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ENGLIT 1181 - VICTORIAN NOVEL
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will analyze the emergence and development of the victorian novel—careful reading and focused discussion of such writers as Dickens, Eliot, Trollope, Thackeray, Hardy and Meredith will attempt to define the social, moral, and political concerns of their work as well as their narrative technique.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1199 - TOPICS IN BRITISH LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Explores thematic, formal, historical or cultural topics in British literature. It ties these issues to critical and social concerns in the development of British literature and culture.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1200 - AMERICAN LITERATURE TO 1860
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course surveys literature produced in America before the Civil War. In the process it explores the historical, political, social and cultural factors that affected the development of that literature. It examines the work of writers who saw themselves as powerful framers of the national experience yet fearful they would have little effects on a culture confronting problems of slavery, divisiveness, literacy, economic change, immigration, etc.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1220 - CIVIL WAR TO WORLD WAR 1 IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An examination of changing literary practices from the civil war to the beginning of World War I. The course explores the interactions of economic and social developments on American culture.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1225 - 19TH CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will cover a wide range of materials, beginning with the late eighteenth-century poetry and prose of authors such as Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano and ending with Civil War, reconstruction, or gilded-age authors such as William wells brown, Frances Harper, Pauline Hopkins, or Paul Laurence Dunbar. Readings will include a variety of different genres of writing (slave narratives, poetry, drama, fictive and non-fictive prose) as well as pay passing attention to the significant African American intellectual and cultural movements that had a role in shaping these various literary productions.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1227 - HARLEM RENAISSANCE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1230 - 20TH CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The first half of this course begins by examining some of the major authors from the 1920s who were a part of what came to be known as the ‘new negro renaissance’ or ‘Harlem renaissance,’ such as Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, and Zora Neale Hurston. We will then study a range of modernist and naturalist writers of the 1930s and 1940s, such as Richard Wright, Ann Petry, and Gwendolyn Brooks. In the second half of the course we will focus on several post-WWII writers that were associated with the civil rights and black arts movements, from the 1950s to the 1970s, including such figures as Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Toni cade Bambara. Finally, we will consider the recent wave of African American writers that emerged with the popularization, in the 1980s, of several new genres of African American literature.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1247 - AUGUST WILSON
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course closely examines the work of the American dramatist august wilson. A significant amount of the playwright’s work, including his epic 10-play ‘Pittsburgh Cycle,’ is set in Pittsburgh and notably in the hill district, where wilson spent his first 33 years. The course will engage with Wilson’s plays as well as criticism, history and literature by other authors. Course goals include increased insight and skill in reading, in close analysis, and in discussing and writing about this imaginative world in its historic, social, and literary contexts. Assignments may include viewing plays and videos, researching Pittsburgh history, and field trips to the hill district.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1255 - THEATER & ACTIVISM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines modern American drama and its representations of America as a democratic ideal, as a mythological construct and as an ideological force. The plays considered stress the social and political implications of the Tyranny of Commerce, the Loss of a Positive National Identity, the Exclusion of Women, the Disintegration of the Individual and the Devaluation of Language.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 1258 - ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1261 - SPECULATIVE FICTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1262 - AFRICAN AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1272 - THE ROARING 20’S: FROM FARMERS TO FACTORY WORKERS, FROM FLAPPERS TO FINANCIERS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A reading of influential literary texts from the American 1920’s. The course explores changing literary techniques in relation to new views of the past, war, youth, class, politics, etc.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1305 - GREAT BOOKS 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 1306 - GREAT BOOKS 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 1325 - MODERNISM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines major works in the modernist tradition poetry, fiction, drama—to determine the role these texts have played in creating the world that seems so familiar to us now.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1350 - POSTMODERN LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1360 - TOPICS IN 20TH CENTURY LIT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Considers thematic, formal historical or cultural topics in late 19th and 20th century literature. It ties these issues to critical and social concerns in international modernism and post modernism.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1370 - MAKERS OF MODERN DRAMA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This class will read intensively and comparatively plays written by late 19th and early 20th century continental, English, Irish and American dramatists. Plays selected will reflect major dramatic movements of the period (realism, naturalism, symbolism, expressionism) and will be analyzed not only by theatrical characteristics but also in relation to their dramatic, critical and cultural contexts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1372 - CONTEMPORARY DRAMA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course surveys drama of the last thirty years and examines the ways in which role-playing and the theatre itself function as metaphors for the philosophical, social and aesthetic issues that trouble contemporary writers.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1380 - WORLD LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines contemporary literature, primarily in English, written in eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, etc. It pays particular attention to its depiction of social, political and moral concerns.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1382 - PRIZED BOOKS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
