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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Pre/Co-requisite: EN 101. Many critics argue that the short story is the most successfully developed form of American literature. This course will examine the American short story from its beginnings to the present. Attention will be paid to the romantic, realistic, and experimental in American short fi ction, as well as to relevant historical background. A library component is included.
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3.00 Credits
Pre/Co-requisite: EN 101. This course will focus on short fi ction by writers from outside the United States. Through close analysis of superior short fi ction, students will become aware of the nature of this form and of the ways that writers around the world have grappled with it successfully. Authors likely to be studied include Chekhov, Conan Doyle, Conrad, de Maupassant, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Joyce, Lessing, Garcia Marquez, Mishima, Munro, Pirandello, and Woolf. A library component is included.
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3.00 Credits
Pre/Co-requisite: EN 101. This course will examine folklore and fantasy from around the world with attention paid to relevant sociological, historical, and literary-historical background. Modern authors who draw upon elements of folklore and fantasy will be included. Authors likely to be studied include J.R.R. Tolkein, C.S. Lewis, Lewis Carroll, Bram Stoker, Jonathan Swift, Ursula LeGuin, and Madeleine L'Engle. A library component is included.
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3.00 Credits
Pre/Co-requisite: EN 101. This course studies recurring and changing images of women in literature, considering the ways in which such representations either do or do not correspond to our understanding of gender diff erentiation in the world. The validity of these images and archetypes will be examined, as will the categories and roles occupied by-and symbolic of-women. Authors studied in thiscourse have included Angelou, Brooks, Browning, Jong, Kumin, Rich, Sexton, and Shange. A library component is included.
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3.00 Credits
Pre/Co-requisite: EN 101. This course investigates the development of women writers within the western literary tradition, focusing upon dominant themes and genres in this tradition as presented in the works of such writers as Alvarez, Austen, Bronte, Chopin, Dickinson, Gilman, Heilbrun, Kingston, Morrison, Naylor, Silko, and Woolf. A library component is included.
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3.00 Credits
Pre/Co-requisite: EN 101. This course will introduce students to masterpieces of children's literature. Emphasis will be placed on thematic expression, on historical perspective, and on developing a framework for evaluating picture books. Authors likely to be studied include Potter, Milne, and White. A library component is included.
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3.00 Credits
Pre/Co-requisite: EN 101. An examination of works of literature and fi lms based on them. Through careful analysis of both, such aspects of literature as characterization, plot, theme, intentional ambiguity, setting, and symbolism are examined. Works studied in this course have included Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights; Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre; Crane's The Red Badge of Courage; Dickens? Christmas Carol; Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby; Roth's Goodbye, Columbus;Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird; Guest's Ordinary People; Irving's The WorlAccording to Garp; Ibsen's A Doll's House; Hansberry's A Raisin in the SunCather's "Paul's Case"; Twain's "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg"Gaines's "The Sky is Gray." A library component is included
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: EN 102. This course will expand skills developed in EN 101 and EN 102 and will focus on reading and writing across the disciplines. Through challenging reading assignments and longer expository and argumentative papers, students will develop their critical thinking and research skills (such as reading comprehension, summary, critique, and synthesis). A library-researched paper is included.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: EN 102. To understand more fully the craft of essay writing, students will learn about the history of this genre and will read nonfi ction works by contemporary and traditional essay writers. Through a series of writing assignments, students will produce personal essays that will help them fi nd and develop their own writer's voice. The course will examine essays by such historical and contemporary writers as Lamb, Hazlitt, Addison and Steele, Montaigne, Emerson, Orwell, White, Hoagland, Didion, Welty, and Dillard. A library component is included.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: EN 102. In addition, completion of at least one 100- or 200- level literature course is recommended. This course will study major American novelists of the twentieth century and their responses to major themes and events of the century. Through reading and analyzing selected major novels, students will gain an understanding of the novel, of the novelist, and of the twentieth century, both historically and socially. The course examines such themes as the American Dream, the minority experience, women's rights, and the individual in the business world. It also examines such major events as World War I, prohibition and the "Roaring Twenties," the Great Depression, World War II, the Vietnam War, and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. In addition, students will become aware of the major novelists and literary trends in twentieth-century America. A library component is included.
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