2018-2019 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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ENG 350 - Medieval Literature Explores medieval literary culture of Western Europe by means of literary theoretical and classical texts. Themes vary each year, and the seminar can be taken more than once for credit, as long as each time a different theme is chosen.
SPRING 2019 - Medieval Women Writers
This course examines a range of female-authored texts from the Middle Ages, ranging in date from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries. Given the limitations on women’s writing, this body of work is remarkable for its size and scope: we will read letters written by Anglo-Saxon nuns, romances, fables, love poetry, love letters, medical texts, mystical and visionary literature, theology, autobiography, utopian literature, political theory, and correspondence between aristocratic women. Throughout these readings we will confront the question of what “women’s writing” means. Can we find essential characteristics of female-authored texts? Can we locate a female literary ethos in particular genres, or are we encountering a fortuitous selection of “typical” medieval literature? Much of our time will be spent on how women viewed themselves and their own bodies. Female bodies were constrained by a complicated network of social, economic, and political forces, which intersected with activities that we think of as historical (e.g., the nature of women’s work), literary (e.g., the function and style of women’s poetry), and religious (the tradition of female mysticism). Texts will include works by Hildegard of Bingen, Heloïse, Marie de France, female troubadours, Cristina Mirabilis, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, the Pastons, Christine de Pizan, and Joan of Arc.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered Periodically
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ENG 351 - Chaucer Guides the student through The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Parlement of Fowls, some Canterbury Tales and/or Troilus and Criseyde. All texts are taught in Middle English. No prior knowledge of Middle English required.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered Periodically
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ENG 353 - Advanced Studies in Shakespeare “The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.”
- Robert Graves, quoted in The Observer, 1964
In this seminar we will explore a variety of Shakespeare’s plays within the contexts of family relationships and the popular analogical framing of the home as “a little commonwealth,” representing the state in miniature. Through our readings and classroom discussions, we will examine early modern ideas (and attendant anxieties) about gender roles, domestic violence, obedience, treason, and a putatively natural order in which the husband and father functioned as the sovereign of his household realm, with wife, children, and servants as subjects. In doing so, we will employ various critical perspectives (historical, feminist, post-colonial) to put these centuries old texts in conversation with the concerns and issues of our own historical moment.
Anticipated Terms Offered: TBA
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ENG 355 - Studies in the Renaissance This course will draw on established and emerging theoretical insights to trace a specific thematic concern-such as, “New World” colonization or Renaissance anti-intellectualism-through a representative sampling of Renaissance texts from about 1500-1700.
Spring 2019 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
In this seminar we will examine a selection of plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries within the historical and cultural context of early modern England. The playhouses of this period were vibrant spaces of entertainment, education, and controversy, where hot topics and concerns of the day were explored through the action onstage. As many as 3,000 people - from nearly every social class - would pack the Globe, the Curtain, and other Bankside theatres on a daily basis; the plays we will read this semester contain as broad a range of characters as did their original audiences. By engaging with a variety of dramatic genres (domestic tragedy, tales of revenge, city comedies, and more!), we will gain insights into early modern England while exploring issues that continue to pre-occupy us today: economic and class conditions; power; justice; moral and political corruption; anxieties about gender roles, expectations, and identity; family relationships; and of course the importance of having a good time. Playwrights will include Christopher Marlowe, John Webster, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, Francis Beaumont, and John Ford.
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor.
Anticipated Terms Offered: TBA
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ENG 356 - Ecologies in Crisis: Views from the Humanities New Earth Conversation Collaborative
This collaborative asks participants to explore the idea of `ecology’ in cross-cultural perspective, with particular consideration to literary responses to climate change in different cultural and political contexts. We will think comparatively about the representation of ecological crises, and about likenesses and differences in literary portrayals of environmental thought-including relationships between human and non-human species and objects. The course will explore the cultural and philosophical frameworks that govern dominant modes of extraction and commodification, regimes of energy and power, understandings of waste and disposability, and models for food production and consumption. `Ecologies in Crisis’ will be offered as a pilot `collaborative’ for Clark’s program in New Earth Conversations.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually
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ENG 360 - Making Gender through the Eighteenth-Century Novel
With an understanding that gender roles became more clearly defined in the eighteenth century, this course traces the formation of masculinity and femininity through the discourses of sexuality, sensibility, and sociability in eighteenth-century British literature. Through contemporary theory on the construction of subjectivity, gender, and sexuality, we will explore popular eighteenth-century literary forms-the romance, domestic, memoir and pornographic-to uncover the ways in which these texts helped to shape perceptions of men and women socially and culturally.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every year.
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ENG 361 - Gender and Genre in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
Using the nineteenth-century British novel–the predominant literary form in the mid-to-late nineteenth century–as a springboard, this course explores the intersection between gender and literary genres. Cultural expectations for male and female authors and the literary forms in which they wrote helped to define the literary history of nineteenth-century novels. This course will examine diverse generic models, from the domestic novel and the Bildungsroman to the Gothic and sensation novel, through authors such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë and Wilkie Collins. Through a focus on nineteenth-century print culture, we will review the critical positioning and reception of these authors as well as their work.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every other year.
