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ENGL 121 - AP CREDIT IN ENGLISH Credits: 3 Course URL: http://www.english.rice.edu A course that provides credit for students who have successfully completed approved examinations, such as Advanced Placement exams. This credit counts toward the total credit hours required for graduation. College: School of Humanities Department: English
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ENGL 122 - AP CREDIT IN ENGLISH Credits: 3 Course URL: http://www.english.rice.edu A course that provides credit for students who have successfully completed approved examinations, such as Advanced Placement exams. This credit counts toward the total credit hours required for graduation. College: School of Humanities Department: English
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ENGL 175 - GLOBAL LITERATURES IN ENGLISH Credits: 3 Course URL: http://www.english.rice.edu An introduction to global literary studies and critical writing in which students study a range of literatures in English. The subject is twentieth-century modernism and its successors; postmodernism; and postcolonialism. College: School of Humanities Department: English
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ENGL 200 - SEMINAR IN LITERATURE AND LITERARY ANALYSIS Credits: 3 Course URL: http://www.english.rice.edu A course designed for and required of all prospective English majors. Emphasis is on close reading, literary interpretation, and critical writing. Attention is paid to the major genres (poetry, drama, and fiction) across a range of historical periods. College: School of Humanities Department: English
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ENGL 201 - INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING Credits: 3 Course URL: http://www.english.rice.edu A course dedicated to the study and craft of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Through engaged reading and creative exercises, students will analyze the use of various elements of creative writing - including image, voice, tension, character, setting, and story. Students will develop a writing portfolio as well as a sense of the possibilities inherent in and unique to each genre. College: School of Humanities Department: English
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ENGL 208 - INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL ARGUMENT AND DESIGNING TEXTS Credits: 3 Course URL: http://www.english.rice.edu A course designed to prepare students to produce sophisticated analyses of images as well as arguments in a culture or social context. It emphasizes how visuals and words combined in genres such as advertisement, illustration, computer displays, and political flyers to represent individuals, events, and social settings. College: School of Humanities Department: English
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ENGL 210 - MAJOR BRITISH WRITERS: CHAUCER - 1800 Credits: 3 Course URL: http://www.english.rice.edu A survey of representative British authors of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the 18th century for both majors and non-majors. College: School of Humanities Department: English
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ENGL 211 - MAJOR BRITISH WRITERS: 1800 TO PRESENT Credits: 3 Course URL: http://www.english.rice.edu A survey of representative British authors of the 19th and 20th centuries for both majors and non-majors. College: School of Humanities Department: English
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ENGL 215 - WORDS IN ENGLISH: STRUCTURE, HISTORY, USE Credits: 3 Course URL: http://www.english.rice.edu An introduction to the study of English words, focusing on their internal structure and the nature and history of English vocabulary. Aims are to enhance knowledge of the rich lexical resources of the language, and to facilitate the acquisition of scientific, technical, legal, and humanistic vocabulary. No previous linguistics background required. Cross-list: LING 215. College: School of Humanities Department: English
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ENGL 260 - INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE Credits: 3 Course URL: http://www.english.rice.edu A survey of representative U.S. authors from the 18th century to the present designed for both majors and non-majors. College: School of Humanities Department: English
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ENGL 266 - ETHNIC LITERATURES OF 20TH CENTURY AMERICA Credits: 3 Course URL: http://www.english.rice.edu A comparative study of U.S. minority literatures. Discussion will focus on themes such as immigration, citizenship, and nationalism and on critical categories such as race, class, and gender. College: School of Humanities Department: English
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ENGL 270 - ASPECTS OF MODERN LITERATURE Credits: 3 Course URL: http://www.english.rice.edu An introduction to modern/postmodern culture that may include readings of novels, plays, short stories, poems, psychoanalytic theory, and art criticism/philosophy. The emphasis is on reading and interpreting different kinds of texts in broad cultural contexts. College: School of Humanities Department: English
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ENGL 272 - LITERATURE AND MEDICINE Credits: 3 Course URL: http://www.english.rice.edu Designed for, but not limited to, students interested in the medical profession, this course introduces the study of medicine through reading imaginative literature--novels, plays, essays, poems--by and about doctors and patients, focusing on understanding ethical issues and on developing critical and interpretive skills. College: School of Humanities Department: English
