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3.00 Credits
This course entails the comprehensive study and practice of university-level expository writing. Students gain essential writing-process skills in essay planning, drafting, revising, and editing. The course provides instruction in the use of rhetorical strategies to develop successful written arguments for different audiences. Students analyze, synthesize, interpret and evaluate academic source material while learning proper citation techniques for attributing ownership and avoiding plagiarism according to a major documentation system. Students must recieve a minimum grade of "C" to fulfill the English Composition requirement. Prerequisite: This course, or its equivalent is required for all students. SAT, ACT, or Accuplacer scores may require some students to pass English 101 before entering English 103. Students may also demonstrate competency by taking the CLEP exam in English Composition. Such examinations must be passed at the 50th percentile. AP test scores may also be considered by arrangement of the Department chairperson.
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide students with experience in the form styles of academic writing and research. They will be introduced to reading, strategies that permit access to a wide range of print and non-print texts, such as video, internet and print media that address America's most pressing social concerns and learn to analyze them critically. Through oral presentations, collaborative writing exercises, and formal research projects, students will gain experience in utilizing these media in the classroom. This work will meet several PDE (PA Department of Education) competencies including editing skills, grammar and punctuation rules, reading and writing an array of essays, multiple word meanings, and interpreting information in various forms. This course is specifically designed for students preparing for a Bachelor's degree in Education.
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3.00 Credits
Designed to acquaint the student with the basic skills of literary interpretation, this course includes readings in selected works of literature and examines such topics as explication and analysis of literary genres, plot, character, foreshadowing, atmosphere, symbolism, and imagery.
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3.00 Credits
Students will study fiction, poetry and drama from around the world and write a number of critical papers. Students will also conduct critical research and will demonstrate familiarity with a wide variety of critical approaches.
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3.00 Credits
This is a course of guided readings from classical to contemporary authors about the war experience.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the critical analysis of literary texts that focus on religious themes, traditions, and questions.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers readings from the Old and New Testaments and from the Apocrypha, as well as from parallel texts such as creation and flood narratives from other religions. Students will also consider historical and cultural contexts.
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3.00 Credits
This introductory course focuses on how environment and setting functions in literature. Texts have been selected where environmental issues are central to the theme. Students will read all course texts and write about them in journal entries, formal papers, and final exams.
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3.00 Credits
This introductory literature course explores the genres of horror and fantasy. Students will read classic and contemporary texts in these genres and become familiar with literary terms and conventions such as narrators, settings, characterization, and figurative language. Students will explore the creative strategies and characteristics that make these genres unique through assigned reading, class discussion, paper assignments, and collaborative activities.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the dynamic intersections of physical, earth, and forensic sciences with examples of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and song: the ideas and practices, from genetic engineering to medicine to "survival of the fittest" to crime detection, of various scientific fields (biology, forensic science, nuclear science, physics, etc.) as they are represented or misrepresented in creative works of literatures, as well as literature's profound effects on science.
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