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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course includes historical, literary, philosophic and aesthetic approaches to the grotesque, especially examining the mix of humor and horror so essential to the genre. Rabelais, Swift, Poe, Dostoevski, Baudelaire, Beckett, Nathanael West and Flannery O'Connor, among others, will be studied, as well as slides of grotesque art works, from Hieronymous Bosch to Salvadore Dali. (Spring semesters, even years)
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the vast and varied genre of satire, tracing origins to Old Comedy and Roman Verse satire, tracing satire theory from classical models up through 20th-century structuralism and postmodern theory. We'll study Aristophanes, Horace and Juvenal, Menippean satire of Lucian and Petronius, bits of Rabelais, Chaucer, Donne, Butler and Marvell, as well as whole works from neoclassic masters Alexander Pope, John Dryden and Jonathan Swift. As satire has evolved in the last two centuries into a predominately narrative, not verse, form, we'll study a number of anti-utopian novels such as Animal Farm, Brave New World, Memoirs From a Bathtub, as well as view Metropolis and Modern Times as cinematic satires.
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3.00 Credits
Students are expected to analyze and understand the techniques of journalistic prose that have led to memorable stories and columns. Among those studied are muckrakers such as Steffens and Woodward, war correspondents such as Pyle and Herr, commentators such as Lippmann and Broder, and many other literary journalists.
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3.00 Credits
Students engage in close readings of representative works of major poets and fiction writers from the start of the 20th century to World War II. The course includes British and American writers such as Joyce, Yeats, Woolf, Eliot, Stevens, Faulkner and Hemingway. (Spring semesters, odd years)
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3.00 Credits
Students read representative works of major poets and fiction writers from the end of World War II to the present. The course includes writers such as Lowell, Plath, Ginsberg, Bellow, Rich, O'Connor, Atwood, Morrison, and Carver. (Fall semesters, odd years)
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3.00 Credits
An examination of important works by major American poets, including such representative poets as Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, Eliot, Pound, Williams, and Moore, with special emphasis on the Americanness of American poetry, as distinct from other traditions. (Spring semesters, even years) (Shared course in VSC)
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3.00 Credits
An examination of novels by Americans in historical context, beginning with the first half of the nineteenth century, and including major works by novelists such as Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, James, Crane, Faulkner, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald. (Fall semesters, odd years) (Shared course in VSC)
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the literary traditions of African-Americans, beginning with slave narratives and the oral tradition (as seen in popular song and folk tales) and including poetry, autobiography, and fiction by important African-American writers of the twentieth century.(Fall semesters, even years) (Shared course in VSC)
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the English language from a theoretical, developmental and practical perspective and is intended for students with a general interest in language and expression as well as those students preparing to teach language arts and literature at the secondary level. (Spring semesters, even years)
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3.00 Credits
This course is a senior level seminar designed to lead students through an examination of current ethical problems and issues in journalism: truth vs. accuracy; information biases: problems of personalizing, dramatizing, reenacting and manipulating the news; image-making in politics, First Amendment vs. rights to privacy: naming names; photojournalism ethics; and the transformation of news into entertainment (the rise of images and the decline of meaning). (Spring semesters, odd years)
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