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ENG 363 - Traumatic Tales: British Romantic Literature and Nationhood This course examines the formation of British national identity through its troubling origins in women’s subordination, class hierarchy, slavery, colonial rule and imperialism. Focusing on the slave narrative, confessional poetry and the political and domestic novel, this seminar will explore the ways in which Romantic writers attempted (and often failed) to articulate an alternative national narrative against the national hegemony, which erased state acts of exploitation and terror. To better understand the concept of national trauma, we will also read extensively in psychoanalytic and critical social theory related to genocide, accidents and torture.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every other year.
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ENG 372 - Radicalism and the Black Arts Movement 1966 to 1967
The Black Arts Movement remains the most radical realization of a literary culture in the history of the United States. Resulting from centuries of racial oppression, this movement is to be understood as black Americans’ revolutionary use of art to express deep-seated existential rage and political critique in order to generate social change and psychological reconstruction. Accordingly, this course will examine the historical factors responsible for the emergence of the Black Arts Movement and will pay special attention to the thinkers and writers responsible for the articulation of its aesthetic manifestos and the production of its literary canon. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the Period (D-3) requirement.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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ENG 375 - Fictions of Empire: Studies in Global English Literature This seminar provides an introduction to contemporary global literature in English. The writers we will discuss come from very different backgrounds-from South Asia to Africa to the Caribbean-but they are all engaged with making sense of the legacy of colonialism and the emergence of something we might call global culture. These texts are exciting stylistically because of their inventive uses of language and narrative structure: their experiments with form capture the sense of new nations coming into being, new approaches to cultural tradition, and the new status of English as a global language. The stories they tell entertain while also providing original perspectives on histories of empire marked by political struggle, violent conflict, and global inequalities. Topics we will consider include: the idea of the “postcolonial”; the relationship between literature and political resistance; the transformation of metropolitan English writing and language; “subalternity” and problems of representation; writing from a position of displacement, exile, and diasporization; and the persistence of colonial narratives in contemporary forms of imperialism. The specific focus of this course will change from year to year, but authors to be discussed may include Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Amitav Ghosh, Chinua Achebe, Buchi Emecheta, J.M. Coetzee, Jamaica Kincaid, V.S. Naipaul, Anita Desai, Derek Walcott, and Zadie Smith.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Occasionally
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ENG 376 - Ethnic America: Literature, Theory, Politics This seminar investigates the ways in which ethnicity is constructed, lived, and contested in contemporary U.S. literature, identity politics, and popular culture. We will focus primarily on works by and about “ethnics” in recent decades that critique the ways in which literary figurations of the “ethnic” and the “American” evolve in relation to one another in response to the vicissitudes of American racial, gender, class, and national politics. The course moves through units organized around the following topics and themes: immigration and diaspora; transnationalism and globalization; internal and semi-colonization; aesthetics and politics; cultural consent and descent; symbolic ethnicity; model and un-model minorities; history and memorialization; border politics and labor; ethnic humor; and “post-ethnicity.”
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every other year
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ENG 379 - Fictions of Asian America With particular emphasis on the multiple meanings of “fiction,” this seminar examines the ways in which the Asian American identity is constructed, imagined and contested in American literature and popular culture. Analyses will focus primarily on how texts and films produced within the last decade maintain or challenge established boundaries of the Asian American identity. Specific issues to be investigated include the model minority discourse and the demands of assimilation and citizenship; ethnic authenticity and hybridity; gender roles and sexual anxieties; cultural memory and nostalgia; and the commodification of Asian cultures and identities.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every year
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ENG 390 - Departmental Colloquium Provides graduate students with guidance, expertise and resolution for the writing of the master’s thesis. The chief requirement is an oral presentation, ordinarily given in the student’s final semester of course work. Participation and registration are required; however, the colloquium does not carry course credit and is not included as one of the eight courses needed to fulfill M.A. requirements.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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ENG 393 - Special Topics in African American Literature Special Topics in African American Literature. May be repeatable for credit.
SPECIAL TOPIC FALL 2018: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN GOTHIC
What is the African American Gothic? Scholars agree that African Americans have utilized the Gothic to highlight the horrors of the African American experience beginning with slave narratives up to the present day with films like Jordan Peele’s Get Out. In this course, we will examine and discuss the evolution of the use of the Gothic within African American literature beginning with slavery. This course will begin with the connection of the white fear of slave rebellion and how it connects to the concept of black monstrosity. It is through the basis of race creation, and the fear of the other, that we will follow the evolution along a historical timeline that will end with a focus on Jim Crow segregation. This course will investigate the African American Gothic utilizing philosophical, psychoanalytic, sociological, and historical approaches.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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ENG 394 - History of the English Language Examines changes in English mainly during the Anglo-Saxon and medieval periods. In addition to learning phonological and grammatical characteristics of the language during each period, the student examines language as a mirror of culture.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
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ENG 397 - Master’s Thesis The M.A. Thesis is written in consultation with the student’s first and second readers, on a topic in the field of the student’s special interest. At a point during the writing process, the first reader and M.A. candidate seek out a third reader. The first reader must be a member of the English Department.