How do metropolitan taste and recognition affect dominant and emergent literatures and nations? How do particular contexts and award-winning texts exert pressure on existing criteria and values? How does the category “prized books” also implicitly constitute and comment upon a body of literature that is “unprized”? How do prized books redefine notions of readership and citizenship in the world of globalization and electronic access? Such questions will open up the idea of “world literature” not as an afterthought to the canon of “English” literature, but as an integral and definitive part of it. Students will read literature, speeches, and essays by winners of the nobel and other global literary prizes such as the booker and the commonwealth.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1384 - BANNED BOOKS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1406 - U.S. LATINX LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will focus on U.S. Latino literature. While Mexican-Americans have roots in North America that go back to colonial times, the Latino explosion has happened mainly in the last thirty years, giving rise to new processes and forms of cultural expression, including an emerging literature that is neither a subset of U.S. Literature nor an ex tension of modern Latin American literature, though it has connections to both. To get an idea of what this literature involves and where it is going, we will look at some representative novels, poetry, memoirs, plays and films.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1412 - SECRET PITTSBURGH
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
How much do you know about the city outside Pitt? Have you explored a hillside neighborhood using stairways instead of streets? Visited the church with the largest collection of relics outside Europe? Eaten a macaroon prepared by a transplanted French baker? Pittsburgh has a rich cultural history, from labor disputes to a vibrant arts scene. It’s also a city with secrets. Students in this course will explore Pittsburgh’s most unusual sites and locales; learn about the city’s history and the literature it has inspired; and research and write entries for a public guide to secret Pittsburgh.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1510 - KAFKA AND THE MODERN WORLD
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1552 - HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A survey of the linguistic development of English from Anglo-Saxon times to the present. Attention given to basic linguistic structures and discursive practices and to the social and historical conditions under which they change.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1600 - COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN THE HUMANITIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces students to the use of computational modeling and programming to conduct text-based research in the humanities. The goals of this course are to learn how to identify research questions in the humanities that are amenable to computational analysis and processing, along with designing and implementing xml-based computational systems to explore those questions.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1610 - TOPICS IN GENRE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A consideration of significant emergent literary forms or practices in relation to their social and cultural contexts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1611 - DEVELOPMENT OF THE NOVEL
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course studies the development of the novel as a literary practice. Readings will reveal significant contributions to the definition of the novel; the characteristics that identify the novel, historical developments that led to its creation, and its dominant subjects.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1620 - POETRY: FORM AND ARGUMENT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This upper-level literature elective course investigates concepts of form and argument and considers their implications for the study and practice of poetry. Course readings, class discussions, and student papers will articulate and address questions of poetics that emerge in the writing and the reading of poetry, and will also explore some of the contentions that inflect our understanding of poetry’s presence in cultural life, its purpose, and its situation as an art form.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1635 - CHILDREN IN PITTSBURGH
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1640 - LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines literature that has been and is being read by children. There are units on fairy tales, myths and legends, poetry and fiction as well as more “realistic” fiction. The approach is historical, critical and creative.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1645 - CRITL APPRCH TO CHILDREN’S LIT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines a variety of children’s books from a number of theoretical perspectives; historical, feminist, transactional, structuralist, etc. The implications of theory will be emphasized. We will place children’s books and reading in the wider context of the emotional, cognitive, and moral development of the child, the popular culture of childhood, and contemporary multicultural society.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGLIT 0560 and 0562 or 0655
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ENGLIT 1647 - LITERATURE FOR ADOLESCENTS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will read classics as well as modern works written specifically for an adolescent audience. We will also read and discuss sociological and psychological constructions of adolescents and books on pedagogy.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1701 - TOPICS IN WOMEN’S STUDIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Investigates issues raised by the woman’s movement in literature written by and about women. It ties these issues to critical and cultural concerns both at the time the text was written and to the present day.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1704 - WOMEN NOVELISTS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores the important role women have played in the development of the novel and how they have used and transformed its generic traditions. We will place novels in the contexts of issues important to their own time and discuss questions raised by recent feminist criticism.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1715 - GLOBAL BLACK LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Despite their geographical and cultural differences, writers from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States undergo similar experiences of oppression. Problems of self-identity, and the quest for self-respect. These similarities will be discussed in class along with a comparative approach to the texts with supplementary films, slides, and recordings.