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ENGL 273 - MEDICINE AND MEDIA Credits: 4 Course URL: http://www.english.rice.edu An interdisciplinary exploration of the role of imaging technologies in the practice of medicine, and the role of mass media in shaping our understandings of the body, health, and disease. This course examines how visual media structure "ways of seeing" for physicians and for the public. Emphasis will be placed on developing media literacy skills. Cross-list: SWGS 273. College: School of Humanities Department: English
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ENGL 274 - LITERATURE AND RELIGION Credits: 3 Course URL: http://www.english.rice.edu An exploration of how literature has imagined religion and its place in human experience from Chaucer to Rushdie. Related topics will include the shift from a theological to a secular worldview, and the literary transformation of divine into poetic justice. College: School of Humanities Department: English
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ENGL 275 - INTRODUCTION TO FILM: FILM CRITICISM Credits: 4 Course URL: http://www.english.rice.edu A writing-intensive course that teaches students to view films analytically and to write film criticism. Each week, students will view a film, read criticism of that film, and write their own review of the film. Screenings will be taken from important movements in world cinema history. Cross-list: FILM 273, HART 285. College: School of Humanities Department: English
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ENGL 286 - CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY FILM THEORY Credits: 3 Course URL: http://www.english.rice.edu A course focusing on contexts such as movies and ads, familiar plots and conventions define their significance. Focus is on the period of 1950 to 2000, when results of a formerly secret technology dramatically ended World War II and became a central concern of American cultural and political life. Cross-list: HART 286. College: School of Humanities Department: English
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ENGL 300 - PRACTICES OF LITERARY STUDY: READING METHODS Credits: 3 Course URL: http://www.english.rice.edu A course that identifies and explores key concepts of recent critical writing. Students read short texts of contemporary theory and discuss the relation between theory and literature. Required for English majors. College: School of Humanities Department: English
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ENGL 301 - INTRODUCTION TO FICTION WRITING Credits: 3 Course URL: http://www.english.rice.edu A course that teaches the fundamentals of fiction writing, and includes a mixture of reading and writing assignments. The goal is for each student to produce two short stories possessing imaginative ingenuity, structural integrity, and literary merit by the end of the semester. College: School of Humanities Department: English
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ENGL 304 - INTRODUCTION TO POETRY WRITING Credits: 3 Course URL: http://www.english.rice.edu An introduction to poetry writing through the study of contemporary poets and the writing of poems. The class will pay extensive attention to such elements of poetry as imagery, figurative language, tone, syntax, and form in order to create a vocabulary for students to discuss their own poems. Students' poems will be critiqued by the class in a workshop setting. College: School of Humanities Department: English
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ENGL 305 - INTRODUCTION TO PERSONAL ESSAY WRITING Credits: 3 Course URL: http://www.english.rice.edu A course in the writing and interpretation of the personal essay and other autobiographical forms. College: School of Humanities Department: English
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ENGL 306 - EXPOSITORY PROSE Credits: 3 Course URL: http://www.english.rice.edu A course in which students write a sequence of short essays on the subjects of their own choosing. In the process, they experience how elements like structure, voice, figurative language and style contribute to rhetorical effectiveness. College: School of Humanities Department: English
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ENGL 307 - MEDICAL/TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION Credits: 3 Course URL: http://www.english.rice.edu A course in physician-patient communication. It also builds skills in writing and oral presentation to help students prepare for medical school. College: School of Humanities Department: English
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ENGL 308 - HOW I LOVE (AND HATE) THE BOMB: THE RHETORIC OF ATOMIC ENERGY IN US POPULAR AND CIVIC DISCOURSE Credits: 3 Course URL: http://www.english.rice.edu As new technologies (think nano everything, stem cells, space stations) appear in interpretive contexts such as movies and ads, familiar plots and conventions define their significance. This new course will focus on the period of 1950 to 2000, when results of a formerly secret technology dramatically ended World War II and became a central concern of American cultural and political life. College: School of Humanities Department: English
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ENGL 309 - MYTHOLOGIES Credits: 3 Course URL: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/myth.htm An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to world mythologies, mythmakers and their cultures, from the beginnings to the modern period. Included mythologies: Babylonian, Sumerian, Hindu, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Irish, Old Norse, Anglo-Saxon, Finnish, Mayan, Hopi, modern (Glass, Borges, 'Whale Rider'). Cross-list: MDST 368, SWGS 368. College: School of Humanities Department: English
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