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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A survey of American fiction since 1968, this course explores selected works of important short story writers and novelists in their aesthetic, historical, and cultural contexts. Authors may include Donald Barthelme, Raymond Carver, T.C. Boyle, George Saunders, Sandra Cisneros, Bharati Mukherjee, E.L. Doctorow, Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, and Barbara Kingsolver. The course familiarizes students with the conventions of the short story and novel genres, as well as investigates how postmodern sensibilities, consumer/mass culture, and multiethnic and global issues impinge on current American literary practices. Prerequisite: ENG 150 English 181
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3.00 Credits
This advanced writing class focuses on the creation of experimental fiction, with attention to its twentiethcentury, literary history. Students practice techniques of surrealism, metafiction, pastiche, cut-ups, and other non-realistic, non-traditional and postmodern methods of producing fiction. In a workshop format, students share their writings and critique the work of peers throughout the semester. Readings include innovative fiction by the likes of John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Angela Carter, Robert Coover, Jamaica Kincaid, Rick Moody, Haruki Murakami and others. Prerequisite: ENG 231
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3.00 Credits
Explores the rich multicultural nature of the American experience, focusing on immigrant, Native American, and African American literature in their historical and cultural contexts. Writers include Toni Morrison, Pietro Di Donato, Henry Roth, Amy Tan, Piri Thomas, Maxine Hong Kingston, James Welch, Jerre Mangione, Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Cade Bambara, Louise Erdrich, among others. Prerequisite: ENG 150
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3.00 Credits
A literature course introducing modern and contemporary Asian American literature, including oral histories, novels, poetry, and memoir. These works will be examined within their historical, social, and cultural contexts. Authors may include Kingston, Hwang, Mukherjee, Jen, Hagedorn, Yamanaka, Hongo, Bulosan. Prerequisite: ENG 150
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3.00 Credits
African American Poetry. Critically studies African American poetry, including vernacular forms. Identifies formal elements of poetry while attending to the political and historical contexts of the writing. Authors may include Wheatley, Horton, Hammon, F.E.W. Harper, DuBois, J.W. Johnson, Dunbar, Hughes, McKay, Toomer, Spencer, G.D. Johnson, Brooks, Jones, M. Harper, Hayden, Jordan, Reed, Giovanni, Sanchez, Clifton, Mullen, Alexander, and Komunyakaa. Vernacular forms studied may include spirituals, work songs, sermons, the blues, gospel, jazz, and hip hop. Prerequisite: ENG 200
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3.00 Credits
An examination of significant works of the literature of India, from the colonial period to the present, which may include novels, poetry, memoirs, and travelogues. The course focuses on modern and contemporary authors and offers an opportunity to examine works in their historical, social, and cultural contexts. Authors may include Rudyard Kipling, R.K. Naryan, Rabindranath Tagore, Salman Rusdhie, Anita Desai, and Arundhati Roy. Preqrequisite: ENG 200, or ASN 201 and ENG 150
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3.00 Credits
A multi-disciplinary approach to the literature, history, and culture of New York that includes subjects such as immigration, the Civil War and the draft riots; the intrigue of New York as celebrated by Melville, Poe, Whitman, James, and Howell; the impact of building public transportation and public space such as Central Park and the Brooklyn Bridge; tenement housing and reform movements; and the unification of the five boroughs. Also included are films such as The Gangs of New York and Washington Square. Prerequisite: ENG 150
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the treatment of women, gender and sexuality in twentieth-century Japanese literature (in English translation). The course examines modern Japanese society and culture and the interplay between tradition and modernity through the prism of canonical and contemporary works. Topics include notions of the self, national and gender identity, and the impact of Westernization, modernization, urbanization, industrialization, and globalization. Prerequistie: ENG 150
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3.00 Credits
Taught in conjunction with the History Department, this course studies World War I as imagined and remembered through primary sources, memoir, poetry, fiction, film, media, and the visual arts. Works may include Pat Barker's Regeneration, the war poetry of Sassoon, Owen and others, the films All's Quiet on the Western Front and Oh, What a Lovely War, fiction and autobiographical writing by several women including Virginia Woolf and Vera Britain, and studies such as Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory. Prerequisite: ENG 150
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3.00 Credits
This course studies the richness of the culture and literatures of women from indigenous communities, and the systemic oppression that they have been/are subject to due to race, caste, gender and class. The communities will include Native American, Australian Aborigine, and Dalit women from India. The traditional and historical status of these women in relation to their social, economic, and political status today will be studied in individual stories, memoirs, songs, poetry and fiction. Significant texts in translated literary forms and works will be used as primary resources. Prerequisite: ENG 110 Humanities and Social Science182 s
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