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3.00 Credits
The course acquaints students with the basic tools for beginning to analyze and discuss literature. Students will therefore read excerpts from a variety of different literary genres, including drama, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and film. The mechanics and terms specific to each genre will be discussed. Prerequisite: ENG 175, ENG 176
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3.00 Credits
The course provides a treatment of the elements of fiction, drama, and poetry from the writer's point of view. Students work with the instructor and other students to analyze their creative works. Imagination and personal experience are both employed as tools used during the creative process of writing. With consultation from students, the instructor will determine specific genres to emphasize. Prerequisites: ENG 175, ENG 176
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3.00 Credits
Students will study the stylistic and thematic characteristics of the important periods of British literature. Students will become aware of the historical, social, and political contexts for each of the periods. Students will become familiar with the key figures and major works within each period. Prerequisites: ENG 175, ENG 176
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Students will study a selection of American texts that were central to the development of a uniquely American vein of literature. We will trace the development of a variety of American identities and examine the cultural and intellectual changes that paralleled these developments. Prerequisites: ENG 175, ENG 176
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3.00 Credits
This course examines contemporary texts from outside the traditional Western canon to analyze and appreciate the diversity of expressions of the human experience through literature. Prerequisites: ENG 175, ENG 176, ENG 255 or permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Meeting at the crossroads of literature, communication, and cultural studies, this course examines the convergence of technology, media, and culture in contemporary society. Students will analyze texts drawn from and converging in a variety of media - including video, photography, music, and the Internet - to analyze and critique trends in cultural beliefs and world views. Prerequisites: ENG 175, ENG 176, ENG 255 or permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
The way we read a text determines the kind of information we gain from it. This course will examine different methodologies (psychoanalysis, feminist, deconstruction, etc.) for reading texts, and students will explore a variety of texts in light of these methodologies in order to understand what is offered by each. Prerequisites: ENG 175, ENG 176, ENG 255 or permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Designed to examine key works of literature representative of the social, political, and philosophical climate of their times. The course familiarizes the student with works that have had the most influence upon the world and encourages the student to analyze and evaluate these works in the context of his or her own experience.Prerequisites: ENG 176, HUM 103 or HUM 104 or consent of instructor
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3.00 Credits
A capstone writing and research course which uses an adaptation of the scientific method to initiate survey, experimental or qualitative research related to the student's major. This course must be taken in the senior year. Students will design, research, draft, and revise a "mini-thesis" on an important topic in their major. Special attention will be paid to the use of the Internet in conducting research..Prerequisites: ENG 176, STA 326. This course replaces ENG 475.
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3.00 Credits
This course builds upon the foundation of research established in ENG 465, which required a significant piece of research in the student's major. In this course students will prepare an analysis of the credibility and reliability of research sources with special attention to Internet sources. Students will also be required to write a piece of writing typically found in their major based on a detailed audience analysis. The will be exposed to basic statistical software used to display the results of analytical research. Students will use PowerPoint to present polished, formal presentations summarizing their work. Special attention will be paid to the skills required to put a written research document into an oral presentation. Prerequisite: ENG 465
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