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3.00 Credits
Examines the works of women writers within the contexts of gender, history, society, politics, literature, and literary theory. Content and variety of authors will vary by instructor. (This course is an elective for Women's Studies.) Prerequisite: Completion of the General Education literature requirement or permission of instructor. Course Rotation: Alternate Fall.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the literature and the historical, cultural, social, and religious forces that shaped British literature from its origins through the late fifteenth century. Among the authors and texts that may be included are Caedmon, Bede, Beowulf, Wace, Layamon, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Chaucer, Langland, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, The Second Shepherd's Play, Everyman, and Malory. Continental writers may be introduced as appropriate. Prerequisite: Completion of the General Education literature require or permission of instructor. Course Rotation: Every third fall semester.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the literature and the historical, cultural, social, religious, and political forces that shaped British literature during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Among the authors included are Skelton, More, Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, Herbert, Herrick, Marvell, and Milton. Continental writers such as Dante and Petrarch may be introduced. Prerequisite: Completion of the General Education literature requirement or permission of instructor. Course Rotation: Every third fall semester.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the literature and the historical-cultural forces such as political revolutions, scientific discovery, and an expanding empire that shaped British literature from the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 through the 18th century. Among the authors included are John Dryden, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and Samuel Johnson. Prerequisite: Completion of the General Education literature requirement or permission of instructor. Course Rotation: Every third fall semester.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the literature and the historical-cultural forces such as the role of nature, political revolution, and the uncanny and mysterious, that shaped the literature of the late 18th and early 19th centuries in Great Britain. Among the authors included are Anna Letitia Barbauld, Charlotte Smith, William Blake, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Joanna Baillie, Lord Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley, and John Keats. Prerequisite: Completion of the General Education literature requirement or permission of instructor. Course Rotation: Every third spring semester.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the literature of the Age of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), including focus on significant cultural upheavals such as the Industrial Revolution, Darwinism, and the rise of women's rights. Among the authors included are Charles Dickens, the Bront sisters, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, John Stuart Mill, George Eliot, Florence Nightingale, Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Swinburne, Bram Stoker, Thomas Hardy, and Oscar Wilde. Prerequisite: Completion of the General Education literature requirement or permission of instructor. Course Rotation: Every third spring semester.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the literature of the post-Victorian era in Great Britain through the First and Second World Wars. Among the authors included are Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells, the War Poets, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, Stevie Smith, George Orwell, and Samuel Beckett. Prerequisite: Completion of the General Education literature requirement or permission of instructor. Course Rotation: Every third spring semester.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of theory and criticism from Plato to the postmodern. By semester's end, students will have the opportunity to develop their own critical positions. Required for literature and secondary education emphases. Prerequisite: ENGL 2903. Course rotation: Fall.
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4.00 Credits
Intensive study of the teaching and tutoring of writing. Three credit hours of in-class instruction; one credit hour of Writing Center tutoring, constituted by two hours of tutoring per week. In class, students will study composition, teaching, and tutoring history and theories, and they will examine the relations between instructional theory and practice. Completing the course successfully qualifies students to be Writing Center tutors. This course may serve as an English major elective or as a Humanities Liberal Studies in-depth elective. ENGL 2703 is strongly recommended. Prerequisite: Minimum grade of B in ENGL 1023 or permission of instructor. Course Rotation: Fall.
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3.00 Credits
Examines popular media such as television, film, and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Encourages students to analyze and critically interrogate contemporary American culture. Prerequisite: Completion of the General Education literature requirement or permission of the instructor. Course Rotation: Alternate fall.
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