2007-2008 Academic Catalog

School of Humanities Language and Literature 2007-08 Cedarville University 159 Language and Literature ENG-4200 Methods of Teaching Writing –Fa 2 hours This course will prepare students to teach writing. Course content will include instructional methodology and conferencing and assessment techniques. Prerequisite: EDSE-4100 Principles of Teaching: Adolescent and Young Adult; currently enrolled in student teaching or by permission of instructor. ENG-4230 Independent Study in English –Fa,Sp 1-3 hours Independent study in a selected field for students with special interests and demonstrated ability. ENG-4345 1 hour Creative Writing: Portfolio and Performance –Fa,Sp Course provides an opportunity to prepare a final collection of creative writing in close consultation with the advising professor. Students will also organize and present a public reading of their work. Prerequisite: any two 4000-level creative writing workshops. World, English, and American Literature LIT-2090 Literary Analysis –Fa,Sp 3 hours Introductory study of basic textual analysis and traditional contextual analysis. This course is primarily intended for adolescent and young adult integrated language arts and English majors as preparation for upper-division literature courses. LIT-2120 History of Literary Criticism –Sp 3 hours A study of the rich philosophic heritage of the West, this course is designed to familiarize students with the writers whose works have defined the critical canon as the result of the way they addressed three questions: What is the function of literature? What is the role of an author? How do we evaluate literature? Featured writers will range from Plato, Aristotle, and Augustine to Lewis, Eliot, and Bakhtin. Prerequisite: ENG-1400 Composition. LIT-2130 Dramatic Literature –Sp 3 hours Survey of major dramatic works from Greek to modern day playwrights, emphasizing the relationships among themes and dramatic construction amid various cultural and historical contexts. Can be applied to meet English or communication arts requirements, but not both. Prerequisite: major status or permission of instructor. LIT-2300 Introduction to Literature –Fa,Sp 3 hours Emphasis on developing the ability to read critically and analytically representative examples of literary genres through use of appropriate criteria. Prerequisite: ENG-1400 Composition. LIT-2330 Mythology –Fa 3 hours Study of mythologies, the theories of myth and myth making, and the incorporation of myth in selected literary works. Prerequisite: ENG-1400 Composition. LIT-2340 Western Literature –Fa,Sp,Su 3 hours Survey of major works of Western literary tradition from Homer to T.S. Eliot. Prerequisite: ENG-1400 Composition. LIT-2350 Christian Motifs in Film –Sp 3 hours Study of depictions of Christ and Christ-figures as well as other Christian motifs in film. This course will provide a detailed introduction to the characteristics of the Christ-figure and its most common manifestations in film. The class will focus on viewing and evaluating films containing Christian motifs such as redemption, sacrifice, sin, and faith. LIT-2390 3 hours Survey of American Literature to 1900 –Fa,Sp Study of prominent American authors from colonial times to 1900. Although this course may be taken for general education credit, it is primarily designed for majors. Prerequisite: ENG-1400 Composition. LIT-2430 Survey of British Literature to 1800 –Fa,Sp 3 hours Study of various English authors from the Anglo-Saxons to 1800. Although this course may be taken for general education credit, it is primarily designed for majors. Prerequisite: ENG-1400 Composition. LIT-2440 3 hours Survey of British Literature from 1800 to Present –Sp Study of noteworthy English authors from 1800 to the present. Although this course may be taken for general education credit, it is primarily designed for majors. Prerequisite: ENG-1400 Composition. LIT-3170 American Literature: 1820-1865 –Sp 3 hours Intensive study of American authors who are representative of the literary traditions of Romanticism and Transcedentalism and their influence on a period of history often called the American Renaissance. Authors may include Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Whitman, Dickinson, Douglass, Jacobs, Stowe, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville and others. Prerequisite: LIT-2390 Survey of American Literature to 1900. (even years) LIT-3180 American Literature: 1865-1914 –Sp 3 hours Intensive study of American authors who are representative of the literary traditions of Realism and Naturalism, with attention to their influence on developments in American history between the Civil War and World War I. Authors may include Twain, Howells, James, Wharton, Piatt, Jewett, Freeman, Chesnutt, Crane, London, Dreiser, Norris, Alcott, and others. Prerequisite: LIT-2390 Survey of American Literature to 1900. (odd years) LIT-3200 3 hours Methods of Teaching Integrated Language Arts –Sp This course is designed to explore the various methods and materials essential to teaching language arts in the secondary classroom. Prerequisite: EDUC-2000 Introduction to Teaching, currently in EDSE-3100 Principles of Teaching AYA, or permission of instructor. LIT-3230 Directed Readings –Fa,Sp 1-3 hours Selected readings designed to strengthen the major by providing primary and secondary material in preparation for an independent study of a major writer, literary genre, or literary period. LIT-3240 Directed Writings –Fa,Sp 1-3 hours Students will work in close consultation with a faculty member on the creation and production of a significant project in one of the following genres: poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction. (Prerequisite: any 3000-level creative writing workshop.)