Course Descriptions - Spring 2007

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This course presents the works of selected American writers from the beginnings to the Civil War and will include a study of the works' historical and literary settings.

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This course presents the works of selected American writers from the Civil War to the present and will include a study of their historical and literary settings.

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Through fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama by African Americans, this course presents topics that will vary each semester, but may include leadership and slavery, the urban and rural experience, institutions such as the church and the law. African American music and film may be included.

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A one-semester course; three credit hours: This course will present a selection of U.S.-Hispanic texts, including poetry, fiction, memoir, and film by Mexican-American, Dominican-American, Puerto-Rican American, Cuban American and other writers and artists. Students will demonstrate their competence through a variety of writing assignments including essays and a special project. Three class hours per week.

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This course is an introduction to the history of American cinema. It will trace the history of American movies from early silent films to contemporary, lavish productions as well as independent films. Students will see examples of a variety of American genres: silents, dramas, comedies, films noir, animation, documentaries and fantasy or science fiction films. Students will participate in a group project to make a short film or in a group which presents a researched paper.

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Basic Rading proficiency and Basic Writing proficiency

This course is a study of the Latin American short story, from colonial times to the present. Readings will include authors from various origins: the Caribbean, North and South America, and Europe. Through the readings this course will consider the cultural and historical significances of the major literary movements that the Latin American short story represents.

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This course presents the works of selected British authors with emphasis on the period from the Middle Ages to the 18th century and includes a study of their historical and literary settings.

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This course presents the works of selected British authors with emphasis on the era from the Romantic period to the present and includes a study of their historical and literary settings.

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Students will read and analyze selected plays by Shakespeare and some critical essays in order to understand each play's internal workings. Students will learn to read plays comfortably, to follow and enjoy a performance, and to write about the plays with understanding.

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This course will survey significant authors and major literature written in Irish (read in translation) and in English from pre-Christian and medieval lyrics through the Irish Renaissance to the present. The works' relation to major political, historical and social movements will be considered. 3 class hours per week. A one-semester course.

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Dramatic Literature studies the plays of Western theater from ancient Greece to modern times. The subjects to be covered include genres of dramatic writing, the religion and politics of the times in which the works were written, and the evolution of architecture and staging.

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This travel-study course will examine the historical, cultural and especially the literary traditions of Ireland. Within these contexts, students will focus on works from the Irish Literary Renaissance as will as contemporary authors. Using Galway as a home base, students will visit the Aran Islands, Coole Park, Thoor Ballylee and other area sites.

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This course will explore a range of texts written by contemporary American Indian authors as will as more traditional texts based on American Indian oral tradition. Selections will include poetry, creation myth, chants, songs, short stories, novels, and fiction and documentary film. Students will demonstrate through classroom discussion and group work, and a variety of writing assignments including quizzes, film reviews, analytical essays and essay exams.

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This course presents selected major works from the period of the Ancient Greek, Roman and Hebrew civilizations through the early medieval period in Europe, with attention to their historical and literary settings.

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This course presents selected major works of Europe and Latin America from the medieval period to the present (excluding works originally in English) with attention to their historical and literary settings.

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This course emphasizes the literary content, qualities and techniques of the Hebrew and Greek scriptures in English translation.

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This is a one semester course; 3 credit hours. Focus on the individual's existential response to the human condition as seen in the works assigned; treatment of literary movements represented by these works (existentialism, neo-romanticism, rural naturalism, symbolism, expressionism, impressionism, literature of psychology); supplementary readings on philosophy, religion, psychology as they apply to various works. In addition to required readings 3 papers will be required.

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This course fosters critical taste in film. Students will explore the role of film in contemporary society by viewing and discussing documentaries, experimental films, impressionistic films, animated films and commercial films.

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This course presents the multiple views of women as seen through the cinema, with examples from literature as well. Students will encounter varied attitudes toward self, beauty, socialization, exploitation and destiny of 20th century women.

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Offers the student an overview of film noir through an examination of its history, philosophy and basic characteristics. The student will view many examples of the genre as well as learn how to write film noir criticism and to make film noir. A one semester course: three credit hours.

