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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits Social reform, shifting perceptions of religion and science, expanding empires, and aesthetic experimentation defined the Victorians and produced new literary genres. Thematic emphasis of this course varies but always connects Victorian literature and its social context. Authors combine the canonical (Dickens,Tennyson, the Brownings, Wilde) with pioneers of sci fi, detective fiction, and children's lit (Wells, Conan Doyle, Carroll, etc.).
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits This course focuses on 19th century novels in a variety of styles: realistic, Gothic, sensationalistic, comic, and horror. Students will investigate how these novels fit, develop, or disrupt novelistic conventions and social expectations of their day, particularly those concerning social class, gender roles, and imperialistic British nationality. Major authors may include Austen, Dickens, Eliot, the Bront s,Trollope, Collins, and Stoker.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits This course concentrates on the period of the American Renaissance (1836-1860), with some attention to earlier writings. Authors include Franklin, Poe, Emerson, Cooper, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, andWhitman.The central topic is the variety of responses to the question of American democratic opportunity.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits This course surveys American literature through some of the most difficult years in our history, the years of industrialization and urbanization. Major authors include Twain, James, Dickinson, Crane, Robinson,Wharton, Frost, and Adams. Some regionalist and naturalist works are also read.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits This course is a survey of drama including authors such as Ibsen, Strindberg,Wilde, Chekhov, Lorca,Yeats, Giraudoux, O'Neill, Pirandello, Albee, Miller, andWilliams.The course explores the development of drama in its social, political, and psychological contexts.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits Juniors and seniors may obtain internships at local businesses and agencies to develop and apply skills in writing and analysis, in the workplace. In addition to the 10-15 hours of supervised experience, students must compose and fulfill a contractual learning agreement. Pass/Fail credit only.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits This course is a survey of Irish literature from 1880 to the present. Emphasis is placed on the Literary Revival (1880- 1940). Authors include Yeats, Synge, Joyce, O'Casey, Lady Gregory, O'Faolain, O'Connor, O'Flaherty, Beckett, BowenHeaney, and Friel.Topics include the appeal of the past, literature and politics, the formation of a new Ireland, and the problem of violence.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits This course surveys the pre-WorldWar I period, the interwar years, and the post-1945 period. Authors include Conrad, Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Forster,Woolf, Greene, Ford, Orwell,Waugh, Burgess, and others. Occasionally, non- British works are included.Topics for discussion range from the modernist revolt and the age of crisis, to the tensions between tradition and change.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits This course covers American fiction sinceWorldWar I. Authors include Anderson, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Cather, Dos Passos, Faulkner,Welty, O'Connor, Salinger, Heller, Percy, Pynchon, Morrison, and Bellow.Topics for discussion include the search for identity through tradition, the disillusionment of the '30s, the Southern Renaissance, and the problematics of mass society.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits A reading-intensive introduction to 20th-century African American fiction, autobiography, drama, and poetry, with particular attention to social and cultural contexts.Writers include Nella Larsen, Ralph Ellison, Amiri Baraka,Toni Morrison, John EdgarWideman, and Anna Deavere Smith. Focus on race, class, and gender, and on the authors' approaches to the role of literary art in society. Same as BLS 365.
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