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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
An in-depth study of selected short stories, poems, plays, and/or novels, with focus on practice in using precise literary terms and analytical and evaluative techniques in the context of various critical frameworks. Portal course required in both literature and writing concentrations. Prerequisite: ENG 150
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the structure of standard American English, emphasizing both grammatical knowledge and intensive practice in manipulation of grammatical structures for clarity, emphasis, and grace. Prerequisite: ENG 110
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3.00 Credits
Develops skills in writing various forms of business correspondence, including reports, letters, data sheets, and abstracts. Prerequisite: ENG 110
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3.00 Credits
Examines the Bible as literature and its influence on other works. Authors may include Dante, Shakespeare, Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, Twain, Levertov, and others. Prerequisite: ENG 150
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3.00 Credits
Introduces modern drama and performance through a study of representative works of modern European and American drama, emphasizing the nineteenth-century roots in Ibsen, Strindberg, and Shaw; twentieth-century masters like Pirandello, O'Neill, and Miller; contemporary playwrights like Stoppard, Kushner, and Sondheim; and theorists like Artaud and Brecht. Prerequisite: ENG 150 English 177
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3.00 Credits
Studies the mid-century roots of contemporary drama in playwrights like Beckett and Albee, and of recent realistic, experimental, and musical theater. Playwrights may include Stoppard, Mamet, Fierstein, Fornes, Sondheim, Shaffer, Wasserstein, Hwang, Kushner, Soyinka, Churchill, Shepard, Valdez, and Wilson. Prerequisite: ENG 150
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3.00 Credits
Studies classical and recent science fiction, fantasy for adults and children, and utopian and anti-utopian fiction. Short stories, novels, and films are the basis of class discussions. The course explores genre conventions as well as the historical significance of the texts. Authors may include Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke, Heinlein, LeGuin, Lewis, Tolkien, Vonnegut, and Wells. Prerequisite: ENG 150
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3.00 Credits
Studies the various images of women in modern literature written mostly by women. The course examines the various roles women have played in literature and the ways in which race, class, sexual orientation, and ethnicity shape the works. Selected writers may include Tillie Olsen, Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Sandra Cisneros, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, Louise Erdrich, Jeanette Winterson, and Barbara Kingsolver. Prerequisite: ENG 150
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3.00 Credits
Studies various writers of the nineteenth century whose work challenges traditional assumptions about women's roles. Attention will be paid to the political and cultural contexts of the works. Writers may include Mary Shelley, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charlotte Bronte, Louisa May Alcott, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Kate Chopin. Prerequisite: ENG 150
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3.00 Credits
An historical, philosophical, cultural, and literary study of the mystery story through an examination of such fictional works as the detective story, the suspense novel, the story of strange or frightening adventure, the tale of espionage, the tale of crime, and the Gothic novel-with an emphasis on detection. Prerequisite: ENG 150
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