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4.00 Credits
Using examples of literature in translation from Asia, South America, Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe, the course will explore themes common around the world in forms distinctive to diverse cultures. (Prerequisites: ENG120, ENG155)
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4.00 Credits
Students examine selected works of early American writers with emphasis on Puritanism, literary nationalism, and the period known as the "American Renaissance." Along with examining the literature for aesthetic technique, students discuss significant themes and the literary canon as it relates to minority and women writers. (Prerequisites: ENG120, ENG155)
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4.00 Credits
Students explore the emergence of local color, realism and naturalism and the fragmentation of modern and post-modern literature between the Civil War and the present. Women and minority writers are important foci. (Prerequisites: ENG120, ENG155)
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4.00 Credits
Research demonstrates that employers want to hire people who have strong writing skills, who can analyze complex issues, and who can think critically. This course develops all of these skills. Intended for the intermediate writer, this course teaches students how to write logical, clear, organized, persuasive arguments on contemporary issues. Examples of assignments might include critical comparisons, reviews, cultural analyses, persuasive essays, and argument-driven research papers. (Prerequisites: ENG120, ENG155)
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4.00 Credits
In this course students become familiar with various critical theories about literature including structuralism, deconstruction, cultural criticism (especially as related to third world literature), feminist theory and psychoanalytical theory. It prepares them to read critically and helps them to develop their own critical stances. (Prerequisites: ENG120, ENG155 and an upper level English course)
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2.00 Credits
Topics in Literature offers students an opportunity to study in-depth a literary genre, theme, or movement. Topics will vary from offering to offering. (Prerequisite: ENG155 or permission of the instructor)
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Independent study offers the opportunity to pursue advanced study in language, literature, or communication. Independent study is open only to students with substantial preparatory course work in the discipline involved. (Prerequisites: ENG120, ENG155 and an upper level English course or consent of instructor)
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4.00 Credits
Seminars in literature cover varying topics in greater depth than is possible in a survey class. Recent seminar topics include Virginia Woolf: Her Art and Her Influence; Emily Dickinson: Her Circle and Her Influence; Seminar in the African-American Literary Tradition; and Victorian Secrets. (Prerequisites: ENG120, ENG155)
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Students participate in a variety of internship programs in editing, publishing, broadcasting, television and public information under the supervision of the faculty and the director of internships for the company or organization granting the internship. (Prerequisites: ENG120, ENG155)
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1.00 Credits
This course, taught by all full-time English faculty, for English majors and teacher candidates in language arts, is designed to help the major see patterns in course work. Through review, reading and discussion students will re-examine and synthesize texts and ideas. The English Capstone exam is both written and oral. (Prerequisite: senior year status)
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