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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: WR330 or WR331. A practical course in play writing which explores various dramatic modes and structures in individual scenes and full-length plays. Covers the poetry of stage dialogue, the rise and fall of action, characterization, and basic technical information.
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Prerequisite: EN101; WR100 or WR101. An introduction to film technology and techniques, coupled with a sur- vey of film history from the silent era through contem- porary cinema. Students learn to identify the specific roles of the artists who collaborate to create a film. They also learn film history through an introduction to major directors (e.g., Griffith, Eisenstein, Renoir, Welles, Hitchcock, Kurosawa) and movements (e.g., German Expressionism, Italian neo-realism, film noir, the French New Wave). Counts toward Film Studies minor. Same course as CM346.
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Prerequisite: WR330 or WR331. Means and methods of narrative screenplay writing for motion pictures and television are explored. Included are analysis of the structure and dialogue of selected screenplays, exercises in writing and evaluating screenplays, and an investiga- tion of how screenplays are marketed in today's media. Final project: a completed screenplay. Counts toward Film Studies minor.
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Prerequisite: WR200 or WR201. From the nineteenth cen- tury's first comic strips to the present day's graphic novels,comic strips and comic books have combined conven- tions from various sources-fine arts, pulp magazines, genre literature, radio, film noir, and more-to produce a uniquely American art form. This course examines the ways that comics both influence and reflect the culture at large, as seen through populist heroes who embody Depression-era dreams, the censorship wars led by Frederic Wertham in the fifties, or the medium's coming of age in the hands of Art Spiegelman and others. Stu- dents explore the enduring appeal of graphic narratives and look for their pervasive influence in other media.
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Prerequisite: WR200 or WR201. Students explore key genres in writing about popular music of the past century up to the present day. Readings include Greil Marcus on the American ballad tradition; Dorothy Marcic on gen- der issues in popular hits; Jim Cullen on Bruce Spring- steen's relation to Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, and Woody Guthrie; and selections from annual volumes in the Best Music Writing series. Principal assignments include an extended essay/review, a cultural studies paper, and a memoir/essay connected to issues of music and culture; students choose the artist(s) or genre(s) that they focus on in their papers.311
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Prerequisite: WR200 or WR201. A study of the nonfiction prose of a single writer. Among the authors taught are Charles Dickens, E. M. Forster, Sigmund Freud, John McPhee, and E. B. White. Examination of the writing of a single author introduces students to the range and scope of that author as well as ways to determine the individual qualities of that writer's style. May be repeated for credit with different topics. Counts toward American Studies minor.
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Prerequisite: WR200 or WR201 or written permission of the instructor. What are American women essayists thinking and writing at this moment in history This question is investigated through contemporary essays by writers who are women: writers whose work has been nourished and shaped by feminist theory and whose work crosses gen- der-lines, age, and ethnicity; writers whose interests range beyond the domestic or personal sphere. The assigned reading provides models by which students may shape their own ideas and essays. Discussions explore how con- temporary American women writers are creating a tradi- tion of their own. The course offers a supportive environ- ment for developing technique and exchanging ideas. Counts toward American Studies and Gender Studies minors.
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Prerequisite: WR200 or WR201. A study of the ways writers create a "self" and an "other" in language. Covers trange from private writing such as journals to more public forms of biography and autobiography and the imaginative use of those forms. Students read a broad sample of authors and types of writing and write three essays in which they experiment with those types.
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Prerequisite: WR200 or WR201. The essay is explored as a medium for contemporary thought. Students read and analyze the writing and reflections on writing of such essayists as Ellen Goodman, Tom Wolfe, Alice Walker, Barbara Tuchman, and Calvin Trillin, as well as other work that appears in current magazines, newspapers, and essay collections. Students keep journals, do research, and conduct interviews to produce a portfolio of their own potentially publishable formal and infor- mal essays on issues of their choice.
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Prerequisite: WR200 or WR201. To write about nature is to discover more about the nature of writing as a medium for relaying fact and event, close observation, artistic expression, and the exploration of belief. Readings by American writers ranging from Audubon and Emerson to John McPhee and Wendell Berry are supplemented with sessions with local naturalists and trips to Bare Hills, Cylburn Arboretum, and Loyola's Woodberry prop- erty. Writing includes journals, articles, short nonfic- tion pieces, and essays-genres that allow students to enter an impassioned but civil conversation about our land. Counts toward American Studies minor.
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