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ENGLIT 0630 - SEXUALITY AND REPRESENTATION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will explore the relations between cultural texts and the shifting conceptualizations and figurations of sexuality and sexual politics over the past 150 years. The main objective of this course will be to understand the necessary but problematic relations between sexuality, cultural expression, and the social.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0635 - NEW LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course’s close reading of contemporary texts seeks to develop a broad theoretical framework to understand the production and cultural status of the diverse writings of the last twenty-five years. Topics include the problematics of race, gender and class; the question of “post modernism”; and the status of national or regional literatures in a period of international capitalism.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0636 - THE GOTHIC IMAGINATION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the genre of gothic fiction, in Britain and the U.S., From its origins in the late 18th century until the present.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0637 - HORROR LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0640 - ALLEGORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will introduce students to the subject of allegory.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0642 - COMEDY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course studies comedy, both its deep structural patterns and its surface humor. We will read works from many periods (from the Greeks through the 20th century) and genres to understand the literary and cultural meanings of comedy.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0643 - SATIRE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course studies satire in general, the techniques of certain satires in particular and the expression of satiric attitudes. We will examine satires from various times and countries so that we can better understand what satire is, how it differs from other literary forms and its function within the culture that produces it.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0644 - MYTH AND FOLKTALE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines myths, legends and folktales. It explores contemporary views of such works as cognitive categories, models for behavior, “agents” for mediating “world” views, mirrors of culture, projections of sub conscious desires. In short it considers the connection between myth/folktales and the culture/intelligence that produced them.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0645 - FANTASY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Focusing on works that offer fantastic alternations to the world of ordinary experience, this course examines works produced from the middle ages to the present day. It raises questions about our perceptions of “reality”, and the effects of conscious or unconscious wishes, desires and fears on literary representations.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0646 - APOCALYPSE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 0647 - HARRY POTTER: BLOOD, POWER, CULTURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0655 - REPRESENTING ADOLESCENCE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course focuses on the question of how adolescence gets represented in a variety of genres, including young adult and children’s literature; novels, plays and poetry aimed at adults that take adolescence as a theme; films and television programs; scientific, journalistic, or autobiographical commentaries on the nature of adolescence; and so on. This is one of the core courses 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
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ENGLIT 0699 - LITERATURE AND SCIENCE LAB
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: CREQ: ENGLIT 0612
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ENGLIT 0700 - WITNESSING REVOLUTIONS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
What role did a series of Facebook posts and tweets play in the Arab spring? When do a network of uncoordinated uprisings become a political force? How does individual protest gain world-changing power? How do revolutions happen? This course will examine fiction and nonfiction works that narrate revolutions, interpret their causes, and organize their events. We will pay special attention to the role of writing in witnessing and shaping events.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 0710 - CONTEMPORARY ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the ways in which contemporary writers in English have engaged with the natural environment. We will read a range of authors, from the 1960s to the present day, to consider how they have looked critically at the human effects on ecosystems, and we will also study the interdisciplinary scholarly field of ecocriticism and its responses to such writings. Throughout, we will be attentive both to the literary qualities of writings about the environment and to their historical and political contexts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 0711 - STEAMPUNK
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0712 - CRITICAL MAKING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0715 - AUSTEN AND BRONTE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0720 - GLOBAL FICTIONS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 0725 - INTRODUCTION TO TRANSLATION STUDIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0815 - IRISH LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1000 - INTRO TO TRANSLATION STUDIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This class introduces students to translation studies, an emerging discipline critical to an understanding of world literature. The focus is on English versions of literary texts in other languages and the theory underlying the transformation. The course examines translation as a form of writing which possesses a complex relationship to an earlier text to which it is similar but not equivalent. Students will consider the ways in which talented translators render influential literary works. We grapple with the following questions: how do English translations of the same text differ and what is the result? How does one evaluate a translation?
