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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. This course will provide an overview of British Literature: Beowulf, Chaucer, Renaissance and Metaphysical Poetry. Shakespeare and the Jacobeans, Restoration and 18th Century Poetry and Prose, 19th and 20th Century novels. Romantic, Victorian, and 20th Century Poetry.
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2 or 4 hours. This course explores some of Shakespeare's most popular plays and their film adaptations. Students focus on the literary analyses of character, theme, and language in the written texts. We also compare the cultural contexts of representative comedies, tragedies, and histories, with their contemporary film settings. (A)
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4 hours. An introductory course examining narrative films for their basic elements in order to perceive the ways they convey values and experiences and solicit aesthetic response. (C)
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. A study of the criminal underside of American life as depicted in the gangster film (Public Enemy, Scarface, Godfather I, II) the private eye film (Maltese Falcon, Chinatown), and the "film noir" (Double Indemnity, Out of the Past, Gilda). (C)
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4 hours. This study of American film comedy (excluding silents) examines such figures as Chaplin, the Marx Brothers, Lubitsch, Sturges, Capra (It Happened One Night), Hawks, (Bringing up Baby), Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove), Allen (Annie Hall) and others. (C)
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4 hours. This study will examine from Imitation of Life to Thelma and Louise, the portrayal of women in such American films as the material and domestic melodrama, the romantic comedy, the film noir, the "women's film," and the "new women's film." (C)
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4 hours. This course examines American literature from one of several possible perspectives: cultural, aesthetic, historical, thematic, political. Literary periods or scope of reading may vary according to the perspective. (A)
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. This course will focus on the problematic question of a national literature. By looking at the variety of texts that make up American literature, the course will examine the influence of history and culture on literary theme and voice.
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4.00 Credits
2 or 4 hours. Southerners don't hide their skeletons in closets; they invite them into the living room to entertain at tea. This course focuses on works which examine what Flannery O'Connor defined as the Southern grotesque-individuals "forced to meet the extremes of their own nature." Exploring the world created when tragic merges with comic, other writers might include Faulkner, Williams, Welty, Percy, Crews, Dickey, and Tyler. (A)
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4.00 Credits
2 or 4 hours. In this course we will examine the current work of living American poets. We will give special attention to poets who address moral, social and environmental issues. Selections will vary from year to year. (A)
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