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Shakespeare |
| Prerequisite |
ENGL 300 |
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| Description |
The course emphasizes the skills of close reading as well as understanding Shakespeare's texts within the context of early modern history and culture. In addition to reading a variety of Shakespeare's comedies, tragedies, and romances, students will study videotaped performances of select passages and scenes in order to analyze and discuss the many different and differing ways the plays can an have been recreated. Students may repeat the course as the covered play texts change. |
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Shakespeare: Theory |
| Prerequisite |
ENGL 300 |
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| Description |
An examination of Shakespeare's plays from a number of critical perspectives, including New Criticism, New Historicism, Post-colonialism, Queer Theory, Feminism, and others. Students should be simultaneously enrolled in English 314. |
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Hebrew Bible as Literature |
| Lasc Area |
Goal 6 |
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| Writing Intensive |
Yes |
| Description |
As an introductory survey of the Hebrew Bible in English, the course will introduce students to the academic study of the Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings as literature. As a writing intensive course, students will research, write, and revise a number of critical/interpretive papers, which foregrounds both writing as a process and writing to learn. MnTC Goal 6. |
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Personal Lives, National Affairs |
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This course will examine a variety of texts that show the intersection of personal lives and national affairs within a range of different cultural and global settings. MnTC Goal 6 and 8. |
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Christian Bible as Literature |
| Lasc Area |
Goal 6 |
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| Writing Intensive |
Yes |
| Description |
An introduction to the academic study of the Christian bible as literature, including the gospels, the letters of Paul, and Revelations. Focus on relevant historical, theological, and cultural contexts in the literary study of the texts. MnTC Goal 6. |
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Romantic and Victorian Literature |
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This discussion-based class includes close reading of key Romantic and Victorian texts. |
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Early American Literature |
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Early-American Literature. Study of authors, genres, or literary movements from the beginnings-1830. Subjects and focus will vary as materials address literature from the moment of Anglo-European-Indigenous contact to the constituting of the New Republic. |
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19th-Century American Literature |
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Studies of authors, genres, or literary movements in nineteenth-century America. Subjects and focus will vary as materials address the literature of nineteenth-century America. |
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20th-21st Century American Literature |
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| Description |
Study of authors, genres, or literary movements from 1900-present. |
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Literature for Young Readers |
| Lasc Area |
Goal 6 |
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| Description |
Literature for Young Readers is a concentrated reading course designed to impart the knowledge necessary for an appreciation and understanding of children's literature, its historical development, major genres in the field, contemporary issues and debates about children and literature written for them, and the literary terms relevant to the study of literature written for children. In addition to reading classics and the critically acclaimed works of both fiction and nonfiction by modern writers, students will study poetry, folklore, mythology, and examine the relationship between illustration and text (picture books and graphic novels). MnTC Goal 6. |
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| Title |
Individual Authors |
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| Writing Intensive |
Yes |
| Description |
Intensive study of one or two significant authors. |
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| Title |
Film and the Novel |
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| Description |
Comparative analysis of major novels and their screen adaptations. Focus on aesthetic and interpretative similarities and differences. |
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| Title |
World Mythology |
| Lasc Area |
Goal 8 |
| Course Outline |
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| Description |
Students will explore mythological systems from around the world focusing upon the historical "interdependence of nations and peoples" and developing the "ability to apply a comparative perspective to the cross-cultural social, economic and political experiences" embodied and explored by these mythologies. MnTC Goal 8. |
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Genre Studies |
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| Description |
Extensive reading in a particular literary genre--short story, novel, poetry, drama, or epic. |
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| Title |
Drama II |
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| Writing Intensive |
Yes |
| Description |
Representative readings in dramatic literature from Greek theatre to the present day. Greek and Roman tragic and comic playwrights, Aristotelian criticism, and classical theatre history. Early native farce, religious drama, and the drama and theatrical innovations of the Renaissance through the 18th century. Same as THTR 322. |
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| Title |
Virtue and Vice in Gothic Storytelling |
| Lasc Area |
Goal 9 |
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| Writing Intensive |
Yes |
| Description |
A consideration of the ethical implications of the literary constructions of Gothic storytelling and the larger social context that surround it and its place in popular culture. Students will analyze Gothic tales in order to extract their ethical underpinnings. Students will also use their readings to better understand larger ethical belief systems and their place within those. MnTC Goal 9. |
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Native American Literature |
| Lasc Area |
Goal 7 |
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This course is an introduction to and an exploration of literature written by Native Americans. Texts read in this course are produced by writers of Native American descent. Course presents core texts (fiction, essays, poetry, drama) in the development of literary history of western Indian writers with an emphasis on contemporary literature. MnTC Goal 7. |
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| Title |
Non Fiction Writing |
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| Description |
Writing of non-fiction prose; partly a dialogue on the form and theory of non-fiction, but mainly a workshop centered on the practice of non-fiction writing. |
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African American Literature |
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| Description |
The focus of the course is the African-American literary tradition. This survey course covers African-American writing from slave narratives to the present. Because of the historical sweep of the course, students will read broadly, rather than intensively--with any one writer. Students will also be instructed in the historical background for the writings. |
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| Title |
New Media and the CA/L Classroom |
| Prerequisite |
ENGL 101 |
| Course Outline |
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| Description |
This hands-on course explores a variety of educational programs that will teach pre-service CA/L teachers how to design and deliver lessons using technology, monitor student work using current computer programs, and interact with students in real time using digital devices. The course also teaches media literacy: evaluating and understanding the complex messages delivered via television, radio, Internet, newspapers, magazines, books, billboards, video games, music, and other forms of media. |
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