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Drama |
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DRAMA |
| CLASS CODE: |
ENG 353 |
CREDITS:
3
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| DIVISION: |
LANGUAGE & LETTERS |
| DEPARTMENT: |
ENGLISH |
| GENERAL EDUCATION: |
This course fulfills a General Education - Letters requirement. |
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| CATALOG DESCRIPTION: |
Explores literary study of plays, encompassing their historical, critical, and social contexts. |
| DESCRIPTION: |
Explores literary study of plays, encompassing their historical, critical, and social contexts. |
| TOPICS: |
Study of central works and major writers; drama in its historical, critical, and social contexts; drama as an art form and its impact on the human condition; language and imagination. |
| OBJECTIVES: |
- Understand and appreciate literature as a valuable source of intellectual, emotional, and aesthetic experience reflecting and enriching the human experience.
- Read literature within such contexts as nationality, historical period, ethnicity, and culture.
- Apply appropriate critical theories to literary texts.
- Continue developing library skills for literary research and document formal writing according to MLA guidelines.
- Integrate secondary texts into written work.
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| REQUIREMENTS: |
Extensive reading, discussion, and oral presentations. Interpretive and analytical papers, and creative/imitative writing using the form studied within the genre totaling 15 pages. MLA documentation. |
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| OTHER: |
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| EFFECTIVE DATE: |
August 2001 |