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3.00 Credits
An investigation of thematic and formal developments of the American novel from the early 19th century to the present. Writers may include Hawthorne, Melville, James, Twain, Cather, Faulkner, Hurston, Morrison, Erdrich, and DeLillo. Satisfies one post-1800 literature requirement for the English major.
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This course surveys the burgeoning American literary scene in the 17th and 18th centuries. Students consider within a historical context the moral, social, and aesthetic issues raised in the work of such representative writers as Bradstreet, Taylor, Edwards, Franklin, Jefferson, and Cooper. Satisfies one pre-1800 literature requirement for the English major.
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Astudy of the manifestations of Romanticism in the essays, novels, and poems of such 19th-century American writers as Hawthorne, Poe, Thoreau, Emerson, Douglass, Melville, Dickinson, and Whitman. Satisfies one post-1800 literature requirement for the English major.
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A study of prose and poetry by late 19th- and early 20th-century American writers from Rebecca Harding Davis to Theodore Dreiser, including such major figures as Twain, James, Crane, Chesnutt, Wharton, Chopin, Frost, and Robinson. Some attention is given to European influences and parallel developments in the other arts. Satisfies one post-1800 literature requirement for the English major.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the African American literary tradition from its beginnings in the 18th century to the present day. Students cover a variety of genres, periods, and topics, including the slave narrative, local color and regionalist fiction, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Black Arts movement. Along the way, they consider recurring aesthetic and political questions that continue to shape African American writing. Representative writers include Frederick Douglass, Phillis Wheatley, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Toni Morrison.
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3.00 Credits
Astudy of the eclectic manifestations, literary and philosophical, in American writing from 1914 to the present. Writers studied range from O'Neill, Hemingway, and Eliot to Plath, Baldwin, and Ginsberg.
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The development of 20th century values as reflected in the literature of the century, with particular attention given to the great poetry and novels of English literature. Critical analysis is centered on 20th century man's attempts to reconcile himself with the changing realities of the age.
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Acourse that treats the response of novelists and short story writers to historical developments in Western culture of turning ours from a god-oriented world to a human-oriented one (in science, philosophy, and psychology-Darwin, Kierkegaard, Freud, and their successors). It focuses on the insights provided by the creative artist to the void that some psychologists are trying to fill with a scientific approach and others with a humanistic one.
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3.00 Credits
Preparation of the senior research paper. Students should consult their academic advisor regarding arrangements. Prerequisite: Completion of 90 semester hours.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the economic environment of industry. Time value of money, cash flow analysis, rate of return, depreciation, taxes, and linear programming. Review of corporate economic practices to develop basic understanding of the economic evaluation of engineering alternatives and new engineering programs. Several cases of engineering decision-making situations are analyzed. Fall and spring terms. Prerequisite: Junior status.
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