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3.00 Credits
Fall (3 credits). Workshop-style seminar to help critical writers gain authority as they engage in active dialog with other voices. Brief, exploratory, weekly creative writing assignments ask students to become conscious of their own writing practices and help writing tutors learn the skills needed for effective peer reviews. Prerequisite: by recommendation only. CN only.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits). Students discuss essays by peers and professionals. Ancient and modern theories of rhetoric are used to assist advanced writers in perfecting their skills in analysis and persuasion. Prerequisite: junior or senior standing.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits) or Spring (4 credits) or May Term (3 credits). Study of the practice and theory of adapting film from literature, demonstrated in select literary works made into feature films. Prerequisite: ENGL 111 recommended.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits), May Term (3 credits). Course focuses on literary works from the Old and Middle English periods, but includes works written on the Continent and is interdisciplinary in approach, incorporating linguistics, manuscript studies, discussion of oral vs. written culture, Gregorian chant, the Bayeux Tapestry, an archaeological dig, and court documents in our literary study. Primary sources from literature, philosophy, and art. Prerequisite: ENGL 201 or permission.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits) or Spring (4 credits). Study of an exuberant period, characterized by zeal for new learning, for mastering the demands of the physical world, and for scholarship, art, and ethics. Course readings provide different perspectives of the Renaissance as you witness characters and actions and study them within their historical context. Prerequisite: ENGL 201 or permission. May be repeated for degree credit given different topic.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits) or Spring (4 credits) or May Term (3 credits). From 1660-1820, British culture was characterized by fear of invasion, scientific experiment, political debate, "shopping," colonialexpansion, and anxieties about how to control all of this novelty. Writers returned to the epic while inventing the novel. Explores dynamic literary, philosophical, and cultural energies shaping the precursor of our modern world. Prerequisite: ENGL 201 or permission. May be repeated for degree credit given a different topic. EV and NU only.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits), or May Term (3 credits). We will explore different kinds of Romantic imagination through topics such as the intertextuality of William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth; Coleridge, Blake, and Byron's eccentric long poems; and the ways in which Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft responded to the "woman question."Prerequisite: ENGL 201 or permission. Offered as needed. NU and EV only.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits), or May Term (3 credits). Study of a complex age of expansion and power, and of the growth of the novel as well as experimentation in poetic forms. Topic and texts vary. Prerequisite: ENGL 201 or permission. Offered as needed. NU and EV only.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits), or May Term (3 credits). Modernism has become a standard term for the self-conscious revolutions in art, c. 1880- 1930. We study the modernists on their own terms, and also from our vantage point a century later. Conrad, Lawrence, Joyce, Mansfield, Yeats, Woolf, and others. Prerequisite: ENGL 201 or permission. Offered as needed. NU and EV only.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits) or Spring (4 credits). Exploration of major movements and themes from America's beginnings to the Civil War. Includes Puritanism, Transcendentalism, Romanticism, the radical creation of the republic, and the search for an American identity, as well as careful study of some of the best American writing through the first half of the nineteenth century. Prerequisite: ENGL 201 or permission.
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