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3.00 Credits
This advanced composition course blends seminar and workshop approaches to the reading, analysis, discussion and writing of imaginative literature. Students compose and revise original works of poetry, short stories or drama. (The choice of genre is at the discretion of the instructor.) This course counts toward both the English major and minor. Participants must submit a portfolio of both critical and creative works to the instructor before registration. Prerequisites: EN 101, EN 102; Every Year, Fall
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Students read a variety of short works with an eye toward understanding the stylistic techniques employed by contemporary writers of creative nonfiction. Students are then asked to employ a number of stylistic techniques in their own short works of creative nonfiction. The class emphasizes reading like a writer, writing as a process, the writing workshop, and careful revision and editing. Prerequisites: EN 101, EN 102; Every Year, Fall
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to how literature is studied in the discipline of English. Elementary concepts of literary and critical theory are discussed with reference to both literature and scholarly criticism. Attention is paid to writing and researching in the discipline in an effort to prepare students for upper-division courses and the Senior Seminar. Course should be taken in sophomore or junior year. Prerequisite: EN 102; Every Year, Spring
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3.00 Credits
This comprehensive survey of Greek tragedy pays special attention to tragic theory and to the evolution of classical drama from its birth in the cult of Dionysus to its culmination in fifthcentury B.C. Athens. The extant plays of Aeschylus and Sophocles and selected plays by Euripides are examined with special emphasis on form. Prerequisites: EN 101, EN 102; Every Year, Fall
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3.00 Credits
Students undertake close reading and discussion of poetry not limited by historical period. Attention is paid to technique and repeated themes in an attempt to experience and understand poetry. Prerequisites: EN 101, EN 102; Every Other Year, Spring
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3.00 Credits
In this advanced writing course, students read, write about and create various strains of the personal essay while sampling British and American permutations of the letter, the diary and the journal-from the 18th to the late 20th century. The Reader Response Journal is the central mode for preparing reading and discussion of assigned canonical essayists, and these journals are then revised for the writing of several brief academic and personal essays. Prerequisites: EN 101, EN 102; Every Year, Fall
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3.00 Credits
This advanced writing course focuses on the history and evolution of human thinking about nature and our relationship to it. Looking first at Biblical, Greek, Roman and Medieval sources, students concentrate on American writers, beginning with Lewis and Clark and ending with a longer reading by a contemporary naturalist writer (e.g., Annie Dillard, Norman Maclean, Terry Tempest Williams, Barry Lopez). In-class journals and formal writing assignments are used to advance discussion and emphasize persuasion and argumentation. Prerequisites: EN 101, EN 102; Every Year, Fall
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3.00 Credits
This genre-based course in writing the historical essay is not a history course. It is a writing course that concentrates on the technique of the essay and introduces the principles of writing historical literature. Students explore history as a problem-solving tool, wherein the lessons from studying the past can be useful in understanding the present. The course examines newer (and more controversial) areas of cultural and social history. Prerequisites: EN 101, EN 102; Every Year, Spring
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3.00 Credits
This genre-based advanced writing course provides a historical overview of nonfiction, travel writing and its emergence as an area of scholarly interest. It explores the ways in which travel writers create narrative personae, construct essays to persuade readers to their perspective, and help to compose the identities of the peoples and cultures about whom they write. Emphasis is on the sustained examination and practice of student writing. Prerequisites: EN 101, EN 102; Every Year, Spring
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3.00 Credits
This course covers the development of the short story from the 19th century to the present with intensive study of masterpieces of internationally recognized masters: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville,Wharton, James, Tolstoy, Joyce, Lawrence, Hemingway, Faulkner, Erdrich and others. Prerequisite: EN 102; Every Year, All
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