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3.00 Credits
LIT Core 3 cl hrs, 3 cr Introduction to the writings of selected women writers, both major authors and less well-known women writers. A variety of genres, including essays, fiction, poems and plays will be explored. Prerequisite: ENG 1101/EG 101
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LIT Core 3 cl hrs, 3 cr (fall only) American writing from the Colonial beginnings to the middle of the 19th century, with emphasis on the literature as an expression of the cultural and intellectual life of the times. Exams and essays based on readings. Prerequisite: ENG 1101/EG 101
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3.00 Credits
LIT Core 3 cl hrs, 3 cr (spring only) American writing from the late 19th through the 20th century, with emphasis on the literature as an expression of the cultural and intellectual life of the times. Exams and essays based on readings. Prerequisite: ENG 1101/EG 101
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3.00 Credits
LIT Core 3 cl hrs, 3 cr This survey course introduces students to representative Asian American literary and cultural productions, including fiction, poetry, drama and autobiography by writers across generations. Diverse as these writers are in style and ethnicity, their works, depicting the Asian experience as immigrants and minorities in North America, echo each other. Course analyzes thematic and formal elements such as immigration, cultural assimilation, gender characterization, racial relocation and identity displacement in order to establish an intertextual and coherent understanding of this literary tradition. Prerequisite: ENG 1101/EG 101
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3.00 Credits
LIT Core 3 cl hrs, 3 cr (fall only) Representative readings, many in translation, from the great books of Western culture from ancient times to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Exams and essays based on readings. Prerequisite: ENG 1101/EG 101
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3.00 Credits
LIT Core 3 cl hrs, 3 cr (spring only) Representative readings, many in translation, from the great books of Western culture from the 18th century to the present. Exams and essays based on readings. Prerequisite: ENG 1101/EG 101
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3 cl hrs, 3 cr This course will allow students to examine the relationship between film and their literary sources. Through classroom discussions and out-of-class assignments, students will analyze classic and contemporary literary texts and their cinematic versions. Students will examine the relationship between film and literature, with specific focus on the techniques used in fiction, drama and film, and the influences of censorship and society. Students will focus on the similarities and differences of literary works adapted into films. Pre- or corequisite: ENG 1101/EG 101
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3.00 Credits
LIT Core 3 cl hrs, 3 cr An exploration of concepts of justice, higher law, customary law and written law expressed through works of fiction and non-fiction. The course seeks to enhance the student's sensitivity to issues of ethics, gender bias and class consciousness as they affect the administration of justice. Readings improve communication skills and strengthen legal skills of identifying, articulating and locating problems in the context of underlying legal issues. Written assignments emphasize expository writing skills. Prerequisite: ENG 1121/EG 121
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3.00 Credits
LIT Core 3 cl hrs, 3 cr Specific critical and thematic approaches to selected works in literature written in English. Selected works are studied in relation to a special theme, technique, theoretical issue, or cultural consideration. Possible topics: the geographical journey as a metaphor for maturation; stream of consciousness as a literary technique for heightening reality; the role of Shakespeare as a Tudor propagandist; the issue of how culture shapes identity, as depicted in diverse works of fiction. Prerequisite: ENG 1121/EG 121 or any 2000-level literature course (AFR, ENG, PRS)
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3.00 Credits
LIT Core 3 cl hrs, 3 cr The works of one English-language author are studied in the context of the author's life, career, and historical and cultural background, and may be considered from crosscultural and cross-disciplinary perspectives. Authors studied may include such major figures as Austen, Baldwin, Crane, Dickinson, Faulkner, Henry James, Melville, Milton, Morrison, Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Walker, Whitman, Woolf. Prerequisite: ENG 1121/EG 121 or any 2000-level literature course (AFR, ENG, PRS)
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