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3.00 Credits
This intermediate-level course provides the opportunity for students preparing to teach high school English to review recent trends in young adult literature. Class members read and discuss a selection of ten contemporary young adult novels suitable for teaching in the middle school or high school classroom. Text selections may vary but include authors like Cormier, Duncan, George, Patterson, and Peck. Course requirements include two short essays, a reading journal, a collaborative project, two tests, a final exam, and class participation. This course is required of all students seeking secondary teaching certification in English, and does not fulfill Core except for students who complete either the minor or the certificate in Education. Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
Participants in this intermediate-level course will study the form of the Epic and the influence the form has had on literature, culture, and society. Representative authors and texts include Homer (Iliad and Odyssey), the Old English Beowulf, Dante (Divine Comedy), Arthurian Romance (Percival), Milton (Paradise Lost). Participants will also examine how modern literary artists have employed the epic theme and hero in their works, e.g., Whitman and Joyce. Participants are required to keep a course journal, a major portion of which will be devoted to essays developed in light of questions prepared by the professor. Lectures and discussions will be supported by PowerPoint presentations, film, and electronic research. Course requirements also include quizzes, mid-term exam, and final exam. Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course studies the personal essay as literary genre and artistic form. Students will examine the socio-historical contexts of essays, trace the intergenerational influence of essayists, connect the essay genre to fiction and poetry, and combine formal reading with applications of contemporary literary theory. Essayists covered include Montaigne, Lamb, Hazlitt, Woolf, White, Didion, and lesser-known essayists from non-western cultures. Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This intermediate-level course provides a literary overview of drama beginning with the development of comedy and tragedy in the Ancient Greek period, moving through the Renaissance, and into the Modern and Contemporary periods. Students read plays by such writers as Sophocles, Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Shaw, Miller, and Wilson. Course requirements include a major paper, a midterm, a final examination, a major project and class participation. Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This intermediate-level survey course studies the development of the culture of the United States as reflected in and shaped by its multicultural literature, from the period of European exploration and settlement through the Vietnam War. One major paper, three in-class tests, a final exam, and participation in class discussion are required. Prerequisites: Completion of EL 102 Language and Rhetoric. Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This intermediate-level survey course covers the form and evolution of the short story and short story collection as invented and mastered by American authors from Poe to Updike. Symbolism, Nationalism, Realism, Naturalism, Primitivism, and Modernism provide contexts for ways of understanding writers such as Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Crane, Cather, Hemingway, Anderson, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Bierce, Ellison, and Updike. The typical class includes lecture and discussion. Students take three quizzes, a midterm, and a final, and participate in group and class discussion. Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This intermediate-level course studies the varieties of oral and written work created by Native Americans. The course begins with transcriptions from the oral tradition, including stories, songs, prayers, and orations, and continues with written works in a variety of genres, including poetry, short stories, and novels, including contemporary novels by writers like Momaday, Silko, and Welch. Course requirements include a report (essay), a major paper, two essay examinations, and participation in class discussion. Prerequisites: Completion of EL 102 Language and Rhetoric. Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This intermediate-level course studies poetry, fiction, drama, and prose non-fiction written by immigrant and ethnic American writers about their experiences as members of ethnic and/or minority groups. Through their work, we will explore themes of migration and immigration, assimilation, and maintaining ethnic identity in different American communities. We will also look at the relationship between different ethnic traditions-African-American, Asian American, Hispanic, Jewish, European-American-and the larger tradition of American literature and culture. Course requirements include a report (essay), a major paper, two essay examinations, and participation in class discussion. Prerequisites: Completion of EL 102 Language and Rhetoric. Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This intermediate-level course studies the major themes addressed by African-American authors from the 18th through the 20th centuries and chronicles the participation of African- Americans in the major periods and movements of American Literary Realism, Naturalism, and Modernism; as well as in the influential coteries of the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement. Course requirements include a report (essay), a major paper, two essay examinations, and participation in class discussion. Prerequisites: Completion of EL 102 Language and Rhetoric. Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This intermediate-level course offers students unique opportunities for more advanced work in the study of the techniques, themes, and rhetoric of Satire. Participants study the works of Greek and Roman satirists (Horace and Juvenal), satirists of the Neoclassic period (Swift and Pope) and modern satiric works (Twain, Flannery O'Connor, Welty), including material from film, television, and other forms of popular culture. Assignments include a course journal, reading quizzes, and a midterm and final exam. Three credits.
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