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An intensive study of major 20th-century African-American writers. Fiction, poetry, autobiography, and drama will be examined but one genre will be stressed in any given term, e.g., the novel. Lectures will provide historical and biographical context for analysis and discussion of the works. Students cannot receive credit for both ENGL 469 and ENGL 569. (OC). 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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This course will examine works produced by Black women authors, activists, filmmakers and musical performers in order to determine the methods they have incorporated in order to challenge and eradicate the prevailing stereotypes about Black women while advancing their own personal and racial agendas. It will also focus on the extent to which race, gender and class have shaped the creative work of Black women. Students will be required to read, discuss, analyze and write their own responses to the works of such firebrands as author Zora Neale Hurston, activist Ida B. Wells, filmmaker Julie Dash, and singer Billie Holliday. 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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An examination of the effect of different cultural backgrounds on reading and literature. Topics include contrastive rhetoric, folk narrative, and multicultural juvenile literature. This course does not satisfy requirements for the English concentration. Not open to English concentrators. Students cannot receive credit for both ENGL 472 and ENGL 572. (YR). 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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Examines the literary and cultural contributions of Arab and Arab American women novelists, poets and artists to the development and consolidation of the cultures of understanding and coexistence; explores the tensions between citizenship and belonging, race and the politics of fears, gender and geographical mobility, and ethnic minorities and mainstream consciousness; discerns how Arab women writers and artists retool their various artistic endeavors to channel socio-political disenchantment, critique and civil disobedience; stresses how literary and artistic productions of a heterogeneous number of Arab American women writers and artists can indeed foster alternative visions of socio-cultural coexistence, dialogue and hospitality via artistic commitments to technical and stylistic experimentation and renovation. Students cannot receive credit for both ENGL 473 and ENGL 473. For graduate credit take ENGL 573. 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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A survey of fundamental concepts and major concerns in the study of English as a Second Language (ESL). The course examines a variety of psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic issues related to second language acquisition (SLA), ranging from theoretical to pedagogical. A primary focus is on developmental patterns and cognitive processes of SLA and individual variation in ESL speakers in terms of their social motivations and learning strategies. Implications for practical concerns such as the ESL teaching profession, instructional materials and curriculum development will be addressed where relevant. 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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An examination of the structure, history and use of African-American English. Topics will include the pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary of African-American English, theories of origin, linguistic repertoire and code-switching in African-American communities, the Ebonics controversy, and the role of this variety in education and identity formation. Students cannot receive credit for both ENGL 477 and ENGL 577. 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
A thorough grounding in the history and structure of the English language. At issue are the linguistic and ideological origins of the concept of Standard English, and the strengths and limitations of different methods of analyzing the history of the language. The course will emphasize sound change, grammatical change, and their sociological context. (YR) 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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A study of the origin and significance of different forms of English throughout the world. Contact with other languages, pidginization, creolization, standardization, and the formation of the three circles of English are examined. (YR) 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 this course we will investigate why and how people write for particular audiences and in a variety of contexts. Subjects will include: cognitive and social theories of writing and the writing process, theories of persuasion, writing across the curriculum, writing for multiple audiences, writing in the workplace, writing for self and for publics, and teaching writing. The course will be useful to students interested in teaching writing at the K-12 level, those interested in careers in communication and those who wish to better understand how writing promotes personal and societal change. (YR) 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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3.00 Credits
This course analyzes issues of sexuality using the lens of queer theory to understand the ways writers have imagined printed text to reflect and govern desire. This course also explores how queer theory has moved beyond a hetero-homosexual binary by offering alternative solutions to issues in literature that seem to be at political, economic and national impasses. Writers may include contemporary theorists (Sedgwick, Foucault, Butler) as well as novelists (Gaskell and Stoker), playwrights (Kushner and Wycherley), and poets (Behn and Rossetti). 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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