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3.00 Credits
This Heritage course introduces students to literary epics drawn from diverse cultural contexts, historical moments, and creative traditions. Attention will be given not only to the literary dimensions of the epic, but also to the epic's role as an anthropological touchstone and artifact. Read and interpreted closely, epics reveal the ideological assumptions and cultural practices of the societies that gave rise to them. Examples of the kinds of texts read in this course include, but are not limited to: Homer's Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, Eliot's The Waste Land, and other texts that aspire to the epic form and scope. 3 credits
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In this Heritage/Aesthetics course students will read short stories focusing on the art of storytelling and the defining characteristics of the genre as it has manifested in a variety of historical and social contexts. Students will have the opportunity to screen cinematic interpretations of some stories, and will consider how different narrative styles contribute to the ethos of the genre, as well as explore the historical dimensions of literary practice. In addition to the course reading, students will concentrate on a single short story writer of their choice for purposes of guided research. 3 credits
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In this Heritage course students study several classic plays from the dramatic heritage of Western civilization. Students will explore the impact of the theatrical traditions those plays represent, especially as they impact American drama, culture and history. Students will additionally explore American theatrical works that are unique to and illuminate our national life and art. 3 credits
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This Heritage course focuses on the history of poetry. Students read a wide range of poems in order to understand how the formal principles of poetic composition have been used to reflect specific historical and cultural contexts. Students in this course also will come to see how everything from religious liturgy to pop and rap lyrics is a function of poetic innovation. Select examples will be drawn from a variety of periods and authors to illustrate the remarkable influence of poetry in various media. 3 credits
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This Heritage course treats the history and development of the novel as a genre with its own distinctive features. Novels from a range of national traditions and historical periods will be read with an eye toward how the novel form reflects both aesthetic choices and cultural contexts. Different sub-genres of the novel (e.g., stream of consciousness, historical, romance, psychological, detective) will also be explored with the aim of placing each within the broader historical traditions of world literature. 3 credits
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This Aesthetics course provides an introduction to the art of acting and the College Theater Program. Emphasis is placed on developing self-awareness of and confidence in physical relaxation, vocal production, concentration, and imagination. Students work on freeing inhibitions, creative exploration, basic acting fundamentals, and beginning characterization. 3 credits
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This Aesthetics course offers an experiential study of contemporary English-speaking theatre. In a series of weekly on-campus seminars in the spring semester, students will explore the traditions and nature of British and American theatre. The course will culminate with a week of seminars and performances in London during which students will experience and analyze a variety of dramatic and musical-dramatic works from both the West End and Broadway. 3 credits
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This cornerstone course provides an introduction to key concepts and developments in contemporary literary theory, from the "linguistic turn" to deconstruction, new historicism, and beyond. Students in the course also will meet the interdisciplinary challenges posed by "cultural studies" as a new mode of analysis that can be brought to bear not only on literature, but on other cultural "texts" such as films, television, the Internet, music, "found artifacts," school textbooks, marketing campaigns, and many other products of high or popular culture. In the course of wrestling with these various perspectives, students will be exposed to a range of classical, modern, and postmodern contributions to the most essential and heated debates in the humanities today. This course will also train students in the essentials of research methods and information literacy in the discipline. 3 credits
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1.00 Credits
This course assists students in thinking critically about their place within the field of English and will allow students to develop a greater understanding of the various career options available to English and English education majors. The class will develop practical skills such as resume/vita and cover letter writing, as well as introduce proven job search strategies. This course serves as a primer for the Senior Capstone course and prepares students for entering either the work force, professional school, or graduate study in the humanities. 1 credit
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3.00 Credits
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