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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to everyday artistry around the world. It explores how food, architecture, festivals, games, beliefs, landscapes, and narratives can be read as cultural texts and what these texts mean to cultural insiders and outsiders alike. Because much of the course deals with the breadth of vernacular culture, course participants will write several papers and read several specific book-length studies to gain a depth in the field. Additionally, course participants will conduct a small-scale fieldwork project. 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
In this folklore and folklife studies course, students will be exposed to familiar cultural texts (popular fairytales and legends), as well as texts that will seem exotic because they are produced in cultures removed from our own. In both cases, students will encounter narratives that are startlingly different and yet eerily the same-narratives that suggest there are common cultural characteristics that bind us to our fellow man. Looking for these connections-and understanding them in their specific social, political, and historical contexts-will enlighten students to the diversity that exists within the human family around the globe and throughout time. 3 credits
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An introduction to the fundamentals of poetry, with particular attention to the prejudices of people who have never been able to enjoy poetry, but people who have always liked poetry are welcome, too. 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
Students in this "Individual and Society" course explore fiction, drama, essays, and poetry by twentieth and twenty-first-century African-American authors. Students will develop a critical appreciation for the role of diversity in American cultural life through an examination of essential texts in the African-American tradition. 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
Students enrolled in this course create poetry and prose for Woodcrest, the literary and visual arts journal of the Cabrini College Department of English. This Aesthetics course, conducted as a workshop, assists students in bringing their writing from conception through publication. As one would expect in a creative writing class, students will be asked to both write and evaluate their work in a cooperative setting. Students will additionally support editorial staff for the magazine and will have the opportunity to participate in all phases of itsproduction. May be repeatable for ENG majors only. 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
This course addresses critical components of written English. Students will practice various modes of writing as a means to strengthen their understanding and experience of writing as a process; improve their consideration of audience and purpose; provide evaluative feedback on drafts; and strengthen skills in grammar, mechanics, and usage. By studying research on writing, analyzing one's own writing and that of others, and tutoring students in the Writing Center, students in this course will improve their own writing and help others to improve theirs. This course can be taken by any student, but is required for students seeking Secondary Education Certification in English. Offered each spring. 3 credits
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This practicum course provides opportunities to English majors seeking advanced/individualized work in writing (including support for tutoring students in the Writing Center). Course may be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: ENG 221. Offered fall and spring. Credit to be arranged
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3.00 Credits
Over the course of the semester, students in Experiential Poetry will study various schools of poetry and produce their own poems based on these models. This "Aesthetics" course is organized around a series of field trips to Philadelphia area cultural attractions (including the Brandywine River Museum, the Wharton Esherick Museum, and Longwood Gardens) with the expectation that these experiences, coupled with students' own personal journeys, will help them to make the connection between art, life, and inspiration. Designed as an experiential course, students will be encouraged to ask questions about how other poets and artists found inspiration and meaning in their work, as students are themselves experimenting with the art of creative writing. 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
This "Individual & Society" course focuses on multimedia portrayals and ideological deconstructions of male identity, particularly in the context of the so-called "Third Golden Age" of television drama. The course will treat iconic depictions of men in crisis in shows such as The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Wire, Mad Men, Game of Thrones, and Breaking Bad, as well as the cinematic and literary forerunners of these narratives. The role of the Internet as a forum of dialogue and debate on gender roles will also be explored, as will sociological data on male responses to perceived powerlessness. 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
This "Individual and Society" course looks at social realism as an artistic mode and philosophical approach to subjects, themes, and social issues that most people do not wish to acknowledge, let alone see or transform. The raw materials of this course are literary and media representations of socio-economic and political injustices that would otherwise go unnoticed or misunderstood. These materials can include novels, journalism, music, film, or television; non-fiction works in other disciplines (sociological studies, etc.) may be incorporated. Contemporary materials also may be complemented with historical examples. 3 credits
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