Prerequisites: Permission of thesis adviser.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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ENG 399 - Graduate Directed Study Directed Study Courses (399) are an effective way to deepen knowledge in a particular topic or field. If interested in a directed study, the M.A. candidate should have a well thought-out proposal with a sense of what the goal for the course would be before talking with the professor who has expertise in the topic or field. The student and faculty member will work together on determining a reading list and /or what the special project will entail. In order to have an appropriate title recorded on your transcript, please consult with the professor. Offered normally for 1 unit.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered for variable credit every semester
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ENG 1000 - Introduction to Composition Focuses on the writing process: prewriting, writing and rewriting. Discussion and writing activities will include all steps of the writing process beginning with developing ideas and carried through organizing, writing and editing. Students will experiment with different techniques and learn to adapt to different college writing situations.
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ENG 1130 - Writing to Heal An exploration of writing as a tool in maintaining health and well being. We will look at the medical and psychological research that supports the belief that writing boosts in the immune system, reduces emotional distress, and lessens physical pain for some people. Through hands-on practice and group sharing we will become familiar with the ways in which the literary arts are tools for personal growth.
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ENG 1150 - Intermediate Composition Competent expository writing skills are mandatory for college and professional success. Clarity, focus, development, organization, grammar and style are emphasized in this workshop-style course. Students write various types of essays to expand their methods of expression, increase their basic writing skills and experiment with individual writing styles. The course also covers the full process of researching, organizing, writing and documenting research papers.
Prerequisites: ENG 1000 - Introduction to Composition
Anticipated Terms Offered: various
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ENG 1220 - Critical Thinking Regardless of university major, Critical Thinking is the integral element in education. Critical Thinking deals with language, particularly the process by and through which evaluation of ideas, and their subsequent validity, is established in academic discourse. Therefore, it is both reflexive and reflective. In this course, students engage in the process of Critical Thinking and its practical application. The evaluation of ideas from multiple disciplines will be primary, as well as a focus on rhetorical argument, with an eye to habits that hinder thinking, errors affecting validity, deductive and inductive reasoning, and moral dilemmas.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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ENG 1230 - Writings of Place and Nature “It is not down in any map; true places never are,” Herman Melville wrote in “Moby Dick.” We are increasingly disconnected from the spirit of the natural world and our sense of place in this burgeoning technological age. The goal of this course is to reawaken our inherent connection to the earth, and place, in order to helps us see the world more clearly and understand it more deeply. We will study “nature writing” by those who have a special connection to the earth anchored a certain place, from Emerson and Thoreau to contemporary authors. As time permits we will conduct field studies, a film study, and be visited by an author. This course will explore what place can teach us, how it shapes our vision and sense of self along with our world view. Through reading and discussing essays, poems, and works of nonfiction, we will learn how we can be more aware of the world that sustains and surrounds us. Writing for this class will include creative pieces as well as analytical essays, and there will be a final project addressing a place of your choosing.
Course Designation/Attribute: VE (summer only)
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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ENG 1360 - News Writing and Editing This course is geared for people interested in improving their ability to communicate information through the written word. Students learn by doing–with an emphasis on developing professional writing and copy editing skills.
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ENG 1480 - Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath We will embark on an examination of the poetic works of two remarkable American poets: Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath. Our focus will be on close readings of specific poems as well as reviewing supporting background materials.
Prerequisites: IDND 018 or VE placement
Course Designation/Attribute: VE (summer only)
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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ENG 1490 - F. Scott Fitzgerald This course will provide an in-depth study of F.Scott Fitzgerals’s works. Along with Fitzgerald’s masterpiece The Great Gatsby, we will read a selection of short stories. Discussion will center on Fitsgeralds’s texts in the historical context in which they were written and our contemporary society. We will also watch and analyze film adaptaions of his works. This course welcomes students who are just discovering Fitzgerald and his work and those who are ardent students of Fitzgerald.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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ENG 1570 - Literary Satire This course will wxplore the literary genre known as satire. Questions we will discuss include: What is satire? Why do authors choose to use it? How does it differ from parody? Over the course of the semster we will read Johnathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal,” George Orwell’s Animal Farm, Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle, and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World to enhance our understanding of satire.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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ENG 1650 - Introduction to Digital Humanities An introductory humanities course that focuses on the ways digital technologies have influenced traditional approaches to reading and interpretive analysis. Generally, the course aims (1) to encourage/reinforce an appreciation for classical humanistic methods (e.g., close reading), (2) to advance basic technical competencies in Natural Language Processing (NLP) with Python using relevant modules for application in new Digital Humanities projects, (3) to inspire critical habits of mind rooted in relevant scholarship about the intersections between humanistic studies and computer programming. These aims are to be assessed according to in-class exercises, writing assignments, quizzes, and a final project.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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ENG 1670 - Children’s Literature No doubt everyone has a children’s book they remember loving or having a particular impact. When books appeal to a child’s interests in natural, interesting ways, they develop a realtionship with literature that will last a lifetime. Students will learn how to recognize best literature for children, compile a children’s literature book summary, participate in discussions of the genre, and create an original example of literature for children.
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ENG 1680 - Eastern Thought/Western Literature Examines the influence of Eastern philosophic and religious traditions on Western literature of the twentieth century. We look at the basic ideas and tenets of Vedanta, Buddhism, Taoism and Zen, as well as the poetics of haiku, and then look to how those premises affected both the poetry and fiction of modern literature in Europe, England, and America. Authors discussed may include Huxley, Hesse, Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Pirsig, and Ginsberg.
