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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of the major trends and themes in British literature from the eighth through the eighteenth centuries. By reading and responding critically to early works such as the Old English epic Beowulf, Middle English works by writers such as Chaucer and Langland, and continuing through the Renaissance (Shakespeare, Marlowe, More) to the Restoration and writings by Milton, Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Johnson, students will gain an understanding of the various cultural, societal, political, religious, and linguistic influences that shaped British literature. This is a writing intensive course. Offered Fall even numbered years
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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of the major trends and themes in British literature from Romanticism to the mid-twentieth century. By reading and responding critically to works from the Romantic through Modern periods, students will gain an understanding of British literature as well as the various cultural, societal, political, religious, and linguistic influences that shaped it. The course will include works by Romantic-era authors such as Blake, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge, the Shelleys, and Keats; Victorian writers such as Dickens, Tennyson, the Brownings, and Arnold; and nineteenth and twentieth century works by such writers as Hardy, Yeats, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. This is a writing intensive course. Offered Spring odd numbered years
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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of the major trends and themes in British literature from Romanticism to the mid-twentieth century. By reading and responding critically to works from the Romantic through Modern periods, students will gain an understanding of British literature as well as the various cultural, societal, political, religious, and linguistic influences that shaped it. The course will include works by Romantic-era authors such as Blake, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge, the Shelleys, and Keats; Victorian writers such as Dickens, Tennyson, the Brownings, and Arnold; and nineteenth and twentieth century works by such writers as Hardy, Yeats, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. This is a writing intensive course. Offered Fall odd numbered years
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to major works and trends of American literature from 1865 to 1945. Students will read works by authors such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Jack London, Stephen Crane, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Henry James, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway with a focus on the development and impact of American literary realism, naturalism, and modernism. This is a writing intensive course. Offered Spring even numbered years
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3.00 Credits
Provides students with a foundation in composition and reading theory for teaching. Students study and practice writing and reading for a variety of purposes and audiences and analyze their experiences. The purpose of this course is to give students a theoretical foundation from which to shape and apply a philosophy of teaching reading and writing. Offered Spring odd numbered years
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3.00 Credits
This course is an examination of World Literature from the nineteenth century to the present. It will examine the innovations in literary technique and genre in world literature, possibly including an introduction to postcolonial literature and theory. Social, political, and technological changes and their ramifications on literature will be examined, as well as how literature changed the world in these turbulent times. This is a writing intensive course. Offered Fall even numbered years
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3.00 Credits
A study of major trends and themes in the American novel. Literature describes a nation, likewise the nation influences the literature it produces. We examine what in American culture and history has influenced the novel and made it one of our most prized art forms. Major authors will be examined from the point of view of their unique contribution to the novel as art and commentary. This is a writing intensive course. Offered Spring
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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of the major trends, themes, and developments in the British novel from the eighteenth century to the present. Novels by major British authors are examined in terms of their unique contributions to the art and commentary of the novel as well as their influences on English culture, society, and literature. This is a writing intensive course. Offered Fall
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3.00 Credits
A survey course in dramatic literature designed to help develop an aesthetic awareness of dramaturgy as not only an art form, but also a study of human nature in all its proportions. The fundamental principles of theatre and the cultural significance of drama will be examined with special attention to playwrights, literary themes, social backdrops, character analyses, and interpretation of ideas conveyed in a presentational, rather than explanatory, format. Through a study of representative historical and contemporary plays, students will learn to become passionate readers of dramatic literature, participating minute-by-minute in the lives and problems of dramatic figures and arriving at an understanding of their motives and conduct. This is a writing intensive course Offered Spring
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A survey of American poetry from the age of Whitman to the present, showing the effects of the Romantic Revolution on an American Puritan tradition, and the making of a national vernacular for poetry. This is a writing intensive course. Offered Spring odd numbered years
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