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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Becoming a thoughtful reader of the literature of one's own time is the goal of this course. The reading list will vary, but will in all cases include a variety of critically acclaimed authors whose writing illustrates emerging trends in modern writing. Works read may represent various genres or types of literature, such as poetry, drama, the short story, the novella, the novel, the memoir, and nonfiction prose. The course might also be organized thematically rather than by literary type, exploring ideas which are important to the writers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and to their readers as well. In addition to familiarizing students with contemporary classics, a major goal of this course is to stimulate a lifelong interest in discovering new writers. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
The class will read and discuss works of recognized literary quality which trace the development of a child or adolescent. Some of these works were originally written for children, some were once considered suitable for children but no longer are, and some are written for the adult reader but from the viewpoint of a child narrator. In some cases the course will revisit works ordinarily read by precollege students, and perhaps by the class members, to test the concept of altered reactions to and understanding of a work of literature over time. A typical series of readings for this course might include versions of fairy tales like "Cinderella" and "Beauty and the Beast"; classics of children's literature like J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland; and contemporary works from the viewpoint of the child or adolescent narrator. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the structures of the English language from both descriptive and prescriptive points of view. We will discuss why certain structures have been deemed to be more correct than others that are also in common use, and how correctness differs from grammaticality. We will examine why the use of certain structures constitutes "good" or "bad" grammar, and look into how these standards have emerged and changed over time. Topics will include sentence structure and phrase structure rules, style, word classes, constituency, parts of speech, sentence relatedness, and usage. For students in the Program for Academic Success. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 and in the Program for Academic Success are required.
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3.00 Credits
This course inquires into the nature and art of poetry. Why does poetry matter? How does it work? Does poetry do anything? -should it? To conduct this inquiry as poets and critics of poetry do, we will closely read and interpret many poems, across time and genre. We will ask how poets use structural choices, musical tools, and shaping devices to create and convey complex experiences. Students will learn to read with understanding, perception, and enjoyment; to recognize the relationships among a poem's form, its devices, and its content; and to write clear, meaningful critical explications of poems. This course is a short immersion in a lifelong, sustaining question: How do I read this poem? Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the art of autobiography in a comparatist context from its origins in St. Augustine's Confessions to recent expressions in such a work as the Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka's Ake: The Years of Childhood. In tracing the landmarks of this genre, the will cover such works as Cellini's Life, Franklin's Autobiography, Rousseau's Confessions, Gosse's Father and Son, Sartre's The Words, and Anais Nin's early diary Linotte. Literary structures are studied as they emerge in the evolution of the genre. Standards of authenticity and what "they claim" are also evaluated. Various critical approaches are considered with respect to the genre of "life-writing" along with the different cultural contexts which have affected its development. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
This is a special topics course with a focus on new emerging writers and popular genres or traditions. The topic will concern writers whose status as noteworthy or great authors has not yet been established or genres and traditions with a significant overlap with popular culture. Traditions or genres that might be offered under this number include: Science Fiction and Fantasy, Romance, Detective Fiction, the Western, or Literature of Nonsense. This course may be taken more than once if the topic is different. Courses offered under this number automatically fulfill the requirement of a course outside the mainstream of British and American literature specified as part of the early childhood, childhood concentrations in literature. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a close analysis of a particular form or genre illustrated by literary works; for example, contemporary poetry, science fiction, the Gothic novel. This course may be taken more than once if topic duplication is avoided. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a close analysis of a body of literature bound together by a common factor or concern, for example comic literature, literature of the East, the middle class in society, the Industrial Revolution. This course may be taken more than once if topic duplication is avoided. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
This course allows the student to explore the rich English dramatic tradition, one of the earliest and most vibrant in the Western world. Readings will trace its beginning in early medieval times through its extraordinary development in the time of Shakespeare and his contemporaries and record the shocking close of the theatres during the Puritan Commonwealth. Though its progress was interrupted, English drama rebounded with new energy in 1660 and continued to develop new and interesting dramatic types: sexually-charged comedies, and sentimental comedies, as well as the outrageously talky plays of George Bernard Shaw and the suave comic ironies of Oscar Wilde in his comedies of manners. The energies of the English theatre continued to flourish in the twentieth century in the absurd comedies of Harold Pinter and into the twenty-first in the intellectually challenging comedies of Tom Stoppard. Considerations of text will be supplemented by a study of theatrical innovations and performance practices. Readings will be drawn from the major playwrights. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
This course aims to engage the student in the consideration of the unique qualities of performed work. The interrelationship of drama to religious practices, the establishment of ritual and the demand for entertainment coalesce into something that is a distinctive ingredient of every culture. The broad perspective considers both Greek tragedy and comedy, juxtaposed with medieval farce; as well as blood-curdling Renaissance tragedies and sexually charged Restoration comedies, proletarian morality plays and compelling views of modern emancipated life. All of these provide a rich landscape against which we consider the unique qualities of drama, as well as the ways in which performance reaches a broad audience. What is the relationship of the playwright to his or her audience? What are the most effective ways to convert the viewers and readers to the playwright''s value scheme? Readings may include works of Sophocles, Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov and O'Neill. Same as WLT 50. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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