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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
This course will explore the forms and functions of primarily prose narratives with particular attention to structure, point of view, and narrative conventions of time, space, plot, character, and "realism". Differentversions of the course will vary in focus and emphasis: some may survey a variety of forms and genres (short story, novel, memoir, autobiography) while others may concentrate on one or two of these. Alternate years. Meets general academic requirement L (and W which applies to 241 only).
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4.00 Credits
What is poetry How is it made or constructed Is it the product of sudden inspiration or of something more mundane This course will address such questions by examining the work of poets who, in addition to their poems, have left behind letters, journals, and notebooks that allow us to reconstruct the processes through which their poems develop and progress to completion. Students will be encouraged to write and chart the development of their own poems in process. Alternate years. Meets general academic requirement L (and W which applies to 246 only).
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the relationship between novels and plays and their filmadaptations, concentrating on the different ways we read and interpret these narrative forms. The course will attend closely to the variety of decisions that inform the translation of literary works into a different medium with different conventions for a different audience. Emphases and subject matter will change. Meets general academic requirement L.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of complex relationships between the various meanings of what we call "nature" and therepresentations of such concepts in literary writing and other kinds of texts that raise environmental questions. A field work component will require students to survey nearby landscapes and to "read" theirhistorical transformations. Meets general academic requirement L.
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4.00 Credits
Considers the mutual influence of science and literature with emphasis on the development of modes of thought across disciplinary lines. The specific focus of each term will be defined by scientific, historical, and/or generic concerns. Some possible emphases include medicine, modern physics, evolution, genderconstruction, and technology. Meets general academic requirement L (and W which applies to 266 only).
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4.00 Credits
An exploration of the way literature reflects and shapes understandings, attitudes toward, and representations of sexual identities and practices. Meets general academic requirement L (and W which applies to 268 only).
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4.00 Credits
A study of the relationship between literary writing, which represents a small proportion of all the writing we routinely encounter, and the mass media (scripted TV and movie narratives, news reports, advertising, memos, etc.) and of the implications of this relationship for both the producers (writers) and consumers (readers) of literature. Alternate years. Meets general academic requirement L (and W which applies to 270 only).
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the practices, assumptions, and goals that differentiate English Studies from other approaches to texts, intended exclusively as a foundations course for current and prospective English majors and minors and requiring close readings of works in various genres in a pursuit of working definitions of literature and literariness. Questions addressed include: How do we distinguish literary work from other kinds of writing What distinguishes literary complexity over simplicity How do literary and critical practices evolve Prerequisite: Current and Prospective English majors and minors only Meets general academic requirement L and W.
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4.00 Credits
This course will provide students with a general understanding of the nature and function of language in American society, with special emphasis on language instruction in the secondary school classroom. It will be structured as a seminar that features group discussion of assigned readings. Meets general academic requirement W when offered as 312.
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4.00 Credits
A broadbased study of the literature of the European Middle Ages. Readings will include selections from the romances of Chretien de Troyes, the lais of Marie de France, Dante's Inferno, Boccaccio' s Decameron,Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, one of Chaucer's dreamvisions, and a representative sampling of his Canterbury Tales. Alternate years. Meets general academic requirement L (and W which applies to 314 only).
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