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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Close readings of the works of six British and American poets, the selection varying each semester. Groupings correspond to Modernists, forerunners of the Moderns, and complementary sets of contemporary artists. Course Information: May be repeated if topics vary. Students may register in more than one section per term.
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4.00 Credits
This course will introduce you to artists, writers, and poets who created their works away from their homeland and you will see how their works influenced or did not influence the culture of the country in which they lived and created, You will learn to look at works of art and see them as well as to be able to read a literary work and to understand its depth and complexity, as well as improve your analytical and writing abilities and research and writing skills. Course information: Same as ART 432 and LIS 432. This course fulfills an Engaged Citizenship Common Experience requirement at UIS in the areas of Global Awareness or ECCE Elective
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4.00 Credits
American literature from 1835 to about 1870, including works by such authors as Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson.
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4.00 Credits
Novels by such writers as Chopin, Dreiser, James, Twain, and Wharton.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of African-American literature and heritage from slave and freedmen narratives of colonial America through 19th and 20th century writers like Perry, Williams, Washington, DuBois, Dunbar, Wright, Baldwin, Hughes, Brooks, Madhubuti, Morrison, Sanchez, Walker, Angelo, and selected African and Caribbean writers such as Anta Diop and C.L.R. James will be studied.
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4.00 Credits
Predominant themes informing such diverse movements as the British Pre-Raphaelites and Aesthetes, the French and Russian Symbolists and Decadents. Course Information: Same as ART 431.
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4.00 Credits
Major authors such as Frost, Hemingway, and Faulkner. Course Information: May be repeated if topics vary. Students may register in more than one section per term.
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4.00 Credits
Fiction of major American writers from 1919 to 1939, such as Anderson, Cather, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Faulkner, and Hurston.
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4.00 Credits
Major post-war novelists, including Bellow, Ellison, Erdrich, Morrison, and Vonnegut.
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4.00 Credits
Selected works that illuminate rural, town, and urban experience in the Midwest, including works by Cather, Anderson, Bellow, and Brooks. Course Information: Prerequisite for English majors: C or better in ENG 311.
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