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3.00 Credits
Second of a two-part chronologically based survey of American literature. Works of drama, fiction, and poetry by American writers of this period are studied. Representative writers are James, Wharton, O'Neill, and Stevens. Some attention given to the history of ideas associated with the writers of this period. Expect to write at least one analytic paper dealing with one or more of the works read for the course.
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3.00 Credits
First of a two-part, chronologically based survey of British literature. Works of drama, prose, and poetry by British writers of this period are studied. Representative writers include Chaucer, Jonson, and Milton. Some attention given to history of ideas associated with the writers of this period. Expect to write at least one analytic paper dealing with one or more of the works read for the course.
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3.00 Credits
Second of a two-part, chronologically based survey of British literature. Works of drama, prose, and poetry by British writers of this period are studied. Representative writers are Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats, and Joyce. Some attention given to history of ideas associated with the writers of this period. Expect to write at least one analytic paper for the course.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces the process, techniques, and forms of technical writing. Students follow a writing process from research through drafting to editing for clarity and effectiveness. Includes using graphics to convey information, accurately documenting electronic and on-line sources, and carefully considering audience. Assignments cover basic forms of technical communication such as memos, letters, resumes, instructions, abstracts, and presentations. A major research project in the disciplines gives students experience with the specific forms of technical or professional writing required in their academic area.
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3.00 Credits
Provides an introduction to postcolonial studies by covering literature from around the world engaged in the representation of and resistance to European colonization. Students will read and respond to a variety of postcolonial literature and cultures, which may include poetry, short fiction, novels, film, and postcolonial theory. Primarily focusing on writing in English from Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and the Caribbean, the course may also include literature and cultures from other regions with a history of colonialism.
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3.00 Credits
Offers an introduction to reading literature in global and historical contexts. Readings will focus on literatures from multiple national sites, primarily those produced outside England and the US. The course will consider a variety of topics of comparative literary study, such as transnational identities, cultural translation, diaspora, and historical contact zones. Particular focus and genre will vary according to instructor. The course may focus on a theme (e.g., the romantic hero, utopian literature, the poetry of war) or a region (e.g., literature of sub-Saharan Africa, Magical Realism of South America, literature of the European Avant-Garde). Course work will include at least one analytical essay.
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3.00 Credits
The course provides an introduction to film and to the fundamentals of how it communicates as an art form and a cultural medium. Screenings in the course are chosen to emphasize the variety of narrative film by including literary adaptations of fiction and drama, classical American movies, foreign-language films, and examples of independent and silent cinema. The course aims to help students acquire skills of watching and responding that will enable them to become more knowledgeable and perceptive viewers, more aware of how movies work to shape our ideas about life and social experience. This course satisfies a Category B general education requirement.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces literature by writers of African-American, Hispanic American, Asian American, and Native American descent. Representative authors may include John Edgar Wideman, Junot Diaz, Leslie Marmon Silko and Amy Tan. Expect to write analyses of the assigned readings. Course satisfies general education diversity requirements; fulfills general education literature requirement for Category B.
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3.00 Credits
Read, think, and write about literature and its elements as appropriate for the general education curriculum. Students will study literature authored by an array of writers, including those of African American, Latinx, Asian American, and Indigenous descent. Course satisfies general education literature requirement.
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3.00 Credits
Covers historical and recent literary criticism and its applications in the analysis of literary texts. While reading assignments will be primarily in theory, writing assignments may focus either on theories themselves or on their analytic application. The course meets the departments criticism requirement.
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