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  • ENGL 340: Periods & Traditions 1

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    An intensive study of a single period or tradition in British literature before 1800. Prerequisite: ENGL 250+. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: (1) Analyze themes of a single period or tradition in British literature prior to 1800. (2) Analyze the evolution, transformation, and elaboration of relevant texts within a particular period or tradition in British literature prior to 1800. (3) Recognize and interpret the significance of literary, historical, biographical, geographical, and/or aesthetic contexts to a particular period or tradition in early British literature (pre-1800). (4) Write literary analyses of texts from a single period or tradition in British literature prior to 1800. (5) Respond to and integrate secondary research on literary texts from this specific literary period or tradition and/or literary, biographical, historical, and/or aesthetic contexts.
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  • ENGL 341: Periods & Traditions 2

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    An intensive study of a single period or tradition in American literature before 1860. Prerequisite: ENGL 250+. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: (1) Analyze themes of a single period or tradition in American literature prior to 1860. (2) Analyze the evolution, transformation, and elaboration of relevant texts within a particular period or tradition in American literature before 1860. (3) Recognize and interpret the significance of literary, historical, biographical, geographical, and/or aesthetic contexts to a particular period or tradition in early American literature. (4) Write literary analyses of texts from a single period or tradition in American literature prior to 1860. (5) Respond to and integrate secondary research on literary texts from this specific literary period or tradition and/or literary, biographical, historical, and/or aesthetic contexts.
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  • ENGL 342: Periods & Traditions 3

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    An intensive study of a single period or tradition in British literature between 1800 and 1945. Prerequisite: ENGL 250+. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: (1) Analyze themes of a single period or tradition in British literature from 1800-1945. (2) Analyze the evolution, transformation, and elaboration of relevant texts within a particular period or tradition in British literature 1800-1945. (3) Recognize and interpret the significance of literary, historical, biographical, geographical, and/or aesthetic contexts to a particular period or tradition in British literature 1800-1945. (4) Write literary analyses of texts from a single period or tradition in British literature 1800-1945. (5) Respond to and integrate secondary research on literary texts from this specific literary period or tradition and/or literary, biographical, historical, and/or aesthetic contexts.
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  • ENGL 343: Periods & Traditions 4

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    An intensive study of a single period or tradition in American literature from 1860-1945. Prerequisite: ENGL 250+. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: (1) Analyze themes of a single period or tradition in American literature between 1860 and 1945. (2) Analyze the evolution, transformation, and elaboration of relevant texts within a particular period or tradition in American literature 1860-1945. (3) Recognize and interpret the significance of literary, historical, biographical, geographical, and/or aesthetic contexts to a particular period or tradition in American literature 1860-1945. (4) Write literary analyses of texts from a single period or tradition in American literature 1860-1945. (5) Respond to and integrate secondary research on literary texts from this specific literary period or tradition and/or literary, biographical, historical, and/or aesthetic contexts.
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  • ENGL 344: Periods & Traditions 5

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    An intensive study of a single period or tradition in literature after 1945. Prerequisite: ENGL 250+. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: (1) Analyze themes of a single period or tradition in literature after 1945. (2) Analyze the evolution, transformation, and elaboration of relevant texts within a particular period or tradition in literature after 1945. (3) Recognize and interpret the significance of literary, historical, biographical, geographical, and/or aesthetic contexts to a particular period or tradition in literature after 1945. (4) Write literary analyses of texts from a single period or tradition in literature after 1945. (5) Respond to and integrate secondary research on literary texts from this specific literary period or tradition and/or literary, biographical, historical, and/or aesthetic contexts.
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  • ENGL 365: Creative Nonfiction Workshop 1

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    This course is a workshop environment, garnering a significant output of original creative work in creative nonfiction. Students will also master the ethics and practices of workshopping and responding to writing by their peers. Portfolios will be compiled by each student in the workshop. Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or completion of "Interpret Creative Works" theme. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: (1) Write original texts based on a series of prompts. (2) Revise their texts to improve content, clarity, consistency, and craft. (3) Analyze the structure, content, technique, and influences at work in a series of model texts, including work done by both peers and professional writers. (4) Produce written and verbal responses to drafts of peers' written work when discussed during workshop sessions. (5) Accept or reject feedback offered during workshop sessions for demonstrable reasons pertinent to craft. (6) Identify and make use of a limited number of nonfiction forms. (7) Assess their own writing, and appraise their progress during the term.
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  • ENGL 366: Fiction Workshop 1

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    This course is a workshop environment, garnering a significant output of original creative work in fiction. Students will also master the ethics and practices of workshopping and responding to writing by their peers. Portfolios will be compiled by each student in the workshop. Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or completion of "Interpret Creative Works" theme. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: (1) Write original texts based on a series of prompts. (2) Revise their texts to improve content, clarity, consistency, and craft. (3) Analyze the structure, content, technique, and influences at work in a series of model texts, including work done by both peers and professional writers. (4) Produce written and verbal responses to drafts of peers' written work when discussed during workshop sessions. (5) Accept or reject feedback offered during workshop sessions for demonstrable reasons pertinent to craft. (6) Identify and make use of a limited number of fictive techniques and tropes. (7) Assess their own writing and appraise their progress during the term.
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  • ENGL 367: Poetry Workshop 1

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    This course is a workshop environment, garnering a significant output of original creative work in poetry. Students will also master the ethics and practices of workshopping and responding to writing by their peers. Portfolios will be compiled by each student in the workshop. Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or completion of "Interpret Creative Works" theme. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: (1) Write original poems based on a series of prompts. (2) Revise their poems to improve content, clarity, consistency, and craft. (3) Analyze the structure, content, technique, and influences at work in a series of model texts, including work done by both peers and professional poets. (4) Produce written and verbal responses to drafts of poems discussed during workshop sessions. (5) Accept or reject feedback offered during workshop sessions for demonstrable reasons pertinent to craft. (6) Identify and make use of a limited number of received and rhetorical forms for writing poetry. (7) Assess their own writing, and appraise their progress during the term.
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  • ENGL 401: Creative Nonfiction Workshop 2

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    This course is a workshop environment, garnering a significant output of original creative work in creative nonfiction. Emphasis will include the craft of the genre as students concentrate on consistency in voice, choices in narrative and psychic distance to events, negotiations of dramatization and reflection, ethos and verisimilitude of an increasingly hostile genre, and control of prose through consistent, evocative technique. The class will also address revision as an explicit aspect of the writing process. Prerequisite: ENGL 365. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: (1) Produce texts that demonstrate ongoing command of concepts and skills attained in ENGL 365. (2) Discuss original texts in workshop to demonstrate engagement with and attention to craft, theory, and process-based writing including psychic distance, dramatization, reflection, verisimilitude, and significant detail. (3) Analyze and discuss the structure, content, technique, and influences at work in model texts, including work done by peers and by professional writers. (4) Use workshop as an integral part of revising drafts of creative nonfiction essays. (5) Identify and make use of increasingly complex techniques. (6) Synthesize coherent written and verbal responses to substantial works of nonfiction.
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