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argument is built or meaning created for the reader or writer of a piece
of discourse.

ENGL 710 SPECIAL TOPICS IN FICTION
Former course number 510 Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3

ENGL 711 SPECIAL TOPICS IN POETRY
Former course number 511 Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3
An intensive study of poetry, including the literary traditions of America
and/or Great Britain and prosody. The course will investigate the
formal techniques of poetry as they reflect both aesthetic and cultural
ideologies. Additionally, an understanding of the literary and historical
traditions of the poetry will provide context for the work.

ENGL 712 SPECIAL TOPICS IN DRAMA
Former course number 512 Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3
This course provides an intensive study of drama. The course
investigates the formal techniques of drama as they reflect both
aesthetic and cultural ideologies. Additionally, an understanding of the
literary and historical traditions of drama provides contexts for the
works.

ENGL 713 SPECIAL TOPICS IN WOMEN LITERATURE
Former course number 513 Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3
An in-depth, cross-cultural study of selected women’s literary
expression and representation encompassing the genres of fiction, non-
fiction prose, poetry, orature, and film. These works will be grouped
under the topics: early
Western feminist thought; women’s autobiographical writing; the
literature of women in migration; post-colonial and post-slavery
women’s writing; women’s orature and women’s representation in
film. Current feminist critical theory will be studied and applied where
appropriate with the respective social, political, cultural and historical
contexts of the works being taken into accounts.

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