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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course studies the more complex plays written after 1600, among them Hamlet, Lear, Measure for Measure, Antony & Cleopatra, and The Tempest. As in Shakespeare I--though perhaps on a more intensive level--the course emphasizes such elements as character, theme, and text.
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3.00 Credits
The course gives students an opportunity to study independently in order to strengthen their background in a particular area of literary studies.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: ENGL 02101 This course is required of all English majors in the junior year. Each seminar deals with a particular writer, theme, or problem in literature or language and is designed to develop the students' ability to write clearly, logically, and cogently.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: ENGL 02101 and ENGL 02393 This capstone course is required of all English majors in their senior year. Each seminar enables a small group of students to investigate intensively an area of literature under a professor competent in the field. While subjects vary annually, all seminars emphasize individual guidance, class discussion, oral and written reports, and require a long research paper.
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24.00 Credits
This course provides the opportunity for students majoring in English to apply the skills they have developed in the course of their studies in a supervised work situation. Students will create a portfolio, keep journals, and meet with the faculty internship coordinator regularly. This course may be utilized within the 24-hour free elective distribution only.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on significant literary works, themes, periods, writers, or genres not normally taught or covered in the traditional upper-level electives. Repeatable when topics vary. This course may not be offered annually.
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3.00 Credits
This course studies the English novel from its inception to the present. It analyzes style, structure, characterization, and theme; it stresses the novel as a relevant social document. Richardson, Fielding, Austen, Bronte,Thackeray, Dickens, Hardy, Lawrence, and Joyce are among those novelists taught. This course may not be offered annually.
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3.00 Credits
This course investigates the development of American novelists' contributions to this art form by focusing on the themes and techniques of major American works. It focuses on writers such as Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Howells, James, Wharton, Dreiser, Cather, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and Wright.
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3.00 Credits
Among the significant dramatists this course considers are such older figures as O'Neill, Odets, Hellman, Williams, Miller, and Albee; and such newer figures as Mamet, Guare, Shepard, Lanford Wilson, August Wilson, and Hansberry. This course may not be offered annually.
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3.00 Credits
This course, an upper-level elective, explores literature written within the students' lifetimes, enabling students to gain fluency in different ways of reading and different kinds of writing. Students will explore the social relevance of texts and of the act of reading as they examine the recent developments in the literary tradition, especially as they may relate to issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, political hegemonies, and current literary theory. This course may not be offered annually.
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