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3.00 Credits
A survey of English poetry from the Elizabethans through the Victorians. The course examines leading figures from the Elizabethans, the Seventeenth Century, the Eighteenth Century, the Romantics, and the Victorians. Trends and influences of each respective age are discussed in the progressive development of poetry in England. This is a writing intensive course. Offered Spring even numbered years
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3.00 Credits
This is a course covering the life, works, and contributions of William Shakespeare. His plays are the standard by which all other drama is judged, so his influence on other works will also be part of the course. Presentation of Shakespeare’s plays as well as analysis of the plays and poetry will be parts of the course. This is a writing intensive course. Offered Fall even numbered years
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3.00 Credits
This is a writing intensive course.
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3.00 Credits
Students will complete in-depth research about a topic in literature, composition, or theory, with regular supervision and instruction by a faculty member.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of literary critical theory beginning with selected classical texts, such as Plato, Aristotle, Dryden, Nietzsche, Tolstoy, and others. Approaches such as Marxist, psychological, structural, post-structural, feminist, reader-response, and as well as contemporary theorists, such as Jacques Derrida, Donna Haraway, Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault, and Jean-Francois Lyotard will also be discussed and analyzed. Through examination of sample texts and the theoretical approaches to their analysis, students will learn to move from literal to figurative interpretations of a work of literature and to consider multiple interpretations of a text. The interrelation-ships between writer, reader, and analysis will be explored though advanced literary critical theory. This is a writing intensive course. Offered Fall odd numbered years
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3.00 Credits
The capstone course for English majors. With guidance and regular meetings with a faculty member, this course is self-determined and self-directed project that shows depth of knowledge and critical and original thought. Grading will be performed by a committee of English faculty. Offered Spring
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2.00 Credits
This course introduces students who would like to hone their writing abilities and work on the writing skills needed for studies at the graduate level. It emphasizes appropriate writing style and academic tone, documentation in the MLA and APA formats, and developing a thesis statement into an argument.
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3.00 Credits
Readings in cultural and literary identity: 1880-1920. Coming after Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, and Sigmund Freud, the style and traditions of literature, music, dance, and art took on a new reality that shattered old artistic conventions. The course will examine the novels of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, the music of Igor Stravinsky and American jazz artists, the art of the cubists, the dance forms of Isadora Duncan and the evolution of modernism.
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3.00 Credits
The Creative Writing Workshops are writing courses in the tradition of the classic writer’s workshop, but with the advantage of being online. Students will write and criticize their own and each other’s material in light of critical study of the writing of short fiction.
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3.00 Credits
The Creative Writing Workshops are writing courses in the tradition of the classic writer’s workshop, but with the advantage of being online. Students will write and criticize their own and each other’s material in light of critical study of the writing of a novel.
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