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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Against the background of socio-political issues like colonialism, nationalism, and race and gender, and in the stream of literary heritages like modernism, this course undertakes an exploration into the prose of Bessie Head and Chinua Achebe (Africa), V. S. Naipaul and Michelle Cliff (the Caribbean), Kamala Markandaya and Raja Rao (India), and the poetry of Wole Soyinka (Africa), Derek Walcott (the Caribbean) and Anita Desai (India), among others, that is supplemented by a consideration of the "colonial" and "postcolonial" theories Franz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, Homi Bhaba,Benita Parry and Gayatri Spivak. HUM; Prereq: at least sophomore standing; at least one course in music, art, literature, political science or history. Concurrent course in the humanities, history, or social sciences recommended; DV; N. Rosenfeld
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3.00 Credits
See description for AMST 243. CL: AMST 243; M. Roy-Féquière
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3.00 Credits
A study of the relationship between literature and power. This course will examine the cultural forces that influence the creation, circulation, and interpretation of texts. Specific offerings may vary from year to year, but in each incarnation, the course will examine literature through the lens of cultural diversity and power. HUM; Prereq: ENG 120 or ENG 200; DV; STAFF
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3.00 Credits
A study of English literature in its social, intellectual, and historical contexts in the Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, and Renaissance periods. Emphasis is on literary works by major early writers and on the intellectual, social, and political movements that inform the literature. Authors read may include the Beowulf poet, Chaucer, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, and Donne, and works by less frequently canonized writers. HUM; Prereq: ENG 120 strongly recommended; L. Haslem
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3.00 Credits
A study of English literature from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. The emphasis is on major Restoration, Enlightenment, Romantic, and Victorian writers in their historical and cultural contexts. The evolution of literary styles and genres is related to the intellectual, political, social, and religious movements of the respective periods. Authors read may include Behn, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Blake, Wordsworth, Wollstonecraft, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Bronte, Dickens and Barrett-Browning. HUM; Prereq: ENG 120 strongly recommended; N. Rosenfeld, G. Franco, E. Anderson
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3.00 Credits
A study of poetry and fiction from the late nineteenth to the mid twentieth century, with attention to the relationship between the disintegration of traditional moral, social and intellectual values and the development of new literary forms. Authors include Yeats, Forster, Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, and Rhys. HUM; Prereq: ENG 120 strongly recommended; N. Rosenfeld
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3.00 Credits
See description for JOUR 270. HUM; CL: JOUR 270; W; M. Webb
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3.00 Credits
See description for CTL 275. CL: CTL 275 S. Trotter-Martin
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3.00 Credits
Intensive work in the reading and writing of creative nonfiction; workshops plus individual conferences. Prereq: ENG 206 or written permission of the instructor; CL: JOUR 306; May be taken three terms; N. Regiacorte, M. Berlin, N. Rosenfeld
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3.00 Credits
Intensive work in the reading and writing of fiction; workshops plus individual conferences. Prereq: ENG 207 or written permission of the instructor; May be taken three terms; O; W; STAFF
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