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3.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (Prerequisites: ENG 102/206 or LBA 108/208 with at least a grade of C- or department recommendation; required of English and Creative Writing majors.)(offered alternate years.) This advanced course gives students opportunities to expand the writing, reading, and critical thinking skills explored in basic composition classes; to practice rhetorical strategies, including argument; and to learn the art and discipline of writing for publication in academic fields.
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3.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (Prerequisites: ENG 102/206 or LBA 108/208 and one 3 hour 200-level ENG or WST course; or permission of instructor; crosslisted as WST 308; required of English and Creative Writing majors.) (offered alternating Spring semesters) This course analyzes women's literatures in English of various cultures and periods considering the history of critical attention given to them. In addition to standard genres of poetry, fiction and drama, this course may include reading in nontraditional genres: essays, diaries and letters, and performance art.
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6.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (May be repeated up to 6 semester hours) (Prerequisite: ENG 210, ENG 240 or ENG 242 and permission of instructor) (offered alternate years) This course advances the experienced creative writer to more sophisticated fictional projects. Reading published short fiction as well as each other's work, students explore issues of form, craft and subject matter from the perspective of the fiction writer's position in contemporary culture.
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6.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (May be repeated up to 6 semester hours) (Prerequisite: ENG 210, ENG 212 or permission of instructor) (offered alternate years) This course advances the experienced creative writer to more sophisticated dramatic projects. Reading works by professionals as well as by classmates, students explore issues of form, craft, subject matter and performance from the perspective of the playwright in contemporary culture.
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6.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (May be repeated up to 6 semester hours) (Prerequisite: ENG 210, ENG 240 or ENG 242 and permission of instructor) (offered alternate years) This course advances the experienced creative writer to more sophisticated poetic projects. Reading published poetry as well as each other's work, students explore issues of form, craft, subject matter and audience from the perspective of the poet's position in contemporary culture.
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6.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (May be repeated up to 6 semester hours) (Prerequisite: ENG 210, ENG 240 or ENG 242 and permission of instructor) (offered alternate years) This course advances the experienced creative writer to more sophisticated projects focused on autobiographical subjects. Emphasis is on both theoretical and craft issues surrounding the constitution of the gendered self through autobiographical writing such as sketches, journals, memoirs, dream cycles and autobiographical narratives.
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3.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (Prerequisites: ENG 102/206 or LBA 108/208 and one 3 hour 200-level ENG course, junior standing; or permission of the instructor.) Poets writing in the twentieth century make available to contemporary readers the special sets of circumstances, assumptions, terrors, delights, dreams and obsessions that came together during this century to shape the poetic representation of what they thought it meant to be human.
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3.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (Prerequisites: ENG 102/206 or LBA 108/208, junior standing or permission of instructor; required of English and Creative Writing majors.) (offered alternate years) Language and literacy have the power to inspire or to debase, to communicate or to deceive, to liberate or to enslave. This course explores the ethical implications of language use, especially in the realms of advertising, politics, the arts and the professions, as well as private life, and considers the impact of changing technologies on the role of language in the present and the future.
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3.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (Prerequisites: ENG 102/206 or LBA 108/208, junior standing or permission of instructor) (offered alternate years) The role of mythological thinking in contemporary life has forced reconsideration of the great texts and bodies of belief associated with the myths of past civilizations. This course explores selected mythological texts and theories of mythic (as opposed to scientific or historical) thought.
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3.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (Prerequisites: ENG 102/206 or LBA 108/208; and one 3 hour 200-level ENG course, junior standing or permission of instructor) A study of the plays of Shakespeare in their historical context and in light of new readings of the representations of gender, race, class and nationality. The class explores the ways in which Shakespearean plays have been recreated through performance as well as in other geopolitical and historical contexts.
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