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LTCC CATALOG <strong>2010</strong>-<strong>2011</strong> 149 ENGLISHENG 219D TOPICS IN LITERATURE: ERNESTHEMINGWAY, LIFE INTO ARTLecture 2, Lab 0, Units 2This course is designed to give <strong>the</strong> student an introduction to <strong>the</strong>complexity of Ernest Hemingway's work. Students will consider howhe transformed his life experience into <strong>the</strong> art of fiction. Emphasiswill be placed on defining his pioneering minimalist style. This coursewill focus on such predominant <strong>the</strong>mes as initiation and <strong>the</strong> ethics ofstruggle, and how engagement with such values produces a life criticshave termed <strong>the</strong> "code hero." This course will cover representativeworks of fiction as well as some memoir material.Transfers to CSU, UNR, UCADVISORY: ENG 101 or equivalent.ENG 219E TOPICS IN LITERATURE: LITERATUREOF CARNIVALLecture 2, Lab 0, Units 2This course will focus on carnivalesque <strong>the</strong>mes in literature fromBrazil, Haiti, and Trinidad. Coursework will cover <strong>the</strong> cultural andhistorical roots of carnival in South America and <strong>the</strong> Caribbean, andexplore how <strong>the</strong> works of Edwidge Danticat, Jorge Amado, and EarlLovelace embody <strong>the</strong> freedom, abandon, joy, contradictions, and lossthat create <strong>the</strong> spirit of carnival.Transfers to CSU, UNR, UCADVISORY: ENG 101 or equivalent.ENG 219F TOPICS IN LITERATURE: VIRGINIAWOOLF AND DANGEROUS WORDSLecture 2, Lab 0, Units 2This course will examine <strong>the</strong> work of one of <strong>the</strong> greatest modernistwriters, Virginia Woolf. In order to introduce students to Woolf's lifeand work, <strong>the</strong> course will focus on <strong>the</strong> following: Woolf's experimentswith style, her influence on modern literature, her reflections onEngland before and between <strong>the</strong> world wars, her struggles with mentalillness, and her commentary on women's writing.Transfers to CSU, UNR, UCADVISORY: ENG 101 or equivalent.ENG 219G TOPICS IN LITERATURE: ENGLISHROMANTIC POETS: PASSION, NATURE, POETRY,AND THE SELFLecture 2, Lab 0, Units 2This course will introduce students to <strong>the</strong> major English poets from<strong>the</strong> Romantic Period, approximately 1780-1830. Coursework willfocus on <strong>the</strong> central Romantic poets--including Blake, Wordsworth,Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, and Keats--and <strong>the</strong>ir concerns with spiritualvisions, "<strong>the</strong> spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings," <strong>the</strong> occultand supernatural, <strong>the</strong> sublime in Nature, memory, and <strong>the</strong> role of artand poetry in a world of revolutionary change. This course will alsoexamine <strong>the</strong> role that women--including Mary Shelley, Ann Radcliffe,and Dorothy Wordsworth, among o<strong>the</strong>rs--had in Romantic poetry asdiarists, novelists, and poets.Transfers to CSU, UNR, UCADVISORY: ENG 101 or equivalent.ENG 219H TOPICS IN LITERATURE: PARIS INTHE EARLY 1900’S, WRITERS IN EXILELecture 2, Lab 0, Units 2This course explores <strong>the</strong> literary artistry of authors writing in exile(whe<strong>the</strong>r political, creative, cultural, and/or self-imposed) in Paris in<strong>the</strong> early twentieth century. Readings will immerse students in <strong>the</strong>artistic community that emerged primarily between <strong>the</strong> world wars(including members of <strong>the</strong> "Lost Generation" of Americans, such asErnest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein, and those from <strong>the</strong> UnitedKingdom who sought to explore feelings of alienation, like James Joyceand Samuel Beckett). This course will concern itself with <strong>the</strong> idea ofexile and <strong>the</strong> ways <strong>the</strong> city of Paris helped some of <strong>the</strong>se writers expressartistic isolation and belonging.Transfers to CSU, UNR, UCADVISORY: ENG 101 or equivalent.ENG 219J TOPICS IN LITERATURE: EDGARALLAN POELecture 2, Lab 0, Units 2This course will take a journey into <strong>the</strong> dark and terrifying worldof <strong>the</strong> great American horror writer Edgar Allan Poe, exploring <strong>the</strong>Gothic <strong>the</strong>mes of isolation and insanity, terror and suspense, betrayaland revenge in Poe's stories and poems.Transfers to CSU, UNR, UCPREREQUISITE: ENG 152 with a grade of “C” or better or equivalent or appropriateskills demonstrated through <strong>the</strong> assessment process.ADVISORY: ENG 101 or equivalent.ENG 219K TOPICS IN LITERATURE: THELITERARY MEMOIRLecture 2, Lab 0, Units 2In this course, students will read and discuss <strong>the</strong> literary memoir inorder to explore <strong>the</strong> boundaries between fact and fiction, truth andlies, life and art. Authors may include Malcolm X, Sylvia Plath,Zora Neale Hurston, Tim O'Brien, Lauren Slater, Mary Karr, LuisRodriguez, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Frank McCourt.Transfers to CSU, UNR, UCPREREQUISITE: ENG 152 with a grade of “C” or better or equivalent or appropriateskills demonstrated through <strong>the</strong> assessment process.ADVISORY: ENG 101 or equivalent.ENG 219L TOPICS IN LITERATURE: TRAVELWRITINGLecture 2, Lab 0, Units 2This course explores <strong>the</strong> world of travel writing. Students will read,discuss, and analyze travel literature in order to understand <strong>the</strong>conventions of travel writing and learn how to write our own travelbasedessays. Topics covered will include capturing sense of place,characters, and dialog; research and interviews; keeping a traveljournal; and writing and selling <strong>the</strong> story.Transfers to CSU, UNRADVISORY: ENG 101 or equivalent.English