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3.00 Credits
A survey of Jewish-American literature from the early 20th century to the present. The course explores novels, poems, non-fiction prose, and film in context of the literary, social and political movements of the last century. Writers may include: Abraham Kahane, Anzia Yezierska, Arthur Miller, Gertrude Stein, Tillie Olsen, Allen Ginsberg, Cynthia Ozick, Philip Roth, Adrienne Rich, Michael Chaybon, Jonathan Saffron Foer, among many others.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the key figures, political movements, and black radicalisms and nationalisms that are remembered as part of the Harlem Renaissance. We will focus on the effects of WWI, the Depression, and segregation on black cultural expression.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to modern English grammar, phonology, and semantics.
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3.00 Credits
A variable topics course that offers an in-depth look at a particular literary genre or subgenre over a range of historical periods. Topics may include detective fiction, romance, the novel, magical realism, the lyric, or melodrama.
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A variable topics course in a wide variety of fields and genres. Past topics have included "Electronic Literature", "Freaks in U.S. Culture", and "The American Seen Through British Eyes".
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3.00 Credits
This course addresses some of the leading questions that shaped black writings and expressive culture in the United States from the late 18th century forward. Our readings will include Wheatley, Walker, Delany, Douglass, Du Bois, Ellison, Baldwin, King, Malcolm X, Morrison, Percival Everett, and early and contemporary films and music.
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3.00 Credits
A variable topics course for junior and senior English Majors, serving as a capstone to the major. Courses are in depth encounters with an author or topic (James Joyce, the literary body, place, etc.) that focus on the development of advanced research, presentation, and writing skills. ENGL 400 is required of students matriculating after July 1st, 2009. No student may enroll in ENGL 400 without first having taken ENGL 300.
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3.00 Credits
A course conducted mostly as a workshop. It will also include some assigned writing exercises and weekly reading of published short stories to deepen students' understanding of narrative technique.
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3.00 Credits
An in-depth study of contemporary poetry, this course emphasizes the careful analysis of books by six to eight contemporary poets, the reading of selected essays on poetic technique, and the writing of poems with a view toward finding a personal voice.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the literature of the Native American Renaissance, from N. Scott Momaday's groundbreaking Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, House Made of Dawn (1968), to the recent works of some emerging writers. Although our focus will be on the contemporary novel, we will also explore American Indian autobiography and other works of nonfiction. Our literary analysis will be supplemented by an awareness of the cultural and political movements important to American Indian peoples in the late 20th century. To what extent are Native texts both innovative forms of artistic expression within a literary tradition and instruments of social change? How might Native American works be read as "resistance" literature? In exploring such questions, the class will address the issues of sovereignty, land claims, activism, and identity.
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