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4.00 Credits
An intensive study of Shakespeare's plays; 319 concentrates on Shakespeare's histories, comedies and romances, while 320 focuses on the tragedies. Prerequisites: PCA 125 or English 110 and one 200-level English literature course; or two 200-level English courses. Also offered as English 319, 320 and through European Studies.
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This course examines the oral literatures of Native Americans and the incorporation of the oral tradition into written texts. Native American oral traditions are examined using written texts, videos and live performances. With a focus on origin stories, mythic heroes, personal narratives and contemporary poetry and fiction, the course considers Native American views of storytelling, family, religion/cosmogony and language. Also offered through Native American Studies and U.S. Cultural and Ethnic Studies.
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This course introduces students to the theatrical developments in South Africa in the apartheid and post-apartheid eras. The purpose is to foster awareness of the potency of drama for political protest and for social change in post-colonial Africa. Issues about gender and racial discrimination, as well as the challenge of technocracy and European values to traditional beliefs and customs, are the primary focuses for study. Also offered as English 323 and through African Studies.
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4.00 Credits
A study of English popular drama, 1580 to 1640. Prerequisites: two lower-level English courses. Also offered as English 324 and through European Studies.
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4.00 Credits
A study of American history through examination of the speeches of spokespersons for social, political, legal and religious institutions and movements. From Thomas Jefferson to George Bush, from Susan B. Anthony to Phyllis Schlafly, from George Wallace to Martin Luther King Jr.: a study of the impact of rhetorical strategies upon ideas and events and of ideas and events upon rhetorical strategies.
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4.00 Credits
Using theoretical writings and dramatic scripts, this course asks what, if anything, is different about reading drama written by women about women. Although the foundations of this course are rooted in a variety of feminist perspectives, it focuses on a way of reading rather than on any one of a group of political stances. Students are expected to respond subjectively to the voices of women articulated in the plays and, at the same time, use critical skills to comprehend the social, historical and cultural contexts which shaped them. Prerequisite: PCA 125 or permission.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the rhetorical strategies employed in contemporary American social movements (civil rights, Vietnam/ anti-war movement, women's liberation, American Indian Movement, and gay and lesbian rights). Cultural texts, speeches, manifestos, sit-ins, marches and songs drawn from each of these calls for change are examined and interpreted using a variety of rhetorical theories.
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4.00 Credits
Ritual controls and liberates, creates and destroys, shapes and re-shapes. Arguably, ritual is the basis of drama, religion, even civilization as we understand it. Animals do it; so do humans. Is ritual merely a cultural construction, reflecting the ways humans construe the world, or are there biogenetic impulses at work that generate in all living beings a search for cosmic orientations that result in patterned behaviors called ritual? What counts as ritual? High Mass, brushing your teeth, beauty pageants? Where do rituals come from? How do they change? What roles do they fulfill with regard to human need and desire? Are contemporary North Americans suffering from a lack of ritualization? How does ritual influence warfare, courtship, marriage, burial, birthing? This course addresses questions such as these and many more regarding the ways humans (and some animals) use (and misuse) ritual behaviors.
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4.00 Credits
This course, which is taught once every four years, examines the diverse forms and functions of rhetoric within the context of presidential election campaigns, paying particular attention to that year's election. Students engage in a variety of formal and informal oral and written exercises related to the persuasive strategies candidates, the media and independent organizations use to advance their agendas. The course pays particular attention to stump speeches, convention speeches, political debates, political advertising, campaign Web sites, political cartoons and news coverage of elections.
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4.00 Credits
Students are exposed to theoretical writings, dramatic texts and performances that reflect the continuing experimentation in the theatre since the 1890s. Students examine artistic reactions to a post-Darwinian and post-Freudian worldview and are exposed to the various methods in which playwrights and theater practitioners have grappled with finding new ways of articulating what it means to be human in an industrialized world. Prerequisites: PCA 125 or PCA 215 or permission of instructor. Also offered as English 338 and through European Studies.
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