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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits A study of American themes selected from works of Hawthorne, Melville, Howells, Norris, Crane, James, Dreiser, Faulkner, Hemingway, Salinger, Farrell, Heller, Mailer, and others. Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or equivalent, ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850, or departmental permission. For students with two other upper-level (3000-level or above) English courses, this course may serve as the capstone for the Tier III requirement.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits This course looks at lesbian and gay themes from several cultural and literary perspectives. It traces the emergence of a homosexual identity in the 20th century and the various ways literature has both reflected and shaped such a development. The course analyzes several related issues, including censorship, ethnicity, gender, race, religion, and AIDS. Film is incorporated in the discussion where appropriate. Among the authors whose works are likely to be studied are Oscar Wilde, Radclyffe Hall, Virginia Woolf, Yukio Mishima, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and Manuel Puig. Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or equivalent, ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850, or departmental permission. For students with two other upper-level (3000-level or above) English courses, this course may serve as the capstone for the Tier III requirement.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits The course studies Jewish immigrants and first-generation Americans through works by Peretz, Cahan, Gold, Bellow, Malamud, and Roth. Background readings include works by I.B. Singer and Sholem Aleichem. Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or equivalent, ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850, or departmental permission. For students with two other upper-level (3000-level or above) English courses, this course may serve as the capstone for the Tier III requirement.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits This course surveys satiric expression from classical origins to contemporary examples such as South Park, as writers for stage, page, and video critique the shortcomings of their society. Readings focus on the transformation of popular traditions of satire by successive writers, particularly the Aesopian tradition of the beast fable, the Lucanic tradition of other worldly fantasy, and the picaresque, which traces the adventures of a hapless hero as he moves through various portions of his society. Prerequisite: ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850 or departmental permission. For students with two other upper-level (3000-level or above) English courses, this course may serve as the capstone for the Tier III requirement.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Romance helped promote courtly love and chivalry, both significant preoccupations of medieval European aristocracy. This course examines a range of famous romances such as Chretien de Troyes' Lancelot, Thomas Berul' s Tristan andIsolde, and Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthu r throughthe scope of desire in its various manifestations. Prerequisite: ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850 or departmental permission. For students with two other upper-level (3000-level or above) English courses, this course may serve as the capstone for the Tier III requirement.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits This course examines the stylistic connections between fiction and journalism within a chronological framework. Readings span four centuries and encompass such diverse literary forms as the diary, political pamphlet, and newspaper column, in addition to appropriate novels and essays. Writers studied include Jonathan Swift, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Truman Capote, E.L. Doctorow, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, James Baldwin, and Joan Didion. Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or equivalent, ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850, or departmental permission. For students with two other upper-level (3000-level or above) English courses, this course may serve as the capstone for the Tier III requirement.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 3 credits This course gives students experience in investigative reporting techniques and approaches and in researching and preparing investigative reports in print (newspapers and magazines) and electronic (radio and television) media. Students review the Freedom of Information Act as well as study and practice investigative reporting skills. Extensive public documents research, on-location reporting, and three reports are required for course completion. Prerequisites: ENG 3050 and one other upper-level (3000- level or above) journalism course, or permission of the instructor. For students with two other upper-level (3000-level or above) English courses, this course may serve as the capstone for the Tier III requirement.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits This course provides students who are completing minor or major programs in English with opportunities to sharpen their research, communication, and critical skills. In the first half of the course, a variety of interpretive questions will be explored as students work as a group on the close study of primary documents and secondary texts. In the second half of the semester, students work individually with their instructor, applying the methods of scholarly inquiry that they have studied to a related interpretive question of their own choice. Prerequisites: ENG 2150, ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850, and two courses at the 3000 level or above, or the equivalents. For students with two other upper-level (3000-level or above) English courses, this course may serve as the capstone for the Tier III requirement.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits This course provides students who are completing minor or major/specialization programs in business journalism or journalism/creative writing with opportunities to sharpen their research, communication, and critical skills. Working as a group, students explore theories and techniques of journalistic and creative writing from Defoe to Didion; working individually, they apply what they have learned to their own writing projects. These projects encompass many different modes of expression, including fiction, nonfiction, and journalism. Prerequisites: ENG 2150, ENG 3050 or 3200, and one other course at the 3000 level or above, or the equivalents. Departmental permission is required. For students with two other upper-level (3000-level or above) English courses, this course may serve as the capstone for the Tier III requirement.
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3.00 Credits
Hours and credits to be arranged Subject or area of study is determined by the individual student and faculty advisor; it may be chosen from courses not offered in that particular academic year. For students with two other upper-level (3000-level or above) English courses, this course may serve as the capstone for the Tier III requirement.
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