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1716 - TOPICS IN BLACK LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Addresses recurrent issues in the relationship of black race to literary culture. Addresses recurrent issues in the black experience as it relates to dominant literary cultures.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1719 - INTRO TO HOLOCAUST LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course surveys the central texts of the literature of the holocaust, while introducing students to the main issues and preoccupations of holocaust testimony in literature and film.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1730 - CHINESE AND WESTERN POETRY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A comparative study of Chinese and Western lyric poetry. This course explores the world of feeling as expressed in the poetry of two vastly different worlds: china and the West and focuses on the language of feeling in a poetic medium. The purpose of this course is to appreciate how differences between the two poetic traditions is essential to a better understanding of the two cultures.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1738 - IRISH LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course samples the work of major figures in Irish literature. It seeks to define its national character through careful reading of selected texts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1756 - BALLADS AND BLUES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course acquaints students with folk and literary aspects of ballads and blues in the Anglo-American and Afro-American traditions. It surveys both forms from their separate beginnings to contemporary examples. Organized both historically and topically, the course explores influences on these forms as well as their historical, social and cultural context.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1760 - TOPICS IN POPULAR CULTURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Focuses on the emergence of popular culture, the relationship of modern social and economic practices, mass audiences, and modes of cultural representation, or specific popular forms.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1797 - BIBLE AS LITERATURE 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course continues the bible as literature and it provides an opportunity to consider more carefully books read in the earlier course as well as to consider other books that were entirely neglected. This second semester will permit us to address some fascinating problems; what happens to narratives as they pass from an oral tradition to written form; problems of translation; the formation of a canon; the ways the bible influences later literature. The generally historical approach will permit the student to understand the time and culture of the bible.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1900 - PROJECT SEMINAR
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The junior seminar, required for English literature majors, offered in varied versions, will investigate methods and goals of literary historical study by directing attention to broad historical and theoretical issues and to long-durational developments and transformations of literacy cultural practices. Will include a range of literary, theoretical and historical texts selected to enable exploration of issues and problems that cut across traditional designations of literary historical periods.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
This option permits students to design their own course with the approval of a department faculty member.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1903 - DIRECTED RESEARCH IN LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1904 - UTA IN LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1907 - LITERATURE INTERNSHIP
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1910 - SENIOR SEMINAR
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Intensive study of a single topic or figure that assumes previous work in related literary historical and critical areas. Each seminar moves toward a final paper that integrates earlier literary study with the specific critical perspective developed in this course.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1913 - ADVANCED RESEARCH IN LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Working closely with faculty members on her/his senior thesis committee to do the primary reading, foundational research, and exploratory writing for the senior thesis, the student will read a majority of the primary literary works and a significant amount of criticism and complete a minimum of 20 pages of exploratory writing or a draft of the thesis.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1914 - SENIOR HONORS THESIS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
In this course, the student will complete all remaining research for the senior thesis and will work closely with the faculty members on his/her committee to plan, write, and revise the senior thesis.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1925 - UNDERGRAD TEACHING IN LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students enrolled in this course will work with an instructor as an assistant to any upper-level course being offered to English majors. They will help with course materials and generate class discussion.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
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ENGWRT 0400 - INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course offers the opportunity to experiment with forms of poetry and fiction and to read and discuss from a writer’s point of view contemporary writing in these genres.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 0411 - INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE NONFICTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will introduce undergraduates to creative nonfiction, a genre that often borrows from fiction writer’s techniques while sticking to the facts. Genre includes personal essay, new journalism, memoir and quality feature writing.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0200 or (ENGCMP 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0250 or FP 0003 or 0006 or ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102) or ENGR 0012
