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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Study of the literature(s) of Africa from pre-colonial to contemporary times. Includes investigation of the relationship between oral and written forms, and how "Orature" has influenced and continues to influences written African literature. Will include representative works from such writers as Achebe, Soyinka, WaThiongo, Head, Emecheta, Ba, Osundare, U'Tamsi, and Aidoo
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3.00 Credits
Study of the flourishing of the literary, visual, and performing arts by African Americans during the period known as the Harlem Renaissance (1920-1940). Emphasis includes the articulation of black aesthetics and the impact on artistic productivity.
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3.00 Credits
Study of representative literary works from the perspective of sexuality and sexual identity. May include consideration of literature by lesbian, gay, and bisexual writers; social and historical contexts of lesbians, gay, and bisexual literature; and theories of sexuality in the study of literature.
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Survey of the development of literatures in English in former European colonies. Topics include the spread of European literary forms in Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and the far new world (Australia and New Zealand) and the ways writers from colonies integrate influences from their cultures and influences from European literary traditions in their work.
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Study of the relationship between literature and environmental values, and how literary interpretations of the land reflect and influence attitudes toward nonhuman nature and our orientations to our environment. Issues may include the environment as a hostile wilderness, divine nature, the frontier, as well as contemporary nature writers' concern with imperiled ecosystems. Some consideration of Ecocriticism.
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3.00 Credits
Study of Irish literature in translation from medieval sagas and myths to the Irish Literary Revival (1880-1940). special emphasis on Yeats, Synge, Lady Gregory, Joyce, and the Abbey dramatists.
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3.00 Credits
Study of selections from the Old and New Testaments as literary texts. May include consideration of the influence of Biblical texts on other literary works and traditions.
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3.00 Credits
An introductory survey of the traditional mythological narratives of ancient civilizations, considering the origins of myths, their nature, and their functions in shaping and expressing a culture's understanding of the divine, the natural world, human nature, and the institutions of human community.
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3.00 Credits
Study of basic philosophical problems in major works of literature. Prerequisite: GEPI 140 or other philosophy course, or permission of instructor(s).
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3.00 Credits
Study of major developments of drama up to the 20th century. Close reading and discussion of representative plays from major playwrights and literary periods in terms of their historical and social contexts.
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