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4.00 Credits
Through reading and discussion of Toni Morrison's novels and feminist and African-American critical theory, this course will allow students to follow the development of Morrison's art and to approach her work from alternative critical perspectives. Particular attention will be paid to the role of narrative in African-American culture and to Morrison's understanding of its literacy, historical and political function. Part of the literary and cultural studies concentration and minor. It may also be taken as an elective. (0502-227 or equivalent) Cross-listed with women and gender studies, 0522-459. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered occasionally)
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4.00 Credits
From Walt Whitman's "barbaric yawp," to Emily Dickinson's "letter to world that never wrote to me," and Baudelaire's "breath of wind from thwings of madness," Modern Poetry is a body of literature characterized by bold changes in voice, form, and subject matter. This course offers a close examination of poetry of the 19th and 20th centuries, with attention to such things as the role played by technological, historical, and political developments; what it means to be "modern" and how other modern arts movements,for instance, visual arts, music, or film, have influenced poetry. Part of the literary and cultural studies concentration and minor; the creative writing minor; and may also be taken as an elective. (0502-227 or equivalent) Class 4, Credit 4 (offered annually)
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Reading short stories, novels, poetry, and essays, as well as viewing films of modern Mexico and Central and South America reveals a literature and culture wherein the mythic functions as an integral part of the modern world view and the poetic functions as a political power. Part of the Latino/Latina/ Latin American and minority relations concentrations; the Spanish language/ culture concentration and minor; the literary and cultural studies concentration and minor; and may also be taken as an elective. Part of international studies Latin America track. (0502-227 or equivalent) Class 4, Credit 4 (offered occasionally)
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4.00 Credits
This course will examine the rise of computing technologies and the resultant theories of information spawned by the rapid developments of the last half century. Part of the science and technology studies concentration; the science, technology and environmental studies minor; the science writing minor; the literary and cultural studies concentration and minor; and may also be taken as an elective. (0502-227 or equivalent) Class 4, Credit 4 (offered annually)
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4.00 Credits
Scholarly investigation into the rationale, origins and sources of myths, legends and folklore of the western world and the effect these primary forms have had on our literature. Part of the literary and cultural studies concentration and minor and may also be taken as an elective. (0502-227 or equivalent) Class 4, Credit 4 (offered annually)
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Reading the myths, sagas and folktales of the Viking world reveals the values of a people that created the world's oldest extant democratic society. Both women and men fiercely defend their honor and freedom, willing to risk death rather than to bow in submission. The sagas are analyzed as compelling narrative structures and as documents of a culture that continues significantly to shape western civilization. Part of the literary and cultural studies concentration and minor and may also be taken as an elective. (0502-227 or equivalent) Class 4, Credit 4 (offered annually)
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4.00 Credits
The seeds of African-American letters were planted in slavery and bloomed in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's. In this course students research and discuss the major contributors to that legacy, a list of writers that includes Phyllis Wheatley, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ida B. Wells, William Wells Brown, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen and Claude McKay. Part of the minority relations concentration; the literary and cultural studies concentration and minor; and may also be taken as an elective. (0502-227 or equivalent) Class 4, Credit 4 (offered occasionally)
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3.00 Credits
From the Black Arts Movement of the 1960's to Hip Hop, this course explores African American writers who inspired a civil rights and cultural revolution. Part of the minority relations concentration; the literary and cultural studies concentration and minor; as an affiliated course in the women and gender
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4.00 Credits
A study of the various ways this nation has been portrayed by authors since its founding. Although the emphasis will be on 19th and 20th century American literature, in all its genres, attention may also be paid to international writers' perspectives on America, as well as visual and musical portrayals. Part of the literary and cultural studies concentration and minor and may also be taken as an elective. (0502-227 or equivalent) Class 4, Credit 4 (offered occasionally)
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the contested and complex cultural history of the United States. Beginning with the idea of "discovering" an inhabited land, we examineissues of identity, migration, difference and work in literature presented in historical context. The emphasis is on under-represented voices in writings by African-American, Caribbean, Puerto Rican, Chicano/a, Native and Chinese- Americans. This course looks at both the struggle and the possibilities of forging a genuinely democratic literary tradition. Part of the literary and cultural studies concentration and minor and may also be taken as an elective. (0502-227 or equivalent) Class 4, Credit 4 (offered occasionally)
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