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3 Credit Hours Prerequisite: ENG 112 Intended to complement the Shakespeare course, this course focuses on Early Modern poets and playwrights whose works are not as well known, although some of Shakespeare's work is included in the course. Other authors to be considered include Thomas More, Marlowe, Jonson, Wyatt, Sydney, Spenser, Donne, Herbert, Marvell, Crashaw, Malory and Milton. A research paper is required.
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3 credit hours Prerequisite: ENG 112 This course examines the "Long Eighteenth Century", which spans from 1660 to1789. The French Enlightenment's impact upon religion, politics, and philosophy gave rise to the greatest English satirists. Authors may include the poetry and prose satires of Dryden, Pope, Swift, and Johnson. In addition to satire, students will study the development of the following: the rise of the novel, the periodical essay, the biography, and literary criticism. Restoration playwrights such as Gay, Behn, Wycherley, Sheridan, and Congreve will be read as time permits. A research paper is required.
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3 Credit Hours ROMANTIC AND VICTORIAN Prerequisite: ENG 112 This course examines English poetry and prose from the French Revolution to circa 1901. The use of lyric, odes and other forms by Romantic poets is noted as an aesthetic and cultural revolution following the Enlightenment. Victorian poets and novelists are studied as the aftermath of the Romantic revolution in the context of late nineteenth-century crises: industrialization, imperialism; Freudian psychology, the Woman Question, and the assault on Christian faith by utilitarianism and Darwin's theory of evolution. Authors may include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, the Bronte sisters, the Brownings, Newman, Tennyson, Hopkins, Carlyle and Mill. A research paper is required.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours Prerequisite: ENG 112 This course examines a selection of twentieth-century works that may variously include epics, novels, dramas, lyrics, and essays. Representative authors may include Joyce, Woolf, Pound, Eliot, Yeats, Cather, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Ransom, and Stevens, as well as authors spanning from the second half of the century to contemporary times.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credit Hours Prerequisite: ENG 112 Offered every Fall semester An examination of the three most influential and successful systems for analyzing English morphology and syntax: traditional grammar, structural grammar, and generative-transformational grammar. Emphasis will be placed on the structures and functions of traditional grammar both as a basis for learning the other two and for teaching grammar in elementary and high schools.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credit Hours
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3.00 Credits
3 Credit Hours Prerequisite: ENG 112 This course is an in-depth study of the creation of poetry, short fiction, and drama (at the instructor's discretion), leading to the production of a short story, a one-act play, and several poems in classic forms.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credit Hours Prerequisite: ENG 112 This course is an overview of age-appropriate children's literature. The course develops an awareness of the value of good literature in the education and life of children. Integration of children's literature with various performance technologies, such as storytelling, puppetry, children's theatre and creative dramatics, provides students with effective techniques for the elementary classroom. Reviewed literature offers the student a cross-cultural experience. Field experience included.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credit Hours Prerequisite: ENG 112 This course is an overview of developmentally appropriate literature for the adolescent student. The content reflects and projects many of life's experiences and demonstrates that significant parallels exist in the literature of global cultures and interrelated genres. Field experience included.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credit Hours Prerequisite: ENG 112 Offered Spring Semester This course will examine language as systems of sounds, syntax, and small and large units of meaning. Other areas of language study will include writing systems, children's acquisition of language, language and the brain, social and regional dialects, language change over time, and the relationships of world languages to each other.
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