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3.00 Credits
Fulfills a Period/Topic Studies requirement for English majors pursuing an emphasis in Literary Studies or English Education, and open to other interested students. Students will explore significant works of twentieth-century Western American literature. Students will write several critical assignments and conduct a major research project. Offered in rotation; consult class schedule. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Explain and identify major forms, genres and themes found in Western American literature. 2. Analyze literary elements, including plot, setting, characterization, theme, point of view, figurative language and other literary devices. 3. Evaluate myths and ideologies (e.g. American exceptionalism, the American Dream, freedom, equal opportunity) from a Western regional perspective. 4. Create high quality researched essays that critically investigate the relations between American history and culture and regional literature. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 (Grade C or higher) or ENGL 2010A (Grade C or higher).
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Fulfills a Period / Topic Studies requirement for English majors pursuing an emphasis in Literary Studies or English Education, and open to other interested students. Students will engage with the work and ideas of major realist and/or modernist writers, such as Austen, Eliot, Dickens, Conrad, Woolf, Hemingway, and Faulkner. Students will be expected to read extensive amounts of work, write several critical assignments, conduct a major research project, and take at least two exams. Offered in rotation; consult class schedule. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Explain the importance and relevance of realist/modernist authors, themes, tropes, and genres. 2. Analyze individual literary works through written and oral responses. 3. Explain how realist/modernist writers have and continue to exert historical, social and political influence on British, American, and world culture. 4. Evaluate relevant scholarly sources and significant critical research covering realist/modernist literature. 5. Create publishable quality scholarly writing which synthesizes current research with student's original ideas in relevant area of realist/modernist literature and studies. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 (Grade C or higher) or ENGL 2010A (Grade C or higher).
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3.00 Credits
Fulfills a Period / Topic Studies requirement for English majors pursuing an emphasis in Literary Studies or English Education, and open to other interested students. Focuses on major theories and debates regarding gender and ramifications of gender delineations, explores definitions of the masculine as well as the feminine, and examines the function of conventional gender roles in primary literary as well as theoretical texts. Although gender will be the primary lens, includes analysis of race, class, ethnicity, social identity, and the intersections among these categories. Students will be expected to read extensive amounts of work, write several critical assignments, conduct a major research project, and take at least two exams. Offered in rotation; consult class schedule. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Investigate the idea of gender development and reinforcement in a supportive, though challenging, environment through literature, by reading and examining a variety of works which might be designated as such. 2. Analyze and critique, through both verbal and written avenues, a specific literary text in a meaningful and effective fashion, doing far more than stating the obvious, while also synthesizing primary and secondary sources to support original arguments about the texts read. 3. Investigate how socio-cultural factors influence authors whom either consciously or unconsciously engage gender concepts in their writing. 4. Examine and critique intersections of gender with other cultural elements such as race/ethnicity, class, sexuality, gender performance, age, and/or able-bodiedness. 5. Encounter and discuss primary theoretical texts within the discipline of gender studies. 6. Develop and use a vocabulary for discussing the rhetoric of gender as found in literature. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 (Grade C or higher) or ENGL 2010A (Grade C or higher).
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3.00 Credits
Suggested for English majors pursuing an emphasis in Literary Studies and anyone interested in exploring the links between a historical moment--the Holocaust--and numerous creative works that have been developed in response to it, including memoir, novels, short stories, poetry, and film. Introduces themes, motifs and other narrative elements that distinguish novels, memoirs, and motion pictures produced since 1945, the year the Nazi death camps were discovered and liberated. Authors studied will include Elie Wiesel, Charlotte Delbo, Primo Levi, Thomas Keneally, Hannah Arendt, and Tadeusz Borowski. The course will also consider the ethical challenges that arise around the Holocaust and its depictions, addressing commercial novels, television productions, and motion pictures, such as The Book Thief, Holocaust, and Schindler's List, which critics have charged with exploiting human suffering for profit. Course offered in rotation; consult class schedule. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Create written work that meets the professional standards of academic writing in the fields of literary and cinematic studies. 2. Make connections between their own thinking and writing and the work of secondary scholars. 3. Effectively communicate their ideas orally and in writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2010A (Grade C or higher).
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3.00 Credits
Fulfills a requirement for a minor in Environmental Humanities, fulfills the Period/Topics requirement for English majors pursuing an emphasis in Literary Studies, and open to all other interested students. The course focuses on major themes and debates in environmental literature and climate fiction. Interdisciplinary in scope, the class engages ecocriticism (the study of literature and the environment) with such fields as feminism, postcolonialism, indigenous and race studies, climate science, globalization, migration studies, urbanism, and social justice. Students will read climate fiction and environmental literature alongside critical and theoretical essays and write several critical papers, conduct a major research project, and take exams. ** COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) ** At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Investigate and critique literature through an ecocritical lens. 2. Evaluate the intersections between the environment and such aspects as race/ethnicity, class, geography, postcolonialism, and gender. 3. Investigate effects of climate catastrophe on humans and non-humans in the Anthropocene. 4. Create high-quality researched essays on topics that pertain to environmental criticism. 5. Evaluate the significance of an environmental understanding in both literature and culture. Prerequisites: ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2010A (Grade C or higher).
