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3.00 Credits
An in-depth examination of various personalities of the Middle Ages, both historical and fictional, who are distinctive for their martial prowess, their reputation as lovers, their piety, or some combination of these traits. Attention to these figures (e.g., Roland, Tristan, St. Augustine, and Abelard) will enable the class to consider important medieval norms of behavior, such as chivalry, courtly love, and Christian faith. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Literature,Philosophy&Arts Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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3.00 Credits
This course will study selected readings from the Bible, first in regard to their own literary, historical, and cultural contents, and then in regard to their reception, interpretation, and reapplication by later literary tradition. Biblical selections may cover both the Old and New Testaments as well as Apocryphal traditions, while readings from later non-biblical texts will be drawn from various literary periods. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Literature,Philosophy&Arts Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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3.00 Credits
This course questions the literary techniques and forms the English writers developed between 1660 and 1900 to characterize and imagine London to be a unified community and to counter the growing perception of London as a "monstrous city." This image of "the English-speaking City" as an uncontrollable monster may be explored in writings by Daniel Defoe, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, and Joseph Conrad. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Literature,Philosophy&Arts Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
A wide-ranging exploration of American literature from its colonial origins through the Civil War. The works of such major authors as Anne Bradstreet, Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass, and Herman Melville will be studied in cultural context. 2.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours 2.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Literature,Philosophy&Arts Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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3.00 Credits
A study of the major trends in American prose and poetry, including realism and naturalism, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, through the work of such authors as Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, and Sara Orne Jewett. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Literature,Philosophy&Arts Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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In Writing for Civic Literacy, students will study how politicians, the media and critical citizens use language to engage with the broader community. Students themselves will learn to use language to become more active, well-informed citizens. They will study rhetorical awareness, audience analysis and persuasive writing techniques and put those lessons to use in community settings. They will perform community service at agencies of their choosing and use those experiences as objects of analysis, researching the social context in which those agencies operate and writing analytically about the agencies. Further, students will synthesize classroom lessons and real-world experience by executing writing tasks for and with the agencies (these tasks might include editorials for the local press, informational webpages and fundraising materials). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Seminar Literature,Philosophy&Arts Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
A survey of American literary trends from World War I to the present. Authors covered include Eliot, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, O'Neill, Agee, Dos Passos, West, O'Connor and Miller. 2.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours 2.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Literature,Philosophy&Arts Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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3.00 Credits
A survey of 20th- and 21st- century British and/or American poetry and poets, including such authors as Wallace Stevens, W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Langston Hughes, and Sylvia Plath. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Literature,Philosophy&Arts Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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3.00 Credits
Explores the narrative conventions of literary and filmic fictions in a cultural, historical, and psychoanalytic context. Goes beyond a discussion of the relative merits of novels and their respective film adaptations and examines the more complex interchanges between the two narrative forms, the ideological function of narrative in contemporary society, and the effect of the medium of a fictional text on the reader/viewer. (AY). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Literature,Philosophy&Arts Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
A survey of Old and Middle English literature (mostly in translation) designed to acquaint students with the development of themes and techniques of English authors writing before 1500. (OC) 2.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours 2.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Literature,Philosophy&Arts Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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