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ENGWRT 0520 - INTRODUCTION TO FICTION WRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This first course in the fiction sequence introduces students to aspects of prose fiction—plot, point of view, characterization, conflict, etc. Students may write exercises on these aspects of fiction, write one or more short stories and revise frequently. Students will also read representative stories and explore their use of particular fictional techniques.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 0530 - INTRODUCTION TO POETRY WRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Through writing exercises, analysis of modern and contemporary poetry and frequent revision of their own poetry, students learn the basic elements of poetry writing.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 0540 - WRITING YOUTH LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will introduce undergraduates to the art of writing for young people. It may focus on a single genre in depth (for instance, the young adult novel) or invite students to read and write broadly across a range of genres (picture books, children’s poetry, nonfiction for the young, etc.). This course serves as an approved category 1 elective for the children’s literature certificate program, but all interested students are welcome.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0200 or (ENGCMP 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0250 or FP 0003 or 0006 or ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0716 or 0718)
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ENGWRT 0550 - FUNDAMENTALS OF NEWS REPORTING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The internet has led newspapers, corporations and non-profit agencies to create websites that dispense news and information 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and these agencies need people who can write efficiently in that style. This makes clear, concise, accurate writing - the basis of all news reporting - more important than ever. In fundamentals of news reporting, students will learn to identify news, write effective summaries of the information, structure stories well, conduct research, and identify sources of reliable facts and informed opinions. Students will write about their surrounding communities: the University, Oakland, the city of Pittsburgh. The course will also include lectures and discussions about media law and ethics.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0200 or (ENGCMP 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0250 or FP 0003 or 0006 or ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0718)
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ENGWRT 0560 - SCREENWRITING AND NARRATIVE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will explore developing character-based stories in the screenplay form. Students will be exposed to a variety of readings including original screenplays, related prose, and texts which reinforce basic tenets of good story telling. Students will write rigorously building from idea to outline with great attention to structure and character development. Students will develop writing abilities, critical facilities in approaching work, and an understanding of principles of storytelling common in narrative forms.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0200 or (ENGCMP 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0250 or FP 0003 or 0006 or ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0718)
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ENGWRT 0610 - INTRODUCTION TO JOURNALISM AND NONFICTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to develop your skills as a nonfiction writer. Through a combination of required readings, creative exercises, peer critiques and critical discussions, you will develop an understanding of the fundamentals of journalism as well as an introduction to the wide-ranging possibilities of nonfiction writing as a genre: narrative long form, the personal essay, immersion journalism and forms of creative nonfiction. This class will be divided into two components; gathering information and shaping stories.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 0650 - READINGS IN JOURNALISM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is intended to introduce journalism students to news, feature, and column/op-ed writing as practiced by the best papers - and the best writers - nationally. The course will focus on the methods for obtaining the information needed to create solid news stories, and strategies ranging from extensive, in-depth interviewing, background reading, and the journalistic “legwork” and “digging” that produces incisive, accurate accounts and the very best “investigative reporting”.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 1010 - INTERMEDIATE FICTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students work on writing short stories and read a wide range of stories. Students can expect to revise their work regularly. Class sessions will address problems in fiction writing — from plot to characterization, from point-of-view to style.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0520; MIN GRADE: ‘C’
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ENGWRT 1020 - ADVANCED FICTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will continue the development of literary devices introduced in the prerequisite fiction writing courses (introduction to fiction and intermediate fiction), and introduce new core writing skills to master such as narrative voice and narrative time, point-of-view, methods of characterization, the use of suspense and tension as functions of plot, scene-setting, dialogue, elements of style, and the importance of “place” in fiction. The class time will be divided between work- shopping, student writing, and discussion of readings.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 1010 ( MIN GRADE ‘C’)
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ENGWRT 1050 - The Lyric Essay
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
In this class, students will be invited to experiment with the boundaries between nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. They will read and write a wide variety of Lyric Essays-including mosaics, prose poems, and double-portraits¿as well as compose a short audio monologue.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 1090 - MASTERING POINT OF VIEW
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course acquaints the student with a variety of first and third person points of view. Through readings, class discussions and written work, students develop a mastery of the internal monologue, dramatic monologue, letter, diary and other forms.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0520 or 0530 or 0550 or 0610
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ENGWRT 1091 - AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND CREATIVE IMPULSE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This advanced level, mixed-genre course will explore various ways autobiographical material might be generated, structured, modified, and revised. In addition to frequent in-class writing and a final project, students will read and respond to published essays, poetry, and fiction.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0520 or 0530 or 0550 or 0610
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ENGWRT 1092 - WRITER’S JOURNALS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course studies the journal as an art form. It also questions the purpose and value of journal keeping for a writer.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0520 or 0530 or 0550 or 0610
