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Film studies provides an interdisciplinary approach to understanding how film interacts with our broader culture. The course explores how film language, narrative, genres, stars, audience reception, film exhibition and synergies with other media determine how and which films are produced and consumed in the United States We will view films from the 1940s through the 1990s to examine how films mediate, reinforce and resist dominant social values, paying special attention to how Hollywood film has represented gender, sexuality, race and class. Required weekly film viewing. (Josh Stenger)
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Sometimes called the "author of the century,"J.R.R. Tolkien left his mark on both scholarship and the popular culture. Whether or not The Lord of the Rings is "literature" is one of the major topicsof this course. Students will read Tolkien's major works, including The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, as well as his medieval scholarship. We will also examine Tolkien's sources, including Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Old Norse poetry and saga, and the Finnish Kalevala. The reading load for this course exceeds 2000 pages (plus all three Peter Jackson films), so students should be prepared. (Michael Drout) Connections: Conx 20056 Computing and Texts
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Who can claim to be an "American" voice Andhow Langston Hughes or Walt Whitman Emily Dickinson or Elizabeth Bishop Hart Crane or Sylvia Plath T. S. Eliot or Marianne Moore This course will explore American poetry from several vantage points, including race, gender, class, historical circumstance, cultural imperative, linguistic patterns and the whole uncertain idea of an "American"voice. (Samuel Coale)
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The 19th century had many different storytelling modes, from the satirical romances of Jane Austen to the psychological realism of George Eliot to the ghost stories of Dickens and the detective tales of Arthur Conan Doyle. This course provides an overview of the many kinds of narrative loved by 19th-century Britons and helps students develop skills in close reading as well as historical and cultural analysis. (Beverly Lyon Clark, Paula M. Krebs)
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A course addressing both high-culture and popculture romances, from Jane Austen to Harlequin. Works may include Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Daisy Miller, The Making of a Marchioness, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lolita, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, The English Patient, a Harlequin romance and criticism of romance fiction. (Beverly Lyon Clark) Connections: Conx 23006 Sexuality
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The decades from 1590 to 1640 produced some of the richest-and most violent-drama written inEnglish. Playwrights such as Marlowe, Kyd, Dekker, Jonson, Webster, Beaumont and Fletcher as well as Shakespeare dramatized nationhood and nightmarish revenge for London audiences who also were entertained by bear baiting and public hangings. As global exploration and commerce accelerated, the English public and private theatres excited playgoers by portraying foreign characters and societies as degenerate and immoral. Students will read selected plays and historical and cultural texts, perform and produce scenes, and write a variety of papers as well as a revenge play to understand more fully the social and imaginative worlds of early modern English theatre. (Katherine Conway)
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From Aphra Behn's The Rover to The Beggar'sOpera to Sheridan's School for Scandal, this course covers shifting modes of humor, wit and sophistication portrayed on the English stage, while taking into account the social, cultural and political elements driving change in the English state. The course covers the Restoration antimoralist backlash, the theatre's relationship to the mid-18th-century rise of the novel, the late century move toward sensibility and the changes to English theatre that arrived with the 19th century. (James Mulholland)
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Victorian culture valued poetry: children recited it in the parlor, soldiers sang it en route to battle and the queen kept Tennyson on her bedside table (his poetry, that is). This course brings you a range of Victorian poetry and highlights some of the recurrent themes of the period (such as imperialism and gender roles) as well as issues of form (with special attention to the dramatic monologue, comic poetry and narrative poetry). (Paula M. Krebs)
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An advanced course in practical writing, with emphasis on writing as problem solving and on conciseness and clarity. Each student will select a particular local problem requiring a professional or technical solution, research the history of that problem, and write a report recommending a course of action to a specific audience. In addition to preparing frequent shorter writing assignments and the final large report, students will also be required to attend at least one career-related workshop or seminar offered by the Filene Center and to prepare a short report based on that seminar. (Lisa Lebduska) Connections: Conx 20018 Communicating Information
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In richly textured prose that pays attention to detail, metaphor and perspective, workshop participants will reflect on various landscapes and their effects on the imagination. The places might include the students' hometowns and neighborhoods as well as vacation spots or travels abroad. By linking the writers' experiences of these places to broader themes in literature, especially the themes in travel literature, workshop participants will craft works of literary nonfiction. While the workshop is intended for students of creative writing, the class may interest students in history, art and art history, as well as the natural sciences. (Deyonne Bryant)
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