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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: COSK1221 or Concurrent
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This course focuses on texts created by women writers which reflect the diverse thoughts, beliefs, customs, struggles, achievements, and visions of women. This course teaches students the process of close reading, analysis, and interpretation of literature and invites students to make connections between literature and their experiences. The course stresses in-depth reading and concentrates on the interrelationships of literary works and the social and cultural values and beliefs reflected in and affected by those works. Some attention is given to the terminology basic to literary study and to the place of literature in a well-rounded education. The course is designed for students without prior coursework in literature. Prerequisite: COSK1221 or COSK1225
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This course enables students to engage in detailed literary study of two major figures in American literature. Students will synthesize and evaluate the key issues of American literary scholarship through detailed studies of the works, biography and criticism of Fitzgerald and Hemingway. Selected novels and short stories of the two writers will be examined in the seminar for their aesthetic values, their social and political contexts, their rhetorical and genre strategies, and major biographical facts. Students compile annotated bibliographies, make oral presentations, write short papers, and write one 15 page scholarly essay based on research. Prerequisites: Any ELIT course and 75 credits
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This course enables students to engage in detailed literary study of two major figures in Irish literature, as well as the culture and history that surround Yeats and Joyce. Students will synthesize and evaluate the key issues of Irish literary scholarship through detailed studies of the works, biography and criticism of Yeats and Joyce. They will engage in the reading of the history of Ireland in the late Nineteenth and the early Twentieth centuries. Selected novels, poems, plays, and short stories of the two writers will be examined in the seminar for their aesthetic values, their social and political contexts, their rhetorical and genre strategies, and their connections with the biographical facts of the authors' lives. Students will compile annotated bibliographies, make oral presentations, write short papers, and write one 15 page scholarly essay based on research. Prerequisites: Any ELIT course and 75 credits
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This course enables English majors to engage in detailed literary study of select nineteenth century novels. Primarily a reading course for English Literature and English Education majors, students will read a number of British, American, French and Russian novels. Close attention will be paid to historical context in order to analyze the economic, social, political and philosophical concerns of novels produced during the early, middle and late years of the Industrial Revolution. A variety of rhetorical and literary critical approaches will be used by students to examine the novels. Special attention will be paid to social and economic conditions created by the Industrial Revolution in Britain and the United States. Students will compile annotated bibliographies, make oral presentations, write short papers defining critical problems, and write one 15 page scholarly essay as a result of their research. Prerequisite: Any ELIT course and 75 total credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the historical growth, philosophical premises, and literary techniques of important writers in American literature up through the Civil War. Students read a wide, diverse range of literature, such as Native American, Spanish American, and African American literatures, in the genres of fiction, essays, poetry, journals, autobiographies, and slave narratives. Students also study aesthetic and intellectual movements such as Neo-classicism, Romanticism, and Transcendentalism. The course focuses on historical development with emphasis on the American Renaissance of the 1850's. Students investigate print, internet resources, and electronic databases and write literacy research essays in MLA format. Prerequisites: COSK2220 or COSK2225 and any ELIT course
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3.00 Credits
This course enables students to study the historical growth, philosophical premises, and literary techniques of important writers in American literature from the Civil War to today with emphasis on the modern period. Students read a wide, diverse range of literature including minority literatures, especially the immigrant experience. Students also study genres such as fiction, poetry, journals, and autobiographies, and aesthetic movements such as realism, naturalism, and modernism. Students investigate print, internet resources, and electronic databases and write literacy research essays in MLA format. Prerequisites: COSK2220 and any ELIT course
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the historical growth, philosophical premises, and literary techniques of important writers in British and Commonwealth literature from Beowulf through the Middle Ages, Renaissance, the Restoration and the 18th century. Students read a wide range of literature, including fiction, drama, poetry, journals, and autobiographies. The course focuses on historical development with emphasis on significant schools and movements such as the Metaphysical poets and the Neoclassical writers. This course excludes Shakespeare. Students investigate print, internet resources, and electronic databases and write literary research essays in MLA format. Prerequisites: COSK2220 or COSK2225 and any ELIT course
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3.00 Credits
British literature from 1789 examines the historical growth, philosophical premises, and literary techniques of important writers in British and Commonwealth literature from the late 18th century to the modern era. Students read a wide range of literature, including fiction, drama, essays, poetry, journals, and autobiographies. The course focuses on historical development with emphasis on significant schools and movements such as Romanticism, Victorian writers, and Modernism. Students investigate print, internet resources, and electronic databases and write literary research essays in MLA format. Prerequisites: COSK2220 and any ELIT course
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3.00 Credits
This course enables students to study drama as practiced by Shakespeare. While examining the history of Shakespearean production and the historical and cultural contexts of Shakespeare's England, students practice close, critical readings of at least one tragedy, one comedy, and one history play. To help them grasp Shakespeare's dramatic technique, students may participate in dramatic readings, block and deliver short scenes from key plays, and compare and contrast actors' interpretations of various dramatic scenes. Prerequisites: COSK2220 or COSK2225 and any ELIT course
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