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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
This course, designed specifically for incoming freshmen with creative writing scholarships, teaches the fundamentals of poetry and fiction writing. Students will read and write fiction and poetry. F
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to literature emphasizing the ability to read critically. Meets University Core Curriculum Goal B2: The Arts. F, Sp, Su
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3.00 Credits
A second course in the critical arts of reading, writing, reflection, and discussion emphasizing the responsibilities of written inquiry and structured reasoning. Meets University Core Curriculum Goal A1: Composition/Speech. Prereq: ENG 101 or approved equivalent. F, Sp, Su
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3.00 Credits
ENG 205 introduces students to the major literary genres (lyric poetry, drama, and prose fiction), to significant theoretical orientations (such as formalism, reader-response, Marxism, and feminism) that establish particular ways of reading any text, and to the range of disciplines included within the study of English (including linguistics, rhetoric, writing, and the teaching of English). This course is intended to help students become more critical and informed readers, more comfortable with the terminology used across the broad spectrum of English courses, and more able to marshal technical information and apply theoretical concepts in their literary interpretations. Prereq: ENG 201 or equivalent. F, Sp
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3.00 Credits
The fundamentals of technical communication with emphasis on clear, precise, and orderly exposition. Prereq: ENG 101. F, Sp
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3.00 Credits
A study of literary works from different countries and eras that reflect on the causes, nature, and consequences of evil. Special focus on development of ethical principles and decision-making. Meets University Core Curriculum Goal B1: Ethics.
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3.00 Credits
A course which examines the African American literary tradition, covering representative works from the African pre-colonial and modern periods, nineteenth century America, the Harlem Renaissance to the present. Included are works by African and African American authors from the oral and written traditions of poetry, prose, and drama.
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3.00 Credits
ENG 255 examines the historical development of British literature, from the Anglo-Saxon invasions that catalyzed the birth of a British national identity and brought Beowulf into the literature of England, through the contentious development of this national identity into a global power, to Britain’s 20th century post-colonial status. By concentrating on representative or “canonical” works as well as those conventionally underrepresented,the course will provide students with the background necessary to understand British literary works in their social, political, and cultural contexts. Prereq: English 101 or equivalent. Meets Core Curriculum Goal B2: The Arts. F, Sp
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3.00 Credits
ENG 265 provides an overview of the main currents in the development of American literature, from its beginnings in pre-colonial times, through its reliance on and then struggle against British and European themes and forms, to its 20th-century development into the many voices of an uneasily multi-ethnic world power. By historically situating representative works from within the canon as well as from voices traditionally excluded or under-represented, the course will provide students with the background necessary to understand literature as the product of and often as challenging this background. Prereq: English 101 or equivalent. Meets Core Curriculum Goal B2: The Arts. F, Sp
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3.00 Credits
An introductory examination of motion pictures as an art form. Students attend a series of selected films and discuss and evaluate them with respect to theme and technique. Critical principles are examined, and basic dramatic, literary, and photographic principles of cinema are investigated. Meets University Core Curriculum Goal B2: The Arts. F, Sp
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