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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 CR. This creative writing course will include the critical reading of published essays, autobiographies and memoirs to examine point of view, use of time, place, details, and language. Student writing will focus on these techniques and will draw upon personal experience to facilitate personal essay and memoir writing.
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3 CR. Focuses on the study of the Old and New Testaments as world literature. Students also examine the social, historical, and philosophical context of the Bible and determine its influence on the development of Western civilization and culture.
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3 CR. Introduces the diversity of national literatures and multicultural texts. Considers contemporary stories, plays, and drama as the creation of imaginative landscapes which cross race, ethnicity, class, and culture. Examines the range of human experience expressed in international literature.
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3 CR. A survey of literature by and about Africans. The course includes traditional oral works, contemporary novels, short fiction, critical prose and poetry that addresses the political, historical, social, linguistic and cultural experiences of African peoples. Includes the development of African literature in relation to oral traditions, such as storytelling, song, drumming, dance, proverbs, and chant.
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3 CR. An introduction to Shakespearean drama in the context of Elizabethan England. Students will read comedies, tragedies and historical plays for study, evaluation and critical insight.
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3 CR. Surveys important works in the development of American literary tradition from the Reconstruction period following the Civil War to the present day. Readings include works of poetry, fiction, drama and critical prose. Students explore what it means to be "American," including paying close attention to how race, class, and gender are represented in these works. Prerequisite: English Composition.
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3 CR. A survey of literature by African Americans including nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and drama from the Colonial Period to the present. Focuses upon Black Americans' cultural heritage and contributions to American life.
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3 CR. A survey of literature by and about Native Americans. This course includes traditional oral works, turn-of-the-century autobiographies, and contemporary novels, short fiction and poetry that address the political, historical, ethnographic and cultural experiences of native peoples. Students will also explore writings in relation to oral traditions, such as storytelling, song, dance, and chant.
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3 CR. Explores representative literature of New England viewed against the backdrop of its history, culture and geographical landscape with special emphasis on the character of the New England people. May include selections from the literary works of Thoreau, Emerson, Dickinson, Jewett, Frost, and Sarton.
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3 CR. Introduces the works of authors such as Edgar Allen Poe, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain, Jim Thompson, Cornell Woolrich, Chester Himes, Rex Stout, Sue Grafton, Sara Paretsky, Robert Block, Walter Mosley, and Robert B. Parker, creators of a uniquely American style of detective fiction. These authors will be studied with an emphasis on defining and appreciating their evocative style and their influence on contemporary American culture.
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