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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on creative writing for experienced writers, geared toward preparing a finished manuscript for potential publication. Fiction writers work intensively on a single story, revising and integrating its various parts. Poets write either long poems or poetic sequences and experiment with contemporary variations on traditional forms. Prerequisite(s): ENG 243 and 244, or professor's permission
Prerequisite:
ENG243 AND ENG244
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3.00 Credits
Explores multiple facets of writing literature for preschool through adolescent audiences. Focuses on the transformation of experience and memory into a fictional story, developing a voice and point of view, character development, plot construction and intensification, describing setting, and use of vocabulary appropriate to the age of the audience.
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3.00 Credits
Examining writers from Mary Wollstonecraft to the present, this course delineates the features of a literary tradition specific to women writing in English. It considers novels, essays, and poetry by Austen, Eliot, Stowe, Chopin, Gilman, Woolf, Morrison, Walker, Rich, Lorde, Dove, and others.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a critical and historical study of major African-American writers from the slave narrative to the turn of the century. The course examines the themes of community, literacy, and religion and the role they played in slavery and freedom. (See also Cultural Studies.)
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3.00 Credits
This course is a critical study of major African-American writers from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s to the present. Although the course concentrates on primary texts, specific attention is paid to contextualizing these works within historical and cultural frameworks. (See also Cultural Studies.)
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3.00 Credits
The course explores the literature, politics, and arts of the Harlem Renaissance. This artistic, philosophical, and intellectual movement in New York City's Harlem took place roughly from the early 1920s to the onset of the Depression. Topics to be considered include the "New Negro," The Jazz Age, and Urban Migration. Specific focus will be placed on the relationship between identity and geography as we consider the effects of migration and urbanization. (See also Cultural Studies.)
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the literature of African-American women from 1950 to the present. Specifically, students focus on issues of marginalization, silencing, and female community and how they affect the construction of these narratives. Possible authors include Shange, Naylor, Williams, and Jones. (See also Cultural Studies.)
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to the African-American expressive tradition, including poetry, fiction, autobiography, song and folktales from the 18th century to the present. Examining writers such as Douglass, Chesnutt, Brooks, Baldwin, Ellison, and Walker, this course works to delineate the critical and historical contours of the African-American literary tradition.
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3.00 Credits
This course considers how children's and young adult literature and film can awaken environmental sensibilities in the reader/viewer. Students explore textual representations of flora, fauna, and the elements; the human desire to affiliate with the natural living world; and how fiction and film can promote ecological literacy and awareness.
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3.00 Credits
Examines literature in multiple genres (e.g. fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, graphic novel, film/television, and long-form journalism) through the theoretical lens of food studies to understand how writers use food as a cultural object to point to issues of identity including race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability, and systems of belief.
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