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3.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (Open to all students; required of Creative Writing majors.) This course helps students discover and sharpen their skills as creative writers, readers and editors. Concentrating on at least three of the genres of nonfiction, poetry, fiction and drama, the class establishes a creative writing community with each class member presenting her work to the whole class, as well as to the instructor, for responses and revision suggestions. Students whose skills and experience in creative writing make a beginning-level course inappropriate may be advanced upon recommendation of the English/Creative Writing faculty.
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3.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (Open to all students; cross-listed as DFM 212; required of Creative Writing majors.) This course is designed as an introduction to Writing for Performance in which students will explore a variety of ways to creatively express themselves in dramatic form. The emphasis of this course is on both the creative craft of the writing process, culminating in written projects as well as learning the basic, traditional structure of story and character.
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3.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (Prerequisites: DFM 187 or DFM 188 or permission of instructor. Cross-listed with DFM 230.) This course is designed as an introduction to screenwriting, focusing on the foundations of linear, visual storytelling for the screen.
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3.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (Prerequisite: ENG 102/206 or LBA 108/208; or department recommendation) (offered alternate years) The powerful expressive and persuasive impact of the essay has been recognized and celebrated by many of the greatest writers of the past and present. Women, especially, now publish substantial volumes of influential and moving essays. This course studies contemporary essays and provides practice (in a workshop setting) in the form and style of writing nonfiction prose.
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9.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (May be repeated, up to 9 semester hours in different genres) (Prerequisite: ENG 210 or department recommendation) This course provides an intermediate-level creative writing course, focusing on craft and technique and helping prepare students with some creative writing experience for the advanced, creative writing workshops. Students sharpen their writing, reading and revision skills as well as explore the structural and content possibilities of the studied genre.
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3.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (Prerequisites: ENG 212, or DFM/ENG 230 or permission of instructor. Cross-listed with DFM 250.) Screenwriting II is an intermediate-level course focusing on linear storytelling for the screen. Students will deepen their knowledge and experience of previously introduced screenwriting tools, including structure, character, conflict, action, dialogue, and visual storytelling. Adaptation and non-traditional story structures for film will be introduced.
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3.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (Prerequisite: ENG 102/206 or LBA 108/208) (offered alternate years) Fairy tales, urban legends, jokes and folksongs reveal the hearts and minds of the people of the world. Folklore study introduces the student to the tales, arts and traditions of the peoples and cultures of Asia, Africa and South and Central America, as well as Europe and the United States-complex materials to be classified and interpreted from a folklorist's perspective. Students gain understanding of the methods and meaning of folklore research and performance.
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6.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (May be repeated for credit with a different topic up to 6 semester hours) (Prerequisite: ENG 102/206 or LBA 108/208; required of English and Creative Writing majors.) (offered alternating Spring semesters) Usually more narrowly focused than ENG 269, this course intensively studies a particular American literature. Depending on the individual instructor, the course will use an organizing principle such as a specific time, place, cultural movement, or event to bring together a set of related texts, often from a number of literary genres.
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3.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (Prerequisite: ENG 102/206 or LBA 108/208; required of English and Creative Writing majors.)(offered alternating Spring semesters) A study of Restoration and Post-Restoration English and Colonial literatures, arranged to consider the cultural politics of canons. Readings include both canonical and popular literature.
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3.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (Prerequisite: ENG 102/206 or LBA 108/208 and permission of instructor) Topics courses are devoted to special subjects that may not be covered in depth in other courses.
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