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ENG 1750 - Post-Colonial Literature This course will provide an introduction to post-colonial literature and theory. We will explore how authors confronted colonialism in their respective countries and their representations of the repercussions in a post-colonial world. Over the course of the semester we will read literature from Africa and India, including (but not limited to) Chinua Achebe, Tayeb Salih, Arundhati Roy, and Salman Rushdie.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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ENG 1870 - Philosophy Of Horror We read horror literature from the 18th century to the present, focusing on the popularity of the genre in relation to the desire to be frightened. Students look at historical differences in what constitutes “dreadful pleasure,” as well as the various psychological reasons for its persistence and popularity in Western culture.
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ENG 1910 - Dystopian Literature This course will explore the dystopian genre in literature. We will discuss how the authors portray their fears in the text and whether or not they still resonant today or have, in fact, come true to certain extents. We will read Huxley’s Brave New World. Orwell’s 1984, Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep (as well as watch sections of the movie it inspiried, Blade Runner)) and Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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ENG 1920 - Survey of Enviromental Writings As concerns about climate change have become dire and widely acknowledged, environmentalism has entered the mainstream. Environmental disasters are consistently reported in the press, while questionable gadgets and products are marketed to us as as ‘eco-friendly.’ Thi cultural concern and ambivalence about nature echoes strongly in our litereatures. Nature writers both carve out new environmental philosophies, and they can reflect existing perspectives about nature and our place within it. In Environmental Writings, we will read a series of texts written between the 19th and 21st centuries that address various environmental isms, and more broadly nature as a whole. These texts will include nonfiction and fiction prose, as well as poetry.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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ENG 1930 - Rumplestiltskin to Ravenclaw: Children’s Literature From Golden Age to Silver Screen This course will survey the history of children’s literature from the 1800’s to the early 2000’s. Addressing works by such authors as Lewis Carroll, Roald Dahl, and J. K. Rowling, we will examine how society’s conception of childhood has changed over the past two hundred years. Supplementing our primary texts with contemporary work in the relatively new field of childhood studies, this course will also explore what children’s fiction has to tell us about cultural values and institutions. Among other things, we’ll consider the role children’s literature has played (and continues to play) in the culture of imperialism and the construction of gender and sexuality, and its increasing commercialization via film series and franchises.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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ENG 2010 - Secrets of the Sisterhoods: Inside the Red Tent Throughout history, have women been observers in a man’s world, or simply participants and leaders in different ways? How do women of varying time periods and cultures view the world and their roles in it? These questions and more will be explored via modern and historical fiction novels, essays, films, discussion and oral history documentation, focusing on “global sisterhood.”
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ENG 2030 - The Witch in Literature This course examines the figure of the witch as she appears in English and American literature from the Medieval period to the 20th century. Focus will not only be on the appearance of the character in fiction, poetry, and drama; but also on the psychological, historical, and mythological connections to those appearances.
Course Designation/Attribute: VE (Summer Only)
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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ENG 2050 - Mythologies The purpose of this course is to expose students to various systems of myth from a number of global cultures. We will examine both the similarities and differences of the myths and consider why this is so. In addition, we also will examine the idea of mythic thinking, or consciousness, and why such forms of thought and image are deemed necessary for the psychological and moral health of the cultures in which they form an inherent, and crucial part.
Course Designation/Attribute: GP (summer only)
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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ENG 2140 - Fiction on the Fringe: Crimes, Addictions and Psychoses An examination of selected 20th century works of fiction that deal with the social or psychological outcast(s). We will focus on each author’s construction of narrative, point of view, characterization, language and imagery. Questions regarding alternative versus traditional morality, the differentiation between marginal versus mainstream ethos will also be central to our investigations. Works studied include: “Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas”, “Girl Interrupted”, “American Psycho”, “One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest” and “Lolita.”
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ENG 2180 - Malefica:Origin of Witchcraft Examines the mythological inheritance of European civilization that eventuated in the Witch craze of the Middle Ages through the Reformation as well as the development of pagan Wicca from the 18th century to the present day. Topics covered include goddess mythology, the Witch craze, Salem, Wicca and ecofeminism. Readings will include poetry, fiction, and drama as well as historical documents and various myths. Prerequisite:A compositon course or VE fulfilled.
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ENG 2300 - Memoir Writing: Writing from Inside Out
The craft of personal writing turns the messy and elusive facts of our life experience to compelling account. Our memories can be not merely “reduced” to writing but enlarged by it-we don’t just write what we know; we write to find out what we know. We try to elicit and shape the vivid details of our life stories and see what coherence, resonance, and even self-discovery emerge. Through writing assignments and selected readings, we seek in this workshop to discern what makes certain writing fresh, intimate, provocative, graceful, funny, poignant or otherwise effective. Work is read aloud, in a congenial setting, with a focus on voice, pace, compression, metaphor, dialogue, point of entry, word choice, and other elements. We explore what it is we like about certain work, how the work might be improved, and what challenges the author may have faced in the process of composition. Pre-requisite: A composition course.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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ENG 2310 - Topics in Journalism Offers students an expanded look at various kinds of stories that appear in newspapers, including hard news, features, columns, analysis and reviews. Focus this semester will be on coverage of foreign policy.
