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3, 3/0; Q, 8 African American slave narratives, poetry, fiction, essays, and drama from the eighteenth century to 1940. The influence of spirituals, gospel, the blues, jazz, sermons, and folktales on African American writing; the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s; and the development of African American revolutionary thought.
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3, 3/0 Black revolutionary thought and artistry in such writers as Richard Wright, William Demby, Ralph Ellison, LeRoi Jones, James Baldwin, Don L. Lee, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni, John Henrik Clarke, and Ed Bullins.
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3, 3/0 Prerequisite: ENG 102 and one arts Intellectual Foundations course. Practicum in writing about the arts. Teaches skills essential to developing a discerning critical eye and to communicating critical insights in various forms of writing about the arts. Includes participation in projects that highlight both traditional and contemporary subjects and approaches to arts criticism.
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3, 3/0 Prerequisite: ENG 102. Students develop an understanding of the nonfiction prose genre of nature writing and improve their ability to produce original works in the genre. Class focuses on reading and analyzing nature writing for its stylistic and thematic features and emphasizes specific writing skills. Explores the connection between the natural and human worlds and various attitudes toward nature as conveyed in examples of the genre.
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3, 3/0 British modernism, roughly the period from 1900 to 1940. The historical, intellectual and cultural background as well as the study of some of the major literary figures and their work.
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3, 3/0 Literature in English from 1945 to the present.
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3, 3/0 The personal essay and how it both relates to and diverges from more objectives forms of essays often encountered in academic contexts. Students practice close reading of essays and compose original essays with peer and instructor evaluations.
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3, 3/0 Prerequisite: Fulfillment of English composition/ basic communication requirement. Practice for students who wish to improve their competence in writing and editing for a variety of professions.
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3, 3/0 Prerequisite: Fulfillment of English composition/ basic communication requirement. Practice in writing expository papers. Writing assignments emphasize stylistic strategies, diction, and revision.
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3, 3/1 The motion picture as a vehicle for literature. Analysis and comparison of verbal and pictorial forms.
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