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  • 3.00 Credits

    This interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary course asks students to engage in discussion about historical and contemporary issues in Women and Gender studies. Students will explore how gender intersects with class, race, sexuality, age, and ability within social institutions. The course will examine how androcentric power structures contribute to the oppression of women and marginalized populations, and how these power structures can be challenged through non-binary perspectives and scholarly practices. Through completing this course, students will be prepared to apply the critical tools of Women and Gender Studies to their academic, personal, and occupational lives.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Surveys literature from its earliest known origins through 1650 C.E. Selections include, but are not limited to, poetry, plays, epics, and sacred texts from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and China; folk tales, parables, epics, and philosophical, mystical, and religious works from early, classical, and middle periods in Eurasian and African traditions; and various works from Native American oral traditions, colonial literatures, and the European Renaissance.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Surveys works from roughly 1650 C.E. to the present. It includes, but is not limited to, selections from the Enlightenment and Romanticism in Europe and the Americas; early modern Chinese and Japanese narrative and poetry; and the various realisms, modernisms, and postwar, postcolonial, and postmodern literatures emerging worldwide during and since the long twentieth century C.E.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Surveys literature about people's experiences of America from the pre-colonial period through the American Civil War. Selections include Native American oral traditions and texts; works by various Europeans reporting on colonial efforts in what became North, Central, and South America; literature of the European and American Enlightenment, the American Revolution, and debates about how to form "a more perfect Union"; major questions about class, race, sex, gender, and inequality; and works of literary nationalism, romanticism, and transcendentalism.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Surveys American Literature from Reconstruction through the twentieth century. Selections include prose works from the Gilded Age and trends in realism, regionalism, and naturalism; examples of low and high modernisms in poetry, prose, and drama; and postwar, postcolonial, and postmodern literatures spoken, sung, written, illustrated, and/or otherwise composed, performed, and/or published since 1945.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Surveys British literature from the seventh century C.E. through the eighteenth century C.E. Selections include, but are not limited to, Beowulf, Marie de France's lays, and other works from Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman traditions; excerpts from The Canterbury Tales, morality plays, and mystery plays in Middle English; works in Early Modern English from the English Renaissance, including poetic works by William Shakespeare, Margaret Cavendish, John Milton, and their contemporaries; and literature of the Restoration and the Age of Reason.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Analyzes works of major British writers from the Romantic period to the present, emphasizing works of significant literary and intellectual movements to develop an appreciation of literature, as well as, thinking, reading and writing skills.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Analysis and study of individual poems concentrating on short and medium-length poems. Emphasis on understanding and appreciating poetry as a significant experience for the reader rather than on critical theory and background. Poetry of the English language is the central content of the course; however, poetry of other languages in translation is included.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Introduces the plays and sonnets of William Shakespeare by focusing on minoritized characters in Shakespeare's canon: characters different from majority populations in race, religious creed, nation of origin, sexuality and gender, and class. Students will investigate how Shakespeare's literary canon addresses the political and social issues of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England and Colonial America, and how it relates to political and social issues of the twenty-first century.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Examines drama as a special genre of imaginative literature whose works are intended to be performed before live audiences. It examines ten plays from various periods and subgenres, including classical Greek tragedy, medieval mystery and morality plays, comedy and tragedy of the European Renaissance and the Age of Reason, romantic comedy, the well made play, and modern, postmodern, and contemporary drama.
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