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3.00 Credits
Series of courses focuses on specific literary genres, subgenres, or modes. Specific courses include Detective Fiction, American Autobiography, American Short Story, and Magical Realism. Course is repeatable as topic changes. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 WRITING AND RHETORIC II OR PLACEMENT
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Series is for new courses that deal with specific topics, themes, or types of literature. Topics that have been offered in past semesters include The Blues as Literature, Literature of the Holocaust, Literature of the Occult, and Sherlock Holmes, Course is repeatable as topic changes. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 WRITING AND RHETORIC II OR PLACEMENT
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This course examines the relationship between the written and filmed versions of a story, novel, or play. The course will explore how character development, plot, narrative, symbols, and language are translated from text to film. To facilitate analysis, students will acquire a basic vocabulary for discussing literature and film. African-American themes regarding socio-historical context, aesthetics, and critical theory will be examined. The course establishes connections between literature and other areas of arts and communications. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 WRITING AND RHETORIC II OR PLACEMENT
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Course explores the emergence of science fiction, especially from the late nineteenth century to the present, with some attention to the cultural and historical issues that shaped its development. The relationships among literary, film, and other expressions of science fiction will also be considered. 3 CRE DITS
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Course reviews historical definitions of blues and explores how various literary and cinematic genres employ blues' elements to create art. While studying different types of blues and blues literature, students will understand how blues is increasingly called into service as a critical tool. Bukka White, Son House, Robert Johnson, Charles Patton, Memphis Minnie, Victoria Spivey, Willie Dixon, Bessie Smith, Muddy Waters, Richard Wright, Gwendolyn Grooks, John Edgar Wideman, Ann Petry, and Willard Motely are among the literati studied in this course. 3 CRE DITS
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the relationship between the written and filmed versions of a story, novel, play, or poetry. The course will explore how character development, plot, narrative, symbols, and language are translated from text to film. To facilitate analysis, students will acquire a basic vocabulary for discussing literature and film. African American themes regarding socio-historical context, aesthetics, and critical theory will be examined. The course establishes connections between literature and other areas of arts and communications. 3 CRE DITS
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The course will examine the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, focusing on their thematic structure, stylistic features, and rhetorical strategies. It will analyze their relationship to the Fantasy Literature which preceded and succeeded them and the context of the socio-political milieu in which they were written. It will also explore the interpretation of the texts, especially The Lord of the Rings, in their post-publication manifestations in the various media. 3 CRE DITS
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This course explores the history, significance, and representation of the zombie as a figure in horror and fantasy texts. Instruction follows an intense schedule, using critical theory and source media (literature, comics, and films) to spur discussion and exploration of the figure's many incarnations. Daily assignments focus on reflection and commentary, while final projects foster thoughtful connections between student disciplines and the figure of the zombie. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 52-1111 WRITING AND RHETORIC I - ENHANCED OR PLACEMENT
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This course introduces students to a broad range of approaches to visual texts and written literature. Students will learn how visual, cultural, and literary theories enable them to create different interpretive strategies in their approaches to specific texts. Critical concepts studied may include subjectivity, the gaze, (re)presentation, gendered bodies, the practice of everyday life, the posthuman. The class will emphasize students' critical writing as a creative process. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 WRITING AND RHETORIC II OR PLACEMENT
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3.00 Credits
Students consider representations of cyberspace in literature and explore themes such as cyberspace and postmodernism; virtual reality; the posthuman; and definitions of space, time, and identity. Authors studied may include William Gibson, Jeanette Winterson, Shelley Jackson, Michael Joyce, and Stuart Moulthrop. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 WRITING AND RHETORIC II OR PLACEMENT
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