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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits What must a journalist do to move beyond the bare bones of the news How does the journalist, trained to gather facts and evidence, achieve a personal style that is both honest and imaginative The class explores how creative journalists combine the techniques of the novelist with those of the journalist. In addition to writing exercises and stories, students will examine the works of such creative journalists as Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Norman Mailer, Joseph Mitchell, V.S. Naipaul, Gay Talese, John A. Williams, and Tom Wolfe. Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or permission of the instructor.
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3 hours; 3 credits This workshop aids students to craft short stories out of their creative ideas. Early emphasis is placed on journal entries, in-class exercises, and sensory writing practice. Techniques of characterization, setting, description, dialogue, and pacing are discussed. The course includes in-class critiques, analyses of model fiction, and individual conferences. Students are encouraged to complete a publishable short story by semester's end. (Not open to students who have completed ENG 2610.) Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or permission of the instructor.
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3 hours; 3 credits This course provides beginning and advanced playwrights with practical techniques for developing works for the stage. Concentrating on the dynamics of live human interaction as the substance of drama, the course emphasizes the structure of action and examines examples from a wide range of dramatic styles. Students learn how dialogue, character, spectacle, and thought take on meaning in live experience of the theatrical event. They sketch scenarios, flesh them into drafts, and revise and rewrite those drafts into scripts for their production. The course helps playwrights achieve their own styles. Regular conferences. (Students will receive credit for either ENG 3630 or THE 3052.) Prerequisites: ENG 2150 and permission of the instructor.
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3 hours; 3 credits This is a course in using and mastering language and the art of metaphor. Students find their own poetic voices by perceiving worldly objects and then transforming those perceptions into poetic images that reflect their own deepest emotions. While studying and memorizing poems by a wide spectrum of writers, including Shakespeare, W. H. Auden, Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, and Gwendolyn Brooks, they write and critique their own. Regular conferences. Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or equivalent.
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3 hours; 3 credits This is a course about form in poetry-from the line to the stanza and beyond. Students write and rewrite their poems, experimenting with freer and set forms such as sonnets, villanelles, and haiku, studying and emulating poems by writers like Dove, Bly, Hopkins, Kinnell, Shakespeare, Simic, Yeats, and Whitman. Each class will center on student readings and critiques. Regular conferences. Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or equivalent.
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3 hours; 3 credits This course focuses on adapting story ideas to the particular demands of moving pictures. Students learn basic film grammar and the power of the juxtaposition of images and sound in telling a story. Students write extensive character biographies, out of which plot ideas emerge. Students flesh out these ideas through discussions of dialogue, exposition, format, and structure. (Not open to students who have completed ENG 2650.) Prerequisites: ENG 2150 and permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits The goal of this course is to expand the writer's sense of style by increasing sensitivity to tools such as metaphor, humor, irony, and voice. Through assigned readings and class discussions, individual and small-group conferences with the professor, and intensive revision, students will experiment with distinctive stylistic options. In the process, they will sharpen their awareness of audience and develop ways to craft powerful prose through vivid description, attention to rhythm, and use of different sentence types. Prerequisite: ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850 or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits The course is an introduction to fundamental concepts of linguistics. Students explore the diversity, creativity, and openendedness of language and how philosophers and language enthusiasts have for centuries attempted to understand its organization and its use in society. Traditional areas (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics) are described, with examples from languages around the world. Language acquisition, bilingualism, socio - linguistics, and computers in language are examined for applications to language teaching and learning. Students explore practical applications to their area of study, whether it be the bilingual or foreign-language classroom, literary analysis, psychology, sociology, and other disciplinary interests. (This course is cross-listed with COM 3700. Students will receive credit for either ENG 3700 or COM 3700. These courses may not substitute for each other in the F grade replacement policy.) Prerequisite: ENG 2100.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits This course examines the presence of women in literature as both authors and subjects. How do literary works represent and challenge the traditional social roles assigned to women How have novels, poetry, and plays shaped powerful cultural myths of femininity The historical period(s) and genres to be covered in this course will vary: medieval and Renaissance authors might include Marie de France and Shakespeare; 18th-century writers might include Aphra Behn and Mary Wollstonecraft; Romantic, Victorian, and modern authors might include Jane Austen, Charlotte Bront , and Virginia Woolf. Prerequisite: ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850 or departmental permission.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Literature has always provided psychologists a source of insights into human behavior, just as psychological theories have offered different perspectives on literature. This course examines the interplay between psychological theories and literary representation. Issues to be explored include the relationship between text and reader, the emotional experience and expression of characters in the text, and the construction of emotionally charged fictional worlds. Readings vary from semester to semester but are likely to include a range of literary texts from the modern (post-Freudian) era. (This course is cross-listed with PSY 3730. Students will receive credit for either ENG 3730 or PSY 3730, not both. These courses may not substitute for each other in the F grade replacement policy.) Prerequisites: PSY 1001 and ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850 or permission of the instructor.
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