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4.00 Credits
4 Credits British Romantic writers emphasized the special qualities of the individual and exalted the atypical and the exotic. The Victorian age witnessed an upheaval in ideals caused by industrialism and other economic, scientific, and literary forces. This course examines the writings of scientists and social thinkers as well as the poetry and imaginative prose.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits This course focuses on the British and Irish literature of the modern and post-modern periods of the 20th century. Emphasis is on major writers such as Joyce, Yeats, Lawrence, Woolf, Auden, Fowles, and Heaney.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits This course examines the cultural background thematically presented in the works of writers from 1900 to the present. Life in the United States is studied from the perspective of such authors as Faulkner, Wharton, Steinbeck, Baldwin, Updike, Bellow, and Alexie.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits The literature of the western United States is surveyed in relation to the history of the region's development and the centrality of "the myth of the frontier" in American culture. Writers from the eighteenth through the twentieth century include explorers, naturalists, Native Americans, classic mainstream authors, and contemporary Hispanic and Asian Americans. Students investigate revisionist views of the history and literature to arrive at perspectives of their own.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits This course investigates important British, Anglo-Irish, and American poets of the twentieth century, such as Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. B. Yeats, Edith Sitwell, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams and Gwendolyn Brooks. Students learn to identify major modern poetic styles and themes.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits This course examines the major elements of Shakespearean drama through an intensive study of major plays from the comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances. Attention will be paid to the literary traditions and theatrical conventions inherited and adapted by Shakespeare.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits Students read Geoffrey Chaucer's major works in Middle English and are introduced to the genres of the fabliau, hagiography, dream vision, romance, and allegory as well as the time period and culture of Chaucer's London.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits The Senior Seminar allows English majors in their final year to pursue in depth a subject, genre or author(s) not normally covered in other English courses, or to explore material from a new perspective. All full-time English faculty will teach the course on a rotating basis. Topics will vary from year to year. Examples of past seminars are: Literature of World War I; T. S. Eliot; Melville and Wharton; Hamlet; Shakespeare's Roman Plays.
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3.00 Credits
Fee: $150 for full-time students This noncredit course is designed to help foreign students improve their ability to communicate in spoken and written English so that they may successfully undertake other college courses. The goals of this course are to assist the student to understand and speak idiomatic English; recognize and use the specific vocabulary of college texts, whether spoken or written; understand the formal prose of textbooks; produce suitable written assignments; and to understand and participate in "the American way of life." ESL 1003 is offered on a Pass/No Pass basis only.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits Fee: $150 for full-time students Prerequisite: TOEFL score of 450 or better. ESL 104 develops the listening, speaking, reading, writing, and critical thinking abilities of advanced students of English as a Second Language in an interactive, seminar-style course. Students explore and practice communication in contemporary American English through a variety of in- and out-of-class experiences. Activities may include participation in individual and group projects to research aspects of formal and informal communication or of the various modes of communication in contemporary American culture; interview and discussion assignments involving American partners and informants; practice and role-play of authentic communication situations in American academic and non-academic settings; reading and writing assignments providing cultural background to American communication norms; observation and critique of real-life communications among native speakers of English and between native speakers of English and speakers of English as a Second Language; formal and informal presentations by students on selected topics; exercises to improve pronunciation, vocabulary, and use of idiomatic expressions; fluency practice; public speaking assignments; and investigation of communication in the U.S. media.
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