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English Department be discussed may include the contributions of African-American, Asian-American, Euro-American, Latino/a-American and/or Native American writers. Such themes as cultural dislocation, alienation, and re-envisioning identity will be highlighted. Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101 ENG245 Images of Women in Literature 3 credits; 3 hours This course is designed to familiarize the student with the ways in which the role of women has been portrayed in literature. By identifying various stereotypes and certain recurrent themes, students will be made aware of how literature reflects and sometimes determines societal expectations. Works by both male and female authors will be examined including such authors as Henrik Ibsen, D.H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Sylvia Plath, Mary Gordon, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde. Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101 ENG247 The Woman Writer: Her Vision and Her Art 3 credits; 3 hours This course will explore the unique experience of the woman writer. Studying works written by women from a variety of cultures, races, and classes will reveal how being a woman has influenced the woman writer’s creative interpretation of the human condition. Maya Angelou, Charlotte Bronte, Maxine Hong Kingston, Emily Dickinson, Tillie Olsen and Leslie Marmon Silko will be read. Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101 ENG248 Latino/Latina Writing of the United States 3 credits; 3 hours This course examines the contributions to American literature made by Chicana, Puerto Rican, Cuban and Dominican women writers in the United States over the last thirty years. It surveys the variety of Latina writing and explores the ways in which Latina writers represent community, class, race, gender, culture, nation and ethnicity in their works. Poetry, fiction, essays, autobiographical prose, and dramatic works by authors such as Julia Alvarez, Gloria Anzaldua, Sandra Cisneros, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Cristina Garcia, Cherrie Moraga and Nicholasa Mohr will be studied. Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101 ENG250 The Short Story 3 credits; 3 hours This course will examine the development and conventions of the short story providing analysis of representative short stories in the context of their biographical, social, intellectual and artistic backgrounds. Stories will be chosen to reflect a diversity of cultural, racial and ethnic experiences. Such authors as Eudora Welty, Anton Chekhov, Richard Wright, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Willa Cather, Gloria Anzaldua, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Yukio Mishima, Nadine Gordimer, Gloria Naylor and Bharati Mukherjee will be studied. Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101 ENG252 Sexuality in Literature 3 credits; 3 hours This course will introduce students to literature in which sexuality provides the dominant themes, motifs, or images. Issues such as sex as a metaphor for violence, pornography vs. eroticism and the Idealized Lover may be discussed. Authors examined might include Chaucer, Bernard Malamud, Virginia Woolf, Walt Whitman, Donald Goines, Alta and Victor Hernandez Cruz. Works such as For Colored Girls..., Lolita, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, The Color Purple and The Picture of Dorian Gray may be included. Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101 ENG256 Humor in Literature 3 credits; 3 hours This course introduces students to humor in literature from the Classic period to the present in the genres of drama, poetry and fiction and provides them with interpretive skills required for an appreciation and understanding of the texts. In reading the work of such authors as Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Ishmael Reed and Fran Lebowitz, the class will define and examine examples of humorous literature such as satire, romantic comedy, parody, and farce. Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101 ENG259 Technical Writing 3 credits; 3 hours This course will focus on the role of writing in engineering, mathematics and computer science. Topics will include practical formats within technical writing, expository and periodical writing on scientific and technological subjects, and other compositional and rhetorical strategies that develop and improve students’ abilities in effective written communication. Students will write essays based upon readings in their textbooks and professional essays and articles. Prerequisites: ENC/G101, MAT096 Pre-corequisite: CSE099 ENG260 The Novel 3 credits; 3 hours This course introduces students to ways of reading, discussing and writing about novels through a close reading and analysis of their elements, and a consideration of their social, cultural and artistic contexts. Novels from a diverse range of sexual, racial, class and ethnic perspectives, from the 18th century to the present, will be selected, including such writers as Jane Austen, James Baldwin, Charles Dickens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zora Neale Hurston, Yasunari Kawabata, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Toni Morrison, Mark Twain and Richard Wright. Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101 ENG261 Literature of Difference: Lesbian/Gay Writers 3 credits; 3 hours This course will explore the literature and experiences of lesbian and gay writers. Examining these works will reveal how sexual orientation influences the authors’ creative interpretations of themselves, their culture, and the world at large. Themes of 123
