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4.00 Credits
4 credits The course will introduce students to a new way of seeing the world they live in as they read the lives of Native Americans written by themselves. Autobiographies studied will range from early historical works narrated and translated by anthropologist to modern works by Linda Hogan and N. Scott Momaday. Thses texts will be studied in their historical contexts, as well as their cultural contexts. Speakers and films will play an important role in this course. The goal of the class is to present a fuller picture of the voices and visions of Native Americans.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits The nature and formal principles of studying folklore and myth will be introduced and illustrated through a variety of texts, folk artifacts, and thematic ideas, including world-wide examples that extend beyond Western cultures. Students will examine folkloric elements in their own and each other?s backgrounds, as well as textbook examples of folklore and folk life from regional, ethnic, age, gender, or work groups. Students will consider how myth informs their own and each other's backgrounds, as well as examine textbook examples of myth and mythic themes, motifs, and archetypes from regional, ethnic, age, gender, or work groups. The course will introduce students to formal approaches to a variety of folklore and myths, and explore the relationship between myth, culture, and society. Folklore and myth will also be considered from a cross-cultural perspective.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits Survey of American Literature is a two-term sequence to acquaint students with representative works of important American writers, literary forms, and significant currents of thought. Primary emphasis is on reading and engaging with the literary materials, with an introduction to practices of literary interpretations. Questions of genre, authorship, aesthetics, and literary movements may be examined in their relationships to social, political, and intellectual movements in the United States. The first term will draw on material from colonial settlement in the Americas through the Civil War period.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits Survey of American Literature is a two-term sequence to acquaint students with representative works of important American writers, literary forms, and significant currents of thought. Primary emphasis is on reading and engaging with the literary materials, with an introduction to practices of literary interpretations. Questions of genre, authorship, aesthetics, and literary movements may be examined in their relationships to social, political, and intellectual movements of the United States. The second term will include literature from the end of the 19th century to the present.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits Students will be introduced to various theories of class and ethnic and gender theories as well as to historical, political and social issues related to representative texts and complete an interview with an experienced worker from the student's family or community. The student will analyze and compare the worker's story to the literature and films reviewed in class.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits Students will be introduced to various theories of class and ethnic and gender theories as well as to historical, political and social issues related to representative texts and be able to read literature and make presentations about literature from more countries than there is time for now.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits This new course creates several perspectives through which to explore the African American experience: Drama, Poetry, and Film Studies. This course is designed to allow students to utilize textual materials, dramatic presentations, films, and documentaries to chart, research, examine, and evaluate the interconnectedness of black plays, poetry, and film representations. Students will have at their disposal a variety of resources to aid them in understanding the themes, techniques, and critical theories underlying the foundations that black playwrights, poets, film historians, and filmmakers/actors have developed and refined over the years. This new course will guide students to a clearer yet more comprehensive understanding of the collaborative aspect of these artistic expressions in the African American world and their continuing influence on the larger American experience in Arts and Letters.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits This course will introduce students to the richness and variety of literary works written by women. Issues that concern women writers, the impact of stories, and how class, race, and gender work to construct the stories we live by will be central to the course. Students will consider fiction written by women writers in a global context from the seventeenth century to the present day. The course will include an introduction to feminist literary theory and will introduce students to a variety of literary genres and styles, including the slave novel, sentimental, realistic, and postmodern fiction.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits Explores science fiction, fantasy and speculative futures through literary and popular fiction, film and guest authors. Discusses content, styles, techniques and conventions of the genre. Refined focus on research and the art of film adaptation.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits This course will focus primarily on the poetry and poetics of Bob Dylan's work. Textual analysis will lead to understanding of syntax, imagery, narrative tactics, and other poetic elements, and students will gain familiarity with the range of Dylan's poetic genres. As with any literature course, we will examine how meaning is produced through words and sound. Dylan's musical and literary sources, and his influence in our culture, will also be explored.
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