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• ENG 223: GAMES AND LITERATURE

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  In this course students will play, analyze, and write their own interactive narrative games. The literary nature of video console, computer, boardgame, and roleplaying games will be the focus of this course with particular emphasis on short form avant-garde games that challenge the genre. We'll discuss the ways that narrative games transform the reader into a player with an active role in story creation, how games might be understood as literature, and the tropes that these games often rely upon. Playing and discussing games is one major part of the course activities, but writing will be equally important as the main method of responding to and creating interactive games.
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• ENG 224: AMERICAN MODERNISM

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  American modernism is the study of various cultural responses to rapid social changes brought on by innovations in technology that caused sharp changes to the global economy. This course employs interdisciplinary research methods based on the interplay between literature, popular culture {including art, film, and music), and the events that shaped early twentieth-century Americans' sense that they were now inhabiting an irrevocably changed world. Crucially, the course will explore diverse voices reflecting a variety of responses to modernity.
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• ENG 229: LITERATURE & PSYCHOLOGY

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  In this course, students will use concepts from contemporary psychology to analyze literary works from a variety of genres. Approaching literature through psychology can add greatly to our understanding of literary creation and consumption, and it can teach us about social dynamics and human motivations. This course will consider how authors create their identities, how literary works change our ways of thinking, and how the exchange between literature and psychology increases our understanding of human nature.
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• ENG 23: COLLEGE COMPOSITION I

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This is a sustained examination of and practice with college-level writing. Students will generally take ENG 023 in their first year of college. The course focuses on the writing process and provides sustained practice in critical thinking, reading, and writing demanded by academic, public, and professional writing. Students gain experience in writing in a variety of genres which may include, but are not limited to, proposals, reviews, personal narratives, digital texts, rhetorical analyses, persuasive essays, reports, and critical analysis essays. Readings are assigned to provoke discussions, provide opportunities for the analysis and synthesis of arguments, and finally to generate essay topics. Particular attention is paid to research processes and the conventions of including research in texts. In addition, the mechanics of good writing, which may include diction, grammar, syntax, usage, and structure are addressed as part of the process of writing; however, the focus of this course is not grammar instruction. ENG 023 (or ENG 025) is a General Education requirement for all students in all majors. In addition, ENG 023 is a prerequisite for all upper-division English department courses.
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• ENG 233: CONTEMPORARY FICTION

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course examines representative contemporary fiction, both American and international, from about 1990 through the present. Topics covered include the development of contemporary fiction, the use of traditional and new literary approaches and strategies of representation in contemporary fiction, themes and motifs found in contemporary fiction, and the historical and cultural contexts of these literary works and themes.
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• ENG 235: THE AMER AUTOBIOGRAPHY

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  The American Autobiography treats a broad spectrum of 18th to 20th-century autobiographies which are characterized by a great diversity in technique, theme, and authorial background.
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• ENG 236: BLK AMER LIT:POETRY/DRAMA

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  An exploration of the poetry and drama of Black Americans, beginning with Phillis Wheatley and William Wells Brown as precursors of the Black literary tradition, and ending with, as the focal point, contemporary poets and dramatists.
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• ENG 237: BLACK AMER LIT: NOVEL

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  An exploration of the prose writings of Black American novelists and essayists, beginning with the slave narratives as prototypes and ending with, as the focal point, the latest contemporary novels.
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• ENG 238: AFRICAN DIASPORIC LIT

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  African Diasporic Literature will introduce students to a broad sampling of the literature written originally in French, Spanish, and Portuguese, and translated into English, by people of African descent dispersed in such places as Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guadeloupe Haiti, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. These, and other, places where people tracing their descent to Africa reside, constitute the African Diaspora. The course will be found useful by students in English, Secondary Education, Modern Languages, Women Studies, and General Education.
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• ENG 244: DOCUMENTARY FILM

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is a study of the documentary film genre, its history, and the theories of representation that have informed its different modes. Whether the intention of the documentary film is to preserve, persuade, or analyze a subject, students will consider documentary films and theories from a number of perspectives, including that of the filmmaker, the film subject, and the viewer. In conjunction with documentary film history, students will read theoretical and critical approaches that informs the production and analysis of this cinematic genre and the ethics of representation. This course is suitable for both majors and non-majors.
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