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4.00 Credits
Introduction to college writing focusing on cultural analysis that appears in academic work and in the public intellectual sphere. The course emphasizes how writers work with texts (including images, film, music, and other media) to develop writing projects. Through four main writing projects that concentrate on drafting, peer review, and revision, students learn to be constructive readers of each other's writing and to understand the rhetoric of intellectual inquiry.
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4.00 Credits
Research-based writing course that explores how rhetorical situations call on writers to do research and how writers draw on various types of writing to present the results of their research. Through four main writing projects, students develop an understanding of the purposes and methods of research and a rhetorical awareness of how research-based writing tasks ask them to consider their relation to the issues they are researching and to their audiences. Prerequisite: WR 101.
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4.00 Credits
These courses focus on the basic vocabulary, techniques, and traditions in the chosen genre. All courses include the discussion of published work. Students practice their writing craft through exercises and other assignments, many of which will be shared with the class in an introductory workshop setting. These courses may be repeated once for credit. ? WR 211 Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction ? WR 212 Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry ? WR 216 Introduction to Creative Writing: Nonfiction
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4.00 Credits
Original essays, poems, plays, and short stories are written and presented in class for criticism and discussion. Students will also read and discuss published work in the genre. Prerequisite: see below. These courses may be repeated once for credit. ? WR 311 Intermediate Creative Writing: Fiction (prerequisite: WR 211) ? WR 312 Intermediate Creative Writing: Poetry (prerequisite: WR 212) ? WR 313 Intermediate Creative Writing: Drama (prerequisite: WR 211) ? WR 314 Intermediate Creative Writing: Children's (prerequisite: WR 211) ? WR 315 Intermediate Creative Writing: Comedy (prerequisite: WR 211) ? WR 316 Intermediate Creative Writing: Nonfiction (prerequisite: WR 216)
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4.00 Credits
Advanced writing workshop in poetry with in-class discussion of original poems by students already seriously engaged in writing poetry. The course pays special attention to getting published and students are encouraged to submit their work to magazines. May be repeated once with the instructor's permission. Prerequisites: WR 312 and junior standing.
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4.00 Credits
Extensive fiction writing of short stories and/or novels coupled with in-class reading for criticism and the craft of fiction. May be repeated once with the instructor's permission. Prerequisites: WR 311 and junior standing.
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4.00 Credits
Advanced writing workshop in various nonfiction forms, such as memoir, travel writing, literary journalism, or other narrative nonfiction writing. Students will already have completed at least one nonfiction workshop, have a project in development, and be capable of discussing such techniques as characterization, point of view, and narrative structure as they appear in literary nonfiction forms. Prerequisites: WR 316 and junior standing.
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4.00 Credits
Special offerings in various genres of writing like Comedy Writing, Travel Writing, Experimental Fiction, among others. May be repeated for credit if topics differ. Prerequisites: junior or senior standing and completion of a 300-level writing course in the genre being offered. (Semester varies)
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4.00 Credits
Advanced workshop in feature film writing where students learn how to work with characters, dialogue, and dramatic structure through story development, mini treatments, and scene breakdown. Students beginning new scripts will produce at least half of a screenplay and a solid, outlined second half. Students continuing a work-in-progress script will revise and polish. Course also includes study and discussion of successfully produced film/TV scripts. Prerequisites: WR 311 and junior standing. Course may be repeated once for credit. (Course may count toward the Media Arts major or toward the WLP major.)
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4.00 Credits
Required of all BFA majors: During the final semester of his/her senior year, each student produces an extended literary work-several short stories, a group of poems, a short novel, a nonfiction narrative, a piece of investigative journalism, a play, or a film script. Each student works independently, but consults regularly with an advisor to evaluate and revise the work-inprogress. The final manuscript measures and represents the student's abilities and his/her commitment to a serious creative endeavor. Senior BFA Writing majors only.
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