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Course Criteria
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A study of how social problems, social attitudes, and social panaceas are depicted in literature. Selections studied include recent works as well as those from earlier periods. Prerequisite: WRT102. 3 credit hours.
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The study of literature as a conscious and unconscious search to understand patterns in human behavior. The student is invited to reflect upon a variety of stories in a variety of forms, old and new, for children and for adults. Prerequisite: WRT102. 3 credit hours. Satisfies ADR I.
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3.00 Credits
Religion and Literature provides an interdisciplinary examination of major themes, theories, issues and movements in religious and literary studies. The course may include readings of Western and Non-Western religious and literary traditions. Prerequisite: WRT102. 3 credit hours.
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Thorough study of single major author (such as Milton), a genre (like the literature of terror), a tradition (such as Nationalism), or literary theory. The specific theme of these courses may be suggested either by faculty members or by students. These courses may be repeated for different topics. Prerequisite: WRT102. 3 credit hours. Satisfies ADR I.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers a critical examination of approaches to literary interpretation, with an emphasis on theoretical schools and philosophical movements relevant to contemporary issues in humanities studies. Areas of focus may include, but are not limited to: aesthetics, culture, politics, gender, history, linguistics, race, and sexuality. Prerequisite: WRT102. 3 credit hours.
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This course explores the connections between gender and literary expression by examining the cultural and literary patterns linking the lives of women and their works. Readings will include women's writing in a number of genres such as poetry, drama, short story, and essay. Students will also study and discuss the critical apparatus surrounding each form. Prerequisite: WRT102. 3 credit hours. Satisfies ADR I.
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This course is an introduction to the literary genres found in the Old and New Testaments. We will study biblical epics, stories, and the poetry of the psalms. Students will write papers on the literary form, as well as the content, of individual books of the bible. Prerequisite: WRT102. 3 credit hours. Satisfies ADR I.
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This course examines the Gothic Tradition in literature within many genres: the novel, short fiction, drama, and other media. Authors studies in this course include, among others, Walpole, Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Poe, Hawthorne, Stoker, Stevenson, Lovecraft, and King. Prerequisite: WRT102. 3 credit hours. Satisfies ADR I.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the longstanding and complex relationship between literature and film from a variety of different historical, critical, and theoretical perspectives. Special attention will be given to the process of adaptation by which filmmakers attempt to create cinematic analogues to pre-existing literary texts. Other possible topics might include a study of the way in which literary modes and traditions have helped to shape the development of the cinema as a medium and the way in which film has inspired or influenced some of the most important works of literature produced over the last century. Prerequisite: WRT102. 3 credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Directed research and writing under close supervision. Required for all English majors. Open to other students only with permission of the professor. Prerequisites: The completion of 50 credit hours and WRT102. 3 credit hours.
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