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ENG 2320 - Literature on Page and Screen The nature of literary creation and communication will be studied through our reading and watching five twentieth-century American novels. Comparison of the book and film presentations will add dimension not only to our literary analysis of each novel, but also to our understanding of how we perceive meaning. Integral to our study is the nature of each mediumhow, why and how well each works in our culture.
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ENG 2420 - Modern Monsters: The Serial Killer in Literature and Film The genre of serial killer fiction is a direct descendent of Gothic fiction, with the serial killers as updated models of Gothic villains. Like their Gothic predecessors, fictional serial killers are mythologized, folklorized and, in some cases, supernaturalized. Beginning with Psycho, students will critically analyze serial killer fiction novels and films of the mid-20th century to the present while investigating the following themes: American notions and expressions of individuality; the sociopolitical climate in which the serial killer is defined and the ways in which the narratives criticize this climate; changing notions of gender roles and anxieties therein; sexual anxieties; the expressions of cultural desires; and how myth informs the serial killer narratives. Prerequisite: VE fulfilled.
Prerequisites: VE Placement or IDND 018
Course Designation/Attribute: VE (Summer only)
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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ENG 2510 - Beat Generation Literature The beat Generation’s influence on American culture is still evident today, over 50 years after a group of young men- Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and others-first met in New York City. These radical writers shook up the literary world with their disregard for traditional literary styles and themes and their blatant rejection of the cultural values of postwar America. We will focus on the following : notions of defiant individuality; alternative conceptions of religion , sexuality, and politics; the glorification of the drug culture and of criminality, and how pop culture factors into texts. Among the work studied in this class are Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and William S. Burrough’s Naked Lunch.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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ENG 2520 - Modern Irish Literature An introduction to the major authors of Irish Literature during the early 20th century (known in part as the Irish Literary Revival.) In addition to analyzing texts in a general context. we will focus on how texts and authors represent Ireland’s past, present, and future in relation to Ireland’s status in the period. Discussion topics will include Ireland’s relationship with England, historical events, gender, Irish mythology and folklore, and Irish nationalism. Authors to be discussed include, not not limited to: George Bernard Shaw, W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J.M. Synge, James Joyce, and Sean O’Casey.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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ENG 2590 - Voices of Protest “We the People” have lived up to our responsibilities per the U.S. Constitution’s Preamble to “establish Justice,…promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” When we feel these goals are being threatened, we protest. This course will focus on people who have protested and have helped start grassroots movements. This study will help us understand how pertinent legal, social, and economic policies have been shaped and influenced by common people, and how current perceived injustices might be approached.
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ENG 2680 - The American Dream What is the “American Dream”? Has it changed through the years? Whose dream is it? Is it dead or alive in 2014? How does it function in American society? Does it help individuals succeed? How is it connected with immigration? We’ll study the American Dream in literature, film, and other arts (photography, painting, music).
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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ENG 2770 - 21st Century Ethnic American Literature Our focus in this course is a study of ethnic American literature from the 21st century. Each week is broken down into a theme: Home, Heritage, Language, Crossing, and Americans. Through these lenses, students will investigate readings by Asian American, African American, Native American, and Hispanic American authors. With the weekly writing assignments, students will develop their ideas about the literature, forming critical analyses of the works. By the end of this course, students will not only be more well read in the ethnic American literature canon, but they will also be well-versed in the important political, social, and historical contexts of those works. As this is a course that will emphasize the intersections between race, gender, sexuality, and class, students will also be able to recognize and articulate trends in contemporary literature, politics, media, and society that exist in American literature.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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ENG 2800 - Virginia Woolf Fueled by creative genius and mental instability, the writing of Virginia Woolf was cutting edge in the 1920s and ‘30s and remains stimulating to this day. Woolf’s profound influence on modernism and on literary and social criticism make her a significant force in Western literature. Woolf’s writing was devoted to the examination of women’s place in modern society and the nature of women’s desire. Focusing on individual women’s lives, her writing investigates the complexities of personal identity, the fluidity of gender and sexuality and women’s need for artistic and intellectual expression as well as psychological and financial independence. Deeply introspective, Woolf kept extensive personal diaries, which we will study in addition to her fiction and nonfiction.
Prerequisites: Intermediate Composition.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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ENT 105 - Creating a Culture of Innovation Are creativity and innovation synonymous? How do you create and support a culture of innovation? This course will combine theory and experiential assignments to introduce students to the concepts of creatvity and innovation as a source of social change. Students will gain a greater understanding of and appreciation for the creative/innovative processes and learn how to harness and direct those forces for themselves and others. This course will help prepare students to contribute in a unique and productive way to today’s entrepreneurial, societal, and organizational demands. This course is typically taught as a first-year intensive for incoming students in the fall semester. It is also approved for a Values Perspective (VP) in support of the program of liberal studies requirements.
