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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Minimum grade C- This course studies novels, short fiction, poetry, plays, and essays by various writers of the late 19th and early 20th century. Major authors of this period are read in the context of the historical, cultural, and literary changes of the times; special attention will be devoted to the rise of modernism in American literature. Authors studied may include Kate Chopin, Henry James, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Eugene O’Neill, and others.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 101, Minimum grade C- This class will examine a few of the major authors and literary movements in America after World War II, decade by decade, in order to read them closely; consider how each is of its time as well as, potentially, timeless; compare the ways in which these works maintain as well as defy literary conventions; and discuss how different kinds of outsiders established their voices in American literature. Authors studied may include Flannery O’Connor, Ken Kesey, Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, Sharon Olds, Tony Kushner, Sherman Alexie, Don DeLillo, and others.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program This course will examine contemporary attitudes towards technology in post-World War II fiction, film, and critical theory, focusing on various visions of a violent past, an imperiled present, and a dystopic near-future. In doing so, we will consider these and other problems: what is postmodernism, and why does every discussion of postmodernism begin by asking what it could possibly mean? How do our novels embody and challenge aspects of postmodernism? And what comes after postmodernism? What do our novels and films say about technology and teleology? About language, readership, and authorship? About the relationship between the human body and the machine? About humanitys interconnected hopes and fears? About the power of science so often juxtaposed against the need for, or absence of, spirituality? Authors will likely include Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., J.G. Ballard, Don DeLillo, Joanna Russ, Kathy Acker, William Gibson, and Chuck Palahniuk; please note that several of our novels contain potentially offensive content. We will also likely use Star Wars and Blade Runner, taken together, as a case study in postmodern, technology-centered film.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Minimum grade C- Literature will be discussed for its aesthetic qualities and its response to the ideas, events and trends that affected most of Europe: the renewal of interest in classical languages and texts, discoveries in the New World, Reformation and Counter-Reformation, Machiavelli, religious wars, the new astronomy. Cross-listed: See HUM 335
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Minimum grade C- An interdisciplinary approach to the Age of Reason, this course emphasizes the literature (Dryden, Swift, Pope, Voltaire, Johnson, etc.), but also considers social history (pre- evolutionary France), political theory (Montesquieu and Rousseau primarily), religion (mainstream Protestantism vs. radical Protestantism and Deism) and art (in France, Baroque and Rococo styles; in England, Hogarth). Cross-listed: See HUM 338
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Minimum grade C- A study of some of the most important literary forms and passages from the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, exploring how these texts have influenced imaginative literature in the English, American, and Continental literary traditions. Cross-listed: See REL 340
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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 243
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Minimum grade C- This course studies Romantic and Victorian poetry and prose.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Minimum grade C- This course studies such major Russian novelists as Gogol, Goncharov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Minimum grade C- Students analyze literature from Asia, Africa and Latin America. Cross-listed: See ENGL 257
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