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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Fall. Credits: 4. A study of the problems, vocabulary, and tools of writing for the stage. Workshop and presentation of scenes and short plays. Cross-listed with Theater 250. Prerequisites: English 151 or the permission of the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4. An introduction to the basic three-act film structure. Students will read and view various screenplays and films, and develop their own film treatment into a full-length script. Prerequisites: Must have taken a creative writing or film studies class.
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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F2, F4. An introduction to the process of reading critically and writing perceptively about literary works, with examples from the genres of poetry, drama, and narrative. Open to first-year and sophomore students only.
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4.00 Credits
Fall. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F4. A component of the First-Year Learning Community program. Open only to program participants.
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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F4. A study of works written by or about women, this course is an opportunity to explore the distinct issues that women, their representations, and their writing raise. Possible topics: Women's Autobiography, Contemporary Black Women Authors, and others. May be repeated once with different topic. Prerequisites: English 151 or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F4. A study of the evolution of the genre of the novel of manners, from the nineteenth century to its modern practitioners. Authors include: Austen, James, Wharton. This course may be counted toward a Women's Studies minor. Prerequisites: English 151 or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F4. This course will introduce students to African-American Poetry in the United States based on a chronological study and background reading that will provide a context for African-American aesthetic practices. Students will engage in close readings of individual poems by Wheatley, Hammon, Harper, Johnson, Dunbar, Spencer, McKay, Toomer, Cullen, Brown, Hughes, Hayden, Brooks, Knight, Clifton, Komunyakaa, Dove, and others. Prerequisites: English 151 or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F4. A study of literature written about the South, primarily but not exclusively Southern literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. Authors likely to be studied include George Washington Harris, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Wolfe, Eudora Welty. Prerequisites: English 151 or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F4. Selected plays from Shakespeare's major works. Prerequisites: English 151 or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Fall. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F4. An introduction to the critical reading of dramatic texts, and to the various implications of the genre itself. The stage will be explored not only as the site for the enactment of literary themes but also as a cultural arena where the representation of cultural values and discourses becomes contested, subverted, reaffirmed, or celebrated. The issues will also be addressed in examining the translation of theater to film. Prerequisites: English 151 or permission of instructor.
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