Required for certification by the School of Education. Meets the general university writing requirement. An introduction to a rich literary tradition, with analysis in depth of such authors as H.C. Anderson, Tolkien, Lewis, Potter, Wilder, and LeGuin. Possible topics include genres, themes, historical periods, and traditions. May be repeated for credit with different topic.
Fantasy is looked at both as image and as story.
Using the theories of Fanon, Gates, and others, this course focuses on the politicization of art that the struggle against imperialism precipitated. Chaucer A study of Geoffrey Chaucer's major works, especially The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, and of the intellectual, social, and political circumstances of their production in fourteenth-century England. Selections from Pope and Johnson, Aphra Behn and Mary Astell. The English Language Studies in the structure and history of English. Includes syntactical and stylistic analysis, issues of usage, and introductory readings in semantics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and the philosophy of language.