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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to improve cognitive skills and to provide strategies for effective communication and persuasion. Emphasis is placed on the rhetoric of the sentence, rhetorical analysis, identification of audience and audience response, and the construction of persuasive arguments. As required.
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This course develops the understanding and skills required for technical communication. Material covered includes technical reading and research skills, document design and graphics, recommendation reports, technical proposals, instructions, informative reports, and employment communication. Students use new and traditional media. (Prerequisite: Eng. 101.) Fall alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to give students with an interest in writing poetry intense practice of the craft, along with the critical and creative feedback that comes with a workshop experience. Students read selected literature and create their own poetry portfolios. Every year.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to give students with an interest in writing fiction intense practice of the craft, along with the critical and creative feedback that comes with a workshop experience. Students will read selected literature and create their own fiction portfolios. Every year.
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3.00 Credits
Creative Non-Fiction is a fairly abstract name for a growing body of work in contemporary writing. This course is designed to give students intense practice in the writing of such creative non-fictional genres as memoir, literary journalism, and the speculative essay. Students will read selected literature and develop their own creative non-fiction portfolios. As required.
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3.00 Credits
This course will assist students in understanding the elements of writing a play. Through readings and working with elements of playwriting, students will gain experience in writing monologues, dialogues, scenes, and short plays. Students will develop an understanding of dramaturgical concepts such as plot, character (emotion, needs, conflict, motivation, character development), structure, theme, and dialogue. Student will also read and discuss each other's work. As required.
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3.00 Credits
Between 1910 and 1950, experimentation (in form and in theme), psychological realism, psychoanalytic awareness, and "Make it new!" were the rallying cries of key literary figures, and the role ofliterature shifted from confirming social vision to questioning it. American Modernism closely examines the literature of this period, focusing on such poets as Eliot, H.D., Stevens, Williams, and Stein, or such fiction writers as Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Porter, Cather, and Stein. The material is approached by either genre or thematic emphases. As required.
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3.00 Credits
Across a variety of genres, contemporary American writers extend, revise, argue with, enrich, question, and honor the literary traditions, themes, and structures established by their foremothers and forefathers. Drawing its readings from the past thirty-five years, this course may focus on multiculturalism, postmodernism, or some combination of those overlapping strains, and will typically consider the questions contemporary authors raise about language, culture, gender, race, ethnicity, and the very idea of literature itself. As required.
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3.00 Credits
Multicultural American Literature may be offered as a survey of the variety of cultural positions from which American authors have written, or as a course in African American, Native American, Latino/a American, or Asian American literature. Whatever its focus, it brings close attention to American literatures that are distinct in their emotional power, narrative complexity, and social engagement. As required.
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3.00 Credits
This class provides for the study of various literatures not addressed in the department's American and British Literature courses. While several of the department's genre courses allow for specialized study, this course provides a venue for a variety of genres focused around one specific theme/topic. As required.
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