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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Exploration of the possibilities for storytelling in the genres of Italian American literature and film. The focus of discussion is character development, structure, and point of view as well as the conflict between stereotype and anti-stereotype. Prerequisite: Junior standing and satisfaction of all lower-tier requirements in Arts and Literatures.
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3 hours; 3 credits Exploration of the intersection of literature and film. Development of students' understanding of aesthetics of language and literature and acquaintance with new approaches to reading. Topics include narrative structure, character, setting, point of view, representation of emotion and thought. Prerequisite: Junior standing and satisfaction of all lowertier requirements in Arts and Literatures.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Philosophical issues in major literary works and related classical and contemporary philosophical literature. Such issues as appearance and reality, personal identity, truth, freedom, evil, justice, and ideal government. Prerequisite: Junior standing and satisfaction of all lowertier requirements in Arts and Literatures.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Study of a text in its literary, historical, and cultural contexts across time. Focus on textual analysis; literary, historical, and cultural influences on the production of the text; and responses to the text across time. Reactions to the text in different media. Prerequisite: Junior standing and satisfaction of all lowertier requirements in Arts and Literatures
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3 hours, 3 credits Study of a series of major works in literature, from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries, with special attention to the development of secular culture. Attention to the rise of the bourgeoisie, the growth of individualism and of subjectivity, and the transformations in codes of representation. Prerequisite: Junior standing and satisfaction of all lowertier requirements in Arts and Literatures.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits A thematic approach to literature. Themes to be chosen range from the global to the local, from the abstract to the concrete. Focus on fostering 78 Core Curriculum connections with other disciplines in a manner that enhances students' understanding of the diverse strands that make up communities, traditions, and values. Exploration of how East European, Latin American, and Indian novels from the late 1960s to the present interpret the question of ethnic, cultural, and national identities. Prerequisite: Junior standing and satisfaction of all lowertier requirements in Arts and Literatures.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Critical examination of issues of the self and society in works by such authors as Thoreau, Kafka, Duerrenmatt, Orwell, Dostoyevsky, Sartre, Camus, Ellison. Topics include reflections on the self and personal integrity, justice and responsibility, alienation. Prerequisite: Junior standing and satisfaction of all lowertier requirements in Arts and Literatures.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Prose, poetry, drama, and film by black writers in Africa, the Americas, and Europe. Engagements with Western literary traditions and traditional oral literatures, folklore, and music. Commonalities in style and theme. Major literary movements. Gender, nationality, and transnationalism as constructed and interrogated boundaries, identities, and affiliations. Prerequisite: Junior standing and satisfaction of all lower-tier requirements in Arts and Literatures.
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3 hours; 3 credits Exploration of masterpieces of Jewish literature. Various genres of Jewish writings, including biblical, rabbinic, poetic, philosophical, mystical, and kabbalistic. Examination of the extent to which modern Jewish literature adapted and/or broke away from earlier classical genres. A particular focus on the writings (and/or films) of Sholom Aleichem,Woody Allen, Ahad Ha'am, and I. B. Singer. Prerequisite: Junior standing and satisfaction of all lower-tier requirements in Arts and Literatures.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Philosophy's distinctive ways of understanding and thinking about perennial human questions: "What can I know " "What is real " "What is the basis of morjudgments " Contemporary and traditional examples of philosophical analysis and criticism. (Not open to students who are enrolled in or have completed Philosophy 1.1 or Core Studies 10.)
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