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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A study of women's literature in all genres from the Middle Ages to the present. Readings may include Kempe, Lanyer, Behn, Wollstonecraft, Chopin, Gilman, Woolf, Lessing, Atwood, Kingston, Silko and Walker. (S, alt. years)
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to Shakespeare's most popular and/or important plays and poems, including the sonnets, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew and such works as The Tempest, Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III and Venus and Adonis. ( F, alt. S)
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
Tutorial for individual student projects. Instructor's permission required. (F, S)
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3.00 Credits
This course may focus on any period or aspect of British literature. The class might focus on a particular author (e.g. "Where Angels Fear to Tread: E.M. Forester," "The World of J.R.R. Tolkien"); a grouof writers (e.g. "The Bloomsbury Group," "The "Sonof Ben Jonson"); the literature of a specific period, genre or place (e.g. "Irish Modernism," "Medieval Drama"); or a specific theme (e.g. "Victorian Stunners, ?irginia Woolf's Feminism"). Students marepeat the course with a change in topic.
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3.00 Credits
This course may focus on any period or aspect of American literature. The class might focus on a particular author (e.g. "Leaves and/or Grass: Walt Whitman," "The Awakening of Kate Chopin")a group of writers (e.g. "African American Writers between the Wars," "American Modernist Poets")the literature of a specific period, genre or place (e.g. "Twenty-First Century American Fiction," "AmericaNature Writing") or a specific theme (e.g. "Gender& Memoir," "Sense & Sentiment in Nineteenth-Century Women's Literature"). Students may repeatthe course with a change in topic.
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3.00 Credits
This course may focus on any period or aspect of World literature. The class might focus on a particular author (e.g. Tolstoy, Chinua Achebe), a group of writers or a genre (e.g. "Trans-Atlantic Romanticists," "Contemporary World Drama"); thliterature of a specific period or place (e.g. "Classical Epic Poetry," "South American Magic Realism"); or specific theme (e.g. "poetry in Translation: Issues & Answers," "Post Colonial Literature"). Students marepeat the course with a change in topic.
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3.00 Credits
A study of genres, figures and/or issues from British literature of the Medieval and Renaissance periods. Specific subject matter and emphasis of course will change each trimester. Possible topics include "Middle English literature,"which would include Medieval writers such as Chaucer, Margery Kempe and Sir Thomas Malory; "Renaissance Drama," examining theworks of authors such as Christopher Marlowe, Elizabeth Cary and Shakespeare; or intensive focus on the works of a specific writer such as the Pearl Poet, Edmund Spenser or John Milton. Students may repeat the course with a change in topic.
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3.00 Credits
A study of genres, figures and/or issues from British literature of the past 300 years. Specific subject matter will change each trimester. Possible topics include "Literature of the Romantic Movement," examining works of authors such as Emily Bronte, William Wordsworth, Mary Shelley and Lord Byron; "The Victorian Age," featuringwriters such as Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Rudyard Kipling; or "Twentieth- Century British Fiction," including writers such as Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and Anthony Burgess. Students may repeat the course with a change in topic.
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3.00 Credits
An intensive study of World or Multicultural literature. Specific subject matter will change each trimester. Possible topics might include "Literature of the Harlem Renaissance," with works by authors such as Hughes, Toomer, McKay, Hurston and Bontemps; "The Development of the Modern Novel,"examining novels by authors such as Petronius, Boccaccio, Cervantes, Voltaire, Austen, Dostoevsky, Woolf, Beckett, Robbe-Grillet, Morrison, or Achebe; or "Anglophone Literature: Fiction of the Post-Colonial World," including works by Rushdie, Naipaul, Gordimer, Lessing, Coatzee, White, Atwood and Munro. Students may repeat the course with a change in topic.
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3.00 Credits
An intensive study of topics in American literature. Specific subject matter will change each trimester. Sample topics: "American Romanticism," with suchauthors as Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Whitman and Dickinson; "The Small Town in American Literature,"with works by Hawthorne, Twain, Anderson, Lewis, Gaines, Lee, King, Morrison and Faulker; "American Modernism and Long Poem," examining the long works of Whitman, Eliot, Williams, H.D. Stevens, Heaney and Dove. Students may repeat the course with a change in topic.
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