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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Critical examination of narrative and dramatic transformations in secular literature of biblical themes and motifs. This course satisfies the values and culture requirement of the general education curriculum. (TBA)
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of systems of values and, therefore, of implied worldviews as they are embodied in a selection of readings in contemporary literature. Discussion of values as fundamental to structures of meaning will be basic to the literary analysis of the works. This course satisfies the values and culture requirement of the general education curriculum. Cross-listed REL 2803. (TBA)
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3.00 Credits
This course explores Christian characters and concepts in literature, particularly in the short story and novel. The Judeo-Christian aspect is seen both in terms of a thematic basis for imaginative literature and as a source of meaningful awareness on which interpretation can be based. This course satisfies the values and culture requirement of the general education curriculum. Crosslisted REL 2903. (TBA)
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3.00 Credits
A thematic study that explores the relationship of writers and writing to the spiritual life. Students explore major motifs of spiritual expression, including creative inspiration, vision quests, compassion, and social responsibility. This course satisfies the values and culture requirement of the general education curriculum. (TBA)
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3.00 Credits
Critical examination of the works of major and selected minor writers with emphasis on the history of ideas in American thought from the Age of Exploration through the romantic period. The works of such figures as Taylor, Edwards, Franklin, Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson are studied. (fall, even)
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3.00 Credits
A variable-topics course that introduces students to the techniques of writing fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction. The course emphasizes the critique of student manuscripts in a workshop setting. Students study the technical aspects of the designated genre and read, analyze, and discuss published works by professional writers. Students may repeat the course for credit when the course carries a different subtitle and covers a different genre. (spring)
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3.00 Credits
Students study and apply principles of writing in a variety of forms, arranging individual projects including short stories, novels, poetry, magazine articles, or other areas of interest. (fall, odd)
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3.00 Credits
Covering the period from 1860-1914, the course focuses on masterpieces of literary realism and naturalism in America. Students read works by William Dean Howells, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Kate Chopin, Sarah Orne Jewett, Henry Adams, Booker T. Washington, and W.E.B. Du Bois. A variety of critical and theoretical approaches are discussed.
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3.00 Credits
Students examine stage and screen plays (manuscripts and videotapes). They study the nuances of each genre, discovering how to plot, construct scenes, create dialogue, develop characters, etc., and apply the techniques by writing original scripts to be read/ performed in class and critiqued in a workshop format. Cross-listed THRE 4123; MIAP 3123. (spring, odd)
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3.00 Credits
Critical examination of the works of major and selected minor American writers of the Modernist period. Works by such writers as Eliot, Frost, William Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Wallace Stevens, Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Eugene O'Neill, Katherine Anne Porter, Willa Cather, Muriel Rukeyser, and Gertrude Stein are studied.
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