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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A first course in nonfiction writing, emphasizing how facts can be woven into narrative forms to portray verifiable, rather than imagined, people and events. Students read and discuss model works, then write frequent papers to refine their own style.
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3.00 Credits
Science writing tells nonfiction stories about science, scientists, science's context and implications. Students analyze readings; interview scientists for differing views; write clear, accurate, well-structured drafts; rewrite. (Formerly 220.146)
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3.00 Credits
Screenwriting workshop. This course will look at the screenplay as both a literary text and blue-print for production. Several classic screenplay texts will be analyzed. Students will then embark on their own scripts. We will intensively focus on character enhancements, creating "believable" dialogue, plot development, conflict, pacing dramatic foreshadowing, the element of surprise, text and subtext, and visual story-telling.
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3.00 Credits
Prereqs: 220.205; Permission Required Intensive workshop development of one play by each student. Repeatable for credit with permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
The study of exposition and argument in literary prose, with exposure to journalistic practices. Instructor will assign topics on which students write essays and subsequently discuss in class and critique for style, grammar, coherence, and effectiveness.
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3.00 Credits
Permission required Readings in the first hundred years of the short story in the Western tradition. Authors include Hoffmann, Kleist, Pushkin, Gogoi, Turgenev, Maupassant, James, Chekhov, and Wharton. Numerous pastiches will be assigned.
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3.00 Credits
Prereqs: 220.204; Perm. Req’d An intensive workshop focusing on methodology: enhancing original characterization, plot development, conflict, story, pacing, dramatic foreshadowing, the element of surprise, text and subtext, act structure and visual storytelling. Each student is expected to present sections of his/her "screenplay-in-progress" to the class for discussion. The screenplay Chinatown will be used as a basic text.
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3.00 Credits
A consideration of the short-short story. Students will weekly present in the short-short story form. We will read the following anthologies: Short Shorts, Flash Fiction, Micro Fiction, and Sudden Fiction.
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3.00 Credits
Registration Restrictions: Permission required. This seminar will examine how three schools of American fiction address the fate of linear narrative in the late 20th century.
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3.00 Credits
Students will write sketches and stories, in a class organized around readings in classic texts of wilderness encounter. Hawthorne, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Faulkner, Styron, Cormac McCarthy, Kate Chopin, Melville, McGuane, Conrad. Perm. Req’d.
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