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3.00 Credits
The ten-day intensive residency in Pittsburgh is for upper-level BFA Creative Writing students. The residency is composed of genre-specific craft sessions, workshops, lectures, readings and one-on-one conferences with mentors.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
A representative study of Shakespeare's comedies, histories, and tragedies as literary, dramatic, and Elizabethan art.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed for students with some basic scientific skills, who might become scientists professionally, but all of whom will be communicating about science, often to non-scientists. In this course, we will read, discuss, and practice a variety of methods of communicating about environmental science, from popular culture to news to government reports. Students will competently translate scientific results into written journalistic English and will be able to evaluate scientific results from the news in terms of its scientific accuracy and clarity.Three hours of lecture per week. Cross-listed as ENV 327. Pre-requisite: any 200-level ENV course or permission of either department chairperson.
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3.00 Credits
An advanced course in writing literary analysis and methods of literary research; required of all junior English majors and interdepartmental majors before enrollment in the tutorial. Prerequisite(s): Second-term junior status.
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3.00 Credits
An advanced course in writing literary analysis and methods of literary research; required of all junior English majors and interdepartmental majors before enrollment in the tutorial. Prerequisite(s): Second-term junior status.
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3.00 Credits
This is an advanced writing class which concentrates on style, meaning, and effect. It is designed for upper-level students, and emphasizes the skills of writing more effective sentences, paragraphs and essays. The course focuses on writing academic papers, applications, proposals, and personal statements across the disciplines in appropriate formats.
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3.00 Credits
The seminar considers the writing process, its elements, and purposes, as discussed by writers, scholars, and teachers of composition. Seminar topics include literacy acquisition, the history of composition studies, the development of invention procedures and revision strategies, the use and evaluation of composition studies, the creation of challenging and workable composition topics, the assessment of "errors" and error patterns, distinctions between "fiction" and "fact," the sociopolitical role of composition topics, and the role of composition courses and varieties of composition theory. Participants write often, critiquing texts and academic studies.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the dramatic work of August Wilson, paying particular attention to Wilson's ten-play cycle, which chronicles twentieth century African American life. Wilson's "Pittsburgh cycle" serves as a lens for reading the history of the city decade by decade.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar is a study of Toni Morrison's literature within the context of African-American critical theory. Through Morrison's work, students will engage in current issues regarding the politics of language, narrative authority, historical revision, the production of meaning, and African-American subjectivity.
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