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  • ENGL 137: Experiences in African American Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    Students of this course will be challenged as they intensively survey the oral and literary tradition of literature and music written and performed by African Americans from the eighteenth century to the present. Students will read works in different literary and musical genres as they survey African-American literature from its beginnings through the 21st century-poetry, prose, slave narratives, and fiction-including the corresponding history that encourage the literary production and movements in and by Black Americans.
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  • ENGL 141: Literature and Film

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course is designed to give the student an opportunity to consider the similarities and distinctions in form and style between literary texts and films by examining adaptations of literary works and their source material. Students will consider the artistic choices made in the work of adaptation and their resulting discourses about the cultures in which they are produced. Critical approaches relevant to literature and film provide the student with additional areas of study.
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  • ENGL 142: Gothic Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course examines the history of Gothic literature from the late-eighteenth cen-tury Gothic romance to southern American Gothic fiction and the recent Gothic revival. Representative works, their distinguishing features, their recurrent themes and motifs, their social, psychological, and rhetorical implications are also examined.
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  • ENGL 144: Comics Studies

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This class is an exploration of the medium of comics in its various forms, from the comic strip to the comic book to the graphic novel to the web comic. Students will investigate historical and contemporary, independent and mainstream, and American and international comics; develop a vocabulary for examining the specific features of the medium; and examine how authors and artists have deployed those features in a range of different contexts.
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  • ENGL 145: The Fairy Tale

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    Why do we still care about fairy tales? What makes them so popular and so relatable to our modern lives? To answer these questions, this course examines classic fairy tales, from their earliest oral and written roots to current representations and transformations. It explores the origins of fairy tales and traces their continual evolution in response to their cultural settings. We will study a number of individual tales in depth, read fairy tales and poetry by contemporary authors, and view films that both depict traditional tales and re-interpret them.
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  • ENGL 146: Ireland's Literary Landscape

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    Myths, legends, epics, ballads, keens, fairy tales, folklore, poetry, plays, fiction, satire. Cliffs, dolmens, battlefields, passage tombs, ruined monasteries, ring forts, round towers, manor houses, cathedrals, colleges, modern cites. Rich in both great literature and spectacular landscape, Ireland reverberates in the world's imagination. Designed as a study-abroad exploration of Ireland, this course maps the relationship between the Irish landscape and its literature. Ireland boasts one of the world's richest and most influential literary traditions. Reading both classical and modern Irish literature provides opportunities for students to survey elements of its vital and at times troubled social and cultural history. Site visits buttress readings, illustrating the resonances of the landscape in the literature. This course meets General Education, Literature Minor, and English Major requirements.
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  • ENGL 155: Dis/Abilities and Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    The world holds certain expectations for what we are able - and unable - to do, given the individual features of our bodies and minds. Writers across the globe have confronted these societal expectations by creating characters whose minds and bodies don't conform to the rules or norms that society places on them. In this course, we will read literary representations of people with cognitive, sensory, and physical impairments, and discuss what these representations reveal about cultural values and norms.
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  • ENGL 171: Friendship in Western Cultural Texts

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course considers friendship, one of the most important elements of human experience, and examines how it is represented in cultural texts (primarily literary works, but also works of film, television, video, and social media). Readings that have been important in the history of friendship, ranging from classical Greek and Roman to British and American texts, will provide background for understanding the ideas about friendship that we have inherited.
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  • ENGL 175: Archetypal Women in Myth and Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course examines powerful female figures, including goddesses, queens, and warriors, in mythical and literary texts and interprets their symbolic and cultural significance through the lenses of archetypal, mythological, and feminist literary criticism.
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  • ENGL 180: Literature and Rock and Roll

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course examines the relationships, social, cultural, and artistic, between literature and rock music. Course materials include works of literature, broadly conceived, that directly engage with or seek to represent rock music, and rock music that addresses, comments on, or is influenced by literary history and culture. The course explores the notion that rock music should be taken as seriously as literature, and the complementary notion that techniques of literary interpretation can be productively applied to rock's intensities, pleasures, and complexities. Readings will rock, listening will be loud.
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