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Course Schedule—Fall 2006

Writing Seminars

WRITING SEMINARS

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220.105 (H)

(W)

INTRODUCTION TO FICTION AND POETRY WRITING I: TELLING IT STRAIGHT (3) Staff  Limit 17 per section This course is a prerequisite for most upper level courses

Section 05 is limited to Writing Seminars majors

Sec. 17 added 3/24/06

Sec. 18 added 8/15/06

Sec. 19 added 9/11/06

Sec. 01

02

03

04

For majors:

05

06

07

08

09

10

11

12

13

14


15


16


17

18

19

MTW 9

MTW 9

MTW 9

MTW 9

 


MTW 12

MTW 12

MTW 12

MTW 12

MTW 12

MTW 12

MTW 12

MTW 12

ThF 9-10:30

ThF 10:30-12

ThF 10:30-12

ThF 10:30-12

MTW 11

MTW 12

MTW 11

220.106 (H)

              (W)

INTRODUCTION TO FICTION AND POETRY WRITING II: TELLING IT SLANT (3) Staff   Limit 17 per section   Prereq: 220.105 This course is a prerequisite for most upper level courses

Sec. 01

02

03

04

MTW 9

MTW 12

MTW 12

ThF 10:30-12

220.139 (H)

INTRODUCTORY PLAY WRITING (3) Lapadula    Limit 15   Perm. Req'd.

Sec. 01

F 12:30-2:30

220.141 (H)

INTRODUCTION TO POETRY WORKSHOP (3) Smith Limit 15     Perm. Req'd.

Sec. 01

Th 2-4

220.145 (H) (W)

INTRODUCTION TO NONFICTION: MATTER OF FACT (3) Biddle    Limit 15

Sec. 01

W 12-2

220.146 (H) (W)

UNDERGRADUATE WORKSHOP IN SCIENCE WRITING (3) Wayman   Limit 15

Sec. 01

M 12-2

220.191 (H)

RUDIMENTS OF FICTION (3) Dixon / Davies Perm. Req'd.  Limit 15 per section Sec. 03 added 4/12/06

Sec.  01

02

03

M 4-6pm

T 3-5

M 3-5

220.316 (H) (W)

OPINION WRITING (3) Kane Limit 15 Perm. Req’d.

Sec. 01

W 7-9pm

220.325 (H)

STORY AND PLOT (3) Roper Limit 15 Perm. Req’d.

Sec. 01

W 3-5

220.328 (H)

RUDIMENTS OF FICTION II (3) McGarry  Limit 15   Perm. Req’d.

Sec. 01

T 3-5

220.330 (H)

READINGS IN NONFICTION (3) Simpson   Limit 15   Perm. Req’d. An advanced reading course in which students explore the use of literary techniques and research in nonfiction works, both historical and contemporary. Through intensive class discussion and written analyses, students explore three essential approaches to literary nonfiction: limited first-person, immersion narrative (omniscient voice), and historical recreation. Possible authors include Seneca, Montaigne, Darwin, Machiavelli, Kenko, Garcia Marquez, Lewis Thomas, John McPhee, Gretel Ehrlich, James Baldwin, Anne Lamott, Joan Didion, Tracy Kidder, John M. Barry, and others.

Sec. 01

Th 6:30-8:30pm

220.331 (H)

FORMS OF FICTION (3) Davies Limit 15 Perm. Req’d.

Sec. 01

Th 3-5

220.336 (H)

ART OF THE SCREENPLAY (3) Lapadula  Limit  15   Perm. Req'd.
Cross-listed with Film and Media Studies

Sec. 01

F 2:30-4:30

220.339 (H) (W)

SCIENCE STORIES (3) Kestenbaum   Limit 12   Perm. Req’d. Prereq: 220.146 *First class will meet 9/14/06

Sec. 01

*Th 4-7pm T 3-6pm

220.358 (H)

LINKED STORIES (3) Dixon Limit 15    Perm. Req’d. 

Sec. 01

T 4-6pm

220.374 (H)

FOUR AMERICAN WOMEN POETS (3) Salter Limit 15    Perm. Req’d.  A study of four American poets (Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and Amy Clampitt), non of whom saw themselves primarily as women poets. All are known for their originality, and shaped the course of poetry in our time--by both women and men--in significant ways. Student poets will engage in poetic exercises including memorization and imitation, as well as some critical writing.  Questions about gender, and about poetic mentoring and influence, will be addressed, while we pay close attention to poetic form.

Sec. 01

T 2-4

220.377 (H)

POETIC FORMS I (3) Williamson  Limit 15   Perm. Req’d.

Sec. 01

W 2-4

220.394 (H)

FAULKNER, FITZGERALD & HEMINGWAY (3) Irwin Limit 15   Perm. Req’d. Students should read "The Sound and the Fury" before the first class on 9/13 Cross-listed with English Sec. 02 added 4/12/06

Sec. 01

02

M 3-6pm

W 3-6pm

220.396 (H)

ADVANCED POETRY (3) Irwin
Limit 10   Perm. Req’d.
Course canceled 4/12/06

Sec. 01

W 3-6pm

360.133 (H)
 (W)

GREAT BOOKS: WESTERN TRADITION OR THE HUMANITIES: A TRADITION OF CLASSICS (3) Bett, Biddle, Talle, Valládares  
Limit 20 per section

Open to all Undergraduates      
Cross-listed with Interdepartmental, Music, Classics  and Philosophy

Sec. 01


02


03


04

ThF 10:30-12

ThF 10:30-12

ThF 10:30-12

ThF 10:30-12

220.501

INDEPENDENT STUDY

   

220.507

HONORS THESIS

   

220.509

PRACTICING JOURNALISM INTERNSHIP   Perm. Req’d. Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory only

   

220.513

INTERNSHIP: TEACHING WRITING IN THE SCHOOLS (3) Dixon      Perm. Req'd.    Juniors & Seniors only  Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory only

   

220.613

WRITING ABOUT SCIENCE Finkbeiner Limit 8

Sec. 01

M 3-6pm

220.619

GRADUATE POETIC FORMS I Williamson  

Sec. 01

Th 12-3

220.623

FICTION WORKSHOP McDermott Limit 12

Sec. 01

T 2-5

220.625

POETRY WORKSHOP M. Salter Limit 12

Sec. 01

M 2-5

220.627

CHARACTERS McGarry A study of fictional persons in works by Henry James, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Carlos Williams, R.M. Rilke, and various contemporary writers. Students will write weekly sketches and one or more stories.

Sec. 01

Th 2-5

220.800

INDEPENDENT STUDY

   

 

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