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4.00 Credits
4 Credits/Semester Prerequisite (or co-requisite): ENG 1005 This survey course studies representative writers from the British literary tradition. In the first semester, these writers may include Chaucer, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, Pope, and Austen. In the second semester, the writers may include the Romantics, such as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Byron; the Victorians, such as Dickens, Eliot, Carlyle, Hopkins, and Arnold; and the Moderns, such as Joyce, Lawrence, Ford, and Woolf.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits Students examine the seminal works of Greek and Roman civilization, beginning with Homer's Odyssey. This will be followed by the dramatic works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides; the comedies of Aristophanes; and the philosophical dialogues of Plato. The Roman segment of the course will include works such as Vergil's The Aeneid, and the lyric poems of Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits This course studies the Bible as a work of literary art, comparable to other epics and compilations of sacred writings. Attention is focused on those narrative, lyric, and philosophical parts of the Bible most amenable to literary analysis. Some attention is also given to the Bible as the source of some of the best imaginative literature of the Western tradition.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits This course studies representative American writers of various ethnic minority groups. In so doing, it will examine from a sociohistorical and literary perspective the novels, autobiographies, dramas, and poems of five groups of writers: African Americans, Native Americans (American Indians), Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Jewish Americans.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits This course focuses on women as authors, rather than women as characters, and includes authors from antiquity through the modern period. Attention is given to distinguished writing in the light of feminist perspectives and the progress of women's studies.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits This course introduces literature outside the European and North American cultural heritage. It ranges over materials from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Central and South America and includes works of various genres, from the ancient world to the present.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits This course studies the modernist and post-modernist literature of both Western and Eastern Europe, from such writers as Kafka, Mann, and Gide to Camus, Unamuno, and Levi, to Grass, Kundera, and Kertesz. Some attention is given to literary responses to such philosophical movements as existentialism and such political movements as fascism, communism, and liberal democracy.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits Film Rental Fee: $25 This course explores the unfolding relationship between literature and film by examining the specific ways in which literary texts have been translated into cinematic texts. The genres examined are selected from: the short story; verse; the novel; the novella; and drama.. Attention is focused on the three essential models of cinematic conversion: literal translation; traditional adaptation; and radical transformation. Primary literature is read and analyzed, followed by the viewing and analysis of the film Some reading of film criticism and theory is included.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits/Course These courses focus on selected topics in English, and are designed to provide students with an opportunity for in-depth study of some topic having current professional or public interest that is not thoroughly addressed within the context of regular College offerings. Topics may differ each time a course is offered. Students should consult the course offering schedule and their academic advisor each semester.
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2.00 Credits
2 Credits The course emphasizes writing in fixed forms such as the sonnet and the villanelle. 'The course can be repeated as ENG30015 and ENG4015.
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