Humanities Degrees in the USA

...in developing ideas based on your own experience and heightening your awareness of the audience(s) you write for. Essay 2 (5 pages) will ask you to analyze...

...it may affect your final grade. Under Writing Program policy, you cannot pass the course if you have more than five unexcused absences. Three latenesses counts as an absence... Learn about: Communication Training...

...along with the frequent practice of writing, is what inspires us to write and helps us have something to say. We will, then, do a great deal of reading...

...read with scrupulous care, attention, and insight. Careful reading of assigned material will therefore be the foundation for your writing for the course... Learn about: Quality Training...

...(not a "rough draft") and later, in revised form. In the first three creative non-fiction essay assignments, you will have the opportunity to write autobiographical... Learn about: Maya training...

...issues from the contemporary world to narrate personal experience, or to launch and elaborate an argument or position or refined observation...

...writings as ways to investigate our multiple identities, exploring the constraints and contributions of cultural and ethnic traditions. Students need... Learn about: Communication Training...

...in other words, drama was useful. Shakespeare's fellow playwright Thomas Heywood similarly recalled: In the time of my residence in Cambridge...

...William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft) Frankenstein Adaptations: Early Silent Film Branagh, Kenneth. Frankenstein. 1994 Frankenstein Adaptations...

...Lunsford, Andrea. Easy Writer. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Bedford Books, 2001. ISBN: 0312400551. But if you have another favorite, you're welcome to use... Learn about: Quality Training...

...Students will write a one-page response paper for each assigned text. There will also be two longer writing assignments: a 7-8 page critical essay responding...

...Paula Gunn Allen, Cynthia Ozick, John Edgar Wideman, John Updike, Lauren Slater, and Diana Hume George, among others. Readings for the course will be available as handouts... Learn about: Quality Training...

...Missing a workshop is serious and you must still turn in all critiques to your workshop via email if you do not attend. Not attending your own workshop...

...of poetry from the outside in and from the inside out. It is both an essay writing and a creative writing class. In the essay part students write one-page...

...genres across every platform in fiction. From film to gaming to literature, fantasy tops the charts. Why? Why do people who believe in democracy and...

...We shall also think about the ways in which crossing genres has led to the establishment of new genres (steampunk, preternatural romance) and strongly...

...which will include thoughtful prepared notes on each piece presented. Finally, every student will write two pieces. These may be short stories or chapters in a longer...

...Transmedia narratives exist across multiple storytelling platforms, using the advantages of each to enhance the experience of the audience. No matter which...

...Modify, remix, and reuse (just remember to cite OCW as the source.) Learn more at Get Started with MIT OpenCourseWare...

...stories and games using simple authoring systems and multimedia software tools. Students present and constructively critique one another's work in progress...