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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of world mythologies, especially those of ancient Mediterranean culture, which have informed and inspired subsequent literature and literary themes. This course may not be offered annually.
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3.00 Credits
A general-education course, this class studies six to eight representative plays by Shakespeare, including examples of all four genres?omedy, tragedy, history, and romance. The course will consider closely character, theme, language, and theatrical values. This course may not be offered annually.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the aesthetic, historical, and social implications of a wide range of diverse texts written by women from medieval times to the present, examining the accomplishments of such significant women writers as Pizan, Murasaki, Wollstonecraft, Eliot, Jacobs, Wharton, Chopin, Woolf, Stein, Plath, Rich, Morrison, Lessing, and other more recent writers.
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3.00 Credits
This course, a 200-level elective, examines contemporary understandings of adolescence as a developmental state betwixt and between childhood and adulthood through literature that is about adolescents and their concerns. The class will explore texts adults believe suitable for adolescents that may or may not have been written with them in mind but that are regularly taught or given to young-adults, as well as literature written especially for them (Y.A. Literature). Central to this course is the idea that adolescence is a culturally constructed category of identity that varies across regions, time, race, glass, gender and sexuality.
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3.00 Credits
Beginning with Beowulf and ending after Dr. Johnson, this intensive course traces the wealth and variety of a thousand years of poetry, drama, and prose beginning with the Anglo-Saxon epic, through the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Restoration, and on to the close of the Neoclassic period.
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3.00 Credits
Beginning with Wordsworth and ending in the present, this course surveys the major writers--and also some minor ones of the Romantic, Victorian, and Modern periods, including poets, novelists, dramatists, and prose essayists. It closely studies the relationship between literature and the specific social, political, and economic concerns it reflects.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys literature in the colonial, revolutionary, and early national periods and the first half of the nineteenth century. It emphasizes such writers as Edwards, Bradstreet, Franklin, Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Douglass, Melville, Hawthorne, Dickinson, and Whitman.
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3.00 Credits
This survey highlights subjects such as the rise of realism and naturalism, the modernist revolution, and post-modernism. Twain, Howells, James, Chopin, Wharton, Hurston, Crane, Dreiser, and Frost are among the writers included. This course also investigates and defines the major themes and the developing forms of American fiction, drama, and poetry in a survey of such authors as O'Neill, Hemingway, Faulkner, Eliot, Stevens, Williams, Stein, Lowell, Barthelme, Barth and Morrison.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines African American literature from its beginnings in the colonial period through the Harlem Renaissance. We will engage in close readings of seminal vernacular, autobiographical, poetic, creative, and critical texts, exploring the relationship between literary expression and the highly charged American social, cultural, and political histories that form its context. We will study African and African American writers, including Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Frances Harper, W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, Charles Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Jean Toomer.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the development of contemporary U.S. literature written in English by Latino/a and Hispanic writers. Reading selections include poems, personal essays, short fiction, novels, and drama. This course may not be offered annually.
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