Course Designation/Attribute: VP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall Semester only
Placement Guidelines First Year Intensive course
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ENT 115 - Entrepreneurship: Art of the New Successful entrepreneurship begins with a vision. Like an artist, the entrepreneur must be able to translate creative vision into something tangible and real. This course focuses on the foundations of entrepreneurship and is appropriate for students from any major. It is designed to introduce students to the entrepreneurial process so that they may begin to shape their own entrepreneurial vision. Course objectives include a realistic preview of the challenges of entrepreneurship, an understanding of the legal and ethical environment within which entrepreneurs operate, the skills to think critically and work toward the ability to evaluate opportunities in the business or nonprofit sectors. This is a course includes experiential entrepreneurship-related activities where students work individually to test ideas and practice entrepreneurship. The course will also include self-assessment activities designed to help students assess their own entrepreneurial potential. (formerly ENT 215)
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every semester
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ENT 202 - Entrepreneurial Communication and Influence The goal of this course is to explore the role of persuasion and influence (a.k.a. the art of the pitch) as practiced in early stage entrepreneurial organizations, both in for-profit and non-profit organizations. Creating and communicating a compelling vision is arguably a critical life skill. Entrepreneurs must be able to effectively communicate their vision to a wide variety of audiences. Moreover, in today’s marketplace, entrepreneurs must be prepared to communicate in persuasive ways on a global scale. Through intensive classroom work, role playing, and real-world applications, students will explore and participate in sales, marketing and networking activities as they relate to entrepreneurship.
Course Designation/Attribute: POP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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ENT 205 - Innovating in Organizations Organizations must innovate to maintain their competitive edge in a fast-paced, technology-driven, global economy. This course is designed to help students examine organizational factors and understand how to apply entrepreneurial and creative thinking within an organization. A few of the key questions examined in this course include: What drives intrapreneurship? What skills does a person need to create change? Why are some organizations better at innovation than others? Why is intrapreneurship even necessary? Students from any discipline can benefit from this course because of the need for all types of organizations to create and maintain a culture of innovation over the long term. This is a half-unit course (.50 credits).
Prerequisites: Pre-requisites for this course include: MGMT 100 or ENT 115.
Course Designation/Attribute: POP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically, Spring preferred
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ENT 216 - Financial Intelligence Did you take out a loan (or two, or three) to attend college? If so, do you know how to calculate the return on your investment? What is the best way to maximize your cash flow? What do you need to know to determine an NGO’s financial health? How does a business make a profit but run out of cash? This course is designed to help students learn to answer these types of questions. Students will acquire a vocabulary and working knowledge to better understand “what the numbers mean.” Students will be introduced to the art of finance and why it matters. Using this foundation, students will leave the course with the ability to make financially intelligent and informed decisions about personal and organizational finances through the framework of launching a new venture.
Course Designation/Attribute: FA
Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually
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ENT 222 - Entrepreneurial Design Thinking This course will teach students to use a design thinking approach to decision making and problem solving. By learning this process students develop skills to help them become more successful at discovering new opportunities in any environment by refining their problem solving, listening, decision making and teamwork skills. This course will actively engage students in developing tangible, innovative products and concepts through a combination of lectures, hands-on lab work, field trips and guest lectures.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered annually
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ENT 245 - Social Entrepreneurship ‘Social Entrepreneurship’ explores the relationship between the social issues confronting our global community and the use of business creation to stimulate ( “creatively disrupt”) local and world change. This course challenges the student to look beyond well-established business objectives – the creation of wealth – and investigate how wealth creation can impact public good. A review of global social entrepreneurial initiatives is an important focus of the course. Students consider such diverse social issues as environmental degradation, poverty, homelessness, lack of potable water, world health and education concerns, microcredit and more.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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ENT 250 - Entrepreneurial Mentoring This course is designed for undergraduate students who are interested in volunteering to serve as mentors for high school students working on writing a business plan for an idea they are working on. The high school students are engaged with course work at their respective schools to learn the process of developing an idea into a viable business plan. As mentors, mentorship involves spending time working both face-to-face and virtually with the high school students. Travel to New York City and high schools in the Worcester area is necessary depending on who the partner schools are in a given semester. This is a repeatable, half-unit course for a maximum of two units of credit.
Prerequisites: MGMT 100 or ENT 115
Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually
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ENT 262 - Global ELab This course is designed for students with an entrepreneurial spirit and interest in understanding and examining entrepreneurship outside of the United States. This course will prepare students to apply, compare, contrast and examine business models from a global and international perspective. This course will require students to use problem solving, creative thinking and critical inquiry to examine international entrepreneurial opportunities around topics such as markets, competition, power and political considerations, social and cultural dynamics, ethical dilemmas, resources, sustainability and feasibility. Students will travel to another country and have direct interaction with entrepreneurs and small business owners in that country. They will experience international business operations with local entrepreneurs and small business owners. The trip is a practice-based experience where students will be asked to examine and propose solutions to the challenges and opportunities of the entrepreneurs they work with.
This is a .50 (half unit) course. This means that students can combine this course with another half unit course within the entrepreneurship minor to satisfy a one unit requirement.
Additional fees for travel apply to this course!
Prerequisites: MGMT 100 or ENT 115/215
Anticipated Terms Offered: Spring Semester
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ENT 264 - Community Based Entrepreneurship This course provides an opportunity for students to expand their creativity and business acumen while helping a local not-for-profit, social purpose organization or start-up organization to launch a real business venture. Student teams will be partnered with staff or volunteers from a local organization to develop a business model that has potential to support its ongoing operations. Students will collaborate over the course of the semester with their partner organization and receive ongoing instruction and mentoring from the course instructor about the business model. This course is an excellent opportunity to build a stronger community by linking students with emerging local organizations and successful business leaders in a collaborative process to help solve social problems. This course is offered periodically and students can receive entrepreneurship minor capstone credit upon successful completion.
