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3.00 Credits
This course offers a survey of world literature in translation, from the close of the European renaissance through the present time, including the literature of Asia, Europe, North America, Central America, South America, Africa and the Islamic world. Students read and discuss a variety of authors from these regions, and address relevant social, religious, and cultural issues. Students critically analyze, in essays and papers, specific authors, works, themes, and other topics as assigned. This course satisfies requirements for the major in English as well as general education and humanities requirements.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of Asian American literature from the 1900's to the present that includes representative works by early immigrants, as well as the writing of contemporary Asian American writers. Students read and discuss the authors and major works, while addressing relevant social, political, cultural, religious, and sociolinguistic issues. The students critically analyze these issues and other topics addressed in specific works in assigned essays and research papers. Selected representative readings are required. This course is designed for students transferring with a literature or history major as well as those with an interest in this field.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of children's literature from folktales to current works. The course compares works from a variety of authors, cultures, and historical periods while emphasizing current American works. Principles of literary criticism are applied in evaluating the themes, language, and structure of works studied. This class is suitable for students interested in literature as well as for students who are preparing to teach.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of William Shakespeare's work. Emphasis is placed on analyses of representative plays and poems from the perspectives of theme, character, structure, and language in historical and contemporary contexts. This course is designed for students majoring in English and those with a general interest in the author or the period.
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3.00 Credits
This is an intensive course in writing creative nonfiction. Exploration of the principles and methods of creative nonfiction are offered through lecture and the critical analysis of student and master works addressing personal, social, political, and/or cultural issues. Students submit original creative nonfiction for class discussion and learn to use the workshop format to further their work. Increased writing skills help students not only in preparing for such writing-related careers as publishing, journalism, communications, and education, but also in better understanding literature and learning to use language successfully, which is necessary in many professions.
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3.00 Credits
This introductory course provides instruction in the study and creation of poetry. Students read and critique traditional, contemporary and multicultural poems that provide models for their original work. In addition, students create poetry which is discussed and analyzed by the class. Students learn to identify the basic elements and techniques of poetry, use invention strategies, understand different forms, analyze poems, examine published and unpublished poems as models for writing poetry, use constructive criticism, identify current poetic values, and explore potential markets for publishing poems.
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3.00 Credits
This is an introductory course in creative writing which focuses on the study of fiction and poetry. Students analyze technique in the works of professional writers and in their own original works. After submitting writing, students participate in informal discussion of their work, which includes helpful criticism from the class and the instructor. Increased writing skills help students prepare for careers in communication, education, writing, advertising, selling, journalism, law, business, and government.
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3.00 Credits
This is an intensive course in fiction-writing techniques. Students read and evaluate fiction using elements of fiction writing as well as contemporary issues. Students write original fiction and submit for class discussion and learn to use criticism offered by the instructor and peers. Critical thinking abilities are applied as students analyze student and master works addressing personal, social, political, and/or cultural issues. Increased writing skills help students who may be interested in a writing-related career, such as publishing, journalism, communications, and education, but also in better understanding literature, and learning to use language successfully.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides instruction in writing fiction at the intermediate level. Students are expected to exhibit a deeper understanding of master work and to write fiction addressing personal, social, political, and/or cultural issues at a more sophisticated level by more fully developing the elements of fiction in their writing. Additionally, students are taught to be better able to articulate and to more readily accept and incorporate criticism. This course may be of interest to students with the goal of further improving creative writing skills or creating a portfolio prior to transferring to a 4-year program in creative writing, or to anyone wishing to improve his or her creative writing skills. It is expected these students should benefit and make further advancements by continuing in the workshop atmosphere.
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4.00 Credits
This course is designed to prepare students to produce successful college-level papers in all subject areas. Emphasis is placed on the presentation of a thematic perspective within which students develop arguments and strengthen critical thinking, reading, organizing, and writing skills at an accelerated pace. This course is intended for students who want to prepare themselves to read, write and analyze texts at the transfer level.
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