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Course Criteria
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5.00 Credits
This class ia a comprehensive 5-credit, one-semester writing course integrating curricula from both English 121 and English 122/123, including an enrichment component. Students will use critical thinking skills as they continue to develop their writing and revising skills. Students will write both expository and research essays, using analysis and argument. Students will also be required to access the writing center.
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7.00 Credits
Introduction to major forms of literature: fiction, prose, poetry, and drama selections. Discussions and writing require students to apply critical thinking skills. Students will be introduced to literary terms and literary criticism as well.
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8.00 Credits
The study of the short story as a literary form and its development from its beginnings in oral traditions, to its conscious formulation in 19th Century America, to its continued metamorphosis in the 20th Century. Primary emphasis is placed on the reading, discussing, interpreting and writing about short stories.
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7.00 Credits
This course introduces students to literature from selected cultures in order to foster an understanding and awareness of cultures other than their own. The focus will be on critical reading and discussion, the elements of literature and analysis, interpretation and evaluation with special attention to specific cultural backgrounds. Readings for this course will vary.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
A study of imaginative writing in several genres. Students will share their work in non-evaluative critique sessions. For part of the course, students will be encouraged to pursue their particular creative interests in areas such as poetry, fiction, children's literature and non-fiction.
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8.00 Credits
A study of highly imaginative literature which may include mythology, fantasy, fable and science fiction. Emphasis may differ from section to section. Short stories and novels will be used to discuss aspects of characterization, plot and metaphor, as well as common themes, such as "utopia" and "good versus evil."
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7.00 Credits
This course will examine literary representations of women and men in literature focusing on gender issues, including lesbian and gay-male sexuality and the Latin American concept of machismo. Literature may include the works of North American, Latin American, and European authors. Students will contrast notions of sexual orientation and identity with gender-based conceptions of sexuality, and will consider the intersections of sexuality and social class, race, religion, AIDS, and leftist and rightist political ideologies. Authors studied will vary from year to year but may include Willa Cather, Alice Walker, Gloria Anzaldua, Reinaldo Arenas, E.M. Forster, Tony Kushner, Cherrie Moraga, Octavio Paz, and Manuel Puig.
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2.00 Credits
This course will prepare the student to write reports used in law enforcement agencies. Topics include the necessary information to be contained in police reports and the uses of various law enforcement reports.
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4.00 Credits
The development of early American literature from the Colonial Period to the beginning of Realism. Authors may include Hawthorne, Poe, Emerson, Melville, Thoreau, Douglass, Alcott, Wheatley, Twain, Crane, and Dickenson.
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4.00 Credits
Masterpieces of modern American literature stressing the development of Realism and Naturalism. Here the emphasis is on short stories, novels, plays and major poems. Authors may include Robinson, Frost, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Jewett, Plath, Gilman, Faulkner, Hurston, Steinbeck, Hansberry, and Williams. The course will usually include one seminar report on a work of the student's choice.
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