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Native American Literature Prerequisite: None Study of American Indian literature from early forms such as songs, orations, and traditional narratives, including trickster-tale cycles, to more recent genres of autobiography, essays, poetry, and fiction. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College English Department Course Attributes: GER IC2-Cultural Traditions 2
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Asian American Literature Prerequisite: None An examination of the literature of Asian Americans as an expression and experience of their efforts to formulate and/or maintain their identity. Writers vary but may include the Gold Mountain poets, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toshio Mori, John Okada, and Amy Tan. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College English Department
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Chicano/Chicana Literature And Culture Prerequisite: None A study of Chicano and Chicana Literature and culture. Topics might include the struggle for political and individual autonomy, bilingualism, the border as an imagined space and as cultural metaphor, the impact of Chicano literature on the broader spectrum of American culture and literature and vice-versa, feminism in a Chicana conext, assimilation versus multi-culturalism, etc. Authors might include Oscar Zeta Acosta, Gloria Anzaldua, Rudolfo Anaya, Denise Chavez, Sandra Cisneros, Cherrie Morago, Richard Rodriguez, Guillermo Gomez-Pena. By the end of the course students will be introduced to a host of key cultural concepts, such as Chicanismo, Xicanisma, Aztlan, The Virgin of Guadalupe, Guadalupe-Hidalgo, Spanglish, amigoization, mestiza, LaRaza, La Malinche, Tonantzin, Cyber Vato, Pachuco, Pocho, Corrido, and the terms Chicano/Chicana themselves. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College English Department
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Introduction To Women's Studies Prerequisite: None This course, taught from various interdisciplinary perspectives, will address the critical, theoretical and historical construction of women and gender. The course will acquaint students with the key frameworks, approaches, and issues in the field of Women's Studies. Many questions will be considered, such as: How does the concept of gender shape our social experiences and understadings of ourselves? What is "women"? How are "women" produced? What kind of power relations are deployed to construct and maintain gender roles? How do gender, race, ethnicity, class and sexuality intersect? How do gender and sexuality operate in the United States? In a global context? 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College English Department Course Attributes: GER IC1-Cultural Traditions 1, LAC tilt-Literature & Thought
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Mini-Lit Prerequisite: None A five-week course. Students may take from one to three courses each semester and repeat the course with different topics. Credit applicable to Women's Studies minor when the topic is appropriate. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College English Department
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Tutoring Writing Prerequisite: None Note: A Five Week course This course will prepare students to act as writing tutors in first-year writing courses or in a writing center. A basic grounding in writing center theory and practice will be presented. Students will have ample opportunities to experience common tutoring situations and problems through role-play, observation, and mock tutorials. 1.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College English Department ENG 2XX - English Elective English Elective Prerequisite: Transfer Credit Evaluation Only 0.500 TO 6.000 Credit Hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College
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Business And Technical Writing Prerequisite:ENG100 and a 100 or 200-level literature course This course is designed to provide students with some exposure to the enormous field of business writing. Because basic writing skills are important to any writing, students will be working at improving skills. Students will practice using a reference manual when editing their own work and take part in group activities. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Online School of Arts and Sciences College English Department
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Writing Fiction Prerequisite:ENG100 and a 100 or 200-level literature course Note: Enrollment limited to 15 students. An advanced course in writing fiction. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College English Department
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Writing Poetry Prerequisite:ENG100 and a 100 or 200-level literature course Guided by close readings of contemporary models, participants will write poems and present them for group critique. Instruction on the nuts and bolts of writing poetry and growth of aesthetic judgment. Basic techniques include linked and evolving images, metaphors and other figures of speech, fixed and open forms, linebreaks, rhythms and various means of capturing a human voice in dramatic and imaginative writing. Focus on the interplay of figural and literal language and on the union of content and form. No prior experience writing poems is assumed; however, this is a demanding course, not for dilettantes or dabblers. Students graded on a polished portfolio of finished work. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College English Department
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Craft Of The Short Story Prerequisites: ENG 100 or 100P and a 100- or 200 level literature course 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College English Department
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