English Department growing up gay, coming out, families, relationships, communities, homophobia, AIDS, aging, loss and renewal are explored. Such writers as Brown, White, Lorde, Leavitt, Gomez, Beam, Baldwin, Kramer, Anzaldua and Sarton will be studied. Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101 ENG265 The Drama 3 credits; 3 hours In this course, students are introduced to the drama. The characteristics of the form will be examined. Examples of the genre from major periods of its development will be studied, including plays by a range of culturally diverse authors such as Sophocles, William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Henrik Ibsen, Eugene O’Neill, Lillian Hellman, Lorraine Hansberry, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Samuel Beckett, John Guare and August Wilson. Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101 ENG266 Shakespeare 3 credits; 3 hours This survey course examines a selection of Shakespeare’s writings. It also looks at Renaissance social, intellectual and cultural contexts in order to help students understand Shakespeare’s world. The course concentrates on various sonnets or poems and a representative selection of plays from the history plays, comedies, “problem plays,” tragedies and romances. Whenever possible, through visits to the theatre or film viewing, students are introduced to the “living Shakespeare.” Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101 ENG268 The Immigrant Experience in American Literature 3 credits; 3 hours This course will offer an introduction to literature written by and about immigrants in America. Attention will be given to the immigrant’s experiences and struggles as seen in novels as well as poems, stories and plays. The works of such major writers as Willa Cather, Arthur Miller, James T. Farrell, Mario Puzo, Philip Roth, Alex Haley, William Saroyan, Rene Marques, Paule Marshall, Claude McKay and Maxine Hong Kingston will be considered. Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101 ENG269 Contemporary Black American Fiction 3 credits; 3 hours This is a consideration and analysis of a selected number of major Afro-American fiction writers from 1952 to the present. Emphasis will be placed on both the survival of older fictional concerns (e.g., racism, violence, the search for identity) and the appearance of new trends (e.g., the employment of folklore materials, the revitalized use of Black dialects, the emergence of a group of women writers). Works by such authors as Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, John Williams, Toni Morrison, Albert Murray, Alice Walker, Ernest Gaines and Ishmael Reed will be read. Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101 ENG270 Introduction to Poetry 3 credits; 3 hours This course introduces students to the formal conventions of poetry as well as the basic elements that work to create a poem. Poems from different countries and different historical periods will be explored, at times from different critical perspectives. Works by such poets as William Shakespeare, John Donne, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, W.B. Yeats, Langston Hughes, e.e. cummings, Federico Garcia Lorca, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Leslie Marmon Silko and Gary Soto will be discussed. Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101 ENG271 Poetry Writing 3 credits; 3 hours This course is designed to introduce students to poetry writing. In writing and revising poems, students will utilize a variety of writing styles. For example, they will practice formal modes such as sonnet, blank verse and sestina, and they will also write free verse. In order to locate stylistic and thematic approaches for their own poems, students will read and discuss poetry in a variety of styles and historical modes. They will have the opportunity to hear poets read works and discuss the writing process. Engaging frequently in peer critiquing of each other’s work, students will also develop criteria for evaluating their own poetry and for doing revision. By the end of the semester, they will learn how to submit poetry for publication. Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101 ENG/HUC272 Literature and Film 3 credits; 4 hours This course studies the similarities and differences between literature and film. By comparing and contrasting literary works (complete and excerpts) with films, the course illuminates the methods, structures and contents of the two media, as well as their relationship. Writers to be considered may include Shakespeare, Keats, Dickens, Dickinson, Wright, and West; films to be viewed may include those made by Griffith, Chaplin, Eisenstein, Riefenstahl, Flaherty and Resnais. Prerequisite: ENG102, HUC150 or HUC270 ENG274 Creative Nonfiction Workshop 3 credits; 3 hours This course introduces students to creative non-fiction writing, writing that uses true events for literary effect. In writing and revising creative non-fiction, students will learn and practice a variety of forms, including personal essay, memoir, literary journalism (or narrative non-fiction) and biography. Students will work to improve their technique and develop individual voices, but will also work in groups to discuss ways to improve their work. They will read works by published authors and will also learn how to submit their own work for publication. Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101 ENG275 The Great Writer 3 credits; 3 hours This course studies the work of a single major author. Students will examine the author in depth, exploring the writer’s career, major works, literary influence and cultural context in order to understand his or her contribution to literary history. The author selected might be Chaucer, Milton, Austen, Dickens, Whitman, 124
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