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4.00 Credits
4 semester hours Students will study poetry written in English during the last 400 years. Reading in the poetry is supplemented and focused by readings in criticism and poetics. The approach is topical rather than chronological and should develop a student's sense of what kind of thing a poem is and how poems can best be read. (Every other year) Prerequisite: ENG1020 or consent of instructor. Meets General Education "Aesthetic and Philosophical Expression" Group Brequirement.
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4.00 Credits
4 semester hours This course provides preparation in the methods and materials of literary study. While the course devotes some attention to introducing or reviewing basic analytic vocabulary, it emphasizes the application of different critical and theoretical approaches to the interpretation of primary literary texts. Along with the selected literary works, assigned readings will include a variety of scholarly secondary texts. (Every year) Prerequisite: ENG1020.
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4.00 Credits
4 semester hours Analyzes and prepares students to produce prose of the sort expected in upperlevel undergraduate courses or graduate programs, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. The course emphasizes the development of a flexible and efficient style and of sophisticated expository and argumentative discourse strategies. (Fall) Prerequisite: ENG1020.
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2.00 Credits
2 semester hours Cross-listed with EDU3180. For description see EDU3180.
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2.00 Credits
2 semester hours Cross-listed with EDU3190. For description see EDU3190.
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4.00 Credits
4 semester hours Studies classic works of literature, primarily from the western tradition, ranging from the Greeks through the modernist period. Versions of the course will be organized around particular themes or issues (e.g., the Antigone or Faust story, the development and exhaustion of the epic tradition, the rise of realism in European literature, etc.). The course will also explore a range of critical and scholarly perspectives on the literature it studies. (Every other year) Prerequisite: ENG1020.
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4.00 Credits
4 semester hours American Literature presents a study of Americans in their developing and changing environment from the Puritanism, to the Colonial and the Romantic periods, to the end of the Civil War. We will cover a broad range of texts: political essays, songs, captivity narratives, memoirs, myths and tales, poetry, and the emerging American novel. Writers studied may include Bradford, Bradstreet, Mather, Franklin, Jefferson, Wheatly, Douglass, Truth, Melville, Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, and Whitman. (Annually) Prerequisite: ENG1020. Meets General Education "Aesthetic and Philosophical Expression" Group Brequirement.
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4.00 Credits
4 semester hours Examines the rise of modernism and post-modernism in an ongoing dialog with our world. The course explores various genres and sub-genres from the CivilWar to the present and pays particular attention to understanding approaches to criticism within historical, social, political, and philosophical contexts. Authors studied may include: Twain, Chopin, Crane, Dunbar, Cather, Frost, Sandburg, Anderson, Eliot, Hughes, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hemingway, Porter, Williams, O'Connor, Sexton, Morrison, and Mason. (Annually) Prerequisite: ENG1020 or consent of instructor. Meets General Education "Aesthetic and Philosophical Expression" Group Brequirement.
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4.00 Credits
4 semester hours The course provides a survey of British Literature, beginning with works from its Anglo-Saxon period, progressing through the Medieval Age in the work of such writers as Chaucer and the Gawain poet, into the height of the Renaissance in England, as exemplified by the poetry of Spenser, Sidney, and Shakespeare. Also explores the changes in the English language during this span of time. The course will also explore critical approaches to literature, especially those that emphasize the reading of literary texts within historical and cultural contexts. (Annually) Prerequisite: ENG1020. Meets General Education "Aesthetic and Philosophical Expression" Group Brequirement.
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4.00 Credits
4 semester hours The course continues the survey of British literature through the study of poetry, drama, and some of the nonfictional prose written in England between the height of the Renaissance through the 17th and 18th centuries to arrive at the beginnings of the Romantic period. Authors studied may includeMarlowe, Shakespeare,Milton, the Metaphysical poets, Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, and Blake. The course will also explore critical approaches to literature, particularly those that emphasize the reading of literary texts within historical and cultural contexts. (Annually) Prerequisite: ENG1020. Meets General Education "Aesthetic and Philosophical Expression" Group Brequirement.
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