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ENGWRT 1094 - READINGS IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course acquaints students with a variety of contemporary writers. This study helps students raise questions about their own developing esthetics as they are reflected in form and take into account their dual roles as creative writers and critics. It also helps students access their relationship to reviewing and criticism, including its benefits to a creative writer developing a career, and to discover techniques of reviewing and criticism which aid and do not transgress upon their esthetics and its expression.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0520
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ENGWRT 1095 - TOPICS IN FICTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course concerns itself with matters of interest in fiction writing; form and technique, contemporary production, and the relation of the fiction writer to his/her society.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 1098 - THE CONTEMPORARY BESTSELLER
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students will read books in a variety of genres that have all appeared on the New York Times’ bestseller list. We will examine the elements of craft that play a role in making a book a bestseller, such as suspense, characterization, world-building, and plot. A series of assignments will allow students to put these elements into practice in their own writing.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 1101 - SENTENCE SHOP: EXPERIMENTS IN TIME AND SPACE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 1200 - WRITING THE CITY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course’s goal is to encourage your personal recording of experiences through which you gain insight and self-discovery. Journal entries reflect the significance of travel experiences that others can share and expand. Travel narratives and oral presentations are evaluated.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGWRT 1210 - POETRY WORKSHOP
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
For this advanced poetry writing course, the central text will be the student’s own writing. Students will read recently published poetry, regularly write their own poetry and frequently rewrite it.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0530; MIN GRADE: ‘C’
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ENGWRT 1245 - STUDIO IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN POETRY AND POETICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Intended for graduate students and advanced undergraduates, Studio in African American Poetry and Poetics will be a course in interdisciplinary making, as we investigate the evolving fields of African American poetry and poetics through a critical and a creative lens.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0400 or ENGWRT 0530 or ENGLIT 0315 or ENGLIT 0515
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ENGWRT 1290 - READINGS IN CONTEMPORARY POETRY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course focuses on American poets who have come to prominence since 1963. We will read widely in the poetry of this period to understand its unique contribution to the development of poetic form and its relationship to the culture that produced it.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0530
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ENGWRT 1310 - NEWSPAPER 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students in this course learn how to profile individuals, report trends, take polls and write about a community. The course provides hands-on practice in feature writing and a workshop approach to critiquing students’ and professionals’ work.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0550; MIN GRADE: ‘C’
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ENGWRT 1330 - INTERMEDIATE NONFICTION: SCENE AND POINT-OF-VIEW
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students in this course will study, practice, produce and revise short pieces of literary nonfiction while examining basic structures of the essay, the profile, and long form narratives. We will study the anatomy of a scene and explore techniques of scene-by-scene construction. Students will be expected to master the basics of point-of-view, and to begin experimenting with voice. We will develop research techniques including the art of the interview and immersion research. This course will place emphasis on digital forms of publishing. Students will develop personal blogs. Workshopping of student work will be limited.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0550 or 0610; MIN GRADE: ‘C’
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ENGWRT 1340 - ADVANCED NONFICTION: LONG FORM NARRATIVE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course focuses on developing students’ skill as magazine writers by producing articles for widely different markets. It emphasizes professional preparation from the idea stage to a final, revised, polished version suitable for submission. Students analyze their markets, and discuss both those markets and student writing in class.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 1330; MIN GRADE: ‘C’
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ENGWRT 1370 - JOURNALISM BOOT CAMP: WRITE NOW
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course is a journalism boot camp-like experience where students will work closely with the instructor and editors on the Pitt news to prepare for the real world of journalism.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 1375 - GREAT MODERN JOURNALISTS: FIRST DRAFTERS OF HISTORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores the lives of men and women who have made significant contributions to the craft of journalism and to society’s understanding of how history unfolds. Students read and discuss works by and about great journalists, beginning turn-of-the-century and ending with more contemporary works. Selections highlight the contributions made to journalism and society, while also documenting the evolution of the press and how it experienced and presented signal events to the American public such as social movements, wars and elections. Speakers and outside assignments augment readings and discussion.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 1377 - MEDIA LITERACY: WRITING AND READING YOUR WAY THROUGH THE DIGITAL LANDSCAPE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will teach you how to be media literate and understand the role of media in a democracy. You will learn how to identify and verify news, and how to understand news gathering and sourcing. You will learn how to distinguish between the demands of real journalism as you do your own writing and the realities of the digital world.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 1378 - WOMEN IN JOURNALISM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 1390 - READINGS IN CONTEMPORARY NON-FICTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course familiarizes students with a number of different forms of and approaches to contemporary non-fiction writing.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0550 or 0610
