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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the various cultural expressions that have emerged from Mexicans, Cubans, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, dual identity American/Latinos, and recent Latin American migrations into and within the United States, this course promotes awareness, knowledge, and appreciation of the development of Latino/a literature. Authors include but are not limited to: Cristina Garcia, José MartÃ, Richard Rodriguez, Cherrie Moraga,John Rechy, and Gloria Anzaldua. Prerequisite: ENG 150
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3.00 Credits
The study of selected stories, plays, and novels, and their film adaptations. An examination of the challenges of adapting fiction to film. Works to be studied may include Romeo and Juliet, A Room with a View, It Happened One Night, Rear Window, Rashomon, and Blow-up. In addition, race and gender issues are considered in works such as The Joy That Kills and Almos' a Man. Prerequisite: ENG 150
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3.00 Credits
A workshop leading to the development of writing skills in poetry and fiction; may also cover such genres as drama, screenwriting, and creative non-fiction. Through readings and discussions on topics such as style, theme, and voice, students are encouraged to develop imaginative power and originality in creative writing. Prerequisite: ENG 150
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3.00 Credits
Intensive work on the elements of successful technical writing through such forms as the expanded definition, instructions, the informative abstract, and the long technical report. Prerequisite: ENG 110
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3.00 Credits
Introduces selected representative works of British literature, from the Old English Period through the Eighteenth Century, with attention to the formal elements of the texts and the genres in which the authors wrote. Special emphasis will be placed on the socio-cultural contexts of the works. Selected writers/texts may include Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Chaucer, Margery Kemp, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Dryden, Swift, and Pope. Prerequisite: ENG 150
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3.00 Credits
Critically studies selected prose, poetry, and drama from the early nineteenth century to the present in its social, intellectual, and national contexts. Included are such major authors as Wordsworth, Byron, Tennyson, the Brownings, Emily BrontYeats, Woolf, Achebe, Caryl Churchill, and others. Prerequisite: ENG 150
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3.00 Credits
Critically studies American authors from the Colonial period through the American Renaissance with attention to their social and intellectual background. Authors may include Columbus, Bradford, Rowlandson, Bradstreet, Wheatley, Occom, Cooper, Stowe, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, and Fuller. Prerequisite: ENG 150 Humanities and Social Science178 s
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3.00 Credits
Critical study of American authors from the Civil War to World War I, with attention to their social and intellectual backgrounds. Readings may include Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, Chopin, James, Wharton, and Crane. Prerequisite: ENG 150
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3.00 Credits
Surveys the Western canon drawn from two thousand years of continental European literature, beginning with Greek and Roman writers like Homer, Sappho, Sophocles, Plato and Virgil; continuing through the Judeo-Christian Bibles, St. Augustine, and Dante; and concluding with Renaissance figures like Petrarch, Machiavelli, and Cervantes. Prerequisite: ENG 150
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3.00 Credits
Surveys the Western canon drawn from continental European literature of the last 300 years, beginning with neoclassical writers like Moliere, Racine, Marie de LaFayette, and Voltaire; continuing with romantic, realistic, naturalistic, and symbolist writers like Rousseau, Goethe, Hugo, Pushkin, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Baudelaire, Tolstoy, and Ibsen; and concluding with modernist writers like Pirandello, Proust, Mann, Rilke, Kafka, Lorca, and Camus. Prerequisite: ENG 150
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