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3.00 Credits
Advanced expository writing course, offered at irregular intervals on topics chosen by faculty members. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. For writing minors, the course may be an elective or fulfill a level-3 minor requirement. Prerequisites: Junior standing; one writing course at level 2 or above (specified by name and number at time of offering). 3 credits. (IRR)
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3.00 Credits
Advanced creative writing course, offered at irregular intervals on topics chosen by faculty members. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. For writing minors, the course may be an elective or fulfill a level-3 minor requirement. Prerequisites: Junior standing; WRTG 20500 or one creative writing course at level 2 or above (specified by name and number at time of offering). 3 credits. (IRR)
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3.00 Credits
Advanced creative writing course, offered at irregular intervals on topics chosen by faculty members. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. For writing minors, the course may be an elective or fulfill a level-3 minor requirement. Prerequisites: Junior standing; WRTG 20500 or one creative writing course at level 2 or above (specified by name and number at time of offering). 3 credits. (IRR)
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to research and scholarship currently shaping the theory and practice of composition studies. Covers major philosophies of composing and studies in language and learning that inform writing pedagogy. Investigates how social and political dimensions of literacy affect language use and learning, as well as how new technologies shape writing and teaching practice. Prerequisites: Junior standing; WRTG 20100; WRTG 20500. 3 credits. (F or S,Y)
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to Western theories of creative writing as a means of investigating the relationships between writer, text, and world. Addresses cultural/political, psychological, philosophical, and aesthetic concerns. Students analyze their own creative work and process in the context of these theories. Prerequisites: Junior standing; WRTG 23600 or WRTG 23800; any other writing course above level 1. 3 credits. (F-S,Y)
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3.00 Credits
An advanced writing workshop offered each semester to coincide with the Department of Writing Distinguished Visiting Writers series. Requires 15 contact hours in meetings, conferences, and classes with both the visiting writer and the writing faculty coordinator. Students produce a 15-page revised manuscript of new work in the relevant genre over the course of the semester. May be repeated up to three times for credit. Prerequisites: Junior standing; permission of instructor. 1 credit. (F-S,Y)
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3.00 Credits
Advanced independent project designed by writing majors no later than their second junior semester and relating to their particular concentration. The project, which must be approved by student's mentor as well as the major subcommittee, is undertaken in the second semester of the student's senior year. Work in the final portfolio is juried by both mentor and major subcommittee. Students are encouraged but not required to give a public presentation or reading of their work during their final senior semester. Prerequisites: Senior standing; WRTG 32000, WRTG 33600, or WRTG 33800; WRTG 36000 or WRTG 36500; approval of faculty sponsor and curriculum subcommittee. Open to majors only. 3 credits. (F-S,Y)
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3.00 Credits
Small group setting for intensive study of selected advanced topics not provided elsewhere in the curriculum. Seminar topics vary each semester. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Prerequisites: Senior standing; two writing courses beyond level 1, at least one of which must be at level 3; permission of instructor; additional specific prerequisites to be determined by the subject of the seminar. 3 credits. (F-S,Y)
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3.00 Credits
Service as a teacher's apprentice in a writing course, correcting and commenting on student papers, tutoring, leading class exercises or discussions, and participating in conferences. Prerequisites: Desire to work with Academic Writing I or II, Personal Essay, Persuasive Argument, or an affiliated course; successful completion of the course that the student would like to apprentice in; successful completion of at least two writing courses above level 1, with at least one B and one A- as final grades; senior standing. 3 credits. (F-S,Y)
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3.00 Credits
This advanced fiction-writing seminar offers students the opportunity to develop a short novel. The course extends previously learned narrative elements, such as characterization, plot, setting, point of view, tone, and voice, and applies them to a broader, more complex literary canvas. Students will create narratives that allow for multiple characters who interact within an expanded social context or that permit the extended exploration of a single character in considered detail. Prerequisites: Junior standing; WRTG 17500 or its equivalent; WRTG 20500; WRTG 23600; WRTG 30500, WRTG 32500, WRTG 33400, or WRTG 33600; one literature course in the Departments of English or Modern Languages and Literatures. 3 credits. (F,Y)
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