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3.00 Credits
Practice in writing specific genres, both fiction and non-fiction. Topics may include travel writing, autobiography, nature writing, science fiction, detective fiction, and others. Block 3: Topics in Creative Writing: Speaking for Nature- Writing Natural History. Science and non-science majors who love nature and writing will gain a greater firsthand understanding of ecology and the natural sciences through experiencing natural history literature and intensive writing about the natural world. This writing intensive course covers writing techniques, reading to establish familiarity with the natural history writing tradition, research skills and organization of field notes. Field trip will include sharpening identification skills and creating good field notes. Prerequisite: ( Field Trip). (Also listed as Southwest Studies 200.) 1 unit - Department. Block 4: Topics in Creative Writing: The Poet as Witness to War. Writing workshop which explores poetry as a means of writing about war and its social consequences in the tradition of poets who wrote as soldiers, protesters, distant onlookers and innocent civilians. Critiques the role of the poet in society, in times of war (especially Vietnam and Iraq) and in speaking truth to power. Student work produced in a class anthology. Prerequisite: ( Writing Intensive). (Also listed as American Cultural Studies 200 and Feminist and Gender Studies 280 and Southwest Studies 280.) 1 unit - Martinez. Half-Block: Topics in Creative Writing: Nature Writing at the End of Nature. (Also listed as General Studies 233.) .5 unit - Department.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
Origins in the New Republic (Charlotte Temple, Wieland, the Last of the Mohicans, Hope Leslie), 19th-century young adulthood (The Blithedale Romance, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The American). Historical conditions that nurtured or stymied the development of the novel. Practice in close textual reading. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
Textual and historical analysis of "formula fiction" and popular genres such as romances, Westerns, thrillers, detective stories, horror stories, and science fiction, while also examining traditional ways of distinguishing between "high art" and the popular. Readings from such authors as Harriet Beecher Stowe, H. G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Zane Grey, Margaret Mitchell, Raymond Chandler, Ian Fleming, Stephen King, as well as selected critics and theorists. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
The sounds, grammar and syntax of Old, Middle and Early Modern English, with a study of appropriate literary works from these periods of linguistic development. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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3.00 Credits
Key issues in literary interpretation. Cultural criticism, Marxism, structuralism and deconstruction, feminist theory, ethnic criticism, psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, rhetorical criticism, etc. Prerequisite: 221 or 250 or consent of instructor. (Also listed as Comparative Literature 391.) 1 unit - Sarchett.
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3.00 Credits
Writing workshop for experienced writers, with focus on issues of craft in poetry. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor and English 282. 1 unit - Fairchild.
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3.00 Credits
Writing workshop for experienced writers, with focus on issues of craft in fiction. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor and English 283. 1 unit - Nelson.
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3.00 Credits
Selected English and/or Continental literature of the period 400-1500, organized around such topics as "Chaucer's Contemporaries," "Women Authors," "Fabliaux," "Dream Visions," "The Alliterative Tradition," "Medieval Mysticism," or "The Lyric. Prerequisite: English 221 or 250 or consent of instructor. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to Middle English and close reading of selections from The Canterbury Tales. Offered every other year; alternates with EN 312. Prerequisite: English 221 or 250 or consent of instructor. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to Middle English and close reading of selections from Chaucer's minor poems, including The Book of the Duchess, Troilus and Criseyde, The Legend of Good Women, and Parlement of Fowles. Offered every other year; alternates with EN 311. Block 4: The Other Chaucer. Introduction to Middle English and close reading of selections from Chaucer's minor poems, including the Book of the Duchess, Troilus, and Criseyde, The Legend of Good Women, and Parlement of Fowles. Prerequisite: 200 or 300-level lit course in CO, EN, or other literatures or consent of instructor. (Also listed as Comparative Literature 351.) 1 unit - Evitt.
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