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Course Criteria
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5.00 Credits
The course is an intensive study of selected short stories and novels. Through critical reading, discussion and writing, students will become familiar with important themes and methodologies of fiction. In both short stories and novels, emphasis will be placed upon identifying and analyzing authors’ particular uses of the traditional elements of fiction (structure, setting, point of view, etc.) to develop plot and character.
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5.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to the critical process of reading and responding to poetry from historical, cultural and gender-based perspectives. Emphasis will be upon traditional and nontraditional forms, as well as mainstream and marginalized writers. Students will become familiar with appropriate terminology; however, they also will learn to encounter the poem as a whole piece of written discourse between poet and reader. Students will, therefore, conduct an ongoing oral and written dialogue with the poet (Who is the speaker? Who is the audience? What is the purpose?) and the poem (What is the message?). Students will articulate, orally and in writing, their own ideas of interpretation based upon a close reading of the text and an informed perspective concerning the historical and cultural circumstances of its origin.
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3.00 Credits
The historical roots and literary forms of science fiction are introduced. From their readings and viewing of films, students will write critiques, reports and research papers about science fiction as a literary genre.
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5.00 Credits
ENGL 250 is an intermediate writing course that extends and refines skills in expository and argumentative writing, critical reading and critical thinking by having students analyze, discuss and write about major topics pertaining to the theme of the American Experience of Conformity and Rebellion, and the ways in which individual writers have articulated this theme. Assigned texts will address such issues as race, culture, diversity, class, gender and sexual orientation to stimulate writing and facilitate an awareness of the interplay among purpose, audience, content, structure and style. English 250 requires students to plan, draft and revise essays that represent a sophisticated application of expository skills and critical analysis, as well as refine skills in researching a topic, documenting sources, and working collaboratively, and preparing presentations.
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5.00 Credits
ENGL 251 is an intermediate writing course that extends and refines skills in expository and argumentative writing, critical reading and critical thinking by having students analyze, discuss and write about major topics pertaining to the theme of identity in the United States, and the ways in which individual writers have articulated this theme. Assigned texts will address such issues as race, culture, diversity, class, gender and sexual orientation to stimulate writing and facilitate an awareness of the interplay among purpose, audience, content, structure and style. English 251 requires students to plan, draft and revise essays that represent a sophisticated application of expository skills and critical analysis. as well as refine skills in researching a topic, documenting sources, working collaboratively, and preparing presentations.
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5.00 Credits
ENGL 252 is an intermediate writing course that extends and refines skills in expository and argumentative writing, critical reading and critical thinking. Students analyze, discuss and write about major topics pertaining to the theme of gender in the United States, and the ways in which individual writers have articulated this theme. Assigned reading of American literature will stimulate writing and facilitate an awareness of the interplay among purpose, audience, content, structure and style. English 252 requires students to plan, draft and revise essays that represent a sophisticated application of expository skills and critical analysis as well as refine skills in researching a topic, documenting sources, working collaboratively, and preparing and presentations.
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5.00 Credits
ENGL 253 is an intermediate writing course that extends and refines skills in expository and argumentative writing, critical reading and critical thinking by having students analyze, discuss and write about major topics pertaining to the theme of regionalism in the United States, and the ways in which individual writers have articulated this theme. Assigned texts will address such issues as race, culture, diversity, class, gender and sexual orientation to stimulate writing and facilitate an awareness of the interplay among purpose, audience, content, structure and style. English 253 requires students to plan, draft and revise essays that represent a sophisticated application of expository skills and critical analysis. as well as refine skills in researching a topic, documenting sources, working collaboratively, and preparing presentations.
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5.00 Credits
ENGL 254 is an intermediate writing course that extends and refines skills in expository and argumentative writing, critical reading and critical thinking by having students analyze, discuss and write about major topics pertaining to the theme of working-class identity in the United States, and the way in which writers, artists, and the media have discovered, defined, celebrated, and criticized what it means to be American. The course addresses the issues of race, culture, ethnicity, disability, class, gender, and sexual orientation, and will stimulate writing and facilitate an awareness of the interplay among purpose, audience, content, structure, and style. English 254 requires students to plan, draft and revise essays that represent a sophisticated application of expository skills and critical analysis as well as refine skills in researching a topic, documenting sources, working collaboratively, and preparing presentations.
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5.00 Credits
This course will examine the works of major writers in U.S. literature from the pre-colonial period to 1865 with attention to revision of the canon. Genres include essays, short fiction, drama, poetry and the novel. Course activities include reading, class discussion and writing assignments.
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5.00 Credits
This course examines the works of major writers in U.S. literature from 1865, the end of the Civil War, to the present with attention to revision of the canon. Genres include essays, fiction, drama, and poetry. ENGL 260 will consider works from literary, social, historical, and philosophical perspectives.
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