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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course in advanced composition is especially for students contemplating teaching at the elementary or secondary level and of interest to students wanting to learn more about their own writing processes and writing instruction. The course includes direct instruction and practice in writing in various forms, examining various composition theories and practices, and observing and practicing the teaching of composition, all based on the idea that writing is best learned through writing and learning how to teach it. Meets the general studies upper-division writing intensive requirement.
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4.00 Credits
Designed to be a parallel course to the traditional undergraduate offering, this course integrates themes from the major and is open only to students in the adult degree completion program in human development. This writing-intensive course is designed for students wanting to learn about writing and writing instruction and is of interest to students contemplating teaching on the secondary or elementary level. The course examines the theory, practice, and literature of English/language arts pedagogy, with an emphasis on composition.
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3.00 Credits
Students engage in extensive reading and analysis of selected romances and novels from 1800 to the present. This course traces the development of the genre in its American form and content. Meets the general studies elective requirement.
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4.00 Credits
Designed to be a parallel course to the traditional undergraduate offering, this course integrates themes from the major and is open only to students in the adult degree completion program in human development. This course examines the purpose, nature, and power of literature for children, classic as well as contemporary, particularly as it relates to the role literature plays in child development at home and school. Emphases include the nature of literature for children, evaluating and selecting books, responses to literature, understanding and experiencing the genres of literature, reading aloud and writing about literature, as well as becoming conversant with major writers and illustrators of children's literature, with special attention to multicultural literature.
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3.00 Credits
Literature, classical as well as contemporary, interesting to children through adolescence and of value to all who work with children either professionally or as parents, is covered in this course. Meets the general studies elective requirement.
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3.00 Credits
Students engage in a study of cognitive and social aspects of language affecting acquisition and use; comprehension and use of sentences; language memory and production; political and social implications of language; social roles, bilingualism, codes, and code switching; and language planning.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of literature for adolescent readers, traditionally those in the teen years. It aims to acquaint the student with both popular and enduring works, and provides close critical reading of both. Criticisms of adolescent literature, as well as classroom applications for the works, are included in the class. The course is an upper-division elective in English, and of particular use to students planning to teach. Prerequisite: ENGL 110 and either ENGL 111 or ENGL 112
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3.00 Credits
Students explore the origins and development of British fiction, reading representative novels from the 18th century to the present.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores theories about literature and critical approaches to literature. The testing of theories and the working out of the critical approaches occur through studying excerpts from selected works of literature. This course may be interesting not only to English majors, but also to students of philosophy, theology, and history, for what one learns about critical approaches to a literary text can be applied to all texts.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the terms, methods, and techniques of film analysis in the context of a special topic that varies each semester depending on the instructor (e.g., Film Noir, Images of Women in Film, Shakespeare on Film, The Western). Emphasis is on formal analysis of film language, with consideration of other critical approaches to film.
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