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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Like the other upper-level British period courses, Modern British Literature focuses on study of one or two selected topics from British Literature after 1800. Students might explore, for example, the British Romantic Movement, or the Victorian Literature of Evolution, or read with some depth the works of a major author such as Austen, Keats, George Eliot, Dickens, Woolf, Joyce, or Lawrence. As required.
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3.00 Credits
The focus of Contemporary International Literature is in-depth study of non-Anglo-American literatures from around the world, examining, for instance, trends in Magical Realism, New Realism, allegory, historical fiction, metafiction, and post-colonial literature. It will typically feature authors from the Caribbean, Latin America, South Africa, India, Pakistan, and Europe. In some semesters, the course may take one or two major authors as a focus. As required.
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3.00 Credits
Linguistics is the study of language itself: how it works and how we use it. Students will study its structure, starting with the basic building blocks of sound and meaning, and their combination into morphemes, words phrases, and sentences. The class will investigate conversation and other types of discourse and will examine language change and development in such areas as the history of English, the acquisition of first and second languages, and the differences between spoken and written language. Special topics may include dialects (social, regional, gender, and age differences in speech patterns) and registers (notably slang and any others the students use or come across). Students will discover the theories and principles at work-and at play-in their own language as they displayand experience it daily. Every spring.
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3.00 Credits
"Tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral.scene individable or poem unlimited"-such is the "stuff "Shakespeare course is "made on." In a given semester, the class could focus on a survey of the Bard'plays and non-dramatic poetry, exclusively on his tragedies, or on the histories and comedies, or on Shakespeare on film. Whatever the emphasis, attention will be given to critical analyses of the works as well as to the plays in performance. Every fall.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers advanced, in-depth study of some carefully focused aspect of American poetry. Course content will be variable, making possible such topics as Modern American Poetry, Whitman and Dickinson, and Confessional Poetry, or study of a single major figure. As required.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers advanced, in-depth study of some carefully focused aspect of American fiction. Course content will be variable, making possible such topics as the Twentieth Century American Novel, the Rise of the American Short Story, American Political Fiction, Reading the West, and Studies in the American Bildungsroman, or study of a single major figure. As required.
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3.00 Credits
Guided reading or research in an area of special interest under the direction of a faculty member. As required.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to give students with an interest in furthering their writing of poetry and fiction an intense workshop experience in the craft. Students will read selected literature for discussion; create their own portfolios; and write a critical appreciation of a selected writer. (Prerequisite: successful completion of Eng. 312 or 313.)
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3.00 Credits
American Renaissances focuses on one or more of the periods of marked vitality in American literature: the American Renaissance of the mid-nineteenth century, encompassing such authors as Whitman, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville; the "Other" American Renaissance-a correspondinblossoming of writing by women in the nineteenth century; the Southern American Renaissance of the early to mid-twentieth century, examining Faulkner, Warren, Welty, O'Connor, and others; or the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, featuring the work of Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, and others. As required.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers the opportunity for advanced, in-depth study of some carefully focused aspect of British Poetry. Course content will vary, making possible such topics as Victorian Poetry, the Poetry of Satire, and Contemporary British Poetry, or study of a single major figure. As required.
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