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3.00 Credits
Students will examine the dynamics of supportive and effective partnerships between general and special education professionals focusing on the teaching of diverse learners. Every fall.
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3.00 Credits
This course in composition combines critical reading and writing. Writing for this course focuses on essays that develop essential abilities in description, explanation, and argument. Through these essays, students are expected to master basic process and rhetorical skills crucial to strong collegelevel writing. Every semester.
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3.00 Credits
Persuasion is both the deepest and most comprehensive aim of rhetoric; this course focuses on ways to achieve that aim in a variety of writing situations. Its assignments are designed to develop critical reading and writing skills essential to adapting the writer's mastery of information to the needs of the reader. Every spring.
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3.00 Credits
Reading Literature serves as a common general education course in literature. It aims to help students develop their abilities to read, understand, and appreciate literature-to experience it in such a way that they become confident and committed readers. Literary content will vary across sections and can be drawn from various ages and cultures, but the course shares the following emphases: close reading, clear and engaged writing, and strong self-reflection. NOTE-American and British survey courses, as well as upper level English courses, may be substituted for English 200. Every semester.
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3.00 Credits
The World of Texts is the foundational course with which the student must begin study in the major. "English" is an unusually varied discipline, taking as its object of study almost every kind of text thathuman beings produce. Given that diverse range, a sense of fundamental organizing principles and practices is essential-and that is what this course is designed to explore. It introduces students to a range of critical theories, both traditional and contemporary, and provides a chance to practice their application through a strong writing component. This course must be completed by English majors before students can enroll in 300- and 400-level courses; non-majors may choose upper level English courses as electives without having English 201 as a prerequisite. Every semester.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys American literature from its beginnings in the Native American traditions and the writings of the explorers through the creation of the American myths in texts of the Puritans and the Early Republic, in Transcendentalism, and in the flowering of fiction in the American Renaissance. It ends with attention to the writings that come out of the debates over race, slavery, and abolition, and to the poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Approaches combine close reading, literary and cultural history, and a variety of methodological lenses (such as gender, class, race, and form). Every fall.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys American literature from the Civil War to the present, typically organizing readings into three distinct literary movements: Realism/Naturalism, Modernism, and Postmodernism/ Multiculturalism. Approaches combine close reading, literary and cultural history, and a variety of methodological lenses (such as gender, class, race, and form). Authors typically could include Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Kate Chopin, Ernest Hemmingway, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Toni Morrison, and Sandra Cisneros, among others. Every spring.
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3.00 Credits
In this first part of the survey sequence, students study British Literature from the Anglo-Saxons to Milton, emphasizing such major authors as the Beowulf poet, the Gawain poet, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton, and such major genres as epic, romance, lyric, poetry, and drama. Students study this literature in its cultural contexts, developing a survey knowledge of the evolution of English literature as a basis for upper-level course work. Every fall.
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3.00 Credits
In this second part of the survey sequence, students study British Literature from 1660 to the present, emphasizing such major authors as Swift, Pope, Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, Tennyson, Hardy, Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and Yeats. Lyric poetry and fiction constitute the main genre focus. Students study this literature in its cultural contexts, developing a survey knowledge of the evolution of English literature as a basis for upper-level course work. Every spring.
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1.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to the profession of English. Career opportunities and graduate programs in English are addressed in this class, and students develop plans to complete their work in the English Department and to prepare themselves for life beyond Bellarmine. This course must be completed before enrolling in 300- and 400-level courses. Every fall.
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