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This course is an intermediate-advanced level English course focused on preparation for the TOEFL test. Students will review test-taking strategies and develop skills in Listening, Grammar, Reading and Writing. Students join in class discussions to reinforce their knowledge of the structure of English. They will complete in-class and homework assignments related to developing listening, reading and writing strategies. Students will use the computer classroom one day per week to prepare for the internet-based TOEFL test. Two + class session will be devoted to practice tests and evaluating the practice score to determine those areas on which each student should focus.
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Develop higher-level English language skills in this intensive course. Fine-tune your English grammar, experiment with rhetorical styles, dream, argue, persuade. With your instructor, you will focus on your written expression and spoken language skills. You will identify your need for sentence level corrections and stylistic development. You will deepen your knowledge of English grammar and idiomatic expression. This course is ideal for students who want to focus on their English language learning in a structured classroom.
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Have fun this summer studying Acting and English at Brown!
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American Literature can be divided into five major periods. Examining what was written during each time period and in what form provides a historical context of America and an idea of what it was like to live during each particular era. In this course, you will develop your English writing skills and explore various forms of "the story". We consider a collection of written works and movies, relevant to American culture, and carefully examine how different aspects of language - metaphor, word choice, tense- function to create successful narratives. Various genres will be read and discussed, including articles, poems, short stories, and essays.
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Originally, fairy tales were not intended for children but throughout much of their history were told among adult audiences for entertainment and instruction. During Romanticism, fairy tales were understood as tales sending a strong moral and didactic message. The basic structure and narrative conventions are provided through magic, supernatural elements and happy endings. As a sub-genre of folktales, we will re-read the classics Beauty and the Beast, Bluebeard, Little Red Ridinghood, Puss-in-Boots, and Sleeping Beauty from a contemporary author's perspective, starting with Apuleius, Straparola, Basile, Perrault, and the Grimm Brothers. We will then compare their versions to 20th-century retellings by British author Angela Carter.
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Emphasizing how to analyze and argue, this course is designed to help you meet the challenges of academic writing. You will learn how to generate, focus, organize, and develop ideas as well as revise your writing for an audience. You will study and practice how to identify motive and the journey of an idea, through evidence and complications, concluding with implications, using an engaged, intelligent voice.
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Science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, slipstream, alternate history, New Weird, cyberpunk, steampunk, Infernokrusher: we lump together under the term "speculative fiction" a number of fictional genres that explore worlds substantially different from the world we know. In this course, we'll ask what all this stuff is, how it differs from "realistic" fiction, and what makes unreality so compelling. The focus of the course will be on writing and workshopping our own speculative short fiction, with special attention to the way this fiction constructs its world and teases (or eradicates) the line between real and unreal. In addition to each other's fiction, we'll read genre classics and more recent work, as well as the occasional article or literary manifesto. We'll talk about the barrier that has sometimes existed between genre fiction and literary fiction, and about works that seem to confound that barrier. We won't try to make a comprehensive survey of the literature, but will focus on what best informs our own writing. As the course progresses, students will have the chance to guide their own reading based on the direction their writing takes.
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In this course we'll consider a series of thematically related books and movies, and carefully examine how structural elements -- from syntax to editing -- function to create works of narrative art that have the power to shake us free from self-protective assumptions and see the world anew.
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This intensive program will excite young writers with numerous tools and alternative approaches to the writing process in either fiction or poetry. Organized into small group workshops based on students' choice of genre, key elements of the program include:
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Beginning with Ovid's tales of Metamorphoses, we will explore the way that authors throughout history have depicted transformation. Students will have the opportunity to explore subject matter not commonly taught in high school, and to approach human history and culture from a different point of view. Stories of metamorphoses help us address broad concepts such as identity, gender, and social power--concepts that can be applied to nearly any discipline in the humanities, including literature, religion, psychology, sociology, and cultural studies.
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