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  • ENGL 116: Screenwriting Workshop

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Students wishing to take this course must submit a writing sample as part of the selection process. May be repeated for credit with a different instructor. This course will look at the screenplay as both a literary text and a blue print for production. Several classic screenplay texts will be critically analyzed (REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, DOCTOR STRANGELOVE, PSYCHO, etc.) Students will then embark on writing their own scripts. We will intensively focus on: character enhancement, creating "believable" cinematic dialogue, plot development and story structure, conflict, pacing, dramatic foreshadowing, the element of surprise, text and subtext and visual story-telling. Class attendance is mandatory. Students will submit their works-in-progress to the workshop for discussion. See English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 117: The Arts and Popular Culture

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Students wishing to take this course must submit a writing sample as part of the selection process. May be repeated for credit with a different instructor. This is a workshop-oriented that will concentrate on all aspects of writing about artistic endeavor, including criticism, reviews, profiles, interviews and essays. For the purposes of this class, the arts will be interpreted broadly, and students will be able -- and, in fact, encouraged -- to write about both the fine arts and popular culture. Students will be doing a great deal of writing throughout the course, but the main focus will be a 3000-word piece about an artist or arts organization in Philadelphia (or another location approved by the instructor) that will involve extensive reporting, interviews and research. Potential subjects can range from a local band to a museum, from a theater group to a comedian. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 118: Advanced Poetry Writing Workshop

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    This workshop is designed for those students who have taken the introductory workshop ENGL 113 and desire advanced study. Students wishing to take this course must submit a writing sample as part of the selection process. May be repeated for credit with a different instructor. This workshop is especially valuable for creative writing concentrators in poetry within the English Major, for those who are working on longer works, or for those who wish to work on a series of poems connected by style and subject matter. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 135: Creative Non-Fiction Writing

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    May be repeated for credit with a different instructor. A workshop course in the writing of expository prose. Assignments include informal as well as formal essays, covering such topics as autobiography, family history, review, interview, analysis of advertising and popular culture, travel, work, and satire. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings
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  • ENGL 145: Advanced Non-Fiction Workshop

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    This course is not open to freshmen. Students wishing to take this course must submit a writing sample a part of the selection process. May be repeated for credit with a different instructor. Writing with a view to publication in the freelance sections of newspapers such as THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER and THE NEW YORK TIMES, in magazines such as THE ATLANTIC and THE NEW YORKER, and in the literary quarterlies and the journals of opinion. Among the areas likely to be considered are writing as a public act, issues of taste and of privacy, questions of ethics and of policy, methods of research and of checking, excerpting, marketing, and the realistic understanding of assignments and of the publishing world. Student papers will be the basis of weekly editorial sessions, with concentration on the language: how to render material literate, how to recognize and dispose of padding and self-indulgence, how to tighten structure and amplify substance. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 155: Writing in the Documentary Tradition

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Candidates for this course are required to submit as soon as possible their best example of nonfiction prose. A brief interview with the instructor is required before a permission to enroll can be granted. This course is not open to freshmen. This course will function as a workshop, with a select group of students. It's a course that will honor the spirit and tradition of "documentary" writing. The word "documentary" has meant many things over time. Here, it means a kind of nose-close observation and reportage. It means a level of being with one's subject matter in a way that other creative writing courses do not allow because of their format and structure. In English 155, a student writer at Penn will dare to "hang" with his topic--a girl's high-school basketball team; a medical intern in a HUP emergency room; a cleaning lady doing the graveyard shift in a classroom building; a food-truck operator crowding the noontime avenues; a client-patient in the Ronald McDonald House near campus; a parish priest making his solitary and dreary and yet redemptive rounds of the sick and the dying in the hospital--for the entire term. At the term's end, each writer in the course will have produced one extended prose work: a documentary piece of high creative caliber. This is our goal and inspiration. The piece will be 35 to 40 pages long, at minimum. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 156: Photographs and Stories

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Candidates for the course are asked to submit as soon as possible one or two samples of their best creative nonfiction prose. Paper copies only, no electronic submissions. Be sure to include name, phone number, email address, the last four digits of your social security number. A new creative writing course built entirely around the use of photographs, and the crafting of compelling nonfiction narratives from them. The essential concept will be to employ photographs as storytelling vehicles. So we will be using curling, drugstore printed Kodak shots from our own family albums. We will be using searing and famous images from history books. We will be taking things from yesterday's newspaper. We will even be using pictures that were just made by the workshop participants outside the campus gates with a disposable camera from CVS or with their own sophisticated digital Nikon. In all of this, there will be one overriding aim to achieve memorable, full-bodied stories. To locate the strange, evocative, storytelling universes that are sealed inside the four rectangular walls of photograph. They are always there, if you know how to look. It's about the quality of your noticing, the intensity of your seeing. See the English Department's websitee at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 157: Introduction to Journalistic Writing

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    A course in journalistic writing, introducing the student to the nuts and bolts of reporting, of finding the story, tracking down the facts, interviewing sources, using quotes and dialogue skillfully, editing. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 158: Advanced Journalistic Writing

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Nonfiction writing sample a documentary piece, a feature story, profile, etc. will be required. Advanced Journalistic Writing. How to write profiles personal pieces, and third-personal observational pieces, in ways that hook the average reader with strong emphasis on the best journalistic fact-gathering methods, including the cultivation of sources, interviewing techniques, and the proper use of secondary material in the Internet age. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • ENGL 199: Independent Study in Writing

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Interested students must receive permission by the professor and the English Department. Supervised study in writing.
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