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3.00 Credits
Required of all English majors, and open to other interested students. Examines multicultural literature by American authors and studies the contributions to American literature by African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans. Focuses on novels, short stories, essays, and poetry that examine the social construction of race in American society, the construction of American identity, and the intersections of race, class, and gender. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Identify and explain major forms, genres and themes found in multicultural American literature. 2. Analyze literary elements, including plot, setting, characterization, theme, point of view, figurative language and other literary devices. 3. Analyze the "myths of America" (e.g. acculturation, assimilation, language and ethnic identity) from minority points of view. 4. Create high quality researched essays on topics that pertain to multicultural American experiences in selected literature. 5. Evaluate the importance of a multicultural focus in both American literature and American culture. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 (Grade C or higher) or ENGL 2010A (Grade C or higher). FA
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3.00 Credits
Required of English majors pursuing an emphasis in Literary Studies, and open to other students curious about the relationship between the literary arts and other cultural forms. This interdisciplinary course exposes students to a broad selection of American literary, cinematic, artistic, and cultural works that investigate the relationship between American culture and literature. Students will be introduced to the ways in which texts and artifacts are closely tied to the geographical and cultural space as well as the historical period in which they emerge. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Explain and identify major forms, genres and themes found in American literature. 2. Analyze literary elements, including plot, setting, characterization, theme, point of view, figurative language and other literary devices. 3. Evaluate myths and ideologies (e.g. American exceptionalism, the American Dream, freedom, equal opportunity) from a cultural criticism point of view. 4. Create high quality researched essays that critically investigate the relations between American culture and literature. Prerequisites: ENGL 2010 (Grade C or higher) or ENGL 2010A (Grade C or higher). FA (odd)
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3.00 Credits
Fulfills a Major Authors requirement for English majors pursuing an emphasis in Literary Studies or English Education, and open to other interested students. In depth exploration of the work of a major writer or group of writers. Topics and time periods vary among American authors according to instructor expertise and might include, for example, Jefferson, Douglass, Melville, Dickinson, Cather, Hemingway, Silko, or Morrison, among others. Emphasizes the dynamic interplay among the aesthetics of the text(s), the author's life, and the socio-political context in which the works are produced. Students will be expected to read extensive amounts of work from these authors, write several critical assignments, and conduct a major research project. Offered in rotation; consult class schedule. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Explain the importance and scope of the major author(s) covered in the course. 2. Analyze important individual literary works through written and oral responses. 3. Create unique and insightful claims about how writers and works have and continue to exert influence on specific national or regional literature and culture. 4. Synthesize relevant scholarly sources with the student's own original ideas in a balanced manner (quotations, paraphrases, and summaries fit nicely with paragraph main ideas and topic sentences) and create unique scholarly work. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 (Grade C or higher) or ENGL 2010A (Grade C or higher).
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3.00 Credits
Fulfills a Major Authors requirement for English majors pursuing an emphasis in Literary Studies or English Education, and open to other interested students. In depth exploration of the work of a major woman writer or group of women writers. Topics and time periods may vary according to instructor expertise. Emphasizes the dynamic interplay among the aesthetics of the text(s), the authors' lives, and the socio-political context in which the works are produced. Students will be expected to read extensive amounts of work from these authors, write several critical assignments, and conduct a major research project. Offered in rotation; consult class schedule. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Analyze and explore the unique contributions of women authors to the literary canon. 2. Link the chosen women authors to their major works and trace thematic elements that run through each authors' oeuvre of work. 3. Analyze, connect, and assess common themes specific to female writers throughout a breadth of time, experience, and place and begin to investigate how these themes both reflected and created social change. 4. Explore how the chosen literary texts are engaging with recognizable literary tropes, themes, styles, periods, and accoutrements of literary narrative and writing. 5. Analyze and critique a specific literary text in a meaningful and effective fashion, doing far more than stating the obvious. 6. Evaluate and assess the insights of scholarly criticism pertaining to the primary texts read in the class. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 (Grade C or higher) or ENGL 2010A (Grade C or higher).
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3.00 Credits
Fulfills a Major Authors requirement for English majors pursuing an emphasis in Literary Studies or English Education, and open to other interested students. In depth exploration of the works of a major African American writer or a group of major African American writers. Topics and time periods may vary according to instructor expertise. Emphasize the dynamic interplay among the aesthetics of the text(s), the authors' lives, and the socio-political context in which the works are produced. Students will be expected to read extensive amounts of work from these authors, write several critical assignments, and conduct a major research project. Offered in rotation; consult class schedule. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Explain the importance and influence of the major author(s) covered in the course. 2. Analyze important themes located in individual literary works through written and oral responses. 3. Create unique and insightful claims about how writers and works have and continue to exert influence on literature and culture. 4. Analyze relevant scholarly sources with the student's own original ideas in a balanced manner (quotations, paraphrases, and summaries fit nicely with paragraph main ideas and topic sentences) and create unique scholarly arguments. 5. Examine the role of African American literature in the larger context of American and world culture. Prerequisites: ENGL 2010 (Grade C or higher) or ENGL 2010A (Grade C or higher).
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