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1001 - INTERACTIVE LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 1002 - CRITICAL GAME STUDIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1005 - LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the ways in which writers in English have engaged with the natural environment. We will read a range of authors, across time periods and up to the present day, to consider how they have looked critically at the human effects on ecosystems, and we will also study the interdisciplinary scholarly field of ecocriticism and its responses to such writings. Throughout, we will be attentive both to the literary qualities of writings about the environment and to their historical and political contexts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1010 - MAGICAL NATURE BEFORE THE MODERN WORLD
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 1020 - HISTORY OF LITERARY CRITICISM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course considers influential critical theorists ranging from Plato and Augustine to Nietzsche and Freud. Neither the readings nor the approach of the class fall under the narroWest definitions of literary criticism; our focus instead will be on texts from several disciplines that offer powerful models of reading and writing and that raise interesting questions about the foundations of literature, culture, and interpretation.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1028 - LITERATURE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces students to psychoanalytic contributions to understanding the processes of artistic creation and aesthetic response. It demonstrates how familiarity with psychoanalytic methodology enhances the alertness, subtlety and power in reading literary texts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1100 - MEDIEVAL IMAGINATION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores some of the ways people in the middle ages saw the world around them. We will try to understand those perceptions by reading a variety of literary works, by comparing those works to other art forms and by examining similar kinds of experience in the modern world.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1101 - INVENTION OF ENGLISH
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The English language and its literatures are in constant flux, but this was especially true in medieval england as waves of foreign invaders and immigrants shaped the language, and political, religious, and mercantile contact with other regions of Europe contributed new aesthetic and poetic ideals. Beginning with old English riddles, this course helps you discover the linguistic and literary DNA of English. You will discover the multiple “Englishes” and other languages that remain present in modern English and prefigure the global diversity of the anglophone world. Along the way, you will develop familiarity with old English and multiple dialects of middle English. You will begin to chart the continuities and ruptures involved in the transitions from tribal heroic culture to a growing sense of common identity as English people of an English kingdom. And on a parallel trajectory, you will track how the notion of a specifically English literature written by the English, in English, for the English, emerges from adaptations and negotiations with other European vernaculars. This focus forms a bridge to further study in early modern or Renaissance English literature. The tools of philology, historical language study, rhetorical analysis, and manuscript studies, lend themselves to this course’s emphasis on language and history, and in developing facility with them, you will be better prepared for the study of any area of literature.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1103 - INTRODUCTION TO OLD ENGLISH
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The purpose of this course is to learn the fundamentals of old English as quickly as possible, in order to be able to read some of the very best old English poetry by the end of the term. While the course is not linguistically oriented, it can serve as a background to courses in middle English or old Norse, as well as leading to further study in old English literature.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1115 - CHAUCER
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course closely examines major works by Chaucer—the Canterbury tales and Troilus and Cressida. Though most of the reading will be in modern English translations, some will be in the original middle English. We will view Chaucer’s work in its historical, social, artistic and intellectual contexts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1125 - MASTERPIECES OF RENAISSANCE LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course studies prose, poetry and drama written in England between 1550 and 1660—an age of religious reformation, economic and social instability, intellectual revision and political revolution. It seeks to make sense of the renaissance in terms appropriate both to that time and to our own.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1126 - ADVANCED SHAKESPEARE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This upper level course in Shakespeare assumes some prior work with his writings. It seeks to develop a more detailed appreciation of his writing by examining selected texts in relation to some historical, cultural or critical issue.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1127 - SHAKESPEARE ON FILM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines how Shakespeare’s works have been adapted to film and television. In this study, we will be concerned with Shakespeare as a cultural icon and with the expectations surrounding both high art and popular entertainment. Central to this examination are the relationships between a film and a text.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1128 - SHAKESPEARE’S SEXUALITIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores the roles of shakespeare’s female characters as they relate to cultural ideas about gender and sexuality. We will examine beliefs about “proper” behavior of both women and men and the relationship of representations of gender to social power.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1135 - LITERATURE, MEDIA, AND SCIENCE IN THE AGE OF SHAKESPEARE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will introduce students to the broad range of styles, genres, and concerns of literature written in English in the early modern period, particularly the 17th century. The designation “early modern” is capacious enough to straddle the renaissance as well as the early enlightenment. Readings could include English writers, writers from the Americas, and writers who composed in English but wrote about countries other than England, Ireland or new England.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1150 - ENLIGHTENMENT TO REVOLUTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course focuses on literature and culture of the late 17th and 18th centuries—a period of revolutionary changes in the way writers and readers viewed their world. We will read widely in the important texts of the period in order to explore the interplay of enlightenment and revolution.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1170 - ROMANTIC NATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course concentrates on writings from 1790 through the 1830’s that have come to be associated with romanticism. It explores the social, intellectual and aesthetic concerns of this movement and its relationships with its British and European cultural contexts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1175 - 19TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A study of the major writers and cultural issues of 19th century Britain situated in relation to the social and intellectual developments of the time.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1180 - HUMANS, ANIMALS, MACHINES IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course studies the poetry and prose produced during the reign of queen Victoria, and places these works in relation to changing practices of science, industry, empire and culture.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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 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 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 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
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 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
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 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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