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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A general introduction to literature organized around central themes in our global society. Selected themes will vary, but each course offering will include (1) literature from various genres, (2) literature from three centuries and (3) readings from at least three of four distinct cultural categories. Humanities credit. (F, S)
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on the literature of African Americans, Native Americans, Chicanos/Chicanas and Asian Americans. Includes close critical reading of a variety of texts as well as attention to the cultural contexts from which the literature derives. Students may not use this course to fulfill both a major requirement and an Institutional Requirement. (F, S)
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3.00 Credits
Although paying some attention to parallel themes in the "world" literature of post-1900 Europe, thecourse focuses on non-Western literature of the twentieth century and later. It includes close critical reading of a variety of genres as well as attention to the cultural contexts from which the literature derives. Students may not use this course to fulfill both a major requirement and an Institutional Requirement.
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3.00 Credits
Development of American literature from the early Colonial period to the mid-19th century. Readings include Edwards, Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, Dickinson and Whitman. (F, S)
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3.00 Credits
Development of American literature from the end of the Civil War to the present. Readings include Twain, Norris, Crane, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wright, Momaday, Frost, Eliot, Stevens, Hughes and Brooks. (F, S)
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3.00 Credits
A study of selected English literary masterpieces and their backgrounds from the Anglo-Saxons through Boswell's biography of Samuel Johnson. Readings include Chaucer, More, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Pope, Swift and Boswell. (F, S)
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3.00 Credits
English literature from the Romantics to the present, including works by Wordsworth, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Browning, Tennyson, Wilde, Hardy, Yeats, Woolf, Joyce, Lawrence, Lessing, Eliot and Auden. (F, S)
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2.00 Credits
A course examining the practice of literary criticism over time and especially in the past century. This course shows such criticism being used in reflection on major texts during what have been on-going debates about the literature scholar's discipline. (F)
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3.00 Credits
An intensive study of a literary theme, a genre or an approach to writing, language or literature. The subject matter or emphasis will change each trimester. (F and/or S, depending on availability)
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3.00 Credits
Study of Bible stories as key narratives of Middle Eastern and Western culture, both in their original Biblical contexts and in adapted versions prepared by literary writers of many later eras. Tales from both Old and New Testaments are featured, along with adaptations of them by later poets, playwrights, and novelists.
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