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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offered irregularly). Sequence III Here a re poets who epitomize trends, possibilities, or radical departures— poets like Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell, John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, and James Merrill, among others— interesting not only in their context within the tradition, but for their manifold intrinsic excellences as well.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offered irregularly). Sequence III An examination of the changing face of the European novel since World War II. Authors include Calvino, Morante, Duras, Sarraute, Simon, Goytisolo, Kundera, Wolf, and Handke (from Italy, France, Spain, Czechoslovakia, and Germany).
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3.00 Credits
See the Undergraduate General Education Program section for description.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years Students examine self-repre s e n t ation by published memoirists, writing responses to and interpretations of the memoirs. Issues considered include impulse, message, stru c t u re, and engagement. Throughout the term, students also write and learn to revise personal memoir pieces, which are workshopped regularly in class. Also off e red as LIT 2052.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Fall What makes a person an insider or an outsider Beginning with personal experience and writing, students explore the ways in which race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and social class affect individual, communal, national, and transnational identity and belonging in American culture. In connecting multiple levels of experience, students engage in critical reading, research, analysis, writing, and revision, building on their strong skills in preparation for upper-level work. Limited to presidential scholars.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Every year An intensive course for sophomores and more advanced students who want to develop their skills in critical thinking and essay writing. Class sessions and writing assignments focus on how to generate a topic for an essay, gather material, develop a thesis and argument, structure an essay, and re fine it through revising. Writing assignments include several short papers and one or two longer ones; there are re q u i red assigned readings in addition to the assigned writing. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Special topic (offe red irregularly) Designed for students in any discipline who want to teach, this course introduces students to ways of becoming critically literate. Students read many theories and studies of teaching literacy and all volunteer in a local school chosen for the course for two hours per week at the elementary, middle, or high school level in a subject of their choice.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Fall Helping others to read and write better improves one’s own reading and writing dramatically. In this course, advanced students improve their own writing and gain teaching experience by serving as team teachers/peer tutors in first-year courses. Each student is attached to a College Writing section and serves as a writing tutor/team teacher, attending classes and working closely with the instructor. Prerequisite: Permission of the board-of-study coordinator or instructor
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Spring Students learn basic concepts in quantitative reasoning (numbers, probabilities, basic statistics) and the acquisition and evaluation of quantitative information (databases, searches, spreadsheets). This course directly serves the goal of preparing students for civic engagement by using current events (past and current news stories) as the focal point of study. Students are required to post to online discussion forums, complete short writing assignments, and produce longer articles. Prerequisite: Satisfaction of the math proficiency requirement
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Every semester This course expands students’ knowledge of geometry, trigonometry, and algebra. The Pythagorean theorem and major theorems from geometry regarding congruence and similarity are studied.
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