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4.00 Credits
Primarily an experience in private reading and research, this course will allow students who plan on taking more than the minimum number of required courses in the major to immerse themselves in a seminal work of literature that is not ordinarily taught to completion in the regular curriculum, e.g., The Divine Comedy, The Faerie Queene, Ulysses, etc. Students will also be expected to acquaint themselves with the sourcetexts that have made this work possible as well as with the wide body of secondary sources that have developed in response to it. In order to receive credit for this course, students will have to negotiate and fully satisfy the conditions of a workcontract with a member of the English faculty. Open only to juniors and seniors who have demonstrated the ability to do independent work and have secured the permission of a sponsoring instructor. Passfail only.
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4.00 Credits
An introductory course in the craft of short story and poetry writing. This course will focus on issues of craft and form: the sentence, the line, character, voice, pointofview, imagery, action, conflict, and resolution. Students will read both published stories and poems and each other's work. The emphasis of the course, however, will be on student writing and will lead to a final portfolio. Meets general academic requirement A.
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4.00 Credits
The course will focus on analytical essays, personal narrative, memoir, and autobiography. Students will spend an equal amount of time writing and reading essays and longer works of nonfiction. Class discussion will focus on craft and rhetorical issues, such as syntax, tone, and structure. Meets general academic requirement W.
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4.00 Credits
Students will learn the rudiments of dramatic writing through lecture, readings, and weekly assignments dealing with structure, characterizations, dialogue, and other areas of the playwright's art. Students' workswill be shared and critiqued by the class, operating as a playwrights group. Each student will complete at least a tenminute play and a 30minute oneact play during the semester.
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4.00 Credits
An intensive course in nonfiction. This workshop will focus on different forms of nonfiction, such as the essay, personal narrative, or memoir, and students will read examples. Writers will comment on each other's work in a workshop setting. Issues of linguistic theory, the form of the essay, and other conventions of nonfiction will be discussed. The course will culminate in a portfolio, final project, and/or student reading. Prerequisite: ENW 203 Nonfiction Writing Meets general academic requirement W.
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4.00 Credits
An intensive course in the craft of the short story. Fiction writers will comment on each other's work in a workshop setting. Issues of linguistic theory, the literary tradition, and aesthetics will inform our discussions. The course will culminate in a public reading and submission of a portfolio. Prerequisite: ENW 201 Poetry & Fiction Writing or ENG 240 or 241 The Nature of Narrative
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4.00 Credits
An intensive course in the craft of playwriting in which writers comment on each other's work, focusing on the elements and structure of a play (character, action, spectacle, diction, "music", thought), dramatic formsand conventions (monologue, farce, melodrama, comedy, tragedy), selected published plays, and attending theatrical performances, all culminating in staged readings of selected student work and submission of a portfolio. Prerequisite: ENW 207 Dramatic Writing Meets general academic requirement A.
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4.00 Credits
An intensive course in the craft of poetry. Poets will comment on each other's work in a workshop setting. The problem of poetic form and its relation to the tradition and the issue of the self and self expression will be explored in terms of linguistic theory, poetic tradition, and poetics. The course will culminate in a portfolio submission. Prerequisite: ENW 201 Poetry & Fiction Writing or ENG 245 or 246 Poetry & the Imaginative Process
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4.00 Credits
Examination of screenwriting fundamentals: story structure (theme and plot), character, dialogue, scene description and development, and script formats. Students will prepare character profiles, treatments, and at least one screenplay. Meets general academic requirement A.
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4.00 Credits
An intensive course introducing students to preparing, researching, drafting, editing, and submitting articles for magazine publication. Students will read each other's work as well as zines, journals, blogs, articles, and magazines. This will not be a course focused on mainstream media or journalism but rather alternative and underground forms of media. Each student will create his/her own magazine as a final project. Prerequisite: ENW 201 Poetry & Fiction Writing or ENW 203 Nonfiction Writing or ENW 207 Dramatic Writing
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