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In this advanced film course, students undertake an intensive study of Hitchcock's work with analysis from cultural, social, literary, philosophical, and cinematic perspectives. Students will view and discuss at least 16 of the legendary director's 53 films.

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This course examines documentary (nonfiction) films as a separate cinematic genre with special emphasis on aesthetic criteria as well as on technological understanding. Students, working in groups, will make a documentary film or video. The class fosters an historic understanding of the development of the documentary.

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This is a one-semester course; three credit hours; two lecture hours; two lab hours. This course is an intensive study of the legendary American director's work with analysis and discussion from cultural, literary, philosophical and cinematic perspectives. All twelve major films as well as other Kubrick materials will be shown in class and analyzed.

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Through works primarily by women in several genres from a variety of times and places, this course will explore multiple definitions of love and examine love's role, as presented in literature, in women's lives and relationships.

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Presenting women's lives, primarily in women's words, through biography, autobiography, journals, letters, poetry and fiction, this course includes women from all walks of life, famous, infamous, and previously unknown, exploring both historic and imaginative limits and possibilities for women. Students will develop critical perspectives on uses of literary sources and will apply what they learn to contemporary women's lives.

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Using texts ranging from the Bible and Homer's epics to contemporary literary works, this course introduces mythological approaches to such subjects as heroism, place, time, family, and human nature.

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This course examines female figures including goddesses, priestesses, heroines, and other fictional and legendary humans, as they appear in mythic literature; special attention will be given to religious, psychological, literary, archetypal, and global linkage. Works studied may include familiar authors from the European and American classical traditions as well as modern treatments of mythic literature from Native American, Asian, South American, Indian, or other literary heritages.

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This course examines the principal works of one or two major writers of Classical, European, British, American, Latin American, Asian or African literature. The author or authors will differ each semester.

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This course stresses close critical reading and discussion of selected poems, with emphasis on the poems of the 20th century. There will be a consideration of the standard topics of poetry, such as, but not limited to, imagery, rhythm, structure, and purpose.

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This course stresses close critical reading and discussion of selected short stories written by 19th and 20th century authors from around the world, with special emphasis on works by American writers.

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This course is a study of the various forms and possibilities of the novel. Students will read novels and consider the concept of this genre. Readings, including critical and historical essays, will differ each semester.

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A survey of 19th and 20th century children's literature, this course will examine the criteria of good literature, children's interests and developmental stages related to books, various genres of children's literature, children's book awards, illustrators and authors, and reference sources.

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This course is a study of world literature from the beginnings through 1650. Readings will include poetry and prose and the course will consider the literary, cultural and historical significance of the literature from Western and Non-Western traditions.

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This course is a study of world literature from 1650 to the present. Readings will include poetry and prose and the course will consider the literary, cultural and historical significance of the literature from Western and Non-Western traditions.

Northern Essex Community College

LIT201

American Literature I

LIT202

American Literature II

LIT203

African American Literature

LIT204

Viva! Latino Literature in the United States

LIT205

Introduction to American Cinema

LIT207

Voices of the Americas: The Latin American Short Story

LIT211

British Literature I

LIT212

British Literature II

LIT213

Shakespeare

LIT214

Irish Literature

LIT215

Dramatic Literature(formerly THE102 History of Theater)

LIT216

Literary Perspectives on Ireland

LIT218

American Indian Literature

LIT221

Western Literature I

LIT222

Western Literature II

LIT223

The Bible As Literature

LIT224

Mod European Lit

LIT231

The Art of the Movies

LIT232

Women in Film

LIT233

Literature: Introduction to Film Noir

LIT234

The Art of Alfred Hitchcock

LIT235

Documentary Film

LIT236

Lit: Art of Stan Kubrick

LIT241

Women and Love in Literature

LIT243

Women's Lives-Recorded and Imagined

LIT251

Mythology and Literature

LIT252

Women in Mythic Literature

LIT261

Major Writers

LIT262

Poetry

LIT263

The Short Story

LIT264

The Novel

LIT267

Children's Literature

LIT271

World Literature I

LIT272

World Literature II