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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course traces the development of the modern short story as a distinct form of literature. Students read and analyze stories by writers of various nationalities, and explore a wide range of themes and fictional techniques.
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3.00 Credits
World Mythology provides an introduction to variety of mythologies, which may include to Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Indian, Norse, Irish, Native Americans, and Greek and Roman mythologies. This course will discuss and analyze the narratives, characters and themesin those mythologies, as well as there similarities to and influences on British and American literatures.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to Shakespearean drama, this course covers such early and middle plays as Richard III, The Merchant of Venice, Henry IV, As You Like It, and one major later tragedy-Othello. This course emphasizes such concerns as character, theme, style, language development, and the Elizabethan background.
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3.00 Credits
This course permits students to study literature at important literary sites in the United States and abroad under the supervision of a faculty leader. Study includes preparatory reading, attendance at theatrical productions, tours of literary locales, theatres, writers' homes, and visits to the area's other important historical and cultural sites. Travel and program costs are borne by the students.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines themes and issues commonly found in African American literature published since the Harlem Renaissance. We will analyze such theories of racial consciousness as invisibility, Black Power, and the Black Aesthetic, bearing in mind how certain historical, political, social, and cultural factors influenced the literature. While understanding the complex notions of race will be our focus, we will also consider how (or if) racial identity blends with other key components of the self such as gender, class, and nationality. We will read a variety of texts-- from novels and plays to poetry and song lyrics- by authors Richard Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ralph Ellison, Lorraine Hansberry, Malcolm X, August Wilson, Toni Morrison, Edwidge Danticat, Percival Everett , and others.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the literature of the American Renaissance (1830-1860). This study of works by writers like Cooper, Bryant, Irving, Poe, Emerson, Douglass, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Longfellow, Whitman, Stowe, Jacobs, and Dickinson will cover the three major characteristics of the period: the movement from classicism to romanticism in the early writers; the development of literary nationalism, and an increasing interest in exploring what it means to be an American; and, finally, the beginnings of literary realism with the approach of the Civil War. This course may not be offered annually.
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3.00 Credits
This course studies poets as varied as Eliot, Williams, Crane, Stevens, Frost, Rich, Moore, Plath, Brooks, Bly, and Ginsberg. Among our concerns are subject, form, and critical reactions. ENGL02.330 3 s.h.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers works by Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Plato, Thucydides, Lucretius, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, and Catullus. Students learn why these figures are truly classic: they provide the indispensable foundation for much of Western intellectual history. This course may not be offered annually.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on significant literary works generally omitted from the Western canon. In this course students will gain an in-depth understanding and appreciation of the literature and cultures outside of North America and Europe. The changing topic and texts will be chosen by faculty and may cover the literature of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and/or the Caribbean. This course may not be offered annually.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: COMP 01112 Literary Theory provides an introduction to a variety of theories about both the roles of literature and how it should be read. The course may cover Ancient Greek, neo-Platonist, Renaissance, Romantic, Victorian, New Critical, Psychoanalytical, Marxist, Feminist, Deconstructive and other postmodern theories. Students will both analyze these theories and use them for interpreting a variety of literary texts.
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