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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A study of the conventions of a selected literary genre (e.g., Gothic literature, science fi ction, detective fi ction) through reading and analysis of clasic examples. The course focus will be announced each time it is offered. In addition to an overview of the defi nition and history of the genre, the course will examine the conventions (e.g., setting, types of characters and dramatic confl icts, acceptable literature. Larger cultural confl icts often refl ected in these works, such as Gothin literature's treatment of exotic materials related to colonialism or science fi ction's refl ections of anxieties about progress, will be explored. PREREQUISITE: ENGL 150.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine literary works and fi lms based on them. Students will compare the narrative and descriptive strategies of the two media with an eye toward choices by literary writers and fi lmmakers and the limits of each mode of expression. The class will read a range of literature, view a fi lm or fi lms based on each work, and discuss the relationships between the two modes of expression and the various separate but distinct texts created over time to explore a specifi c narration. Readings will also include selected writings on fi lm and narrative theory. PREREQUISITE: ENGL 150.
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3.00 Credits
Immigrant experiences in America as depicted in poetry, short stories, novels, and essays. PREREQUISITE: English 150.
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An exploration of the diversity of the world's literature, with emphasis on works outside the "Westerncanon." Using a comparative approach, the course will examine issues such as cultural difference, translation across cultures, ethnocentrism, canon construction, colonization, literature and politics, and literature as a "way of seeing" the world. PREREQUISITE: English 150.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the diversity of the world's literature, with emphasis on works outside the "Westerncanon." Using a comparative approach, the course will examine issues such as cultural difference, translation across cultures, ethnocentrism, canon construction, colonization, literature and politics, and literature as a "way of seeing" the world. PREREQUISITE: English 150.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine a single literary author and her or his major works. After situating the specifi c author in her or his literary period, the class will read a range of literature written by the specifi ed author. (In some cases, the study of an author may be supplemented by reading other closely related authors.) Intensive study of a single author will allow the students to study historical, cultural, and literary infl uences and to use that information to enjoy and analyze a single author's body of work and impact on readers and writers. PREREQUISITE: English 150
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3.00 Credits
The history and development of the language from Anglo-Saxon times to the present. PREREQUISITE: ENGL 102; 230 recommended.
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3.00 Credits
The Old English background, selections from the works of Chaucer, medieval romance, the "Arthurian matter" and the ballad. PREREQUISITE: ENGL 150 and 250.
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3.00 Credits
A literary, political and social analysis of England from 1500 until the Commonwealth Interregnum with an emphasis on the works of Spenser, Sidney, the Sonneteers, Donne and Milton. PREREQUISITE: ENGL 150 and 250.
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3.00 Credits
A literary and social analysis of the years 1660 to 1800 in England and with particular emphasis on the Restoration Drama and the rise of the literature of irony. PREREQUISITE: ENGL 150 and 250.
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