon Western literature and art from the Middle Ages to the modern period will be considered. Cross-listed: See ENGL 388; HUM 288/388
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Minimum Grade C- These courses are offered periodically based on the interests of our students and faculty. For more information and a listing of current offerings, please see additional descriptions at www.maryville.edu/specialstudies.
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