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3.00 Credits
A close examination of the historic, cultural, and artistic foundations of selected Latino writers.
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3.00 Credits
This is a cross-disciplinary course that surveys the literary and cultural history of First Amendment protections for free speech and religious liberty from the early modern period into the global present. We will look at the intellectual genealogy, development and contestation of those concepts in Anglo-American literature, jurisprudence, and political thought, and we will attend with special care to the function of literature as a medium of public constitutional commentary. We will also study the modalities of constitutional interpretation, read some First Amendment case law and its UK equivalents, and consider a few contemporary cases in which literature and other cultural forms test the limits of permissible speech in pluralist democracies. The course may be of special interest to students considering law school.
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3.00 Credits
Although the range and productivity of American women writers over the last two centuries has been enormous, the proliferation of extremely accomplished and important women writers has virtually mushroomed in the last few decades, embracing leading poets (such as Elizabeth Bishop and Adrienne Rich), leading novelists (such as Toni Morrison and Alice Walker), and altogether new voices, such as the chicana poet Lorna Dee Cervantes, the Asian American novelist Amy Tan, the native American fiction writer Susan Power (to name only a few). As a consequence, we will focus on the work of women writers after World War II and up to the end of this past century, with the idea of gaining an understanding of the range of women writers in this country during this period, but then with a tight focus on four of the best (two poets and two fiction writers). Since this is a seminar, students will be expected to participate in genuine class discussion, to develop a rationale for how to interpret these works (i.e., the most suitable critical perspective for given works or authors), and to do some external readings by and on one author of their choice for the final project. Written assignments will range from occasional one-page responses to the longer final project, with one short and one medium-length paper in between. At the end of the course we will hope that students, male and female, will have been inspired by one of these writers to produce creative work of their own. And if this is true, students' own work (if of high quality) can be substituted for one of the assignments.
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3.00 Credits
Taught as CO 221 at host institution. This course introduces writing techniques for the mass media in a variety o contexts: journalism, screen writing, etc. Prerequisite: EN 110
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8.00 Credits
"This course focuses upon post-colonial texts by female authors from the Middle East and Africa. Some of the important issues touched upon include: women's rights, familial politics, the dynamic between the colonizer and colonized, and differing ideas or brands of feminism. The course emphasizes the importance of understanding the experiences and emotions of women in their own words and on their own terms. It is designed to challenge students' assumptions and teach them to critically examine texts (and sub-texts) in order to develop an understanding of what utilizing the vehicle of fiction can bring to a deeper understanding of the study of cultural complexities, physical pain, and both racial and gender based domination. "
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3.00 Credits
Ancient Athenian tragedy as represented by the extant plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, is studied in its social, political, topographical, and religious/philosophical context; the course benefits from easy access to the precinct of Dionysos, on the south slope of the Acropolis, and other ancient theaters. On occasion, efforts are made to revive the reality of ancient drama by having students perform.
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3.00 Credits
Representative works of the Middle Ages and the 16th and 17th Centuries produced in the courts of Anjou, Blois, and Champagne, as well as the Royal Court.
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3.00 Credits
Rome course # EN 232 - This course examines the influences exercised by the poets and orators of ancient Rome on the development of English literature. We begin with early uses of Ovid in Chaucer and go on to examine the recovery of Latin texts from the 15th to the 20th century.
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3.00 Credits
A focus on exciting and innovative developments in Australian fiction, poetry and drama is the focus of this unit. A study is made of the movement away from the intense nationalism and the realism characteristic of Australian literature in the early years of the twentieth century. Students consider the ways in which the spiritual and cultural uncertainties of contemporary Australian life are reflected in the literature and film of the period and explore contemporary attitudes to history, myth, memory, imagination and a changing awareness of 'place' in the national consciousness.
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1.50 Credits
Role of gender in modernism and postmodernism;interaction between aesthetics and politics, myth and history, social change and formal experiementation. Theories of gender and feminist theory; postcolonial, psychoanalytical, poststructuralist and histroical accounts of modernism, postmodernism and their relation.
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