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3.00 Credits
Course covers basics of peer tutoring in writing skills. Emphasis is on developing skills in the following areas: 1) peer tutoring techniques and interpersonal communication, 2) writing process--critical analysis, 3) error identification-- grammar and punctuation, 4) writing across the curriculum. Students often begin peer tutoring early in the semester, and the dynamics of the sessions are analyzed and discussed in class. This is a hands-on course, combining Writing Center theory and practice. Successful students of this course tutor their peers in Columbia's Writing Center. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 WRITING AND RHETORIC II
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3.00 Credits
Students are encouraged to write poetry of the very highest quality. Workshop format makes use of in-class writing exercises and discussions of student work. Students become familiar with a wide range of models and formal strategies. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 WRITING AND RHETORIC II
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Craft and process course combines the writing of poetry by advanced students with the study of theory and poetics. As the result of reading works of criticism as well as poems that have been influenced by such critical inquiry, students are able to examine and articulate their own craft. 3 CRE DITS COREQUISITES: 52-3500 POETRY WORKSHOP: ADVANCED
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3.00 Credits
Capstone course for Poetry majors focuses on the writing, revisions, and compilation of a chapbook-length poetry manuscript suitable for publication or submission for a graduate school application. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 52-3500 POETRY WORKSHOP: ADVANCED
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3.00 Credits
The Readings in Nonfiction Literature class is designed to explore a variety of subjects in nonfiction, and topics of classes offered might include readings in the essay, twentieth century nonfiction, feminist readings in nonfiction, queer nonfiction, graphic novel memoirs, single or double author courses (Baldwin's Essays, or Montaigne and Bacon), etc. The class will change from semester to semester. The class will explore what makes a work of nonfiction specific to its genre and how writers establish their voices in nonfiction. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 WRITING AND RHETORIC II
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3.00 Credits
Series of courses surveys developments in the American novel. Nineteenth-century survey includes writers such as Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Wilson, James, Howells, and Crane. Modern survey includes significant novels by authors such as Dreiser, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Hurston, Steinbeck, Wharton, Cather, and Wright. Contemporary course focuses on writers such as Rosellen Brown, Russell Banks, Toni Morrison, Don DeLillo, and others. Course is repeatable as topic changes. 3 CRE DITS
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Course alternates between Latin-American Novel and Central and South American Literature. Students read and discuss works by several major Latin-American writers, such as Carlos Fuentes, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Varga Llosa, Julio Cortazar, Juan Rulfo, and Isabel Allende. Theory and practice of magical realism may also be discussed. Course is repeatable as topic changes. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 WRITING AND RHETORIC II
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3.00 Credits
Series of courses focuses on African-American literature. African-American Women Writers examines figures such as Harriet Wilson, Frances Harper, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Ann Petry, Toni Morrison, and Terry McMillan. African-American Novel examines novelists such as James Weldon Johnson, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison, and Zora Neale Hurston. Course is repeatable as topic changes. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 WRITING AND RHETORIC II
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3.00 Credits
Course offers focused, in-depth study of a significant issue or issues in African and African-American literary and cultural production. Students will read, discuss, research, and write about the issues. Course includes readings in theory as well as literature and may include examples from disciplines such as art, film, and music. Representing the African in the New World focuses on such writers as Houston Baker, Jacques Derrida, Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Toni Morrison, and others. Course is repeatable as topic changes. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 WRITING AND RHETORIC II
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