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Covers the basics of news writing, from reporting an event to writing an obituary. Students learn how to collect information, conduct interviews and organize writing into crisp news copy. Class work includes weekly deadline writing assignments. Homework: weekly writing exercises based on textbook examples and field assignments, as well as readings from texts and daily newspapers.
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For students who are inspired to write short or long stories. Equal emphasis on writing well and creating boldly, with focus on giving and receiving criticism in the workshop format. Students will be encouraged to "find their voices" by experimenting with style, genre and structure. Graded on a credit/noncredit basis only.
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/Workshop A significant part of the class will be dedicated to exploring each student's poetry through a constructive workshop approach. Each week, students will respond to prompts that focus on specific source material, poetic devices, or both. The course encourages participants to be open to a wide range of poetic styles and influences as they embark on writing assignments and critiques, and to look closely at the work of established poets. As the semester progresses, students will experiment with revision and create a portfolio of poems representing their best work. The class will include some discussion of presentation, emphasizing local opportunities for reading and publishing. This course could benefit both beginning and experienced writers. Not open to first-year students. For undergraduate English majors and minors, this course satisfies the Genre (B-1) requirement. Graded on a credit/noncredit basis only.
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Examines how women writers before 1900 address, confront, avoid, subvert and question traditional notions of gender, culture, domesticity, history, ethnicity and sexuality. Close attention is paid to textual reading, the historical and intellectual context of works, and different critical approaches to women's writing. Authors include Behn, Burney, Austen, Sedgwick, Chopin, Gilman, Foster and Wilson. For undergraduate English majors and minors, this course partially satisfies the Historical Sequences (A) requirement.
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The lecture/discussion sequence ENG 140-ENG 141 takes an historical approach to British literature from the Middle Ages to the dawn of the 20th century. This course concentrates on early modern English literature; it will examine major works by such authors as Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Marvell, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Gray and Collins. For undergraduate English majors and minors, this course partially satisfies the Historical Sequences (A) and Period (C-1a) requirements for majors.
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This course examines the essential works of what came to be described as the "Modernist" movement in Anglo-American literature. The period covered is roughly between 1900-1940, a time of critical, cultural, and artistic re-evaluation--an attempt to restructure the way western civilization expressed itself in order to fit the needs of a new, emergent consciousness. Authors may include Conrad, Pound, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, Stevens, Williams, Moore, Yeats, Frost, Hemingway, Faulkner, Synge, and Lawrence. Prerequisite: VE Prerequisite
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The sequence ENG 180-ENG 181 takes an historical approach to American literature from Puritanism to the present. This course concentrates on early American literature, circa 1620-1860, by authors such as Bradstreet, Rowlandson, Edwards, Franklin, Emerson, Douglass, Dickinson, Whitman, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe and others. For undergraduate English majors and minors, this course partially satisfies the Historical Sequences (A) requirement.
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This course aims to make us all better readers of American poetry and also poses a number of contextual questions: How did audiences for and purposes of poetry change in particular time periods? What kinds of poetry have been "canonized" by later academics, and what kinds have not? What is the relationship between politics and poetry? Are cultural expectations formed by poetic expression, or do cultural norms and changes drive poetic innovation? How have conditions of publishing affected the writing of poetry? For undergraduate English majors and minors, this course satisfies the Genre (B-1) requirement.
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This course is for students who want to write a novel. In workshop format, we will explore the elements of long fiction (character, plot, theme, setting, etc.), structure and development, writing styles and techniques, and issues such as giving and receiving criticism, revising, and overcoming writer's block. Students will complete a working draft of the first 10,000 words of their novel. They will be encouraged, but not required, to continue working on their novels in ENG 207 - Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the Genre (B-2) requirement.
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The Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop offers students who are serious about writing fiction--short stories or novels--a supportive seminar setting to present their work for discussion and suggestions, to learn how to critique the writings of others, and to participate in discussions about the art and craft of fiction writing. Open to students who have already taken Creative Writing Workshop Fiction and/or Novel Writing I, or with the permission of the instructor. Graded on a credit/no credit basis.
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