WRITING SEMINARS |
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| 220.105
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(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 Note: Section 02 and 03
are limited to Writing Seminar's majors A course in the arts
of realist fiction and traditional verse, with reading in American
literature, most recently: Eudora Welty,
Vladimir Nabokov, Henry James, Donald
Justice, Robert Frost and Gwendolyn Brooks. Students will learn
to read as writers; they will compose short stories and poems
of their own. Classes meet two
or three times a week with a day set aside for a writing workshop. This
course is part one of the year-long Introduction to
Fiction and Poetry, and must be taken before 220.106
Sec.
10 added 02/01/06 |
Sec. 01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10 |
MTW 9
MTW 12
MTW 12
MTW 12
MTW 12
MTW 12
MTW 12
ThF 9-10:30
ThF 10:30-12
MTW
12 |
| 220.106
(H)
(W) |
INTRODUCTION
TO FICTION AND POETRY WRITING II: TELLING IT SLANT (3) Staff Prereq:
220.105 Limit 17 per section This course is a prerequisite
for most upper level courses
Note: Sections 03 and
04 are limited to Writing Seminar's majors A
course in the counter-traditional arts of anti-realist fiction,
free verse, and the prose poem, with readings in 20th Century
world literature (Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, Italo Calvino, Francis Ponge, William
Carlos Williams, Russell Edson). This
course will follow the format of 220.105, IFP
I, and should be taken after the completion of 220.105.
Sec.
07 canceled 02/01/06 |
Sec. 01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
11 |
MTW 9
MTW 9
MTW 12
MTW 12
MTW 12
MTW 12
MTW
12
MTW 12
ThF
9-10:30
ThF 10:30-12
ThF 10:30-12 |
| 220.109
(H)
(W) |
INTRODUCTION TO FICTION
AND POETRY III: TELLING IT SEPARATE, TELLING IT TOGETHER (3) Basford
Limit 15 Prereq: 220.105 & 106
(concurrent 106 if possible) Poetry
and fiction considered as social and public enterprises. Discussion
and practice of style and technique integrated with writing through
questions of insularity and openness. Kafka, Woolf,
Saramago, Forster, Whitman, Williams,
Moore, Warren, among others. |
Sec. 01 |
T 12-3 |
| 220.142
(H) |
INTRODUCTION
TO POETRY WORKSHOP (3) Williamson Perm.
Req'd. Limit 15 A discussion and critical evaluation
of the work of a number of contemporary poets in conjunction with
a workshop concentrating on student poems. |
Sec. 01 |
W 2-4 |
| 220.146
(H)
(W) |
UNDERGRADUATE WORKSHOP
IN SCIENCE WRITING (3) Nasser Limit 15
Science writing is science written in plain English and told as
a story. Students research, write, edit
others, rewrite. They also analyze published stories for structure,
substance, accessibility, and clarity. |
Sec. 01 |
M 3-5 |
| 220.192
(H) |
RUDIMENTS
OF FICTION (3)
Dixon/Davies Limit 15 per section Perm.
Req'd. Prereq:
220.105-106 An introductory
workshop in the fundamentals of prose fiction. Frequent written exercises
in the elements of description, characterization, dialogue, reflection,
narrative viewpoint, etc., with supplementary readings in conventional
and unconventional short fiction. |
Sec. 01
02 |
M 3-5
T 3-5 |
| 220.303
(H) |
ADVANCED
PLAYWRITING (3)
Lapadula Limit 15 Perm.
Req'd. Intensive workshop development
of one play. |
Sec. 01 |
F 12:30-2:30 |
| 220.308
(H) |
RUSSIAN SHORT STORY (3) Frydman
Perm. Req'd. Limit 15
A discussion seminar designed as both a study of the short
story form so well used by many Russian writers, and of those
writers themselves. Readings
will include works of Pushkin, Gogol,
Turgenev, Tolstoy
with heaviest emphasis on works of Chekhov, and Babel. In the last weeks we will be looking at possible influences
on American writers. |
Sec. 01 |
Th 12-2 |
| 220.316
(H)
(W) |
OPINION
WRITING (3) Kane
Perm.
Req'd. Limit 15 Instructor
will assign student topics on which they will write essays. Essays
will be discussed in class and critiqued for style, grammar, coherence
and effectiveness. |
Sec. 01 |
W 7-9pm |
| 220.321
(H) |
NARRATIVE
DESIGN (3) McGarry
Perm.
Req'd. Sophomores,
Juniors & Seniors only Limit 20 A
reading course in the novel: works by Jane Austen, Honore
de Balzac, Ivan Tugenev, Henry James,
Thomas Mann, Joseph Conrad and Elsa Morante.
Students will keep a notebook of critical responses to the novels
and write a final paper. |
Sec. 01 |
T 3-5 |
| 220.324
(H) |
LANDSCAPE
AND SETTING (3) McGarry Perm. Req'd.
Sophomores, Juniors
& Seniors only Limit 12 W.S.
