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3.00 Credits
Three Credits LA Dual listed as COM 205 An investigation of the characteristics of natural languages and speech communities. Training in linguistic analysis enables the student to uncover the range of structural possibilities in human languages, e.g., pronoun restrictions in Navajo, gender markers in Japanese, upside-down language in Australian aboriginal varieties. The course allows the student to pursue questions of interest, e.g., the origin of language, language and gender, child language acquisition, and slang. Offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits LA An introduction to poetry with a focus on practical criticism: analysis of poems, acquisition of working vocabulary in description of poetic techniques, forms, and effects. Allied readings in the theory of poetry and the nature of the creative process.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits LA Readings in a wide range of 20th-century science fiction and fantasy writers.
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1.00 Credits
One Credit each LA These three one-credit, five-week courses in literature are designed especially for the non-English major. Subject matter will be different for each offering. It may introduce students to an author (e.g., Chekhov, Wordsworth, Frost), or literary work (e.g., Gulliver's Travels, Huckleberry Finn, King Lear), or theme (e.g., the immigrant experience in American literature, the idea of initiation in the short story, the idea of love in modern poetry). Three courses are scheduled during the term consecutively in the same slot so that at registration the student may select one, two, or all three of the minis.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits LA Introduces students to a number of New World writers, from 1620 to the Civil War, placing these in the context of significant historical and intellectual movements. The course begins with Colonial writers such as Bradford, Taylor, Rowlandson, and Bradstreet, moves to the 18th-century figures such as Edwards and Franklin, and culminates with writers of the American Renaissance: Emerson, Poe, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Melville. Offered every year.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits LA Introduces students to a number of significant American writers from the Civil War to the mid-20th century. The course begins with Whitman and includes late 19th-century writers such as Dickinson, Twain, James, Freeman, Jewett, and Adams. Readings from a variety of early 20th-century novelists, essayists, poets, and playwrights will be selected, e.g., from Chopin, Lewis, Faulkner, Gilman, Wharton, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Cather, Anderson, Eliot, Williams, O'Neill, Baldwin. Offered every year.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits LA A broad survey of English Literature, represented by significant texts produced from the Medieval period through the Renaissance, by authors such as the Beowulf poet, Margery Kempe, Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Milton, and Aphra Behn. Offered every year.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits LA A broad survey of English Literature, represented by significant texts produced from the Restoration through the early 20th century, including the work of such authors as Pope, Swift, Wordsworth, Dickens, Tennyson, Yeats, and Eliot. Offered every year.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits LA Dual listed as REST 214 An interdisciplinary study of significant religious and theological themes in contemporary literature as they illuminate the human quest for meaning. Offered every year.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits LA A foundation course for the writing major and minor. This course has two primary objectives. First, it helps students produce texts free of grammatical and mechanical errors. Next, it shows students how to manipulate sentential and textual structures for stylistic and rhetorical effects in a variety of contexts. These objectives are fulfilled through exercises and editing assignments covering the students' own writing, peer samples, and works by writers from various periods and disciplines. Offered every year. Prerequisite: Completion of ENG 185 or permission of instructor or chairperson
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