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3.00 Credits
Examines the philosophic and literary turning away from Romanticism in the aftermath of the Civil War and the style and subject matter of American realists, including representations of middle-class and lower-class life. Also explores the emergence of Naturalism and the development of psychologically and socially complex characters and their historical and cultural contexts.
Prerequisite:
ENGL 102
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3.00 Credits
Covers the literature of the United States from roughly World War I to the end and aftermath of World War II. Particular emphasis on literary Modernism and some attention to its underpinnings in intellectual history and postwar cultural shifts. Additional topics may include Imagism, the continuing relevance of Realism, regionalism, the Harlem Renaissance, the little magazine, the Nashville Fugitives, and New Criticism.
Prerequisite:
ENGL 102
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3.00 Credits
Emphasizes post-World War II American literature. Readings may include a focus on individual genres or schools or a survey of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and drama. Emphasizes close readings of primary texts and puts works in larger historical, cultural, and theoretical contexts.
Prerequisite:
ENGL 102
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3.00 Credits
Presents an overview of literature produced by African Americans from the mid-19th century to the present. Explores how African-American writers address issues surrounding gender, race, class, sexual orientation, and identity. Using poetry, novels, essays, autobiographies, short stories, and speeches, examines themes, literary movements, and the development of an African-American literary tradition. Authors include Frederick Douglass, Richard Wright, Jessie Fauset, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin.
Prerequisite:
ENGL 102
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3.00 Credits
Studies the literature and culture of the U.S. South. Emphasizes writers and works from the 20th century Southern Literary Renascence (e.g., Faulkner, Williams, Tate, Warren) to contemporary times, with attention to how these writers engage questions of region.
Prerequisite:
ENGL 102
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3.00 Credits
Familiarizes students with women's literature in the United States, focusing on women as creators of, and characters within, American literature. Covers novels, essays, short stories, poems, and plays with special emphasis on their social and historical contexts. Draws from texts stretching from the 17th to the 20th centuries and considers, among many other subjects, issues of gender, class, race, and artistic form.
Prerequisite:
ENGL 102
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3.00 Credits
Surveys American dramatic literature from the colonial period to the modern, including developments in form, technology, aesthetics, and dramatic theory in the context of American culture and politics.
Prerequisite:
ENGL 102
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3.00 Credits
Offers training in writing for the health professions. Emphasizes the rhetorical principles involved in effective charting practices, report writing, policy writing, and production of health education materials. Focusing on individualized research areas, students practice writing for diverse health-related audiences, including other healthcare professionals, patients, and targeted groups within the general public. Teaches correct usage of APA style.
Prerequisite:
ENGL 102
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3.00 Credits
Examines in detail selected histories, comedies, and tragedies. Requires outside reading and individual research to broaden the student's comprehension and appreciation of Shakespeare's works.
Prerequisite:
ENGL 102
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3.00 Credits
Studies worldwide mythologies (with emphasis on the Greek) and their relation to selected literary works, leading to an understanding of universal mythic themes and their application to literature.
Prerequisite:
ENGL 102
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