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4.00 Credits
2 or 4 hours. A beginning writing course in poetry with an emphasis on originality and freshness of language and a basic understanding of poetic form. Required work includes extensive reading of contemporary poets, weekly writing, peer review, and a final portfolio of revised poems.
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4.00 Credits
2 or 4 hours. A series of introductory courses, each being a study of film not covered in other 200-level courses. (C)
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4.00 Credits
2 or 4 hours. This introductory course may adopt one or more of the following approaches: an historical survey of the genre, examining the emergence and growth of this literary form; an aesthetic treatment; a cultural stance, illustrating how class, gender, and ethnicity influence literary texts; a thematic ordering, revealing how different works treat familiar themes. (A)
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2.00 - 4.00 Credits
An introductory examination of one of the most complex and powerful of all genres. This course may focus on a number of issues crucial to the novel: history, conventions, theme, and/or culture. British, American, and/or Continental authors. (A).
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4.00 Credits
2 or 4 hours. This course approaches the short novel or "novella" as differing from novel and story not merely in size, but in kind. It is a distinct species of fiction, uniquely crafted and responsive to an aesthetic separate from that of its longer and shorter cousins. Readings are selected from American, British, Irish, and Continental short novels. (A)
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. In this course we will read some of the best known 20th-Century American, British, and Irish poets: Robert Frost, ee cummings, Sylvia Plath, Thomas Hardy, W. B. Yeats, and Seamus Heaney among others. (A)
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4.00 Credits
2 or 4 hours. "[O]ne never finds truth; one creates it" (Lillian Smith). What does it mean when an individual writes his/her life? This course combines the study of literary autobiography with traditional critical approaches to the genre. Readings include stories, letters, diaries, poems, memoirs, and criticism. (Cross-listed as WMST 218) (A)
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. This course examines British literature from one of several possible perspectives: cultural, aesthetic, historical, thematic, and political. Literary periods or scope of reading may vary according to the perspective. (A)
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4.00 Credits
2 or 4 hours. A series of introductory courses, each being a study of literature not covered in other 200-level courses. (A)
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4.00 Credits
2 or 4 hours. This course examines King Arthur from his historical origins, to both his glorious and not-so-glorious medieval forms, and finally to his modern incarnations. It introduces students to medieval romance, the concept of chivalry, and the transmission of the Arthurian legend from one culture to another. (A)
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