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This introductory course emphasizes the techniques used by reporters to collect information and write stories for newspapers, magazines, the Internet, and broadcast outlets.Students learn to gather information, interview sources, write leads, structure a story, and work with editors.Students analyze how different news organizations package information, hear from guest speakers, and visit working journalists in the field.Students develop a higher level of media literacy and learn to deal with the news media in their careers.(Can be taken simultaneously with EN12).Three credits.
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This course introduces students to classical mythology through an examination of the diverse ways in which myth and legend are treated in the literature of ancient Greece and Rome.Students read texts in English translation; knowledge of Greek or Latin is not required.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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Editing skills are in high demand in today's journalism job market both for traditional and online sources of information.This intermediate level course emphasizes conciseness, precision, accuracy, style, and balance in writing and editing.The course includes researching and fact-checking, basic layout and design, headline and caption writing, and online editing.(Prerequisite: EN/W 220 or permission of instructor) Three credits.
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In EN 11 and EN 12, students experience several modes of essay writing and the genres of fiction, drama, and poetry.This course offers advice and practice in respond-ing to allegory, another genre of literature, which can be found in prose and in epic poetry.Understanding allegory is an enjoyable and liberating task.The dramatized meta-phors of allegorical characters, places, objects, and events are best viewed in ways that are neither reductive nor simplistic, but are flexible, non-doctrinaire, and open to transformation.Fantasy literature at its best is also more allegorical, provoking the reader not to escape reality but to engage reality more fully.Authors in this course may include E.M.Forster, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Barbara Kingsolver, C.S.Lewis, Flannery O'Connor, J.R.R.Tolkien, Voltaire, and Kurt Vonnegut.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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This course examines the concept of literacy in the United States.Students explore four questions: How did they become literate How has literacy been defined in U.S.history How do children learn to write and, Why do 30 million American adults have severely limited literacy As part of the Ignatian College program, the course encourages students to reflect on their own experience with literacy and consider their responsibility towards those who lack literacy skill.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Service-learning option.This course meets the U.S.diversity requirement.Three credits.
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This course ranges from Homer to J.R.R.Tolkien.The epic writer employs a vast canvas in telling his story, giving us a picture of an entire civilization.His hero embodies the highest values of his society and represents that society against the forces of chaos and evil.The course focuses, then, on the changing image of the hero, particularly as presented in the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Aeneid, and The Lord of the Rings.( Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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This course introduces the major styles, themes, genres, authors, and periods of British literature from the Middle Ages to the 18th century.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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This course introduces the major styles, themes, genres, authors, and periods of British literature from the romantic period through the 20th century.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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African-American literature exemplifies and challenges the humanist tradition; in fact, its diversity of voices, modes of representation, and the conditions of its production interrogate the very concept of tradition.This survey course examines the development of African-American literature from 1770 to the present, as well as its place within the American literary canon.The course uses themes of literacy, identity, and authority to trace this literature's history from Phillis Wheatley's 18th-century role in defining American poetry through the slave narrative to the New Negro Renaissance, the Civil Rights movement, and African-American postmodernis m.This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. (Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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The knight of chivalric romance is one of the most enduring legacies of medieval culture.He is warrior and lover, loyal to his lord and to his lady, even when, as is so often the case, these loyalties collide.This course traces the history and development of this enormously popular and enduring genre, beginning with the invention of courtly love and the formation of the legend of King Arthur.It focuses on the seminal 12th-century French romances and important, representative works from Germany and England, and concludes with the challenges posed to the genre and its values by late medieval and early modern culture, as represented by Malory and Cervantes.Issues include narrative structures and motifs; the depiction of nature and civilization; the stylized representation of gender and class; the interplay of reality and fantasy; theories of authorship and audience; and connections to history-writing and to other literature.Students read all texts in modern English translations.(Prerequisite: EN 12 or equivalent) Three credits.
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