Prerequisites: MGMT 100 (The Art and Science of Management) and either ENT 215 (The Art of the New - Entrepreneurship) or ENT 245 (Social Entrepreneurship)
Course Designation/Attribute: POP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Spring 2016/ Periodically
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ENT 265 - Entrepreneurship Capstone Project Seminar I Every student who elects the minor is expected to complete a culminating experience as part of their coursework. Projects may be done by an individual student or as a member of a team. In this capstone experience, students are expected to take an entrepreneurial/ innovative idea and get it as close to launch (or actual launch) in 14 weeks as possible. Students will present their formal launch plans and business model to panel of judges at the end of the semester. This element of the program allows students to demonstrate synthesis and mastery of learning outcomes from the ENT minor program such as idea generation, collaboration, communication, project management skills, primary and secondary research, market analysis, financial modeling and industry mapping. This course is required for all Innovation and Entrepreneurship minors.
Prerequisites: ENT 215 or ENT 245. Preferred that ENT 202 is also taken.
Course Designation/Attribute: POP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall Semester or Every Semester depending enrollment projections
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ENT 299 - Directed Study Undergraduates, typically juniors and seniors, construct an independent study course on a topic approved and directed by a faculty member. Students should contact faculty member directly to discuss title.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall and Spring
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ES 1210 - Journey to Sustainability “Journey to Sustainability” is designed for people interested in learning about the concept of sustainability and why sustainability is important for human survival. Simply put, is sustainability still possible, given that seven billion people are living on the planet? While this question may seem scary, the main goal of this course is to leave you with a feeling of hope for our environmental future. We will begin with a basic background in ecology and Earth’s systems. This background will provide the tools needed in order to develop one’s own conclusions when learning about current issues in environmental science. The second part of this course will focus on current environmental issues, which are mostly a result of humans using natural resources unsustainably. Issues studied will include climate change, overfishing, pollution, and energy. The last part of this course will focus on creating individual sustainability goals and assessing the current state of the planet.
Anticipated Terms Offered: various
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ES 1240 - Our World, Our Future: THe Philosophy and Politics of Sustainabliltiy We live in a world that is slowly coming to terms with its own limitations. Whether in scientific journals, or in the daily news, the future looks pretty bleak. We constantly hear about the environmental crisis, the climate crisis, the ecological apocalypse and the energy crisis. While we are plagued by crises, questions about our common future have once again gained immense political currency and popular traction. In such a time, it becomes important to ask ourselves questions about sustainability so that we can act in ways that remediate our current crises, and offer alternatives to prevent them in the future. In this course, we start to do so by first exploring the concept of sustainability as it is understood in various philosophical traditions. We then explore the politics of sustainability in the context of various environmental issues to understand why sustainability is such a pressing issue by looking at the consequences of various unsustainable practices and actions. These issues range from global climate change, mining, pollution and waste, to energy and food systems. In the final part of the course, students will develop their own toolkit for sustainable living, connecting their individual lives with larger systemic conditions.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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ES 1650 - International and Environmental Politics The Earth is Warming! The Climate is changing! We have too much snow! We have too little sun!
If you live in the northern hemisphere, you’ve either heard all of these things, or said them yourself! Sometime during this last decade, while the world’s leaders were figuring out how to increase wealth and improve standards of living, the world itself has come upon an impending global environmental crisis. Suddenly, it would seem, the environment has become a momentous site of contention and conflict. To understand this increasing occurrence of environmental conflicts in its local and global context, and further explore ways to manage and mitigate such conflicts, in this class, we will take a keen look at environmental politics. We start by asking, ‘what is the environment’ and ground ourselves theoretically by using the concept of ‘environmental justice’. We then explore various case studies from around the world, aiming to understand a) the socio-ecological origin of the conflict, b) the claims, grievances and demands of those engaged in conflict, and finally, c) the role of environmental governance in managing, mitigating and resolving such conflicts. The case studies will be drawn from different parts of the world, within four broad themes, representing different ways of understanding the environment.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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ES 1970 - Sustainability and the Sacred Indigenous cultures relied on three basic concepts to live sustainably: community, exchange and relationship. In this course we will experience and explore these three concepts. The interconnectedness of all life - the sacred - is the “technology” which lay at the heart of all indigenous cultures. It is all available to each of us still. Connecting to the plants, the animal kingdom, and one another as equals bring the tools we need to embrace earth changes and all that the future holds. Through this course you will be empowered to engage with Sustainability on your own terms. Please be advised that some class meetings will take place outdoors.
Anticipated Terms Offered: various
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ES 2000 - Exploring Nature of Central Massachusetts In this practical, hands-on course, you will learn how to identify common animals that live in a variety of ecosystems, discover edible wild plants are more widespread than you think, and experience exciting outdoor activities such as map & compass navigation, canoeing, and fishing. Explore the natural beauty of Central Massachusetts hidden within suburbs just minutes outside of Worcester and become familiar with the plants and wildlife that call this region home.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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ES 2750 - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems An introduction to the display, manipulation and management of geographic information. Topics include geographical data input, storage, maintenance, analysis and retrieval. Current programs for GIS are introduced and students are encouraged to pursue independent work.
