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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the historical, critical, and conceptual nature of satire, including established satirical conventions and techniques. Representative examples in fiction, drama, poetry, and other media, with emphasis on British literature of the Restoration and 18th century, the Age of Satire.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of English and American horror fiction which focuses on this mode of writing as a serious artistic exploration of the human mind, particularly abnormal psychology. Readings will include works by Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, and Bram Stoker.
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3.00 Credits
Focusing on literature from 1850 to the present, this course will examine fiction, drama, and poetry that reflect a general sense of disintegrating values and lost religious beliefs. Readings will include works by Poe, Byron, Hardy, Stevenson, Conrad, Williams, Hemingway, and Beckett.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the works of William Shakespeare, including forays into each of the major dramatic genres (comedy, tragedy, history, and romance). Consideration will be given to the biographical and cultural contexts of individual works. This course may be counted toward the Theatre major, minor or track.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the films, the published screenplays, the volumes of short prose, and assorted interviews and articles. We will examine some of Woody Allen’s sources, such as Plato, Shakespeare, Joyce, and Bergman. Our approach will be historical and analytical.
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3.00 Credits
Detailed study of several privileged characters who exchange the familiar comforts of home for the disorienting complexities of the post-colonial world. Encountering social unrest in Africa, Latin America, Haiti, and French Indo-China, Greene’s protagonists abandon their aloof positions and confront the personal and ethical dilemmas raised by their situations.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the narrative conventions of both the (literary) life story and the (scientific) case history as a means of analyzing both the characters involved in literary depictions of illness and the ways in which they perceive and understand others involved in the same healthcare event.
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3.00 Credits
(Theory Intensive)Organized around issues raised in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own and Carolyn Heilbrun’s Writing a Woman’s Life, and informed by the ideas of British Marxist, French Psychoanalytic, and American traditional feminism, this course examines poetry and fiction from Sappho and Mary Shelley to Jean Rhys and Adrienne Rich.
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3.00 Credits
A study of novels by and about women, including such authors as Austen, Bronte, Eliot, Chopin, Woolf, Lessing, Byatt, and Morrison. The aim is to expand students’ knowledge of the novel’s history and development and their understanding of women’s experiences as expressed by women writers.
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3.00 Credits
(Theory Intensive)An interdisciplinary exploration of the influential lives and works of Mary Wollstonecraft (feminist, memoirist, and novelist); William Godwin (anarchist philosopher and novelist); their daughter, Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein); and her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley (Romantic poet and erstwhile political activist).
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