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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
Corequisites: ELEM 02448 SECD 03350 This capstone senior seminar provides elementary education candidates with a supportive atmosphere in which to synthesize the pre-service components of their academic preparation with actual experience, emerging issues in the field of education, and their transition into the profession. Candidates develop a philosophy of teaching; gather and present evidence of their comprehensive knowledge, skills, and dispositions expected in this profession; and demonstrate knowledge of curren critical and contemporary issues facing educators and those who hold stake in education. Interviewing skills and a professional portfolio will be developed.
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10.00 Credits
Corequisites: ELEM 02445 and SECD 03350 The clinical practice experience is a supervised, full-time activity conducted in a public elementary classroom. In this course, candidates must demonstrate mastery of subject area content, lesson planning, and use of multiple instructional strategies; ability to assess learner progress, manage all aspects of classroom activity, work collaboratively with all colleagues, administrators, families, and community, and to document evidence of doing all of the above. This is a full-time field-based course taken in the senior year.
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3.00 Credits
This course serves as an introduction to upper-level courses in the English Department and is required for freshman English majors. Using readings from all three genres, students will develop the skills and practice necessary for an analytical reading of literature and for writing critical essays about literature, using both primary and secondary sources.
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3.00 Credits
Masterpieces of Western Literature I This course gives the student some knowledge of and sensitivity to the literary sources of Western civilization. The course includes a limited number of works carefully selected from the beginnings of Western literature to the Reformation. Among them are selected books of The Old Testament, The Odyssey, Oedipus the King, The Aeneid, The New Testament, and The Inferno. This course may not be offered annually.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers selected works from the Reformation through the nineteenth century, such as The Prince, Don Quixote, King Lear, Candide, Faust, Billy Budd, and Crime and Punishment. It emphasizes those works of great literary merit that exhibit perceptions, ideas, and values that have made essential and formative contributions to the development of Western civilization. This course may not be offered annually.
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3.00 Credits
Designed to give the student some idea of the scope and depth of English literature, this course deals with a limited number of writers from the earliest periods of English literature through the twentieth century. Such writers as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, Wordsworth, Austen, Bronte, Dickens, Lawrence, Shaw, and Woolf are read and discussed.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides students with some knowledge of and sensitivity to the literary traditions of India, China, and Japan. The course includes selected ancient, modern, and contemporary works from each of these three Asian cultures. Similarities and differences among these cultures, as well as between Asian and Western cultures, will be explored. Such works as the Ramayana, Shakuntala, and the Analects of Confucius, poetry of Li Po, short stories by Lu Hsun, Japanese haiku, Noh plays and short stories by modern Japanese writers will included. This course may not be included. This course may not be offered annually.
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3.00 Credits
This broad review of American literature concentrates on some of the most important writings of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, emphasizing the diversity of the American experience and including a focus on the issues of race, class, and gender. This introductory course includes works by authors such as Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, Chopin, Wharton, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Hurston, Hughes, Ellison, Wright, Morrison, and more recent writers.
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3.00 Credits
Designed to give the student some knowledge of and sensitivity toward literature from around the world (exclusive of Europe and the United States), the course covers a limited number of ancient and modern works from Asia, the Near East, Africa, and Latin America. It emphasizes those perceptions, beliefs, and values that are different from ours.
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3.00 Credits
This course increases students' understanding and enjoyment of literature. By studying the major forms of literature--drama, novel, poetry, and short story--students will understand some of the distinguishing characteristics of each form, the special demands each form imposes upon the thoughtful reader, and some of the most useful ways to respond to these demands.
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