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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the writing of African American authors from the Eighteenth Century to the present and stresses a discussion of literary figures as well as the thematic patterns which have distinguished the development of this literature. Course material includes works in a variety of genre: autobiography, slave narrative, poetry, short story, drama, and novel. Among the writers studied are Douglass, Grimke, Dunbar, Chesnutt, Dubois, Washington, Johnson, McKay, Hurston, Hughes, Toomer, Wright, Brooks, Ellison, Baldwin, Gaines, and Walker.
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3.00 Credits
The course will focus upon a special topic in African-American literature. The topic will be selected by the professor and announced prior to the offering of the course. Offered in alternate years
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3.00 Credits
The course will focus upon a special topic in African-American literature. The topic will be selected by the professor and announced prior to the offering of the course. Offered in alternate years
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3.00 Credits
The course explores major genres and modes in Twentieth Century African literature. It will focus on major writers and literary traditions from the various geopolitical regions of Africa, especially on those writers whose works are available in English. Additional emphasis will be on the understanding of the diverse manifestations of postcolonial themes and stylistic experiments in African literature.
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3.00 Credits
This course teaches the craft of screenwriting for film and television, covering various screenplay formats (sit-com, one-hour drama, feature-length film), the business of screenwriting, and past and current trends in Black cinema.
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3.00 Credits
The course invites students to read, analyze, and discuss short stories from a number of different genres, such as realism, sci-fi, horror, experimental, and flash fiction. Students will also write and workshop their own original short stories, which they will revise and submit as part of a portfolio at the end of the semester.
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3.00 Credits
This course teaches students how to conceptualize, research, draft, and revise a poetry manuscript. Students will publish their books as part of an in-class press and present their work at a campus-wide book launch.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores theories and concepts of language, traces the history and development of the English language, and studies the phonology and morphology of English.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed for English-Education majors. There is a review of traditional grammar and an introduction to transformational generative grammars, American dialects, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses upon the representative plays and poetry that best illustrate Shakespeare's development as an artist. Plays will be selected from among the histories, comedies, tragedies, and romances. Poetry will be represented by selected sonnets.
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