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elations to or as independent of traditional British and American
contexts. May be repeated with different course content.
240 American Literature: Beginnings to the Civil War (3 credits)
A study of selected works of leading American authors through the Civil
War, including Bradstreet, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville,
Whitman, Douglass, Fuller, and Dickinson. Stress is on the growth of a
uniquely native voice in our literature, from its origins in early writers to
its expression in the later Romantic writers. Offered fall and spring.
(MWL)
241 American Literature: Civil War to the Present (3 credits) A
study of selected works of leading American authors since the Civil War,
such as Dickinson, Twain, Gilman, Wharton, Cather, Frost, Hemingway,
Faulkner, Hurston, and Wright. Stress is on major cultural and literary
movements. Offered fall and spring. (MWL)
245 African American Literature (3 credits) A study of the narrative
construction of black identity in major works in key African American
literary forms: slave narratives, autobiographies, and fiction. Includes
works by such writers as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Richard
Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison. (MWL)
250 Topics in Literature (3 credits) A study of various authors,
themes, movements, genres, with attention to their historical context.
Topics include African American Women Dramatists, The Short Story,
Supernatural Horror in Literature, and Children’s Literature. Offered
yearly.
255 Women and Fiction (3 credits) Close reading of novels and short
stories by women writers such as Atwood, Chopin, Gilman, Morrison,
Walker, Welty, and Woolf, with a focus on both aesthetic elements and
women’s issues. (MWL)
260 Caribbean Literature (3 credits) The course will introduce
students to a major body of literature written in the Caribbean region. The
course will focus on the engagement of the literature with Native
American life, European colonialism, the African diaspora, the formation
of Creole language and society, and the problems and potential of the
hybrid cultures of the Caribbean. Readings include the literature of
discovery and exploration, as well as contemporary writers from the
French and Spanish Caribbean, such as Cesaire, Glissant, Garcia
Marquez, and Carpentier. Writers in English include Brathwaite,
Goodison, Jamaica Kincaid, Lovelace, and Walcott. (NTW)
268 Issues in British Literature and Culture since 1660 (3
credits) A study of selected issues in British literature such as marginality,
gender, sexuality, and colonialism, with emphasis on a text’s relation to
ideology and British culture. Topics may include “Imperial Nightmares”
and “Unruly Women.” May be repeated with different course content.
(MWL)
When a 300-level course is offered as an Approaches (A) course, it may
carry an additional hour of credit.
300 Teaching Assistant in Composition (2 credits) Training and
practice in the teaching of writing. Students will serve as tutors in the
Writing Center under supervision of the coordinator. Open to students of
strong writing ability regardless of major. Consent of coordinator required
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