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4.00 Credits
Texts and culture in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Specific topics will change from year to year. 4 credits.
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3.00 Credits
GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Works by at least a half-dozen prominent poets will be read, analyzed, and evaluated. Although prosody, poetic theory, and the development of modernism will be covered, major emphasis will be on the aesthetic qualities of individual poems and the distinctive sensibilities of individual poets. May satisfy the pre-fall 2008 general education requirement in upper-level humanities. 4 credits.
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3.00 Credits
GER: HB (Empirical Study of Human Behavior) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Survey of the internal history of English, reviewing Indo- European and Germanic background and studying the development of phonology, morphology, and syntax from Old English to Modern English. May satisfy the pre-fall 2008 general education requirement in upper-level humanities. 4 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Introduction to basic English linguistics. The difference between prescriptive grammar (the rules we learn in school) and descriptive grammar (the linguistic rules that native speakers of a language have learned). Discussion of the main divisions of linguistics, focusing on the phonology, morphology, and syntax of Edited American English. Study of the ways other dialects, in particular, Southern American English and African American Vernacular English, differ from the standard and exploring the implications of linguistics on social and educational policy. 4 credits.
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3.00 Credits
GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of nineteenth-century detective and sensation fiction writers, including Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Conan Doyle, and Mary E. Braddon. These two genres will be read in the context of contemporary debates concerning science and epistemology, criminal psychology and pathology, colonialism and imperialism, modernization and urbanization, and gender and race politics. May satisfy the pre-fall 2008 general education requirement in upper-level humanities. 4 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Stories to be discussed are selected from a variety of historical periods and cultural perspectives. Writers might include Hawthorne, Scott, James, Lawrence, Joyce, Trevor, and Munro. May satisfy the pre-fall 2008 general education requirement in upper-level humanities. 4 credits.
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3.00 Credits
GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The course explores how late-Victorian and Edwardian fantasy and science fiction reflect and comment on an array of turn-of-the-century concerns and discourses: constructions of gender and race; colonialism and imperialism; evolution and atavism; psychology and anthropology; occultism and spiritualism. Authors studied include H. Rider Haggard, H. G. Wells, Robert L. Stevenson, Bram Stoker, and Henry James. 4 credits.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Exploration of the historical development of the Hollywood star system and the complex role stars play in American film and culture, focusing on representative classic and contemporary film "stars," and analyzing how stars areproduced by the studio system and its remnants in the contemporary Hollywood dream factory and remade in the cultural imaginary. 4 credits.
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3.00 Credits
GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The poetry of Chaucer, in Middle English, including some early poems, Troilus and Criseyde, and substantial selections from The Canterbury Tales. Special attention to the development of Chaucer's narrative art, his invention of the Chaucerian persona, and his relevance to postmodern thought, conceived as his self-consciousness about the use of language and his ambivalence about the value of literary art. May satisfy the pre-fall 2008 general education requirement in upper-level humanities. 4 credits.
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3.00 Credits
GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of Shakespeare's plays through films that have been made of them through productions available during the semester in which the course is taught. and by staging scenes from the plays. Shakespeare's written texts may also be studied but will not be the primary focus. May satisfy the pre-fall 2008 general education requirement in upper-level humanities. 4 credits.
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