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FILM 1150 - Exploring Hispanic Culture The Hispanic culture is rich and vibrant and we will come to a greater appreciation and understanding of it through an examination of its literature, poetry and films. The films we will view will be both popular and famous in Latin America and Spain and our readings will be from writers, contemporary and historic, that are well known not only in their own country but around the world (Isabel Allende, Vargas llosa, Gracia Lorca, Cervantes, etc.). Through our assignments there will be an opportunity for us to participate in a more in depth study of various aspects of Hispanic culture and traditions. By the end of the semester you will have acquired a greater understanding, interpretation and response to the Hispanic culture.
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FILM 1640 - Chinese Film Studies This class aims to familiarize students with not only the overall history of Chinese cinema but also recent significant filmmakers and their works in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The class will begin with a brief and general survey of Chinese films since the 1920s to the present. As the semester continues our main focus will include films directed by the fifth generation and other important filmmakers in Mainland China as well as award-winning filmmakers in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
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FILM 2320 - Literature on Page and Screen The nature of literary creation and communication will be studied through our reading five novels and viewing the films made of them. Comparison of the book and film presentations will add dimension not only to our literary analysis of each novel, but also to our understanding of how we perceive meaning. Integral to our study is the nature of each medium–how, why and how well each works in our culture.
Prerequisites: Intermediate Composition.
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FILM 2680 - The American Dream What is the “American Dream”? Has it changed through the years? Whose dream is it? Is it dead or alive in 2014? How does it function in American society? Does it help individuals succeed? How is it connected with immigration? We’ll study the American Dream in literature, film, and other arts (photography, painting, music).
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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FIN 5405 - Mergers and Acquisitions Mergers & Acquisitions is a case-based examination of the factors that contribute to a successful transaction. After establishing why a corporation would entertain a merger or acquisition in the first place, emphasis will be given to candidate selection, valuation, negotiation, post-transaction integration, and satisfying the needs of the many stakeholders involved in a deal. Every class meeting will feature discussion of an assigned case, and students will also engage in team projects in which they research a recent transaction and will participate in mock negotiations. Students will have met the prerequisites prior to enrolling in the course to ensure that they are comfortable with the common tools of finance, especially discounted cash flow analysis.
Prerequisites: ACCT 4100 OR ACCT 4101 and FIN 4200 , OR .
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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FIN 5408 - Risk Management This course will provide an understanding and application of quantitative (Financial) and qualitative (Enterprise) methods of analyzing and managing risk within organizations. Learn to apply multiple risk management tools to make high quality decisions for balancing corporate risk and reward tradeoffs. Financial risk topics will include the examination of derivative application uses for hedging risk, measuring Value at Risk and exploring external impacts such as market, credit and systemic risks. Enterprise risk topics will include constructing frameworks for managing strategic, operational and other business risks. Students will examine ways to assess and measure risk along with organizing corporate governance policies.
Prerequisites: OR
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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FIN 5910 - Directed Research For a directed research course, a student and professor design a self-study course based around a common research interest shared by both. A directed research must be approved by the professor and the Associate Dean of GSOM. It can be designed as either a 0.5 unit or 1 unit course. The Directed Research Course Request Form should be completed and submitted to Associate Dean Andrea Aiello (aaiello@clarku.edu). For questions or additional information, contact your academic advisor. This directed research is done in the subject area of finance.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every Semester
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FREN 103 - Elementary French: Intensive An accelerated elementary course, intended for students who have had no more than one year of French. Must also register for lab plus one discussion section.
Course Designation/Attribute: LP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
Placement Guidelines Please visit the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Culture for the language placement guidelines.
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FREN 105 - Intermediate French I For students with 2 to 3 years of French. Consolidates basic skills for students who have completed FREN 102 or the equivalent. Emphasizes communicative proficiency: the development of oral and written skills, self-expression and cultural insight. There are weekly conversation groups with a French teaching assistant.
Prerequisites: FREN 102 or FREN 103 or equivalent, or permission.
Course Designation/Attribute: LP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every semester
Placement Guidelines Please visit the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures for the language placement guidelines.
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FREN 106 - Intermediate French II For students with 4 to 5 years of French. Builds on skills and knowledge gained at Intermediate I level. Continued emphasis on communicative proficiency: the development of oral and written skills through study of grammar, vocabulary, short texts. Greater emphasis on self-expression, interpersonal communication, cultural competency. There are weekly conversation groups with a native French speaker.
Prerequisites: FREN 105 or equivalent, or permission.
Course Designation/Attribute: LP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every semester
Placement Guidelines Please visit the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures for the language placement guidelines.
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FREN 124 - Popular Culture in France For students with 4 to 5 years of French or AP credit. An exploration of the multiple manifestations and transformation of French popular culture, from the 1940s to today, as disseminated in film, music, the media, cartoons, bande dessinée and popular literature. Examines aspects of French culture such as youth culture, slang, sports, food and humor, and the common portrayal of topics such as family, love, foreigners and other social issues in the media. Conducted in French.
Course Designation/Attribute: LP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually
Placement Guidelines Please visit the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures for the language placement guidelines.
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