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3.00 Credits
An opportunity for the student to develop abilities in fiction and poetry under supervision. Emphasis is on the craft of writing, that is, creative revision toward a product with depth and texture. Prerequisite: ENG 102 with a grade of "C" or higher . Three hours, three credits.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the origins of the novel in the 17th and early 18th centuries and an analysis of its evolution to the late 19th century. Students read novels by such writers as Defoe, Fielding, Austen, Stendahl, Melville, Dickens, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, James, and Twain. Prerequisite: three hours of ENG 201-207. Three hours, three credits.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the novel of approximately the last hundred years. Students read novels by such writers as Hardy, Conrad, Crane, Lawrence, Joyce, Kafka, Mann, Camus, Waugh, Nabokov, Fuentes, and Morrison. Prerequisite: three hours of ENG 201-207. Three hours, three credits.
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3.00 Credits
An intensive study of a particular literary theme, genre, or period. The topic under consideration varies from semester to semester according to current assessments of the needs and interests of advanced students. Prerequisite: six hours of 200-level or higher literature. Three hours, three credits.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the formal study of language, with attention to the historical development of English and contemporary varieties of American English. The course includes a comparative study of traditional, structural, and transformational grammars. Topics include phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics. Prerequisite: ENG 102 with a grade of "C" or higher . Three hours, three credits.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the art of written discourse, with special emphasis on principles of advanced composition. The course provides practice in varied techniques of composing and evaluating writing and surveys rhetorical theory from Aristotle to contemporary rhetoric. Topics include speaking/writing relationships; rhetorical contexts; theories of invention and the composing process (including composing at the word processor); aims, modes, and forms of discourse; and questions of style, readability, and coherence. Prerequisite: ENG 102 with a grade of "C" or higher.This course is designated Writing Intensive; a grade of "C" or higher in this course is required forthis course to count toward the six credit-hour Writing Intensive graduation requirement for Ferrum College. A student cannot earn a grade of "C" or higher in this course unless he or she earns a "Cor better on the writing assignments required by the course. Three hours, three credits.
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3.00 Credits
A study of American literature during the half-century when it first reached artistic maturity. The course traces the growth and development of American literary Romanticism, focusing on such authors as Irving, Cooper, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson. Prerequisite: three hours of ENG 201-207. Three hours, three credits.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the period dominated by American literary Realism, its beginnings as a reaction against Romanticism, its sustained development in the decades before and after 1900, and its transformation between the two world wars. The course focuses on such authors as Twain, Howells, James, Crane, Dreiser, Robinson, Frost, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, O'Neill, and Steinbeck. Prerequisite: three hours of ENG 201-207. Three hours, three credits.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature. Figures studied include authors such as Milton, Congreve, Swift, Addison, Steele, Pope, Johnson, and Blake. Prerequisite: three hours of ENG 201-207. Three hours, three credits.
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3.00 Credits
A study of British literature from Romanticism through the Victorian period. Figures studied include authors such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Dickens, the Brontes, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, and Hardy. Prerequisite: three hours of ENG 201-207. Three hours, three credits.
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