Course Calendar 2011-2012 - Champlain College Saint-Lambert
Course Calendar 2011-2012 - Champlain College Saint-Lambert Course Calendar 2011-2012 - Champlain College Saint-Lambert
English (continued) 603-103-MQ American Writers of the South (Literary Theme) The history of the South reflects a particular past, haunted by ghosts of the slave trade, plantations, incest, and murder. The literature of the South, like its history and location, reveals themes that question the social and racial system that permeated the old South. Many writers attempt to expose their paradoxical attraction for this particular region and its history. This course will study the literature of the South to familiarize the student with the history of the South and the movement from old to new South. 4 hours/week Units: 2.33 603-103-MQ Travels and Journeys (Literary Theme) This course explores the use of the journey in literature through short stories, plays, novels, and/or travel writing. 4 hours/week Units: 2.33 603-103-MQ The Creative Self (Literary Theme) This course explores the nature and expression of creativity. Through an analysis of fiction and/or nonfiction, students will discover ways in which ideas are transformed into literature. Students may also apply what they learn from these texts to their own creative lives. 4 hours/week Units: 2.33 603-103-MQ Paths to Self-Realization (Literary Theme) Students in this course will study texts that explore an individual's need for self-discovery. 4 hours/week Units: 2.33 603-103-MQ Extreme Fiction (Literary Theme) Through this survey of thought-provoking and noteworthy non-realistic and/or non-traditional fiction, students will think about literature and fiction in a new light while being exposed to a wide gender, ethnic, and stylistic diversity. Short stories, novels, plays and/or poems may be used to present startling ideas, characters and situations. 4 hours/week Units: 2.33 603-103-MQ Sport in Fiction (Literary Theme) This course examines sport themes and motifs, and the role of sports in society as expressed in literature. Issues examined might include, but are not limited to, heroes/heroines in sport; youth and aging in sport; nationalism, racism, and sexism in sport; the individual versus the community; and the triumph of the individual in terms of body and mind. 4 hours/week Units: 2.33 603-103-MQ The Rebel (Literary Theme) This course will examine the rebel from different points of view. The causes and forms of rebellion will also be explored. 4 hours/week Units: 2.33 603-103-MQ Marginality: Gay and Lesbian Literature (Literary Theme) The study of same-sex desire has been avoided for centuries. Due to the history of legal and social scandal, queer theory has attempted to highlight clandestine or ignored desire between people of the same sex. Gay and lesbian literature reflects the paradox of liberation: the combination of a desire to articulate personal yearnings and the realities of culturalized homophobia. This course will sample literature that represents same-sex desire either overtly or covertly to acquaint the student with themes that examine the transition from concealed to open same-sex desires. 4 hours/week Units: 2.33 603-103-MQ Single Author Study (Literary Theme) In this course, students will study the work of a single author in detail. The choice of author may vary from semester to semester depending on instructor preference. 4 hours/week Units: 2.33 603-103-MQ Studies in Theme (Literary Theme) This course will introduce students to the themes or ideas of literature. Students will learn to recognize and analyze the themes and value systems of the texts. 4 hours/week Units: 2.33
English (continued) 603-103-MQ A Touch of Class: The 19th Century Novel of Manners (Literary Theme) This course will focus on novels dealing with the social conventions of the 19 th century. Conventions of courtship, marriage, social relations, death and money are among the topics covered. 4 hours/week Units: 2.33 603-103-MQ Literature of Scotland (Literary Theme) This course will study literature by writers of Scottish background. It will examine the ways in which Scots writers have used song, poetry, drama, the short story, the novel and/or non-fiction to explore different facets of their culture. 4 hours/week Units: 2.33 603-BMA-LA English for Science Programs (English for Science students only) The objective of this course is to enable students to communicate in forms appropriate to specific programs. To this end, students will learn to recognize appropriate forms, conventions of communications and organization of facts and arguments. Students will learn to develop their own ideas into arguments, to organize them and to edit their work. At the end of the course, successful students will produce a 1000-word analysis. This analysis will be developed clearly and correctly. 4 hours/week Units: 2.00 603-BMF-LA English for Arts Programs (English for Creative Arts and Graphic Communications Students only) The objective of this course is to enable students to communicate in forms appropriate to specific programs. To this end, students will learn to recognize appropriate forms, conventions of communications and organization of facts and arguments. Students will learn to develop their own ideas into arguments, to organize them and to edit their work. At the end of the course, successful students will produce a 1000 word analysis. This analysis will be developed clearly and correctly. 4 hours/week Units: 2.00 603-BMC-LA English for Professional Programs (English for Advertising Management, Computer Science, Sport Marketing & Management and Tourism students only) The objective of this course is to enable students to communicate in forms appropriate to specific programs. To this end, students will learn to recognize appropriate forms, conventions of communications and organization of facts and arguments. Students will learn to develop their own ideas into arguments, to organize them and to edit their work. At the end of the course, successful students will produce a 1000-word analysis. This analysis will be developed clearly and correctly. 