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10.00 Credits
Students are placed in a public school setting under the direction and supervision of a college supervisor and a public school cooperating teacher. The basic student teaching experience provides an opportunity for the student to demonstrate in practice that they are Learner-Centered Professional Teachers. Prerequisite: Recommendation of the Teacher Education Committee, 2.5 G.P.A., and successful completion of professional courses. Required for all education majors. Fall & Spring Semester.
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2.00 Credits
Seminars for student teachers to reflect on their experiences in the classroom that impact student learning and development. Topics addressed in the seminar include classroom management, evaluation of instruction, technology, planning and instruction. This course is designed to help the student with issues relating to transition into the world of work and graduate school. Taken concurrently with Edu 423. Required for all education majors. Fall and Spring Semester. *** Must be formally admitted to the Teacher Education Program.
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3.00 Credits
An overview of American literature from Colonial times through the present. (Required for the English major).
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3.00 Credits
A survey of major works of English literature. Readings will generally be drawn from Beowulf, Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Donne, Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, and Browning. Special attention will be given to the themes of perennial interest such as love and death, man and woman, freedom and servitude. (Required for the English major).
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on five comedies by William Shakespeare. Students will read and discuss plays chosen from among the following: Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Tempest. The class will view at least one film version of each play studied and read examples of modern literary analysis. All students will write response papers.
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1.50 Credits
This course will feature an investigation of the medieval legends surrounding King Arthur and his court. Class discussion and readings will focus on Malory's Morte D'Arthur, the Lancelot-Guinevere romances, and the legends of the Holy Grail. Students will be encouraged to explore modern versions of the Arthurian legends to complement the medieval focus of the course materials.
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3.00 Credits
This course will offer a survey beginning with the earliest African American writers and continuing through contemporary works and scholarship. Selected African American fiction, drama, poetry, and essays will be studied in cultural and historical contexts. Writers studied may include Wheatley, Douglass, Harper, Chesnutt, Larsen, Hughes, Hansberry, Ellison, Morrison, and Gaines among others. ENG 241 fulfills a requirement for the major/minor in Southern Studies.
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3.00 Credits
Readings from a wide selection of modern poets. Special attention will be given to Hopkins, Yeats, Frost, Pound, Williams, Eliot, Laughlin and Kizer.
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2.00 Credits
This course will provide an overview of poets writing since World War II, using Auden as a primary transitional poet. The primary text will be The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. Poets to be studied will include William Stafford, Carolyn Kizer, James Merrill, Elizabeth Bishop, Murial Rukeyser, Gwendolyn Brooks, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney, Sylvia Plath, and Lucille Clifton. Each student will do a concentrated report and a critical commentary comparing two or more poets.
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3.00 Credits
Literary theory roughly refers to the debate over the nature and function of reading and writing; it is a shared commitment to understanding how language and other systems of signs provide frameworks which determine how we read, and more generally, how we make sense of experience, construct our own identity, and produce meaning in the world. This course will require reading a substantial amount of conceptually complicated texts, writing in a variety of discourse modes, and developing one or several theoretical approaches to literature. (Required for the English major)
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