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 06 is limited to Writing Seminar’s majors and minors and Permission is required.  Students  wishing to register for these sections should see Doug Basford in Gilman 135 on Nov 7 from 1-5pm, or email to dbasford@jhu.edu if a conflict arises.

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. 01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
11

MWF 9-9:50
MWF 10-10:50
MWF 10-10:50
MWF 11-11:50
MWF 11-11:50
MWF 12-12:50
MWF 12-12:50
TTh 9-10:15
TTh 10:30-11:45
TTh 10:30-11:45
    TTh 12-1:15 

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, 06, 10, and 12 are limited to Writing Seminar’s majors and minors and Permission is required.  Students  wishing to register for these sections should see Doug Basford in Gilman 135 on Nov 7 from 1-5pm, or email to dbasford@jhu.edu if a conflict arises.

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. 01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
11
12

MWF 9-9:50
MWF 9-9:50
MWF 10-10:50
MWF 11-11:50
MWF 11-11:50
MWF 12-12:50
MWF 12-12:50
MWF 12-12:50
TTh 9-10:15
TTh 10:30-11:45
TTh 10:30-11:45
TTh 12-1:15

220.108 (H)
(W)

INTRODUCTION TO FICTION & NON-FICTION I (3) Simpson   Limit 17
A course in realist fiction and nonfiction, with readings by Eudora Welty, Vladimir Nabokov, Henry James; George Orwell, Beryl Markham and Truman Capote.  Students compose short stories and essays with attention to literary models.  IFN I can be substituted for IFP I.   

Sec. 01

Th 6:30-9pm

220.200 (H)

INTRODUCTION TO FICTION (3) Davies/Blake   Limit 15   Instructor’s permission required.  Sec. 01 canceled 11/09/07

Sec. 01

02

T 3-5:30pm

Th 1:30-4

220.201 (H)

INTRODUCTION TO POETRY WORKSHOP (3) Basford    Limit 17 15   Instructor’s permission required.   

Sec. 01

TTh 12-1:15

220.202 (H)
(W)

INTRODUCTION TO NONFICTION: MATTERS OF FACT
Biddle  Limit 17

Sec. 01

W 1:30-4

220.203 (H)
(W)

INTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE WRITING (3)  Alvania  Limit 15 

Sec. 01

F 1:30-4

220.303 (H)

INTERMEDIATE DRAMATIC WRITING: PLAYS (3)   Staff   Instructor’s permission required.  Limit 15

Sec. 01

F 1:30-4

220.316 (H)
(W)

SEMINAR: OPINION WRITING (3) Kane   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 7-9:30pm

220.326 (H)

INTERMEDIATE FICTION: POINT OF VIEW IN SHORT FICTION (3) Leithauser   Limit 15    Emphasis in writing assignments to develop concision and economy, with close attention to setting, pace, point of view.  Reading will include James, Chekhov, Kafka, Hemingway, Cheever, Borges, Flannery O’Connor, Malamud and Updike.

Sec. 01

M 1:30-4

220.335 (H)

INTERMEDIATE FICTION: FICTION AND FACT Davies   Limit 17 per section 15 Perm. Req’d.  A workshop in fictions that are “on” something, that is: fictions that take as their organizing principal the consideration of some material or intellectual subject. Readings will include famous examples of the anatomical form as well as writings in contemporary metaphysics.
Sec. 02 added 11/09/07

Sec. 01

Sec. 02

Th 3-5:30pm

T 3-5:30pm

220.337 (H)

INTERMEDIATE DRAMATIC WRITING: FILM (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 4:30-7pm

220.343 (H)
 (W)

INTERMEDIATE FICTION: 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 1:30-4

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

W 1:30-4

220.381 (H)

INTERMEDIATE POETRY: A SAMPLING OF POETIC TROPES (3) Williamson Perm. Req’d.    Limit 15   Each week we will try to map commonly recurring metaphors in poetic tradition, and each week studentw will try to add their own original poems to those strains of metaphor. For instance, we'll trace the metaphor of the Nightingale as emblematic of mute suffering transformed into poetic song from Ovid through Shakespeare, Milton, Keats, and so forth into contemporary poetry to see how the "bird trope" is made use of and revised by different artistic temperments, motives, styles, and in different eras. The writing asignment will be each week for students to add their poems to that week's historical "lineage."

Sec. 01

Th 1:30-4

220.384 (H)
(W)

INTERMEDIATE NONFICTION: I, ME, MINE: AMERICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (3) Biddle    Prereq: 220.202 145   Limit 15   A study of the genre's evolution from Benjamin Franklin to Malcolm X.

Sec. 01

T 1:30-4 W 4:30-7pm

220.401 (H)

ADVANCED FICTION (3) McGarry
Perm. Req’d   Limit 15

Sec. 01

F 1:30-4

220.402 (H)

READINGS IN FICTION: NOVELS OF VISION: VIRGINIA WOOLF AND YASUNARI KAWABATA (3)  McGarry  Perm. Req’d   Limit 20 15     We will read Woolf's "The Waves," "To the Lighthouse" and "Between the Acts" along with Kawabata's "Snow Country," "Thousand Cranes," "Sound of the Mountain" and "Beauty and Sadness," examining ways in which east and west use descriptive modes of story-telling. 

Sec. 01

T 6-8:30pm

220.411 (H)

READINGS IN POETRY: POETRY OF WAR   (3) Salter  Perm. Req’d   Limit 20     A study of modern war poetry, especially of the two World Wars, including work by W.B.Yeats, Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, W.H.Auden, Louis MacNeice, Randall Jarrell, Henry Reed, Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht.  Some poetry concerning other conflicts, from the Trojan War to the war in Iraq, will also be addressed.  What is the role of poetry in responding to political events?  Students will write critical papers as well as poems.

Sec. 01

M 1:30-4

220.412 (H)

READING IN POETRY: ELIOT, CRANE AND STEVENS (3) Irwin Perm. Req’d Limit 14 Cross-listed with English

Sec. 01

W 3-6pm

220.415 (H)

READINGS : THE RUSSIAN SHORT STORY (3) Frydman 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. (Formerly 220.308)

Sec. 01

Th 1:30-4

220.502

INDEPENDENT STUDY

220.508

HONORS THESIS
Department Permission Required

220.510

PRACTICING JOURNALISM Perm. Req’d

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.  (Will meet in Gilman 260, office)

Sec. 01

M 3-5:50pm

220.624

FICTION WORKSHOP McDermott

Sec. 01

T 2-4:50

220.626

POETRY WORKSHOP Irwin

Sec. 01

M 3-5:50pm

220.631

READINGS IN POETRY: LOWELL, BERRYMAN, HECHT AND THE 20TH CENTURY Salter  A study of three major figures in American poetry of the mid-to-20th century.  An additional poet, Randall Jarrell, will be read, especially for his critical appraisals of the period.  Students will write imitations, as well as their own multi-part poem drawing lessons from these masters of the longer poem and of the poetic sequence.

Sec. 01

T 2-4:50

220.636

TECHNIQUES OF FICTION: VARITIES OF VIEW POINT Leithauser  Readings in writers who develop what might be called “disparate outlooks,” including possibly Halldor Laxness, Sylvia Townsend Warener, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Italo Calvino, Kinglesy Amis, and John Cheever.

Sec. 01

Th W 2-4:50

220.800

INDEPENDENT STUDY

220.802

THESIS