Education Majors and Minors ELEMENTARY EDUCATION — Grades K-
PREREQUISITE : ENGL 1120 OFFERED : 2005-06.
3190 Advanced Composition: Argument 3 hrs. (3, 0)
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Examines skills and techniques involved in the process of argument, including appeals to reason, emotion, and/or to a sense of ethics. Awareness of the craft of argument is applied to students’ writing endeavors. Proper research and documentation, audience accommoda- tion, style, organization and revision will be examined. EXPECTATION: Grade of C or above in ENGL 1120. PREREQUISITE: ENGL 1120. OFFERED: 2004-05.3200 Introduction to Myth 4 hrs. (4, 0)
Explores the nature and meaning of myth, with illustrations from various world mythologies. Emphasizes the relationship between myth, literature and religion. SAME AS: RLGN 3200.
3220 Global Literature 3 hrs. (3, 0)
Surveys representative twentieth-century and contemporary literature from the several inhabit- ed continents. Seeks to explore both the diversity and commonality of the global community in the social, political, ethical and cultural dimensions. PREREQUISITE: Upper-division standing.
3300 The Age of Chaucer 4 hrs. (4, 0)
Surveys Western European literature from 1100 to 1500, including allegory, drama, poetry and romance. Emphasizes the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer. OFFERED: 2008-09.
3320 Shakespeare 4 hrs. (4, 0)
Analyzes several representative dramas chosen from each of the subgenres — history, come- dy, romance and tragedy — and from each period in Shakespeare’s artistic development.
OFFERED: 2005-06.
3340 The Renaissance in England 4 hrs. (4, 0)
Surveys the literature of the English Renaissance. Representative writers include Marlowe, Sidney, Spencer, Donne, Jonson, Marvell, Bacon, and Hobbes, with special emphasis on John Milton. OFFERED: 2006-07.
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3360 The Restoration and Eighteenth Century 4 hrs. (4, 0)
Surveys major literary figures and forms from Restoration and Augustan Age through age of Johnson against broad social, cultural milieu of English and Continental enlightenment. Topics include neo-classical aesthetics, nature, reason, wit, satire. Writers include Dryden, Pope, Swift, Behn, Finch, Addison, Steele, and Johnson. OFFERED: 2005-06.
3390 British Literature of the Nineteenth Century 4 hrs. (4, 0)
Explores seminal Romantic and Victorian works of poetry, fiction and the essay. Authors include Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy. OFFERED: 2006-07.
3450 British Literature of the Twentieth Century 4 hrs. (4, 0)
Surveys British literature from World War I to the present. Includes works from novelists such as Woolf, Joyce, Green, Murdoch, Fowles; dramatists such as Shaw, Pinter, Beckett, Osbourne, Shaffer; and poets such as Yeats, Auden, Hughes, and Heaney. OFFERED: 2004- 05.
3500 American Literature to 1865 4 hrs. (4, 0)
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Explores the Puritan, regional and colonial voices of early American literature (1620-1820) and the developing dialectic between the philosophy and aesthetics that inform the positive Romanticism of Emerson, Thoreau, and Fuller, and the dark Romanticism of Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville. OFFERED: 2005-06.3550 American Literature from 1865 to 1945 4 hrs. (4, 0)
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Examines the major literary developments and the philosophical or social perspectives with-in American literature from the Civil War to World War II. Includes works of Chestnutt, Hurston, Twain, James, Crane, Chopin, Wharton, Cather, Anderson, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and Wright. OFFERED: 2004-05.
3580 American Authors of Color 3 hrs. (3, 0)
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Examines literary texts, themes and techniques of contemporary American minority writers.OFFERED: 2005-06.
3590 Experiencing Diversity through Young Adult Literature 3 hrs. (3, 0)
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Provides secondary, middle and upper elementary pre-service teachers with a wide variety ofexperiences in reading, analyzing and discussing texts written specifically for young adults.
EXPECTATION: Grade of C or better required. SAME AS: EDUC 3590. OFFERED: 2004-05.
3870 Literary Arts Practicum 1 hr. (arranged)
Students work with faculty consultant in producing an annual Campus Literary Arts maga- zine. Activities include selection of materials, editing, promotion, and selling the magazine.
EXPECTATION: Grade of C or above in ENGL 1120. PREREQUISITE: ENGL 1120. REPEAT: May be repeated. Total credit not to exceed 4 hours. GRADE: CR/NC registration.
4000 Special Topics in Literature 3 hrs. (3, 0)
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Examines discrete literary areas and topics not included in the current offerings, such as women writers, African-American literature, environmental literature, literature of the American South, and non-Western literature. REPEAT: May be repeated. Total credit not to exceed 6 hours.4200 The Age of Modernism 4 hrs. (4, 0)
Surveys boldly experimental modernist movement, its 19th-century origins and manifesta- tions in art forms other than literature, from 1900 to 1940, with readings in Joyce, Proust, Mann, Eliot, and Woolf. OFFERED: 2007-08.
4250 Modern Drama 4 hrs. (4, 0)
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Surveys major movements in British, American and Continental drama from 1870 to pres- ent — realism, naturalism, symbolism, expressionism, theatre of the absurd — with read- ings from Ibsen, Chekhov, Shaw, Pirandello, Beckett, Williams, Miller, Pinter, Hansberry,Department of English, continued
Wilson, and others. Emphasis on interplay of theory, stage technique, dramatic form and theme. OFFERED: 2005-06.
4450 The British Novel 4 hrs. (4, 0)
Surveys growth of British novel through 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Examines thematic trends, historical development, technical and aesthetic achievements and contributions of individual authors. OFFERED: 2006-07.
4500 Contemporary American Fiction 4 hrs. (4, 0)
Surveys American fiction since 1945 against broad intellectual, philosophical, scientific and social issues of its time that have shaped form and supplied content. Writers include Salinger, Updike, Nabokov, Pynchon, Morrison and DeLillo. OFFERED: 2005-06.
4550 American Poetry 4 hrs. (4, 0)
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Examines the major voices and visions of American poetry by analyzing the work of 10 major American poets: Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Stevens, Williams, Eliot, Moore, Bishop, Hughes and Lowell. The work of more contemporary poets will be examined as well. OFFERED: 2004-05.4650 Independent Study 1-4 hrs. (arranged)
Individualized projects for upper-division students. PREREQUISITE: Upper-division standing.
4700 Methods of Teaching English 3 hrs. (3, 0)
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Surveys methods, materials and resources used in teaching composition, language and liter- ature in middle schools and high schools. OFFERED: Semester I.4920 Seminar in Writing 3 hrs. (3, 0)