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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
A study of the narratives, drama, and poetry produced by Jewish writers whose work has been shaped by the immigrant influx of the late nineteenth century and an inquiry into questions this writing raises about ethnicity, identity, "assimilation," and the emergence of a distinctive urban Jewish sensibility and styleduring the twentieth century. Alternate years. Meets general academic requirement L (and W which applies to 361 only).
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4.00 Credits
A study of representative late twentieth century English language novels and stories. Meets general academic requirement L (and W which applies to 363 only).
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4.00 Credits
A study of representative English language poetry published after 1945 in books and periodicals and performed at readings, with particular attention to poetics and critical theory. Meets general academic requirement L (and W which applies to 366 only).
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4.00 Credits
An exploration of the ways in which theatre and representational practice were challenged and changed by the Second World War and its political, cultural, and social aftermath. We will examine British, American, and German plays by writers such as Osborne, Pinter, Weiss, Handke, Miller, Bond, and Griffiths. Meets general academic requirement L.
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4.00 Credits
This teamtaught course focuses on the work of six or seven wellknown writers (of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry) who visit Muhlenberg to discuss their work, meet with students, and give a public reading. The class meets as one group on a weekly basis, either for a lecture or for a presentation by one of the visiting writers, and again in sections for discussions of each writer's work. Writers who have participated in this course include Peter Carey, Philip Levine, Andrea Barrett, Robert Pinsky, Carolyn Forche, Paul Muldoon, Frederick Busch, David Bradley, Alice Fulton, Jay Wright, and Francine Prose. Fulfills elective requirement of writing concentration. Offered in the fall semester of alternating years. Meets general academic requirement L.
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4.00 Credits
A study of tensions between the reality of literature as a business and popular views of literary writing as an "inspired" individual activity, of writers as lone geniuses, "prophets", "priests", etc. and an examinatiothe implications of writers' immersion in, dependence on, and resistance to the commercial, collaborative, and entrepreneurial conditions of literary production. Fulfills elective requirement of writing concentration. Meets general academic requirement L (and W which applies to 374 only).
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4.00 Credits
A study of English language literatures in former British colonies-in Africa, the Caribbean, Australia, and the Indian subcontinent and its Diaspora-focusing on the work of such writers as Walcott, Gordimer, Naipaul, Rushdie, and Soyinka, variously taught as a survey of these literatures or as a more concentrated study of the literature of one or two nations or regions. Alternate years. Meets general academic requirement D or L ( and W which applies to 376 only).
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4.00 Credits
A survey of contemporary theatre practice which includes not only the study of new literary plays by writers such as Stoppard, Kushner, Wolfe, and Mann, but also of other kinds of performances, such as avantgarde theatre, performance art, the new vaudeville, and the oneperson show. Artists to be studied may include Anna Devere Smith, John Leguizamo, Pina Bausch, The Theatre of the Ridiculous, and The Wooster Group. Meets general academic requirement A.
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4.00 Credits
A required course for students who plan on serving as Writing Center tutors and Writing Assistants. The course will focus (1) on writing, reading, and evaluating analytic and literary essays and (2) on writing theory and how various theories translate into classroom and oneonone tutorial practice. In addition, students will spend an hour a week in the Writing Center, first observing tutorial sessions, then cotutoring, and finally tutoring students oneonone. Prerequisite: instructor permission Meets general academic requirement W.
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4.00 Credits
English Department seminars are offered once or twice a semester by different members of the department on a rotating basis. They are required of all senior English majors and may also be taken by juniors with instructor permission. Meets general academic requirement W.
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