WRITING SEMINARS

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

Note: Section 03 and 04 are limited to Writing Seminar’s majors and are Permission Required.  Students  wishing to register for these sections should see Doug Basford in Gilman 135

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, 11 added 11/28/06

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ThF   9-10:30

ThF 10:30-12

MTW 11

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 01, 03, 04, and 10 are limited to Writing Seminar’s majors and are Permission Required.  Students  wishing to register for these sections should see Doug Basford in Gilman 135

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.

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MTW 9

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ThF   9-10:30

ThF 10:30-12

ThF 10:30-12

220.142 (H)

INTRODUCTION TO POETRY WORKSHOP (3) Basford  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

M 1-4

220.146 (H)
(W)

UNDERGRADUATE WORKSHOP IN SCIENCE WRITING (3) Wayman     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.

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M 12-2

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.

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M 4-6pm

T 3-5

220.303 (H)

ADVANCED PLAYWRITING (3) Lapadula   Perm. Req’d.   Limit 15 

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. Course canceled 11/06/06

Sec. 01

Th 12-2

220.316 (H)
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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.

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W 7-9pm

220.321 (H)

NARRATIVE DESIGN (3) McGarryPerm. Req’d.   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.

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T 3-5

220.329 (H)

FORMING THE SHORT STORY (3) Davies   Limit 15    Perm. Req’d.  
Readings in the first hundred years of the short story in the Western tradition.  Authors include Hoffmann, Kleist, Pushkin, Gogoi, Turgenev, Maupassant, James, Chekhov, and Wharton.  Numerous pastiches will be assigned.    

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Th 3-5

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.

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F 2:30-4:30

220.343 (H)
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CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION (3) Corwin 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.

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M 1-3

220.356 (H)

WRITING OF FICTION (3) McGarry   Prereq:  Submit Manuscript and 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.

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Th 2-4

220.368 (H)

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN FICTION (3) Blake Perm. Req’d.   Limit 20 This seminar will examine how three schools of American fiction address the fate of linear narrative in the late 20th century.    Course added 11/08/06

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Th 12-2

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.

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Th 12-2

220.379 (H)

ELIOT, CRANE, AND STEVENS (3) Irwin   Juniors and Seniors only   Perm. Req’d.   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

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W 3-6pm

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.

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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.

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W 12-2

220.396 (H)

ADVANCED POETRY (3) Williamson Permission RequiredLimit 15

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W 2-4

220.398 (H)

POETRY SURVEY (3) Basford Perm. Req’d. 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.

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T 1-3

220.502

INDEPENDENT STUDY

220.508

HONORS THESIS
Department Permission Required

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220.510

PRACTICING JOURNALISM  Dixon/Basford  Perm. Req’d

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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.

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F 3-6pm

220.624

FICTION WORKSHOP Dixon Limit 15

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T 3-6pm

220.626

POETRY WORKSHOP Irwin Limit 15

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M 3-6pm

220.629

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY: ROBERT PENN WARREN Smith  Limit 15

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T 2-5

220.639

THE SHORT NOVEL   Limit 15 Course added 11/15/06

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W 1-4

220.800

INDEPENDENT STUDY

220.802

THESIS