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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A course for students interested in writing short stories that focuses on the craft of developing characters, setting, dialogue, and point of view in realistic short fiction. Formatted as a writing workshop with emphasis on critique and discussion of student work. This is also a reading course, with assigned stories by published writers. Prerequisite: ENG 205F3 or consent of instructor)
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4.00 Credits
A workshop course in the writing and critique of poems. (Prerequisite: ENG 205F3 or consent of instructor.)
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4.00 Credits
A study of the transforming movement of the sixties that continues and develops, having given birth to the new non-fictional novel, including true crime and gonzo journalism, using an immersion reporting style that borrows narrative techniques from the traditional novel. Readings include works by such writers as Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Hunter Thompson, and Tom Wolfe. (Prerequisite: 300 level English course or consent of the instructor)
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4.00 Credits
Topics in journalism, varying by semester. Offerings might include environmental journalism, minority journalism, countercultural journalism, and advocacy journalism, including studies of how subcultures and marginalized interests discourse through media with the constantly changing mainstream in American culture. (Prerequisite: ENG 201 or consent of the instructor)
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4.00 Credits
A non-fiction writing course that enables students to use literary and artistic narrative techniques borrowed from the imaginary novel and creative fiction. Students will read and discuss short works by our outstanding literary journalists to inspire them in their own reporting. (Prerequisite: ENG 201 or consent of the instructor.)
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4.00 Credits
A study of selected works from one of the following ethnic literary traditions in the United States: African American literature, Asian American literature, Latino/Hispanic American literature, or Native American literature. (Prerequisite: ENG 110)
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4.00 Credits
A study of literary works from a variety of periods and genres in relation to issues of gender. Specific courses could include Black Women Writers, Textuality and Sexuality, Women Writing the Fantastic, or Tough Guys in Literature. (Prerequisite: ENG 110) Crosslisted with WS 327.
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4.00 Credits
Concentrated study of a single major author, including literary works, cultural and historical contexts and influence. Possible course offerings include Shakespeare, Chaucer, Milton, Austen, Melville, Shaw, Joyce, Woolf, Twain, Faulkner, and Morrison. (Prerequisite: ENG 110)
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4.00 Credits
A selection of works from British literature before 1485, such as Beowulf and Old English poetry, Chaucer, the Gawain- poet, Malory, and a variety of other writers. Emphasis on societal and linguistic contexts, historical development, and material and economic culture. (Prerequisite: ENG 110)
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4.00 Credits
A survey of selected writers from the rise of the English Renaissance in the late Fifteenth century through the end of the Elizabethan age in 1603. The infusion of Renaissance ideals into England revitalized the literary arts. Topics may include humoral theory, urban expansion, and the rise of professional theatres, manuscript and print cultures, and the flourishing English language itself. The course will include authors such as More, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe and Shakespeare. (Prerequisite: ENG 110)
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