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ENGWRT 1391 - WRITING THE REVIEW
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores various types and styles of reviews. Students read a variety of critics as well as write original reviews of film, television, theatre, music, books, etc.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 205 or 207 or 208 or 0250) or (FP 0003 or 0006) or ENG 0102 or ENGR 0012
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ENGWRT 1393 - SPORTS WRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course affords students the opportunity of studying modern sports writing techniques, with an added goal of improving their writing skills. It deals with the differences between sports reporting and writing and news reporting and writing. Ideally, a student with an interest in sports writing will complete the course with an idea of how best to collect information, organize it and disseminate it in an appealing manner. Clear, entertaining prose will be stressed.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0550 or 0610
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ENGWRT 1394 - SCIENCE WRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The emphasis of this introductory science writing course will be two fold: you will learn to find, read, assess, and interpret scholarly scientific writing; you’ll also read books and articles that use creativity, imagination and poetic acuity to make scientific ideas clear to the lay reader. Through the deep study of pieces of science writing and the completion of a series of short exercises, you will gain the skills you need to write and revise feature-length articles.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0250) or (FP 0003 or 0006) or ENG 0102 or ENGR 0012
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ENGWRT 1399 - TOPICS IN NON-FICTION: NEWSPAPER
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the history, lives and livelihoods famous female journalists who made exceptional contributions to journalism despite institutional and gender obstacles. Starting with the turn-of-the century, we look at women and their writing who covered domestic and international beats such as Nellie Bly, Martha Gellhorn, Gloria Steinem, and Lara Logan who have left their mark on women’s history.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 1403 - TOPICS IN NON-FICTION: ELECTRONIC MEDIA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course concerns itself with the varieties of writing for the electronic media, and with related matters of interest; form and technique, contemporary production, ethical and legal matters, and the general relation of the writer in this field to his/her society.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0520 or 0530 or 0610
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ENGWRT 1430 - LITERARY AND ONLINE PUBLISHING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will introduce students to the art and craft of literary and online publishing. Students will research independent literary magazines and small presses, both online and in print. They will learn the basics of literary publishing from both an editorial and an authorial perspective. They will use what they learn to produce an online site featuring the work of Pitt-Greensburg writing program graduates, as well as individual print chapbook-length collections from the English writing program capstone.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0520 or 0530 or 0610
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ENGWRT 1435 - LITERARY PUBLISHING IN PRINT AND ONLINE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0520 or 0530 or 0610
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ENGWRT 1450 - AUDIO STORYTELLING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0400, or 0410, or 0520, or 0530, or 0610
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ENGWRT 1451 - MULTIMEDIA ESSAY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0400 or 0410 or 0520 or 0530 or 0610
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ENGWRT 1501 - TOPICS IN CREATIVE WRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Topics in Creative Writing will explore writing that crosses boundaries in a variety of ways, between traditional genres (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama) or that is interdisciplinary (between writing and, for instance, studio arts, photography, music, or dance). Writers of all genres have been influenced, challenged, and enriched by other kinds of artists’ productions and practices (and vice versa), and this class will examine those engagements and influences especially in but not limited to contemporary work.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 1510 - ADVANCED POETRY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
In this course, students will spend time reading and exploring poetry written by established contemporary authors, thereby furthering their understanding of literary device, craft, practice and form. They will also identify and consider the literary transitions embedded within the contemporary works they study. As part of the analysis of texts in question, students will write imitations of several of the poems discussed in class. Class time will be divided between workshopping, student writing and discussing the required reading.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 1210; MIN GRADE: ‘C’
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ENGWRT 1515 - THE BOOK AS ART: TEXT AND IMAGE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PLAN: English Writing (BA)
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ENGWRT 1540 - WRITING YOUTH LITERATURE 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Expanding on the fundamentals of writing youth literature, students will aim to complete the first draft of a novel-length piece for either a young adult or middle grade audience. Incoming students must have an approved idea and roughly sixty consecutive pages of writing already completed.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 1650 - PLAYWRITING 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A beginning course in writing for the stage. Starting with short scenes, students will work towards understanding the craft and art of constructing theatre stories to be performed by actors. The final project will be a one-act play. Throughout there will be emphasis on the stage effectiveness of the writing and opportunity for informal performance of student scripts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 1651 - PLAYWRITING 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is an advanced course in the study of playwriting. The goal is to create performable plays.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: THEA 1365 or ENGWRT 1650
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