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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. This course introduces students to both English and non-English literary traditions in the early modern and modern periods and provides an understanding of the connections between and differences among cultures from the Enlightenment to the present. (A)
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2 or 4 hours. A course that examines issues of language, gender, and culture portrayed through the lens of the woman writer. Texts may include novels, stories, autobiographies, essays, letters, and poetry. (Cross-listed as WMST 254) (A)
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4.00 Credits
2 or 4 hours. The literature of diverse cultures. African, Asian, Jewish, and Native American literatures as well as other cultural traditions may be represented. (Cross-listed as CRIT 256, WMST 256) (A)
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4.00 Credits
2 or 4 hours. A comparative study of several fictional works and their film adaptations. The course analyzes individual texts and films, and considers the relationship between words and visual images or between the literary canon and popular culture. (A)
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4 hours. Tales of adventure constitute the oldest literature that has survived through the centuries. This course examines many genres: epic, political satire, romance, horror, the fairy tale, and science fiction. Readings span more than 2500 years of literary history. (A)
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4 hours. This course examines the use and abuse of medieval concepts such as the quest, Christian morality, and courtly love, as well as of specific medieval characters and events by authors and filmmakers such as J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, T.H. White, John Cleese, Walt Disney, and Quentin Tarantino. (A)
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4 hours. We explore the impact of Vietnam on American literature and film, concentrating on how the lens of imagination has become a tool for seeing the war more clearly and coming to terms with it as cultural experience and ordeal. (A)
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2 or 4 hours. "Three quarks for Muster Mark" (James Joyce). This course will explore and challenge the boundaries separating disciplines. Fictional representations of emerging technologies, medical nightmares, and futuristic utopias and distopias are all possibilities for discussion. (Cross-listed as CRIT 281) (A)
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. War, humankind's worst activity, has stimulated the human imagination to admirable accomplishments. We examine war fiction from the Civil War, through the two World Wars, Korea, the Cold War, Vietnam, and Iraq. Selected war films will supplement the texts. (A)
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2 or 4 hours. "Only the perverse fantasy can save us" (Goethe). If you like women in white, gray castles, and dark secrets, this course is for you. An exploration of the conventions and tropes in Gothic literature. (A)
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