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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The last three centuries of British literature offer a range of great and exciting fiction. This course offers the opportunity for advanced, in-depth study of some carefully focused aspect of that fiction. Course content will vary, making possible such topics as the Victorian Novel, Gothic Fiction, and the Twentieth Century Novel, or study of a single major author. As required.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, students will examine the development of a particular mode or genre. Examples of possible course topics: the sonnet from the fourteenth century to the present, romance from the twelfth to the nineteenth century, the many expressions of the Arthurian legends in English autobiography or the American graphic novel. As required.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, students will focus on a particular tradition, period, or mode of drama. The course could emphasize the drama of a certain historical period, such as non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama, or the drama of a particular mode, such as comedy from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Or it could focus on the drama of a particular culture-Ireland or the United States, for example. As required.
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3.00 Credits
Using gender as a lens, this course investigates writing by women in order to ask such questions as: What is women's literature? Does gender shape topic, theme, and structure? Is there a "women'tradition" in literature? Typically, the course will cross national, temporal, and generic boundaries, and will pay attention to the racial, social, and cultural diversity of women's writing. Topics might include the self, other women, men, children, motherhood, politics, race, class, social justice, rituals and ceremonies, sexuality, spirituality, and the process of writing. As required.
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3.00 Credits
Every semester.
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3.00 Credits
This senior-level seminar gives students the opportunity to consolidate their learning within the major and to connect it with larger frames of inquiry. The course asks students to reflect upon the ways of knowing that they have developed as English majors and to integrate them with disciplinary methods and bodies of knowledge they have encountered throughout their college education. The course will demand substantial, independent written research. Every spring.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an introduction to the French language and culture. It focuses on the development of simple but adequate conversational skills to meet the needs of students and travelers communicating in situations of everyday life. No prior knowledge of French is needed. As required.
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3.00 Credits
These are the beginning courses of the French language-acquisition sequence, emphasizing oral communication as a first step, leading to a balanced development of the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, as well as an appreciation of the history and culture of the French-speaking nations. (Prerequisite for Fren. 102 is Fren. 101 or its equivalent.) As required.
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3.00 Credits
One-semester review of elementary French: grammar, speaking, reading, writing, and Francophone cultures. Open to students who are placed in this level by test results or departmental direction. Not open to students who have credit for Fren. 101 or 102. Every fall.
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3.00 Credits
Further development of the four language skills and acquisition of more complicated structural elements combined with a general grammar review. Emphasis is placed on basic composition, vocabulary building, syntactical problems, and idiomatic usage through the reading and discussion of contemporary literary prose and non-literary selections from a variety of fields in a variety of styles. (Prerequisite for Fren. 201 is Fren. 102 or its equivalent; Prerequisite for Fren. 202 is Fren. 201 or its equivalent.) As required.
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