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Advanced creative writing course in science fiction and fantasy that emphasizes the importance of character and thematic development. Assignments also focus on the selection of subject, setting, and narrative techniques. Readings in contemporary science fiction and fantasy serve as models for approaches to these two genres. Prerequisites: Junior standing; WRTG 20500 or WRTG 23600. 3 credits. (S,Y)
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Creative writing for students interested in exploring female experience through different literary forms. The first half of the course is nonfiction prose (journals, essays); in the second half, students choose to do fiction, poetry, or dramatic writing. Readings by contemporary female writers. Prerequisites: WRTG 20500, WRTG 23600, WRTG 23800, or junior standing. 3 credits. (F or S,Y)
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Advanced, thematically centered workplace writing focusing on more complex forms: policy statements, position papers, dossiers, legal documentation, and long reports. Course themes vary and encourage dialogue on major issues among different professions in business, government, law, and medicine. All sections are grounded in argument, ethics, and the humanities. Class readings may include casebooks, theoretical essays, or historical documents. Prerequisites: Junior standing. Any one of the following: WRTG 20100, WRTG 21100, or WRTG 21300; or any level-1 composition course from WRTG 10600 through WRTG 16500 and three courses at level 2 or above in the social sciences or majors within the Schools of Business, Communications, and Health Sciences and Human Performance, as well as the Division of International and Interdisciplinary Studies. 3 credits. (S, O)
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Advanced expository course on journalistic and literary scientific writing. Students learn to communicate scientific facts and theories to professional and sophisticated lay readers through description, analogy, narrative, and argument. Some discussion of the technical and scholarly conventions of formal scientific writing. Class readings include major humanistic essays from the history of science and articles and features from contemporary popular and scientific publications. Prerequisites: Junior standing; any one of the following: WRTG 20100 or WRTG 21300 and two courses in the natural sciences; or any level-1 composition course from WRTG 10600 through WRTG 16500 and three courses (at least one above level 1) in the health and natural sciences. 3 credits. (S, E)
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Advanced workplace writing concentrating on proposals and grants. Students address problems in the local community while studying the interplay among business, education, government, and nonprofits. Attentive to civic responsibility in the marketplace, this course teaches research and assessment, project management, editing, and document design. Group work emphasizes social networks and service learning. Prerequisites: Junior standing and one of the following: WRTG 20100, WRTG 21100, or WRTG 21300. 3 credits. (F, Y)
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Advanced essay course in which students explore the significance of their own ethnic and cultural identity, background, and experience. Writing assignments encourage students to employ a variety of essay styles and structures -- from personal to public and from narrative to analytical. Appropriate for any students who recognize their life experience as distinct by virtue of their nationality, race, religion, region, gender, sexual preference, or culture. Prerequisites: Junior standing; WRTG 20100 or WRTG 20500. 3 credits. (S,Y)
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Advanced expository essay course focusing on human interactions with the rest of the natural world. Readings are selected from the writing of naturalists, environmentalists, scientists, legislators, artists, poets, and philosophers. Writing assignments include field observation, description, analysis, and argument. Prerequisites: Junior standing; WRTG 20100, WRTG2 0500, or any level-1 composition course from WRTG 10600 through WRTG 16500 and two courses in environmental studies above level 1. 3 credits. (F,Y)
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A public essay is a vehicle for making sense of the world, for offering commentary about it that deepens the reader's understanding and awareness of our condition. This advanced expository course provides students the occasion to write reflective literary essays on topics of public interest and significance. Students bring their own values, perspectives, insights, and voice to bear on matters of community concern. Prerequisites: Junior standing; WRTG 20100 or WRTG 20500. 3 credits. (F-S,Y)
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An advanced academic writing course in research-based writing. Students explore the relationship between postmodern concepts of voice and contextuality, and practice the new academic essay, in which personal perspective and voice inform scholarship, learning when and how subjectivity is appropriate to scholarly writing. Particularly useful for students who wish to pursue graduate careers in writing, rhetoric and composition theory, and other subjects in the humanities and the arts. Prerequisites: Junior standing; WRTG 20500. 3 credits. (F or S,Y)
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Creating literature for children and young adults. In addition to studying stylistic approaches and techniques, the course addresses issues such as appropriate subject matter, writing for specific age groups, and the writer's moral responsibility. Reading assignments include classic and contemporary works, fairy tales and myths, and critical and historical essays. Prerequisites: Junior standing; WRTG 20500; WRTG 23600. 3 credits. (F,Y)
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