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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Students will begin with narrative exercises in style and form and ultimately write complete drafts and revisions of literary short stories. Readings in modern and contemporary literature will provide critical perspective and vocabulary, as well as narrative possibilities.
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This course invites you to build on the basics, develop your technical abilities, and broaden your approaches to the form, genres, media, language, and performance of contemporary poetry. Students should expect to read and view works from a variety of periods and cultures, and will generate their own poems in response to course readings and prompts as well as their own impromptu in-class writing. Students will also sharpen their critical vocabulary as they analyze assigned readings, critique peer work, and receive critiques of their poems from both peers and instructor. Specific readings, activities and assignments will differ from section to section.
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A creative fiction writing course for students interested in writing speculative (historical, fantastical, or scientific) fiction.
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3.00 Credits
This is a course in "close writing" in a wide range of dynamic and innovative genres of creative nonfiction, from the personal essay to meditations to literary journalism.
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3.00 Credits
Most of what's being read by Americans in the fields of politics, sports, and the rest of popular culture isn't written for scholars and doesn't "prove" its case in a formal sense. Most essays and books rely on the humanizing effects of personal narratives - in either the first or third person - for their persuasive power. How does a story about a single case serve to convince a broad audience to feel a certain way or take a course of action? We can learn these skills by studying the rhetorical qualities of popular non-fiction. This course will develop skills in producing and critiquing such pieces, both structurally and, more importantly, at the level of the building block of communication, the individual sentence. We'll use the seminar and workshop formats to discuss each other's work along with published work. Students will produce a few guided short pieces and two longer essays on topics of their choosing.
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3.00 Credits
This course is devoted to the study and practice of writing in public life, or writings about political, environmental, and cultural issues.
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A survey of two thousand years of "monsters" in literature, ranging from Metamorphoses by Ovid to Frankenstein by Shelley to Grendel by Gardener.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on an introduction to the novel as a form, as a means to view the world of the author/artist and that of the reader.
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3.00 Credits
Is satire necessary to the health of society or a sign of its decline? In considering the role of the satire in society, students will read key texts from the Renaissance, the eighteenth-century, and the present day. We will assess the literary and social significance of the formal and thematic continuities between the current satirical outpouring on television in South Park, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report, and earlier texts by Thomas More, Erasmus, the Earl of Rochester, Jonathan Swift, Voltaire, Mozart/DaPonte, and others. We will discuss the strategies and limitations of satire in a wide variety of texts including novels, poetry, drama, blogs, and opera.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines topics in the tradition of illustrated texts from the ancient Egyptian scrolls to contemporary textual media. Topics include the history of writing systems, text as image, illuminated manuscripts, illustrated books, photographic literature, the embedded graphic of non-fiction prose, and the graphic novel. In addition to our texts, students will work in the Medieval Institute facsimile collection and with original works from the Rare Book Collections of the Hesburgh Library. For the older works, required texts are widely available and familiar classics are on reserve in the library and accessible on line. Students will purchase contemporary works, a history of the genre, and course packet of criticism and examples. Course work includes 3 illustrated research papers and a class presentation based on a 15-20 page research paper.
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