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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A study of women's literature as a distinct tradition. The course will involve reading of major women writers from different periods and genres, with the major emphasis on the 19th Century and the 20th Century. Writers studied include Mary Wollstonecraft, the Brontes, Christina Rossetti, Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf, Susan Glaspell, Doris Lessing, Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrison, and Caryl Churchill. Offered fall term alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
A study of representative writers from the British Commonwealth who are reshaping and enriching the English tradition. Writers studied include Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, Buchi Emecheta, Nadine Gordimer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, V.S. Naipaul, Naguib Mahfouz, Ngugu was Thiong'o, Salman Rushdie, and Wole Syinkia as well as selected poets form Asia, Africa, and South America. Offered spring term alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
A chronological study of the development of the short story in the western tradition during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with emphasis on American, British and post-colonial stories; some attention to creative writing. Offered fall term alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
A study of Twain's skills, weaknesses, and development as a writer from the 1860's to his death in 1910. The course involves close reading of several of Twain's major works, with reference to his own life experiences and the American culture which he both admired and attacked. Prerequisite: HUMN 201, or ENGL 304, or ENGL 305, or the equivalent of one of these - or approval of the instructor. Offered spring term even-numbered years.
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3.00 Credits
A study of leading writers of fiction, poetry, and drama in the Twentieth Century, including American, English and post-colonial writers. This is a seminar course, involving discussions, independent research, and oral presentations. Offered Fall term alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
A study of how selected writers, philosophers, and cultureal critics, primarily from the twentieth century, have reacted to as well as helped influence various forms of technological development, and how they have represented corresponding changes in society, self, mind, abd genre in their works. This is a seminar course, involving discussions, independent research, and oral presentations. Offered Fall term every third year.
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3.00 Credits
A study of major British writers in the Twentieth Century, such as A. S. Byatt, Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forester, Graham Greene, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Iris Murdoch, and Virginia Woolf. Offered fall term alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
A study of two early twentieth century phenomena - the most significant post-World War I manifestation of African-American arts and letters, the Harlem Renaissance, and the exclusively white Southern Renascence - which centers around how the two combined have profoundly influenced the development of southern literature. This is a seminar course, involving discussions, independent research, and oral presentations. Offered fall term every third year.
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3.00 Credits
An opportunity for extensive experience in writing, editing, critiquing the works of others, and working toward publication. Prerequisites: Humanities 101-2, 201-2 (or the equivalent) and approval of the instructor. Offered spring term alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
A study of English literature of the Middle Ages, from Beowulf and "The Dream of the rood" to Sir Gawain and the green Knight and portions of Canterbury Tales and Morte d'Arthur. Also included are the plays Everyman and The Second Shepherds' Play and many shorter works, such as Caedmon's hymn, Anglo Saxon riddles, and eben a ballad about Robin hood. Offered fall term alternate years.
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