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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
The literature of the Native Americans, the Spanish, and the Anglos. Readings in transcribed poetry and song, diaries, folk literature, and modern authors such as D. H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, Edward Abbey, Rudolfo Anaya, and Leslie Silko. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
Introduces features of what might be called a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer literary and theoretical tradition. Uses classical, Renaissance, modern postmodern, and contemporary literature, criticism, and film to examine the complicated status and experience of non-majority sexualities. Considers writer, theorists and activists who have explored the relationships among sexuality, knowledge, and literature, including Plato, Michel Foucault, Oscar Wilde, Shakespeare, Nella Larsen, Leslie Feinberg and Jeanette Winterson. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
Prose and poetry for children from early folk tales to the novels of E. B. White. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
Variable topics course including selected themes organized along regional, generic, interdisciplinary, and cultural boundaries. Also may address specific treatments of women characters in works by and women during different periods of English and American literary history. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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1.00 Credits
Studies in a wide array of cultural, social, historical, generic, and aesthetic topics in British and American literature. Designed for first-year students, sophomores, non-majors, as well as majors. Block 1: Topics in Literature: Frankenstein's Legacy - Literature, Philosophy and Pop Culture. With Mary Shelley's novel as a starting point, we will examine the Frankenstein narrative as it develops from early 19th-century culture and science through 20th-century pop culture and film. We will pay particular attention to the way in which differenct times and discourses are able to bend this narrative to their own purposes. What anxieties about death, science, gender, identity, etc. inform the various representations and re-creations of this literary fantasy of an early 19th-century, teenaged girl (Also listed as Comparative Literature 200.) 1 unit - Davis. Block 1: Topics in Literature: Introduction to African Literature. Prerequisite: FYE Course. 1st Years Only. Must take English 280 block two for credit. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) 1 unit - Osaki. Block 1: Topics in Literature: Introduction to African Literature. Prerequisite: FYE Course. 1st Years Only. Must take English 280 block two for credit. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) 1 unit - Osaki. Block 1: Topics in Literature: This Land is Our Land Culture Clash in the Southwest. This interdisciplinary course explores how Southwestern land use is represented in American Literature. Analysis of literary texts should provoke discussion about how landscape, law, and modes of thought interact. Short field trips should encourage students to make connections between texts and their own lived experiences. Authors to include John Nichols, Rudolfo Anaya, and Frank Waters. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Also listed as American Cultural Studies 253 and Southwest Studies 253.) 1 unit - Padilla. Block 2: Topics in Literature: Introduction to African Literature. Prerequisite: FYE Course. 1st Years Only. Must take English 280 block one for credit. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) 1 unit - Seward. Block 2: Topics in Literature: Greek Lyric Poetry and Philosophy. This course explores the fact that both lyric poetry and philosophy, as we know them in the West, have their roots in the culture of archaic Greece. Through close reading of texts by such poets as Archilochus, Sappho, Alcaeus (7th and 6th centuries BCE). Xenophanes (6th century BC), and Simonides (6th to 5th centuries BCE) and equally close reading of texts by such Presocratic philosophers as Heraclitus, Parmenides, and Empedocles (largely 5th century BCE), we will examine the variety of ways in which these writers articulated and constituted their individual place in the space between culture and nature. We will turn to Plato's Ion and Symposium to see how the lyric and the philosophical are explicitly united in the writing of perhaps the greatest thinker in the Western tradition. In an effort to isolate what is distinctive about the lyric impulse and the philosophical impulse, we will also read from the Iliad of Homer (8th century BCE), the Oresteia of Aeschylus (5th century BCE), and Longus' Daphnis and Chloe (ca. 200CE ). The course will conclude with close reading Aeschylus (5th century BCE), and Longus' Daphnis and Chloe (ca. 200CE ). The course will conclude with close reading of several 20th century and contemporary Greek poets-including Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933) and George Seferis (1900-1971), among others-whose work embodies the continuing dialogue between lyric poetry and philosophy. Exploring village life at harvest time as well as the ancient and modern polis, this course will be taught in Greece. After a short stay in Athens, we will spend roughly a week on the island of Lesbos (home of Sappho and Alcae
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5.00 - 9.00 Credits
(Not offered 2008-09.) .5 unit.
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3.00 Credits
Practice in writing poetry. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor and English 221. 2 units - Moore.
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2.00 Credits
Practice in writing prose fiction. 2 units - Hayward.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
Practice in writing screenplays. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
Practice writing nonfiction prose with literary, artistic intention. Typical uses include personal essays, biographical profiles, and prose essays dealing with issues in history, science, nature, travel, and culture which employ the narrative tools commonly used by writers of fiction. May be taken instead of EN 280 Literary Journalism, for credit for the thematic minor in Journalism. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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