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3.00 Credits
Course examines literary and cinematic traditions in which slave narratives and African-American documentary film share rhetorical, artistic and political purposes. Course demonstrates how slave narratives and documentary film functioned at the forefronts of the 20th century socio-cultural activism for the redress of inequalities. Through written text and cinemagraphic arguments, the course explores how slave narratives served as analogs to American literary conventions and how documentary films continue to inform popular and critical literary texts and images. This course is a critical research course that informs and supports the goals and objectives of Writing & Rhetoric I and II foundational courses within the English Department. 3 CRE DITS
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3.00 Credits
Course explores several important novels published since 1965 by Native-American writers. These writers employ fresh approaches in contrast to traditional linearity of novel form. Readings include works by such writers as Sherman Alexie, N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Louise Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, Linda Hogan, and Paula Gunn Allen. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 WRITING AND RHETORIC II
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3.00 Credits
Series of courses examines Shakespeare's works in their literary, historical, and artistic contexts. Shakespeare: Tragedies may include Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. Shakespeare: Comedies may include The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, and The Tempest. Shakespeare: Histories focuses on Shakespeare's dramatization of English history from Richard II to Richard II. Shakespeare: Political Plays considers some histories and plays such as Julius Caesar and Coriolanus. Course is repeatable as topic changes. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 WRITING AND RHETORIC II
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3.00 Credits
The work of Gerard Manley Hopkins, W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, W.H. Auden, and others is read in this survey of the Modernist period, 1900-1945. The course also provides an introduction to Postmodernism. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 WRITING AND RHETORIC II, 52-1602 INTRODUCTION TO POETRY
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3.00 Credits
Works of poets such as Roethke, Ginsberg, Plath, Lowell, Ashbery, Rich, Creeley, Bly, Baraka, Brooks, and others are read and discussed in survey of post-modernist period, 1945 to present. Course also examines rise of important movements such as projectivism, the Beats, the New York School, Confessional Poetry, Surrealism, Feminism, the New Formalism, and Multiculturalism. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 WRITING AND RHETORIC II
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3.00 Credits
This class will explore ways in which the creative impulses and procedures of jazz-a music of intense emotion, imagination (intuitively structured improvisation), and energy (fresh, vital rhythms and instrumental colors)-have inspired and intensified modern poetry. We will listen to jazz on record, read examples of poetry inspired by jazz, discuss their common social and cultural contexts, and discover how music may influence poetry's subject, language, sound, and form. No previous knowledge of jazz is required for this course. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 WRITING AND RHETORIC II
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3.00 Credits
Advanced, intensive study, this course focuses on study of one, two, or three major British writers. Course may include studies of such authors as Lawrence, Joyce, Shaw, Austen, Donne, Eliot, Woolf, Milton, Chaucer, and Dickens. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 WRITING AND RHETORIC II
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3.00 Credits
Advanced, intensive study, this course treats one, two, or three major American writers. Course may include studies in Twain and Chesnutt, Twain and James, Hemingway and Faulkner, Hawthorne and Melville, Morrison and Hurston, Erdrich and Welch, Cather and Wharton, Baldwin and Wright, or others. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 WRITING AND RHETORIC II
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3.00 Credits
Students explore and foster intersections between literary and technological approaches to representing human experience and creativity. Emphasis on collaborative student projects. Background in technology not required, although students should have basic computer literacy. Course theme may change from term to term. Course repeatable as theme changes. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 WRITING AND RHETORIC II
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3.00 Credits
An independent project is designed by the student, with approval of supervising faculty member, to study an area not available in the curriculum. Prior to registration, student must submit written proposal that outlines the project. VARIA BLE CRE DITS
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