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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Designed for students who have successfully completed one semester of creative writing and want additional specialized instruction in a variety of genres. Prerequisite: ENG 231
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3.00 Credits
This writing-intensive course covers advanced nonfiction writing techniques for a variety of purposes and audiences. In writing essays or analyzing literature, mass media, or other cultural texts, students practice various critical approaches and persuasion strategies. The course may also treat advanced topics in manuscript conventions, style and voice, research methods, logical argument, and rhetoric. Prerequisite: ENG 330
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3.00 Credits
This advanced writing seminar covers various forms of creative non-fiction prose, treating such genres as the personal essay, memoir, literary journalism, the nature piece, and the travel essay. Prerequisite: ENG 330 or ENG 231
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3.00 Credits
This advanced writing class focuses on the composition of brief works of fictional prose known variously as sudden fiction, short-short fiction, micro fiction, and flash fiction. Through reading and writing assignments, the course explores the full range of this thriving genretouching on the prose poem, the anecdote, the epistle, the fable, the parable and other related forms along the way. Throughout the semester, students share their writings and critique the work of their peers in a workshop format. Readings include short literary texts by Baudelaire, Kawabata, Cisneros, Edson, Kincaid, Lydia Davis, Alessandro Baricco and others. Prerequisite: ENG 231
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3.00 Credits
A study of classical and contemporary coming-of-age narratives written by, for, and about adolescents. The course may include works by writers such as Twain, Frank, Salinger, and Kincaid. Prerequisite: ENG 150
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3.00 Credits
A study of genres including fairytales, historical fiction, fantasy, and science fiction in a variety of classical and contemporary works. The course may include works by writers such as Carroll, White, Barrie, Rowling, and Taylor. Prerequisite: ENG 150
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3.00 Credits
A writing workshop with an emphasis on crafting stories or longer fictional works. The elements of fiction - character, dialogue, narrative voice, description, point of view, plot, structure - will be discussed and analyzed in the work of professional story-writers. Prerequisite: ENG 231
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3.00 Credits
An advanced workshop for students committed to further work in poetry, with emphasis on exposure to a variety of poetic methods and forms and the development of each writer's individual voice and style. Students work on individual projects as well as meet as a group to discuss craft, collaborate in editing workshops, and gain background in the history of poetry. Prerequisite: ENG 231
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to both traditional and experimental fiction, poetry, and drama drawn from all cultures from approximately 1960 to the present. Novelists may include Marquez, Morrison, Kundera, Kureishi, Carver, Oates, and Cisneros; poets may include Rich, Ashbery, Walcott, Heaney, Amichai, Lorde, Milosz, and Szymborska; and playwrights may include Albee, Stoppard, Mamet, Kushner, Wasserstein, and Fugard. Prerequisite: ENG 150
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the poetry, fiction, and memoirs of the Beat Generation. Authors may include Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Bowles, Diane de Prima, and Helen Adam. The course also assesses the legacy of the Beat Generation. Prerequisite: ENG 150
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