| A study of one of the various forms of literature, such as narrative poetry lyric poetry, novel, short story, drama, film, essay, biography, and autobiography. The genre will vary from semester to semester. May be repeated for credit when involving a genre that the student has not previously studied. |
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| Intensive study of one or two major literary figures. Recent subjects have included Faulkner, Joyce, Milton, Morrison, O?Connor, Woolf, Pound, and Yeats. The authors will vary from semester to semester. May be repeated for credit. Usually offered fall semseter. |
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| This course aims to develop critical thinking skills through analysis and critique of a broad range of foreign and American films, and to enable an understanding of film's history as a form of political, social, and cultural expression. Students will acquire a critical vocabulary, and will be exposed to a variety of critical approaches to film. |
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| Study of important topics from the viewpoint of literature, communications, or a combination of the two. Past topics have included Sports Literature, Writing the Environment, Native American Literature, Film Criticism, Small Town Life, and Creative Nonfiction. May be repeated for credit when involving a topic not previously studied. Usually offered every semester. |
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| An examination of African-American literature as a lens through which students may more clearly view the ways that African Americans have contributed to, been influenced by, appropriated and transformed notions of American identity, specifically conceptions of freedom, equality, gender, sexuality, religion, class, and literature. This course includes the study of slave narratives, fiction, poetry, and/or drama. |
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| An investigation of the ways in which women from a broad diversity of cultural backgrounds respond to and reshape a tradition of literature that has typically been gendered as masculine. Exploration of the effects of culture, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and religion on women's writing. Special emphasis on the history and construction of gender roles, power, and sexuality. Usually offered alternate fall semesters. |
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