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3.00 Credits
Three Credits LA An introduction to the craft of poetry, designed to offer students direct experience in writing poetry and to heighten their awareness of the imaginative potential of language. Students gain practice in formal elements of verse, experimenting with a wide variety of traditional and nontraditional approaches. The workshop emphasizes group discussions of the student's own work, along with consideration of various contemporary models. Offered every year. Prerequisite: Completion of Core/LS writing requirement
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits LA The course trains the students to function effectively as professional writers by showing them how to deal with decision making at different stages of the writing process (brainstorming, proposing, composing, and follow-up). Students learn to be aware of the conditions in which professional writers conduct themselves, interact with clients, and coordinate their functions within the team or organization. The course introduces students to a variety of the most common types of business documents and the conventions governing their production in print and multimedia formats. Students create products for clients using desktop publishing and multimedia applications where available. The ethical dimension of communication will also be considered. It is assumed that the student enters this class with a good grasp of grammar and the mechanics of writing; the course thus proceeds with stylistic and technical issues. Offered in alternate years. Prerequisite: Completion of Core/LS writing requirement
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1.00 Credits
One Credit LA This one-credit, two-week course in writing is specially designed for the English major with a Writing Concentration. Subject matter will be different for each offering. In a workshop setting, the course will expose students to an advanced topic in one of a variety of genres, e.g., fiction, essay, poetry, or scriptwriting. Students may choose to take three of these one-credit courses to fulfill one of their three-credit writing course requirements. The course may be offered during the first, second, or third slot of the semester. Offered at least once a year.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits LA Dual listed as COM 338 A survey of drama in England, excluding Shakespeare, from its origins in the liturgy of the Medieval Church, through the English Renaissance, up to the closing of the theatres under the Puritans in 1642. Class discussions will focus not only on drama as literature but also on social history as it relates to theatre history. Works studied will represent such playwrights as Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson, and Webster. Offered in alternate years. (Fulfills the Genre requirement for English Literature majors.)
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits LA Dual listed as COM 339 A survey of drama in England from the Restoration to the present. Class discussions will focus not only on drama as literature but also on social history as it relates to theatre history. Plays studied will represent such playwrights as Congreve, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Wilde, Shaw, Eliot, and Pinter. Offered in alternate years. (Fulfills the Genre requirement for English Literature majors.)
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits LA Dual listed COM 241 See COM 241 for course description.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits LA A study of the novel form as it originated in the 18th century with Defoe and Fielding. Major emphasis is placed on the achievements of the 19th-century novelists, such as Jane Austen, Dickens, George Eliot, Emily Bronte, and Thomas Hardy. Offered in alternate years. (Fulfills the Genre requirement for English Literature majors.)
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits LA A detailed examination of his shorter poems, the dream visions, Troilus and Criseyde, and the Canterbury Tales, exploring the influences of history, politics, national cultures, literary traditions, and social classes upon those texts. Offered in alternate years. (Fulfills the Single-Author requirement for English Literature majors.)
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits LA Dual Listed as COM 438 A study of Shakespeare's art and development through a reading of selected tragedies, comedies, histories, romances, and nondramatic poetry. Offered every year. (Fulfills the Single-Author requirement for English Literature majors.)
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits LA A study of the major British, American, and Commonwealth fiction writers in English in the 20th century, including Conrad, Lawrence, Joyce, V. Woolf, Faulkner, Pynchon, Morrison, and Rushdie. Offered in alternate years. (Fulfills the Genre requirement for English Literature majors.)
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