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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Focuses primarily on the works of Dryden, Swift, Pope and Johnson. Through a wide range of reading, including texts by a number of minor authors, students will investigate the major themes of Restoration and 18th century literature. Particular attention will be given to satire and works that explore the uses and limitations of rationality.
Prerequisite:
ENGL 102
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3.00 Credits
Provides reading, instruction, and practice in techniques in writing in a particular genre or sub-genre. Students are expected to compose and share work with the instructor and other students.
Prerequisite:
ENGL 102
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3.00 Credits
Explores and analyzes in depth various British Romantic authors and texts, covering a range of genres. Includes some consideration of European Romanticism and the Romantic Movement as expressed in visual and musical arts.
Prerequisite:
ENGL 102
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3.00 Credits
Explores the intersection between imaginative writing and cultural issues during this period (1830 to 1900) of intensive change regarding gender roles, economic and social inequality, individual liberty versus traditional values, the rise of science (including evolution), religious difference, the role of art and literature, and the justification of any belief in a time of intellectual and spiritual disagreement.
Prerequisite:
ENGL 102
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3.00 Credits
Focuses primarily on the literature of British authors from 1890 to 1950. Takes an interdisciplinary approach, situating literature within larger social, cultural, and artistic movements, exploring the decline of the British Empire, the persistence of the social class system, the disillusionment with the techno-rationalism of modernity, experimental forms of representation such as Cubism, Psychological Realism, Expressionism, Imagism, Futurism, Surrealism, and Existentialism.
Prerequisite:
ENGL 102
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3.00 Credits
Covers a wide range of recent British literature, including authors who have been recognized with prestigious literary prizes. Material may include multiple genres (fiction, poetry, drama, and film). Course will give insight into the cultural, political, and personal complexities that characterize mid- to late-20th century and 21st century British texts.
Prerequisite:
ENGL 102
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3.00 Credits
Offers a treatment of the composing process, emphasizing matters useful to teachers of writing, especially current theories. Most assignments involve essay writing, including a substantial amount of application of critical theory to literary texts. Practicum requires student work in the Writing Center or Extended Writing Studio two hours per week.
Prerequisite:
ENGL 102
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3.00 Credits
Extensive work in analysis and composition of texts written by and for professional educators. Assignments involve careful reading and practice composing in various modes relevant to early-childhood, elementary, and middle-level teachers. Students also explore connections among writing, teaching, and learning as they examine the implications that their experiences as writers have for their work as teachers, particularly teachers of writing.
Prerequisite:
ENGL 102
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3.00 Credits
Covers the philosophical, historical, and literary beginnings of American literature through 1820. Examines literary purpose, audience, and genre for a variety of texts authored by Native Americans, Puritans, African Americans, visitors to America, and Revolutionary thinkers. Texts will include sermons, diaries, histories, autobiographies, biographies, poetry, plays, letters, pamphlets, captivity narratives, songs, and fables.
Prerequisite:
ENGL 102
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3.00 Credits
Covers philosophical and literary changes associated with a turn toward the imagination and the intuitive. Includes texts by writers such as Melville, Hawthorne, Poe, Thoreau, Douglass, Emerson, Dickinson, and Whitman, and others, notably women, who were also writing popular texts of the time period.
Prerequisite:
ENGL 102
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