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This course offers an intensive review of grammar and the conventions of standard edited English to FYW 101 students who are identified as needing additional instruction in editing.

This course explores the concepts of doing primary research on target cultures, as well as ethical issues involved in performing such research. It may be taught on-site in an international setting. In addition, the course provides students opportunities to perform primary (firsthand) research and gain field experience on an issue of their choice that is related to the culture or community being studied. For example, students can investigate a particular environmental or social issue pertinent to the setting, culture or community.

Explores the vicarious experience of warfare and the practical and moral problems associated with command.

A study of recurring patterns in social, cultural and artistic revolution of the last 100 years. Includes the decadents, the lost generation, the beats and the hippies.

A study of the techniques, history and development of selected literature and film classics. Content may vary depending on instructor.

An introduction to one of the most popular literary genres, the novel, with particular focus on the varied relations novelists establish between individual and society, audience and storyteller, to entertain, unsettle and inspire readers.

This course will investigate the roots, elements and nature of poetry in an effort to make poetry a rich source of pleasure for a lifetime. We will read poetry of all types from all ages, with an emphasis on modern and contemporary.

A thematically organized course that studies the power of stories from many narrative traditions - European, Chinese, Zen Buddhist, Native American - to promote good health and healing.

This course deals with significant modern plays in which the conflict centers on ethical questions across a broad range of University subjects: business, science, politics, and relations with and responsibilities to others. Classroom sessions and papers will address the plays first as works of literature but will go on to discuss and debate the ethical issues involved.