4 hours/week Units: 2.00 603-BMD-LA Literature of the Twentieth Century (in-house course title) English for Liberal Arts (official ministerial course title) (English for Liberal Arts students only) This course studies a variety of works that reflect important aspects of twentieth-century literature. The reading list is international and involves the study of works in translation as well as works written originally in English. Students will consider the connection between history and literature by reading fiction, drama, and poetry that deal with important twentieth-century subjects such as social revolution, World War I, communism, and feminism. The course also considers aesthetic aspects of modern literature through the examination of developments in literary technique. 4 hours/week Units: 2.00 603-BME-LA IB Literary Genres (in-house course title) English for International Baccalaureate Programs (official ministerial course title) This course introduces the student to the narrative techniques of various novelists or dramatists from the nineteenth or twentieth centuries. Through the study of these techniques, the student will be prepared to write about the novel or play form in general as well as about specific works and authors. 4 hours/week Units: 2.00 603-BMH-LA Effective Communication for College Studies (English for Social Science (all options), Creative Arts, Modern Languages and Publication Design & Management students only) The objective of this course is to enable students to communicate in forms appropriate to specific programs. To this end, students will learn to recognize appropriate forms, conventions of communications and organization of facts and arguments. Students will learn to develop their own ideas into arguments, to organize them and to edit their work. At the end of the course, successful students will produce a 1000-word analysis. This analysis will be developed clearly and correctly. 4 hours/week Units: 2.00
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English (continued)<br />
603-103-MQ<br />
American Writers of the South<br />
(Literary Theme)<br />
The history of the South reflects a particular past, haunted<br />
by ghosts of the slave trade, plantations, incest, and<br />
murder. The literature of the South, like its history and<br />
location, reveals themes that question the social and racial<br />
system that permeated the old South. Many writers<br />
attempt to expose their paradoxical attraction for this<br />
particular region and its history. This course will study the<br />
literature of the South to familiarize the student with the<br />
history of the South and the movement from old to new<br />
South.<br />
4 hours/week Units: 2.33<br />
603-103-MQ<br />
Travels and Journeys<br />
(Literary Theme)<br />
This course explores the use of the journey in literature<br />
through short stories, plays, novels, and/or travel writing.<br />
4 hours/week Units: 2.33<br />
603-103-MQ<br />
The Creative Self<br />
(Literary Theme)<br />
This course explores the nature and expression of<br />
creativity. Through an analysis of fiction and/or nonfiction,<br />
students will discover ways in which ideas are<br />
transformed into literature. Students may also apply<br />
what they learn from these texts to their own creative<br />
lives.<br />
4 hours/week Units: 2.33<br />
603-103-MQ<br />
Paths to Self-Realization<br />
(Literary Theme)<br />
Students in this course will study texts that explore an<br />
individual's need for self-discovery.<br />
4 hours/week Units: 2.33<br />
603-103-MQ<br />
Extreme Fiction<br />
(Literary Theme)<br />
Through this survey of thought-provoking and<br />
noteworthy non-realistic and/or non-traditional fiction,<br />
students will think about literature and fiction in a new<br />
light while being exposed to a wide gender, ethnic, and<br />
stylistic diversity. Short stories, novels, plays and/or<br />
poems may be used to present startling ideas, characters<br />
and situations.<br />
4 hours/week Units: 2.33<br />
603-103-MQ<br />
Sport in Fiction<br />
(Literary Theme)<br />
This course examines sport themes and motifs, and the<br />
role of sports in society as expressed in literature. Issues<br />
examined might include, but are not limited to,<br />
heroes/heroines in sport; youth and aging in sport;<br />
nationalism, racism, and sexism in sport; the individual<br />
versus the community; and the triumph of the individual<br />
in terms of body and mind.<br />
4 hours/week Units: 2.33<br />
603-103-MQ<br />
The Rebel<br />
(Literary Theme)<br />
This course will examine the rebel from different points<br />
of view. The causes and forms of rebellion will also be<br />
explored.<br />
4 hours/week Units: 2.33<br />
603-103-MQ<br />
Marginality: Gay and Lesbian Literature<br />
(Literary Theme)<br />
The study of same-sex desire has been avoided for<br />
centuries. Due to the history of legal and social scandal,<br />
queer theory has attempted to highlight clandestine or<br />
ignored desire between people of the same sex. Gay and<br />
lesbian literature reflects the paradox of liberation: the<br />
combination of a desire to articulate personal yearnings<br />
and the realities of culturalized homophobia. This course<br />
will sample literature that represents same-sex desire<br />
either overtly or covertly to acquaint the student with<br />
themes that examine the transition from concealed to<br />
open same-sex desires.<br />
4 hours/week Units: 2.33<br />
603-103-MQ<br />
Single Author Study<br />
(Literary Theme)<br />
In this course, students will study the work of a single<br />
author in detail. The choice of author may vary from<br />
semester to semester depending on instructor<br />
preference.<br />
4 hours/week Units: 2.33<br />
603-103-MQ<br />
Studies in Theme<br />
(Literary Theme)<br />
This course will introduce students to the themes or<br />
ideas of literature. Students will learn to recognize and<br />
analyze the themes and value systems of the texts.<br />
4 hours/week Units: 2.33