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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of the course is to acquaint students with the conventions of the novel, short story, poetry, and drama and to provide themwith the tools they need in order to interpret, evaluate, and appreciate quality literature. By providing students with a richly diversemenu of selections, which balance the classic with the contemporary, it is hoped that they will develop a habit of reading quality literature because it holds their interest, helps themreflect on and understand the human condition better, and affords themmuch pleasure. The course focuses on class discussions involving the analysis and interpretation ofmany selections in each genre, but also considers, at times, historical, political, and social forces whichmay impact on a writer's vision. It also considersmajor approaches to literary criticism.
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This course acquaints students with a significant range of British literature beginning with the Middle Ages and continuing through the 21st century. Students learn of the social, historical, political, religious, and economic factors which influenced writers of each period. The course covers poetry, essays, short stories, drama, and a novel.
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The objective of this course is to acquaint students with representative selections fromthemain periods in American literature, beginning with the Native-American oral traditions (precolonization) and continuing through the 21st century. The variousmovements in American literature are explained and discussed, as are the various social, political, religious, historical, and economic conditions which helped to produce them. Students read the works of a variety of different writers in each period, and they read essays, poetry, and short stories as well as a novel and a play. It is hoped that, as a result of their reading, students will come to appreciate how American literature has evolved to its present status as a world-class literature.
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This course focuses on the best of literature published within the past few years in order to enhance students' understanding and appreciation ofmodern literary forms, as well as to explore important human concerns in contemporary life. Readingsmay be drawn from contemporary poetry, novels, plays, short stories, and essays. Filmsmay also be used to give students visual reference to what has been studied.
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This course acquaints students with a variety ofmodern works by authors fromThirdWorld countries. As a result, students learn about the literature as well as the social, philosophical, and religious themes which concern writers in developing nations. Filmsmay be used to give the students visual reference to what has been studied.
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This course acquaints students with classic literature of China, India, Japan, Korea, and the Middle East. Students will read and learn about some of the literarymasterpieces of the Eastern world. Filmsmay be used to give students visual reference to what has been studied.
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This course examines the development ofmajor periods in literature, starting with the first writings that evolved out of the ancient oral tradition and continuing into the Renaissance. The course concentrates on well-known writings that represent the early social and literary evolution of theMediterranean Basin andWestern civilization. The course will be divided into threemajor divisions: Ancient literature (Gilgamesh, Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Plato, Virgil, etc.),Middle Ages literature (Beowulf, Dante, Chaucer, etc.), and Renaissance literature (Petrarch, Erasmus,Machiavelli, Cervantes, Shakespeare,Milton, etc.). In addition to the reading done as a group, students are required to conduct an individual research project. The individual projects will demonstrate a thorough investigation (secondary research and personal insight) of a specific piece of pre-Renaissance literature (preferably something not discussed as a class).
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This course acquaints students with a broad range of literature by American writers from minority ethnic backgrounds, fromcolonial American poetry to contemporary poetry, novels, plays, short stories, and essays. The works read are placed into historical and cultural perspectives, and filmmay also be used to give students visual references to what has been studied.
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Epistemology, also known as the theory of knowledge, together withmetaphysics, constitutes the traditional core of philosophy.What is knowledge, and how does it differ frommere belief? How do I know that I know anything? Is certainty even a reasonable objective? Among the topics within epistemology's ambit are the challenge of skepticism, the justification of belief, belief in an external world, the nature of perceptual knowledge,memory, the justification for belief in otherminds, the difference between "knowledge that" and "knowledge how," theories of trutand the ethics of belief. Both historical and contemporary texts will be used.
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3.00 Credits
As sustained reflection on the nature and aims of education, the philosophy of education has traditionally been part of the preparation of teachers. Its broader significance has risen with increased recognition of the bearing of questions of education onmultiple domains of social concern. The course will consider questions ofmore general interest than those encountered in the professional education of teachers. Topics include: the relation of education to schooling, the tension between preparation for work and preparation for citizenship, the boundaries of educational authority, educational access, and grading and testing. Special Topicsmay include issues peculiar to higher education and instructional and communication technology.
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