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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours Prerequisite: Composition 120 An introduction to children's literature, with attention devoted to picture books, adolescent and intermediate fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Specific topics discussed include literary styles, genres, the relationship of art and text, historical development of literature for children, criteria for evaluating contemporary literature, and ways of creating classroom experiences.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours Prerequisite: Composition 120 Students write poetry, including assignments on specific topics and poetic forms. Class work includes practice in-group critiques, discussion of assigned works, and oral presentation of students' poetry.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours Prerequisite: Composition 120 Students write short fiction, including one critical/analytical essay/oral report on a fiction writer of each student's choosing. The class includes writing exercises, in-class group critiques of student work, discussion of assigned works, and individual conferences. The course culminates in a class presentation/reading of revised, selected fiction.
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1.00 Credits
1 credit hour Prerequisite: Composition 120 Working as a staff member on the Highland Echo or Impressions. This course can be taken for a maximum of four credit hours, at one credit hour per semester for service on the Highland Echo staff. For service on the Impressions staff, one may receive a maximum of two credit hours, at one credit hour per academic year. (This assumes a full nine months service). This course is offered on a S/U basis only.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours Prerequisite: Composition 120 An introduction to writing and editing for the print media, including focus on reporting and writing, as well as on editing, layout and design.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours Prerequisite: Composition 120 A course in rhetoric and writing conventions based on a study of grammar and syntax. This course is designed to provide the student with rhetorical options based on an understanding of the function of sentence parts in their relation to one another and to meaning.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours Prerequisite: Composition 120 An examination of the literary expressions of culture in America from the early Puritans through the Civil War. Special attention is paid to the coming of age of American literature in the mid-nineteenth century, with emphasis on the concept of self, transcendentalism, the frontier, and the meaning of symbol.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours Prerequisite: Composition 120 An examination of the literary expressions of culture in America from Reconstruction through the 20th century, emphasizing shifting definitions of America and conflict within American culture over that time period.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours Prerequisites: Composition 120 and FRS 140 A study of works by major British authors, ranging from the Old English period through the eighteenth century. By providing an overview of the development of the British literary tradition, the course will enable students to situate works studied in advanced and period-specific courses within a broad context. Authors to be studied may include Chaucer, Langland, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Johnson.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours Prerequisites: Composition 120 and FRS 140 A study of works by major British authors, ranging from the romantic period through the postmodern. By providing an overview of the development of British literary tradition, the course will enable students to situate works studied in advanced and period-specific courses within a broad context. Authors to be studied may include Blake, Austen, Wordsworth, the Brontes, Woolf, Yeats, Joyce, and Lessing.
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