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Course Criteria
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5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: MFA or English MA students (others with instructor permission). A study of the short story from a writer's point of view considering the roots, periods and stylistic approaches to the form. Works to be considered might include texts from Chaucer to the present. Through a study of style, structure and historical development, the course will concern itself with the many shapes the short story takes, has taken or might take, while also examining common elements that link examples of the form. An added area of study may be the novella.
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5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: MFA or English MA students (others with instructor permission). Selected topics in fiction focusing primarily on elements of craft and technique, such as point of view, voice, setting, character and plot. Attention will be given to how the technical choices a writer makes regarding one or some of these elements serve to shape, limit and inform the fiction being examined. More than one topic may be considered during the course.
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5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: MFA or English MA students (others with instructor permission). Intensive study of the nature and development of nonfiction, beginning with ancient Greek, Roman, Chinese and Japanese writings and the Bible, moving to the nonfiction of Continental writers such as Kempe, Montaigne, Browne, Swift, Johnson, Addison and Steele and Lamb and on to American writers such as Emerson, Thoreau, Twain and Muir. Forms such as oral traditions of indigenous peoples, exploration accounts, slave narratives, captive narratives, biography, autobiography, meditation, diaries/journals and the essay may be considered.
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5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: MFA or English MA students (others with instructor permission). Intensive study of the nature and variety of modern and contemporary literary nonfiction, including such established writers as Woolf, Orwell, White, Didion, Mailer, Tom Wolfe, Tobias Wolff, Kingston, Momaday, McPhee, Baldwin, Walker, Kincaid, Dillard, Eiseley, Sanders, Rodriguez and Haines, as well as lesserknown contemporary writers. Forms such as memoir, essay, short nonfiction, literary journalism and the nonfiction novel may be considered, as well as effects of the works on the world.
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5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: MFA or English MA students (others with instructor permission). Advanced, close study of selected topics in creative nonfiction, such as nature writing, travel writing, oral history, memoir, diaries/journals, the personal essay, short nonfiction, radio commentary, literary journalism, biography, nonfiction literature for social change, creative nonfiction in translation, research methods, ethical questions, cross-cultural writing, political writing, historical writing and science writing. More than one topic will be considered during the course.
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5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: MFA or English MA students (others with instructor permission). A study of some early poetry important to the development of the art, including Sappho, Catullus, Horace, the poets of the Tang Dynasty and the English Metaphysicals. It will also include discussions of traditional forms and prosody.
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5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: MFA or English MA students (others with instructor permission). The course will begin with the study of Dickinson and Whitman and move through the "High Moderns" toRobert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop and Roethke. It may also include discussion of Symbolism, the Spanish poets, the French Surrealists and other non-English speaking poets of the period.
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5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: MFA or English MA students (others with instructor permission). An intensive study of selected authors and literary developments, both national and international, since 1960.
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1.00 - 5.00 Credits
Experimental Course
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1.00 - 5.00 Credits
Note: Only one workshop course for up to three credits may be used to fulfill graduate degree requirements.
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