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3.00 Credits
A representative selection of novels, short stories, and poetry by contemporary women writers, focusing on the ways in which these works reflect women's search for a voice and language of their own. Although the works explore universal themes, such as childhood, loss of innocence, family, love, sexuality, loneliness, and death, the class discusses how women's experience differs from men's, and looks at the rich variety of voices contemporary women writers use to write about their experience. Students present an oral report on one of the writers read in class, as well as writing a short paper (5-7 pages) and a long paper (10-12 pages) on two woman writers of their choice. (Formerly ENG 206: Contemporary Women Writers.) Prerequisite: ENG* 102. Satisfies the Literature requirement. ENG* 263: Women in Poetry - 3 credits An exploration--through reading, discussing and writing poetry--of poetry and women's lives. Explores the ways in which women's poetry of the last three decades reflects what Carolyn Heilbrun calls "the narratives that have been controlling women's lives" and the ways in which many women have come to understand the need to "dismantle" the past and "reinvent" the future. Focuses on poets such as Denise Levertov, Carolyn Kizer, Maxine Kumin, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, and Audre Lorde, as well as a selection of contemporary women poets. (Formerly ENG 213: Women in Poetry: Dismantling the Past.) Prerequisite: "C" or better in ENG* 101. Satisfies the Fine Arts requirement.
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3.00 Credits
This is a course in exploration-through reading, discussion, and writing-of women, spirituality, and the ways in which women express their inner lives in their poetry. According to Marilyn Sewell, who edited Claiming the Spirit Within: A Sourcebook of Women's Poetry, much of women's contemporary poetry explores the need to reject the dominant values of our culture and "find a different way," to turn away from "our personal and cultural malaise" and explore our inner lives in order to heal ourselves and the world. In this class, we will use this idea for our exploration of women's poetry, reading and writing poetry about the spiritual and temporal lives of women and the essential ways they interconnect. Students will read the poems in Claiming the Spirit Within, keeping a reading journal as a basis for class discussion of these poems, as well as an inspiration for the poems they will write in response to the topics explored in the book. Student poems will be discussed in small groups, and students will rewrite their poems, submitting a portfolio of original and rewritten poems at the end of semester. We will also produce a book of poems written by students in the class. (Formerly ENG 214: The Sacred in the Everyday: Poetry and Women's Lives.) Prerequisite: "C" or better in ENG* 101. Satisfies the Fine Arts requirement
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3.00 Credits
Students may work in poetry, fiction, drama, or a combination of these genres. Work in progress is presented each week to the class for critique and response. Readings are assigned on an individual basis. There is no limit as to the number of times a student may take this course, but a maximum of six credits will be allowed toward graduation. Satisfies the Fine Arts requirement. (Formerly ENG 215: Creative Writing Workshop.) Prerequisite: "C" or better in ENG* 101.
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3.00 Credits
Students read and write poetry in a variety of forms, including the sonnet, the villanelle, terza rima, rimas dissolutas, syllabics, and the sestina. Learn to use meter, rhyme, imagery, metaphor and other tools of writing poetry, but most of all the delight and paradoxical freedom of writing in form. Satisfies the Fine Arts requirement. (Formerly ENG 250: Reading and Writing Poetry.) Prerequisite: "C" or better in ENG* 101.
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on fiction, both to learn about the elements of fiction and to write with the techniques of fiction. Instruction will guide writing practice, and drafts of works in progress will be presented to classmates and the instructor for feedback to shape revision. Reading assignments in fiction will be assigned and self-selected with the approval of the instructor. Prerequisite: "C" or better in ENG* 101.
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3.00 Credits
Memoir is an increasingly popular form of writing that draws on personal history and memory as inspiration for writing about life experience. The primary focus of this class will be writing several memoir essays over the course of the semester. Students will share, discuss, revise, and explore opportunities for publishing their memoir essays. Students will also read a range of published memoir and study one author of their choosing in depth for the purpose of examining the qualities and characteristics of memoir. Satisfies the Fine Arts requirement. Prerequisite: ENG* 101 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Poets have always written in passionate response to suffering and inequality, calling attention to the need for change, insisting that we pay attention not only to what is right and beautiful but also to what is wrong and terrible in the world. In this course, we will examine a number of questions, beginning with working toward a clear definition of politics, so that we can understand the complexity of that concept and thus comprehend the effect that politics in the broadest definition has on our lives. The other two questions we will examine are "What is political poetry " and "What makes a good political poem"--exploring the challenge of writing poetry that tries to make a point without sliding into preaching. We will read the work of poets included in Poetry Like Bread, as well as handouts of poems by other poets, and students will explore the joys and perils of writing their own political poetry, writing a series of poems responding to topics brought up in class discussion. Student poems will be read and discussed in class, and students will produce a final portfolio of poems, rewritten in response to that class discussion. At the end of the semester, students will give a public reading of their work in the Asnuntuck Coffee House, and we will also put together a collection of work written for the course. We will be learning from each other. I welcome suggestions, and I encourage all of you to bring in additional published poems to enhance the assigned reading, so that we can broaden the scope of our exploration. You will need to provide copies for the class of any poems you bring in. Prerequisite: Grade of "C" or better in ENG* 101.
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3.00 Credits
For students who are in the process of learning to speak, read, and write the English language. The student may begin work at a beginning, intermediate, or advanced level. Learning is accomplished at the student's pace through group and individualized work with instructors and peer tutors.
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3.00 Credits
This class is an academically-oriented language course for non-native students who have a simple knowledge of spoken and written English. It will emphasize general academic vocabulary development, extensive reading and listening comprehension, sentence structure and grammar, and writing and speaking improvement using linguistically controlled materials and small group interaction. Prerequisite: An acceptable LOEP/Accuplacer placement score (combining Reading, Sentence Meaning, and Language Use subscores) or the instructor's permission.
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3.00 Credits
In this high intermediate-low advanced level class, students will strengthen reading and writing skills. Assigned readings (including whole works) and student writing form the basis of small group and class discussions. Students focus on writing and rewriting essays to develop ideas, organization, clarity and accuracy in their writing. Additional language practice activities are required and may include the use of supplemental learning software in the Computer Lab or Academic Skills Center and other audio-visual media. Assessment will be based on portfolios in addition to quizzes and exams. Prerequisite: An acceptable LOEP/Accuplacer placement score (combining Reading, Sentence Meaning, and Language Use subtest scores), a satisfactory writing sample, or the instructor's permission.
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