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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities. A study of the works, mainly twentieth-century fiction, of black writers in America. Analysis of the artistic expression and vision of such writers as Chesnutt, Ellison, Hughes, Gaines, Brooks, Marshall, Walker, and Morrison will include an exploration of black aesthetics, as well as an investigation of the ways in which these authors treat personal, racial, historical, political, and gender-based issues. Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Fall or Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities. A study of major works, with particular attention to literary modernism-its rise, reception, and wake-within the context of its cultural and socio-historical frameworks. Readings may include work by Conrad, Ford, Forster, Greene, Joyce, Lawrence, Rhys, Waugh, Woolf, and other authors from more recent decades.Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Fall or Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities. This course will examine fiction, poetry, and drama published between the years following World War II to the present day. The works will be read against the backdrop of the decline of modernism and European colonialism and the subsequent rise of postmodernism and its many attendant sub-movements. Authors could include Lowell, Ellison, Mailer, Bellow, Sexton, Pynchon, Barth, O'Connor, Updike, Oates, Roth, Morrison, and Wallace. Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course. Majors only.
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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities. A study of the emergence of new writers after 1945, with close analysis of poems, works of fiction and plays. May be repeated with different topic. Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities. This course investigates crucial contemporary issues in postcolonial literature and theory. Topics will vary by year, though each will explore various voices, relations, and movements that comprise the literature of the postcolonial Other. Sections might center on specific geopolitical regions (i.e. literatures of the Caribbean, Africa or South Asia), groups of writers (ie, postcolonial women and literature), genre (i.e. postcolonial poetry) or thematic concerns. Other sections might provide an overall introduction to postcolonial texts and theory. Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities. Exploration of special topics at a level designed for English majors. Content will vary from year to year. Course may be repeated for credit with a different topic. Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities. The focused exploration of a topic or genre that ties a body of films together in order to pursue issues of film criticism and theory in depth. Such topics as the following may be considered: gender and film, race and film, film adaptation, American genre films, the film auteur, screenplay writing. Includes the study of critical texts. Repeatable for credit with different topic. Prerequisites: Any 200-level film class or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities. The study of appropriate films in connection with a selection of theoretical texts that elaborate the problem of meaning in film. Films and readings will be roughly chronological. Requirements include mandatory attendance at film screenings, to occur outside of scheduled class hours. Prerequisites: Any 200-level film class or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities. The focused exploration of special topics or critical problems in literary study. Topics will vary from semester to semester, and may include the intensive study of major authors, literary genres or movements, historical contexts of imaginative expression, significant themes, or critical methodologies. Courses include the study of critical texts and issues that are central to defining and interpreting their literary topic. Seminar format. Repeatable for credit with different topic. Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor. Majors only.
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1.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 1. Junior English majors wishing to read for honors are required to enroll in a preparatory tutorial in the spring semester. Although required for honors, enrollment in this course does not guarantee acceptance into the Honors Program.
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