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3.00 Credits
Introduction to Creative Writing focuses on at least three different genres (i.e. fiction, poetry, graphic novels, or others) and guides students through the creative process, creative writing theory, and genre-specific writing techniques. Additionally, students will participate in workshopping their own writing projects. Because reading literature is so closely tied to writing literature, the class also includes analysis of literature, allowing students to read like a writer. ENGL 2250 is recommended as a preparatory class for genre-specific creative writing classes at Snow College.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the writing of fiction. Students read and discuss exemplary models and compose a variety of projects of their own. Emphasis is placed on plot, character, dialogue, and description, and other techniques associated with fiction writing. It is recommended that students take ENGL 2250, Introduction to Creative Writing, before taking ENGL 2260. This course is equivalent to the prior version of ENGL 2250 (2004-2019).
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the writing of poetry. Students read and discuss exemplary models and compose a variety of projects of their own. Students study a range of poetic techniques such as imagery, metaphor, form, lines, and other techniques associated with poetry. It is recommended that students take ENGL 2250, Introduction to Creative Writing, before taking ENGL 2270. This course was formerly ENGL 2250.
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3.00 Credits
Shakespeare remains one of the most popular playwrights in the English Language. Who is he? Why is he considered so important? What meaning did his works have in his own time? Are they applicable to today's culture? This course will examine a selection of these questions by examining a sampling of Shakespeare's plays and poetry from a variety of critical perspectives.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to poetry, fiction and non-fiction written for children. Emphasis is on selection, critical analysis, and approaches to teaching.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to world literature of the 20th and 21st centuries, emphasizing literary texts from outside the Anglo-American traditional canon and that circulate worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on non-Western texts. The course will emphasize literary traditions, contemporary ideas and events, diverse authors, careful reading, literary analysis, and thoughtful interpretation.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to introduce unique and diverse literary topics on a semester-to-semester basis. The course allows students to explore a variety of cultural, political, religious, social, and philosophical viewpoints that are sometimes left out of a typical course of study. The specific subject for any given semester will be shown in the class schedule.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a regional study of literature of the American West. Areas of emphasis include Native Americans, mountain men, settlers, the cowboy myth hero, and the American frontier. Manifest Destiny and the multicultural nature of westward expansion are emphasized in the course.
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3.00 Credits
ENGL 2420 is a survey of literature addressing the experiences of people and their relationship with the natural (more-than-human) environment. How non-human nature is understood, used, and represented in human cultures-as material resource, spiritual and aesthetic inspiration, scientific laboratory, site for recreation, etc.-in many ways defines these cultures and individuals. This course is designed to help students become more aware of the complexities of our relationship with the outdoors by surveying a variety of literatures that deal with these themes.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores Gothic and supernatural literature, with an emphasis on horror fiction, from 1764 to the present day. Sample works include Frankenstein, Carmilla, works by Edgar Allen Poe and H. P. Lovecraft, and short stories by Stephen King. Themes that have been discussed include the sublime, sexual identity, and the nature of evil. This course explores Gothic and supernatural literature, with an emphasis on horror fiction, from 1764 to the present day. Works that have been studied in recent years include Frankenstein, "Carmilla," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and short stories by Stephen King. Themes that have been discussed include the sublime, sexual identity, and the nature of evil.
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