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3.00 Credits
Representative films and literary works created by U.S. writers and filmmakers from a variety of Latin American backgrounds. Explores questions of acculturation, identity, frontiers/borders, and mobility that have been the particular focus of these artists. Prerequisite(s): English 103 with a grade of C or better or exemption. General Education Requirement: (FSLT) Unit(s): 1 Additional Information: In the last 25 years there has been an efflorescence of literature and film by and about immigrants to the U.S. from Latin America. Latinos and Latinas have produced a rich body of novels, short stories, poems, plays, films, and other forms of narratives about their experiences in the U.S., their culture, the process and challenges of relocating to the U.S., and the questions of identity, culture, and politics that have shaped their lives. This course explores some of the varied representations by and about Latino/as in the U.S. As a general-education course it also uses these texts to think about literary analysis and the strategies employed by writers and filmmakers to tell these stories.
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3.00 Credits
Selected works reflecting one or more major patterns in American literature. Specific emphasis may change from term to term. Prerequisite(s): English 103 with a grade of C or better or exemption. General Education Requirement: (FSLT) Unit(s): 1 Additional Information: Although the specific emphasis for each section of English 206 may change, in general this course is designed to introduce students to one or more major periods, patterns, or themes in American literature. Students read selections from multiple genres, including poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. In addition to discussions and studies of form and literary technique, the course also emphasizes how culture, history, and literature influence and shape each other. At the end of the course, students will be able to identify some of the varied characteristics of literature, apply techniques of literary analysis, use these skills in careful reading and clear writing, and demonstrate an understanding of the diverse social and historical contexts in which the texts are written.
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3.00 Credits
Textual analysis of novels and shorter fiction representing diverse authors, themes, movements, and techniques. Prerequisite(s): English 103 with a grade of C or better or exemption. General Education Requirement: (FSLT) Unit(s): 1 Additional Information: This course focuses on the thematic and formal developments of modern American fiction. Novels and short stories of the twentieth century catapulted American writers to the forefront of literary achievement, with figures such as Stephen Crane, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Gertrude Stein fashioning an entirely new kind of prose. Along with their counterparts in Britain - but often with a focus that was uniquely American - writers like these sought ways to express authentic experience authentically and to convey what was new about modern experience. This modernity was defined in a great variety of ways, including reactions to historical events such as World War I, rapid increases in urbanism and industrialization, the Great Migration of African Americans, women's suffrage and advancing professionalism, and the Depression (among others). These developments in turn prompted textual strategies that departed significantly from the straightforward realism or Victorian sentimentality of their forebears. Above all, authors of this period discovered the enormous wealth of experience and expressive capacity available to writers who focused on interior, subjective experience - the narrative of mental life that characterizes a great deal of modernist literature. Emphases in this course vary, and students may find themselves focusing on writers of a particular region, a certain literary school, or from a particular period of the twentieth century, such as post-World War II writers, the Civil Rights era and its aftermath, or postmodernism. Other writers may include Sherwood Anderson, Willa Cather, Nella Larsen, Nathanael West, Truman Capote, Chester Himes, Vladimir Nabokov, Charles Johnson, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, James Baldwin, Tim O'Brien, Thomas Pynchon, Bernard Malamud, or Cormac McCarthy.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the multiple strains of the Indian novel that have emerged over the past 50 years. Prerequisite(s): English 103 with a grade of C or better or exemption. General Education Requirement: (FSLT) Unit(s): 1 Additional Information: This course explores the multiple strains of the Indian novel that have emerged over the past sixty years: those "historical" novels written about the Raj and partition, those addressing the classic confrontation between India and the (usually) English Other, and those more recent works that do not defend or explain Indian-ness but instead explore notions of Indian subjectivity from within, and on, its own terms. Of simultaneous, though secondary, concern, is our consideration of questions of genre: What criteria are necessary for a work to be proclaimed "Indian Literature" Must the work's author be Indian How, exactly, is "Indian" defined in this context Are novels written in English truly "Indian" novels Do novels written about the English in India earn their place as "Indian" novels Our discussions and analyses of these works are informed by methodologies of post-colonial theory and the Frankfurt School of critics.
