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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Special Topics Seminar
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Independent Study
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Practicum:Field Experience
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4.00 Credits
Students will write and revise poems through extensive practice and revision, as well as exposure to traditions, theory, prosody and esthetics, and method and craft. The course will focus on both practice and process- the tools needed to complete a successful poem, as well as the lifelong process that writers hone to tap into emotional experience and articulate it honestly. Workshops will be central, and students must be willing to read their own work and comment on the work of others. Prerequisite: Writing 221 or permission.
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4.00 Credits
Students learn and practice a wide variety of nonfiction forms, including personal essays, memoir, lyrical essays, literary journalism, nature and science writing, and humor. The course will be coupled with readings by historical and contemporary nonfiction writers. Students will be responsible for writing and rewriting several essays. Workshops will be central, and students must be willing to read their own work and comment on the work of others. Prerequisite:Writing 221 or permission.
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4.00 Credits
Students learn how to write and perfect short fiction through the study and practice of techniques employed in fiction. The course will include the reading of short fiction by both established and new writers. Students will be responsible for writing and rewriting several original short stories and completing a number of writing exercises. Workshops will be central, and students must be willing to read their own work and comment on the work of others. Prerequisite: Writing 221 or permission.
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the craft of playwriting through investigation of the work of three playwrights and creation of original scripts. Students should expect to produce a set amount of writing every week, to participate in workshop-style writing exercises, and to read portions of their weekly writing aloud, as well as to respond to their classmates' work. Classic and contemporary plays will provide models for study and critique while students' own writing is in progress. Prerequisite: Writing 221 or permission.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the practice of writing for film. Students will learn the vocabulary and format of creating screenplays, study screenplays that have been produced as films, examine films with an eye toward the interpretation of the screenplay, and write and workshop their own work. We will look both at original screenplays and at screenplays that adapt literature to film. Prerequisite: Writing 221 or permission.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Travel writing has a long and impressive history. This course will help writers to know that history and become part of it. The genre of travel writing, beginning with writers like Herodotus and Marco Polo, has appealed to a wide range of fine writers, including Mary Montagu, James Boswell, Charles Darwin, Evelyn Waugh, Jan Morris, and Paul Theroux. In addition to reading such writers, students will compose their own travel essays based on travel experiences. Their descriptions of new experiences and sites may be heightened by irony, humor, cultural meditation, and a sense of a "mind in motion" that pushes toward larger meanings - ethical, political, andpersonal. Prerequisite: Writing 221 or permission.
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4.00 Credits
This course will ask students to apply writing and thinking skills to the specific demands of business, from the varieties of business correspondence to the preparation of proposals and reports. Students will practice the modes of business writing and develop the rhetorical and stylistic skills necessary for effective business communication.
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