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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The writing of articles and stories for publication. Skills include surveying markets, querying editors, selecting and limiting topics, researching and interviewing, and developing a point of view and structure. Rewriting and editing are also emphasized.
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3.00 Credits
Students read works by major writers from Japan, China, India, African nations, and other cultures. This course includes works by writers such as Basho, Firdausi, Confucius, Li Po, Motokiyo, and Mushima. In addition, students study selections from The Koran, The Bhagavad Gita, and a number of Japanese Noh plays.
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3.00 Credits
Acritical and historical survey of the significant works in Western literature from the ancient world through the Renaissance. Authors and works may include the Bible, Homer, Sophocles, Sappho, Ovid, Marie de France, Dante, Milton, and others. No prerequisite.
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3.00 Credits
A critical and historical survey of the significant works in Western literature from the early modern period to the present day. Authors may include Voltaire, Dostoevsky, Dickinson, Duras, Achebe, and others. No prerequisite.
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3.00 Credits
Acritical and historical survey of the significant works in British literature from the medieval period to the early modern period. Authors and works may include Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, Wroth, Milton, Behn, and others. No prerequisite.
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3.00 Credits
Acritical and historical survey of the significant works in British literature from the early modern period to the present day. Authors may include Blake, Austen, Tennyson, Joyce, Woolf, Lessing, and others. No prerequisite.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the contributions of women in both fiction (the novel and short story) and poetry in the 19th and 20th centuries. Authors studied include Jane Austen, Emily Dickinson, Jean Rhys, and Virginia Woolf. The class emphasizes both the singular perspectives each writer brings to her work as well as each author's perspectives on the role of women in her particular era.
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3.00 Credits
America is often called a great melting pot, yet many voices are ignored or marginalized because they are not the voices of majority culture. In this class, students examine significant works from African Americans, Asian Americans, Chicano/as, Native Americans, and others. Writers studied include Zora Neale Hurston, June Jordon, Maxine Hong Kingston, M. Scott Momaday, Simon Ortiz, and Alberto Rios.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the beginning fiction writer to the technical aspects of the short story: setting, character, dialogue, point of view and plot. In addition, each class emphasizes the aesthetic dimensions of language. Not open to students who have completed ENGL 306.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the beginning poet both to the aesthetic and qualitative dimension of poetry writing and to the technical and quantitative considerations: meter, forms, rhyme, image, simile, metaphor, and symbol. Not open to students who have completed ENGL 307.
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