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3.00 Credits
Analysis of selected works of science fiction and fantasy. Possible authors included in the course range from Edgar Allan Poe and Jules Verne to Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison and Ursula K. LeGuin to writers not typically identified with the genre. Students will consider a variety of interpretive frameworks formal, psychological, feminist and others through which literary sci-fi and fantasy are frequently read. Texts will include short stories, novels and film. Prerequisite(s): English 103 with a grade of C or better or exemption. General Education Requirement: (FSLT) Unit(s): 1 Additional Information: This course introduces students to work spanning a range of science fiction and fantasy produced since the mid-nineteenth century, with a special emphasis on writing from the last half-century. Possible authors included in the course range from Edgar Allan Poe and Jules Verne to Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison and Ursula K. LeGuin to writers not typically identified with the genre. Students will consider a variety of interpretive frameworks-formal, psychological, feminist and others-through which literary sci-fi and fantasy are frequently read. Texts will include short stories, novels and film.
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3.00 Credits
Literary and nonliterary texts that react, in a given society and period of history, to technological change and social effects of technology. Prerequisite(s): English 103 with a grade of C or better or exemption. General Education Requirement: (FSLT) Unit(s): 1 Additional Information: In general, this course looks at literary and nonliterary texts that react, in given societies and periods of history, to technological change and the social effects of technology. The course content will change from semester to semester, but a recently repeated topic has been "The Road," a survey of films and literary texts that concern themselves with cars, the experience of automotive travel, and the way writers, filmmakers, and urban-planners depict a "car culture."
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3.00 Credits
Study of representative texts from Hebrew Bible and New Testament, and examination of their relationships to later works of drama, poetry, short stories, and the novel. Prerequisite(s): English 103 with a grade of C or better or exemption. General Education Requirement: (FSLT) Unit(s): 1 Additional Information: The Bible is without a doubt the single most influential text in Western culture. Its language, stories, characters, and mythic patterns have provided the cultural grammar upon which much of our art and literature are based. Subsequent works have rewritten, borrowed, parodied, critiqued, or otherwise shown the influence of this Biblical foundation. In this course, no familiarity with the Bible is required; students read a generous sampling of biblical texts from the Old and New Testament before proceeding to measure their influence on a range of works from erotic poetry of the mystics to Renaissance epic to Romantic tragedies to the fantasy of C. S. Lewis.
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3.00 Credits
Representative works from written traditions in modern African literature. Prerequisite(s): English 103 with a grade of C or better or exemption. General Education Requirement: (FSLT) Unit(s): 1 Additional Information: Many students have read Chinua Achebe's classic Nigerian novel Things Fall Apart, but beyond that most people in this country are unaware of the rich, diverse body of writing that has arisen over the past six decades in Africa, a continent that has already produced four Nobel laureates in literature. This course is designed as an introductory survey and is intended, in part, to provide a more broadly based familiarity with the literature of Africa. It focuses attention both on thematic concerns characteristic of many modern African works (colonialism and revolution, uncertain cultural identity, etc.) and on special problems of expression faced by contemporary African writers (use of a second language, the interaction of African and European forms, etc.). It includes works by writers from various regions of the African continent - texts originally composed in English as well as works translated from French and from various African languages. It also examines ways in which one's own culture shapes one's reading of the products of other cultures. More generally, this course aims to extend students' powers of literary interpretation and to help them rethink literary analysis as an activity that is open to a variety of different approaches, some of which entail quite different kinds of results
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to basic concepts of drama and theater, including the relationship between drama as text and as spectacle and the relation of drama to other genres and art forms. Examination of significant theatrical traditions that have influenced modern drama. Prerequisite(s): English 103 with a grade of C or better or exemption. General Education Requirement: (FSLT) Unit(s): 1 Additional Information: This course introduces students to basic concepts of drama and theater. They read plays and theoretical essays with a view to analyzing how drama works both as a text on the page as well as a spectacle on the stage, examining all the elements that together constitute the dramatic experience. The course also focuses on significant theatrical traditions that have influenced modern drama, particularly with regard to the changing relationship between stage and audience. A fundamental question underlies all these readings and discussions: Why drama at all What can the theater accomplish that other art forms cannot
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3.00 Credits
Introduces the methodology of film studies through close textual analysis of narrative film. Special attention paid to the international history of the medium, the language of production, and major critical approaches. Prerequisite: English 103 with a grade of C or better or exemption. 4 sem. hrs. (FSLT) Date Approved: July 1, 2002.
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