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4.00 Credits
4 credits ENG 197 is the third course of a year-long sequence focusing on the history, art, and social contexts of film as an art form. A primary objective of the course is to enhance students' enjoyment and appreciation of film by developing their cinematic literacy. Students are introduced to the basic elements of film language, including cinematography, mise-en-scene, editing, and sound. While American films are emphasized, the sequence also focuses at times on international cinema, looking at all films in the context of time, culture, and ideological effects. Weekly campus screenings are required, and clips of films are used in class for close analysis. A variety of assignments and activities develop and test students "ways of seeing." ENG 197 centers on films chosen around a theme, topic or director. Recent themes include "Film and the American Dream" or "American Independent Cinema." Providing an overview of film language, the course explores the style of the featured films and/or director and looks at their historical contexts and ideological effects relating to such contested areas of social experience as race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation.
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4 credits One scholar suggests that Shakespeare's works "remain the outward limit of human achievement"; they fascinate us because we "cannot catch up to them." Nevertheless, we will have fun running after them. This survey explores the works of Shakespeare, covering 3-5 plays and at least one sonnet each term. Instructors might divide the plays by theme, genre, or chronology. ENG 201 will include Romeo and Juliet.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits One scholar suggests that Shakespeare's works "remain the outward limit of human achievement"; they fascinate us because we "cannot catch up to them." Nevertheless, we will have fun running after them. This survey explores the works of Shakespeare, covering 3-5 plays and at least one sonnet each term. Instructors might divide the plays by theme, genre, or chronology. ENG 203 will include King Lear.
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4 credits Survey of British Literature is a two-term sequence to acquaint students with representative works of important British writers, literary forms, and significant currents of thought. The material for the first term comes from the Anglo-Saxon era, the Middle English period, and the Renaissance, through Milton. Each course may introduce students to different methodological perspectives/lenses through which to read and interpret literary texts, and may include developing an understanding of the social, political and cultural contexts in which texts are produced and interpreted. Primary emphasis is on reading and engaging with the literary materials.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits Survey of British Literature is a two-term sequence to acquaint students with representative works of important British writers, literary forms, and significant currents of thought. Second term includes British literature of the late 17th century through the modern period. Each course may introduce students to different methodological perspectives/lenses through which to read and interpret literary texts, and may include developing an understanding of the social, political and cultural contexts in which texts are produced and interpreted. Primary emphasis is on reading and engaging with the literary materials.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits This course features a selection of classical literature and historical documents that will serve as a basis to examine important cultural values of India, China, and Japan, and to trace their development into contemporary life and literature.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits This is an introductory course to Latino/a literature that will examine some of the major issues that have influenced its development beginning with the contact between European and pre-Columbian cultures. Students will also read some of the major voices in Latin American literature in order to examine how their work anticipates many of the issues facing contemporary Latino/a writers in the United States.
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4 credits This course will examine representations and/or investigations of gender in literature. While some literature chosen for the course may thematically focus readers on the gender roles assigned to people at different points in time in relation to a given culture, other literature will explore the ways in which gender is a socially constructed identity. Critical thinking will play a role as students consider concepts such as social norm, gender construction, subject position, self-other paradigms, and ideology. Feminist models of literary criticism may be considered.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits This course provides an introduction to the oral traditional and formal written literature of Native American cultures through a wide variety of texts from different countries, tribes, regions, and individuals. Students will examine the worldview expressed in the literature, the major thematic currents of oral and written Native American literature, the characteristics of Native American forms and traditions, and the characteristics it shares.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits People often explain themselves and their world according to how they define and perceive their relationship with nature--and they have long done so. The Nature Literature course will examine how people's literature reflects their mythological, theological, philosophical, and scientific views toward nature. Readings will include fiction, poems, non-fiction, and personal essays that project a variety of attitudes toward nature. Students will keep regular Journals in response to their readings and experiences, and will also do their own pieces of "nature writing".
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