|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
2.00 Credits
This course features some of the best short fiction published in Europe, Latin America, and the United States since the 19th century. While reading a wide assortment of short stories each week, we will explore critical questions of genre, intertextuality, and authorship.
-
2.00 Credits
This class will explore the phenomenon of women warriors, or strong female characters in literature and (popular) culture. We will start with antiquity and skip along through the ages as our readings and whims dictate. We will interrogate the existence and persistence of the woman warrior and juxtapose her with the "traditional" male warrior. By the end of May Term, you will have an increased appreciation for and depth of understanding of women warriors across time and cultures; be able to articulate the role of women warriors in contemporary culture; and have a working definition of a "woman warrior."
-
2.00 Credits
Each year Hip Hop is responsible for pumping millions of dollars into the American economy, as a result it has influenced our perceptions of others. This course is designed to help students examine social and cultural Diversity issues through a Hip Hop lens. This course will challenge students to think critically about Diversity and Hip Hop and its place and influence on society. Student will use listening exercises, readings, and conversations to examine how Hip Hop artists create meaning in their works. Drawing on various readings, students will consider the following topics: racism, sexism, able-ism, age-ism, class-ism, and social activism in the United States.
-
4.00 Credits
For many of us, stories about military combat are presented from the US point of view. This course examines global voices concerning war, from stories of valor to the stories of victims, from battlefields to back alleys, heroic to the unheard. We will examine the experiences of wars through novels, memoirs, poetry, film, and digital media from across the world, and gain an understanding that stories of war extend well beyond the American perspective.
-
3.00 Credits
This course will introduce you to the teaching of college-level writing as well as the ideas and history that inform it. In addition to learning about rhetoric and composition theory, you will observe how writing is taught in the Westminster College Writing Center and conduct your own writing consultations as the semester progresses. Completing this course will make you eligible to work in the Writing Center as a paid consultant. Students will complete readings on composition theory and practice, observe and conduct consultations in the Writing Center, and write short responses and consultation reports. Offered for variable credit.This course fulfills the Writing requirement for English majors. Prerequisites: Two WCore Humanities and Fine Arts (WCFAH) courses and either one Writing Emphasis course (WE) or HON 202.
-
3.00 Credits
A course that focuses on the writing of short stories and short-short stories and integrates workshop experience with readings of various narratives and theoretical material. This course fulfills the Writing requirement for English majors. Prerequisite: ENGL 230 or consent of instructor.
-
3.00 Credits
Workshop in playwriting which examines structure and style in dramatic literature as a starting point for student's work in scene writing. This course fulfills the Writing requirement for English Literary Studies majors and counts as a Writing Elective for English Creative Writing majors. Prerequisites: Two WCore Humanities and Fine Arts (WCFAH) courses and either one Writing Emphasis course (WE) or HON 202.
-
3.00 Credits
This course, often taught around a central theme, combines reading of poetry and criticism combines reading of poetry and criticism with workshop discussion of students' own poems. Meter, form, line, imagery, figurative language, and point of view are among the topics addressed. Students read work of visiting poets and meet with them. This course fulfills the Writing requirement for English majors. Prerequisite: ENGL 230 or consent of instructor.
-
3.00 Credits
A course that focuses on writing film scripts, stressing effective narrative, dialogue and character development. Coursework includes viewing films as well as writing and analyzing scripts. Same as FILM 323. (3) This course fulfills the Writing requirement for English majors.
-
4.00 Credits
A course in writing nonfiction including essays, personal narratives, and articles. Writing for workshop will be balanced by readings of various model texts. This course fulfills the Writing requirement for English majors. Prerequisite: ENGL 230 or consent of instructor.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2024 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|