Merwin, Peter Taylor, John Cheever,
and Grace Paley. Students will write
sketches and stories |
Sec. 01 |
Th 2-4 |
| 220.337
(H) |
ADVANCED SCREEN WRITING
SEMINAR (3)
Lapadula Perm. Req'd Limit
15 An intensive workshop focusing on
methodology: enhancing original characterization, plot development,
conflict, story, pacing, dramatic foreshadowing, the element of
surprise, text and subtext, act structure and visual storytelling.
Each student is expected to present sections of his/her "screenplay-in-progress"
to the class for discussion. The screenplay Chinatown will be used as a basic text. |
Sec. 01 |
F 2:30-4:30 |
| 220.343
(H)
(W) |
CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN
FICTION (3)
DeLuna Limit 20 An
introduction to Asian American literature through study of major
novels in the field. Selected novelists include Frank Chin, Ronyoung Kim, Maxine Hong Kingston, Jumpa
Lahiri, Chang-rae
Lee, Bette Bao Lord, Bharati
Mukherjec, and Amy Tan. Class discussion will mainly center
on the content and literary artistry of the novels. Students
will be given the opportunity to interpret and reflect on these
works in writing; and to try their hand at producing stories or
essays, by focusing on subjects of interest from within a broad
range of issues concerning race and ethnicity in America. |
Sec. 01 |
M 1-3 |
| 220.356
(H) |
WRITING
OF FICTION (3)
McDermott Perm. Req'd. Juniors and Seniors only Limit 15 One-semester
workshop in the writing of fiction. Most of the class time will
be devoted to discussion of student work. Students will write
several short pieces at the beginning of the semester based on
exercises given by the professor, and then write two to three
short stories. Students will also have to revise one of these
short stories. |
Sec. 01 |
W 1-3 |
| 220.359
(H) |
GENRE
FICTION (3) Dixon Perm. Req'd
Juniors and Seniors only Limit 15 Students
compose and edit a single long fiction. Continuation of 220.350. |
Sec. 01 |
T 3-6 |
| 220.378
(H) |
POETIC
FORMS II (3) Williamson Perm. Req’d. Limit 15 The course builds on the information and techniques
encountered in Poetic Forms I, and uses them in reading and imitating
a range of contemporary poets. |
Sec. 01 |
Th 12-2 |
| 220.379
(H) |
ELIOT,
CRANE, AND STEVENS (3) Irwin Perm.
Req’d. Sophomores,
Juniors & Seniors only Limit 14 An examination
of the poetry of Eliot, Crane and Stevens in the context of the
modernist movement in the verbal and visual arts.
Cross-listed with English |
Sec. 01 |
W 3-6pm
5pm |
| 220.384
(H)
(W) |
I,
ME, MINE: AMERICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (3) Biddle Prereq: 220.145 Limit 15 A study of the genre's
evolution from Benjamin Franklin to Malcolm X. |
Sec. 01 |
W 2-4 |
| 220.388
(H)
(W) |
SCIENCE
AND SOCIETY (3) Biddle
Limit 15 A study of
science and technology as value-laden or value-free with focus
on commercial and political influence, government oversight, and
press coverage. |
Sec. 01 |
W 12-2 |
| 220.398
(H) |
POETRY
SURVEY (3) Basford Prereq: 220.105 & 106
Limit 20 A seminar focused on major and minor poets of past
centuries that continue to be important to writers of today. Course
work includes critical essays, imitation/response poems, and limited
workshop. |
Sec. 01 |
T 3-6 |
| 090.395
(H) |
LITERATURE & PHOTOGRAPHY
(3) Long
Tobias Limit 15
Cross-listed with the German, Film & Media Studies, and Humanities Center |
Sec. 01 |
W 3-5
Plus discussion hour:
Th 12, F 11 |
| 220.502 |
INDEPENDENT
STUDY |
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| 220.508 |
HONOR
THESIS Staff
Course added 11/09/05 |
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| 220.510 |
PRACTICING
JOURNALISM (INTERNSHIP) Dixon Perm.
Req'd.
Satisfactory/
Unsatisfactory only |
Sec. 01 |
TBA |
| 220.514 |
INTERNSHIP:
TEACHING WRITING Dixon |
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| 220.614 |
GRADUATE SCIENCE WORKSHOP
Finkbeiner Limit 12 Intensive seminar, at a professional level, in the writing
of factual prose about scientific matters, whether for the general
reader or for professional scientists as audience. Weekly writing,
editing, and reading assignments. |
Sec. 01 |
F 3-6pm |
| 220.624 |
FICTION
WORKSHOP
Davies |
Sec. 01 |
Th 3-6pm |
| 220.626 |
POETRY
WORKSHOP
Irwin |
Sec. 01 |
M 3-6pm |
| 220.629 |
CONTEMPORARY
AMERICAN POETRY: A VISION Smith |
Sec. 01 |
M
T 2-5
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| 220.800 |
INDEPENDENT
STUDY |
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| 220.802 |
THESIS
Course added 12/12/05 |
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