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  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2250 or ENGL 225H with a C- or higher and University Advanced Standing. Provides intermediate instruction in practices and techniques for generating, writing, and revising original creative nonfiction. Focuses on contemporary nonfiction and critical theories associated with contemporary nonfiction. Explores and provides practice in various categories of nonfiction. Utilizes the creative writing workshop as the primary method of critical engagement with and critique of original writing. Addresses the challenges of transforming experience into writing.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 with a grade of C- or higher and University Advanced Standing. Introduces students to the literary conversation of appreciation and responsibility for our natural world and teaches them how to engage meaningfully in that conversation. Requires (1) extensive readings in literature of the natural world, including scientific, polemic, creative non-fiction, and fiction writing modes bearing on environmental stewardship and (2) a writing portfolio that includes polemic, creative non-fiction, fiction, and poetry. Includes discussion of assigned readings and workshopping of student manuscripts. Requires overnight wilderness field trips; students with disabilities will be accommodated on field trips.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): English 2250 or English 225H with a C- or better, and University Advanced Standing. Provides an overview of genre conventions and required skills for composing original creative writing in a specified genre. Focuses on genres such as science fiction, fantasy, visual poetry, young adult writing, wilderness writing, or travel writing, among others. Utilizes readings, writing exercises, workshops, and other strategies to build competency in writing in the chosen genre. May be repeated up to 6 credits toward graduation.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): English 2250 or English 225H with a C- or better, and University Advanced Standing. Investigates a specific writing skill or skills relevant to the creative writing process. Focuses on craft concepts such as the construction of the sentence, line, image, metaphor, or other essential components of literary writing. Provides more intensive practice on an element of writing craft than general workshops. Topics for this course may be focused on a specific genre, or they may be appropriate for writers working in multiple genres. Requires reading and study of representative works and creating original writing. May be repeated for up to 6 credits toward graduation.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 and (ENGL 2850 or ENGL 2870), both with a grade of C- or higher, and University Advanced Standing. Examines selected authors and themes in American literature from its beginnings through the 1820s. Identifies texts within their cultural and historical contexts. Explores multiple genres, including autobiography, essay, poetry, drama, and fiction.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 and (ENGL 2850 or ENGL 2870), both with a grade of C- or higher, and University Advanced Standing. Explores American literature of the romantic period, the Civil War, and the post-war movements of realism and naturalism (c. 1830-1900). Examines multiple genres, authors, and texts in relation to intellectual and historical developments.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 and (ENGL 2850 or ENGL 2870), both with a grade of C- or higher, and University Advanced Standing. Studies modern American literature (c. 1900-1960s) in relation to intellectual, historical, and ethical developments. Emphasizes important works by major fiction writers, poets, and playwrights responding to radical changes in America brought on by industrial-capitalist transformation, shifting demographics, women's rights, minority rights, artistic experimentation, and world wars.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 and (ENGL 2850 or ENGL 2870), both with a grade of C- or higher, and University Advanced Standing. Studies significant authors, themes, and topics in American literature (c. 1968 to present) in relation to historical and intellectual developments and contemporary literary theory. Explores multiple genres, including fiction, poetry, drama, and film.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 and University Advanced Standing. Surveys a wide range of Native American literature. Examines the cultures and identities of Native Americans through the study of literary texts including mythology and works by contemporary writers such as N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, and Sherman Alexie, among others.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 and (ENGL 2850 or ENGL 2870), both with a grade of C- or higher, and University Advanced Standing. Explores major authors and works from Old and Middle English Literature and related literary traditions (such as Celtic, Anglo-Norman, and Latin) from approximately 700 to 1485 CE. Analyzes relevant cultural, philosophical, and historical influences on texts from the period. Authors may include the "Beowulf" poet, Marie de France, Dante, Julian of Norwich, the "Pearl" poet, Langland, Chaucer, Hoccleve, Margery Kempe, Malory, and the York and Wakefield Play Cycles.