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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the development of the short story from its origins in the oral tradition to its present form. Through reading and discussion of a wide variety of 19th- and 20th-century short stories, the course emphasizes the artistic development of this literary genre. Course work includes critical papers and group presentations. Prerequisite: EN 103, EN 104 or permission of instructor. Hours of class per week: 3. General Education: H.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of all forms of children's literature and a study of a variety of materials relating to the development of literacy in children. Students carry out critical study and evaluation of many children's books in the areas of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. The course examines criteria for the selection of children's books for pleasure, enrichment of curriculum areas, and child development. It also examines appropriate presentation technique s. Prerequisites: EN 103, EN 104 or permission of instructor. Hours of class per week: 3
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3.00 Credits
The course surveys world literature from the Greek and Roman classics through the Renaissance. Readings include such representative authors as Homer, Sophocles, Plato, Virgil, Dante, and Chaucer. Prerequisite: EN 103, EN 104 or permission of instructor. Hours of class per week: 3. General Education: H.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys world literature from the 17th century to the present. Readings include such representative authors as Voltaire, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Woolf, Mann, and Achebe. Prerequisite: EN 103, EN 104 or permission of instructor. Hours of class per week: 3. General Education: H.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the literatures of the United States from pre-Colonial times through the Civil War with an emphasis on representative figures and movements. Discussions stress the cultural-historical contexts of the readings, the emergence of American myths and values, and the formation of an identifiable American style. Prerequisite: EN 103, EN 104 or permission of instructor. Hours of class per week: 3. General Education: H.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the literatures of the United States from the Civil War to the present with an emphasis on representative figures and movements. Analysis includes the general movements of thought, literary techniques and themes revealed in the works of representative writers. Prerequisite: EN 103, EN 104 or permission of instructor. Hours of class per week: 3. General Education: H.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to modern drama as literature, emphasizing on such movements as naturalism, expressionism, and theater of the absurd. Readings include such representative European authors as Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Pirandello, Lorca, and Ionesco, as well as American playwrights such as O'Neill, Miller, and Williams. Some attention is also paid to non-Western drama. The course develops appreciation of the theater through class discussion and a required critical writing paper. Students observe a current dramatic production. Prerequisite: EN 103, EN 104 or permission of instructor. Hours of class per week: 3. General Education: H.
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3.00 Credits
The course explores the evolution of the novel as genre from the late 19th through 20th centuries. It considers significant cultural, historical and aesthetic developments of this period, paying special attention to the formal, stylistic, and thematic innovations of the major modern and postmodern authors. Selected novelists include Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Ellison, Waugh, Greene, O'Connor, and Pynchon. Prerequisite: EN 103, EN 104 or permission of instructor. Hours of class per week: 3. General Education: H.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the last two centuries of English literature examining both thematic and stylistic continuity and significant developments over the course of the period. The course will begin with a close reading of the major Romantic poets before proceeding to representative works in the Victorian, Modern, and Postmodern periods. Selected readings include the poetry of Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson, Hardy, Yeats, Eliot, Auden, and Heaney; the prose of Austen, the Brontes, Dickens, Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence, and Woolf; and the drama of Beckett and Pinter. Discussions will examine pertinent historical, biographical and intellectual contexts of the readings. Prerequisite: EN 103, EN 104. Hours of class per week: 3. General Education: H.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of major dramas from the Greeks to the late nineteenth century, in light of their literary, theatrical, and socio cultural values. Readings include representative plays from the following periods and movements: Classical Greece and Rome, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, Neo Classicism, the Restoration, Romanticism, and Realism. Genres include tragedy, comedy, melodrama, farce, and various hybrids. Prerequisite: EN 103, EN 104 or permission of instructor. Hours of class per week: 3.
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