Humanities Degrees in the USA

...Essay 4 (2-3 pages) will be either a final reflection or a manifesto. Homework will include some short (≈ 1 page) writing assignments: We'll also do some...

...If you are absent because of a family or medical emergency, please contact me as soon as possible. Over the course of the semester, you will write at least three essays... Learn about: Communication Training...

...That is, you will write essays that critically engage elements and aspects of contemporary American popular culture and that do so via a vivid personal voice and presence...

...invites careful scrutiny of the world we live in and indeed an invitation to intervene in it. To accommodate that invitation, your writing will engage... Learn about: Quality Training...

...James Baldwin, Andre Dubus, Anne Frank, Tim O'Brien, Flannery O'Connor, George Orwell, John Steinbeck, Amy Tan, Tobias Wolff, and Alice Walker... Learn about: Maya training...

...who are in some way different. The course is an introduction to writing prose for a public audience—prose that features your ideas, your perspective...

...Easy Writer: A Pocket Guide. New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 1998. or Barrett, E., Paradis, J., & Perelman, L. The Mayfield Handbook of Technical and Scientific Writing... Learn about: Communication Training...

...and learning in relationship to the subject's objectives. Later essays will help you develop your skills in research, analysis, and argumentation...

...of Being Earnest (1895) in her graphic novel Fun Home (2006). Showings of film versions of some of these works will allow us to project forward in...

...physicians, and others to write in the form, and readers of every stripe to read it. Some say we are living in era in which the essay is enjoying a renaissance... Learn about: Quality Training...

...In addressing these and other questions, we will endeavor to think and write more critically and creatively about race as a social category and a lived experience...

...that is simultaneously personal and political, representing the self as it scrutinizes culture—address and affect the world of lived experience?... Learn about: Quality Training...

...writing exercises and conducting workshops on original stories. A writer reads with a different eye. In this class we will be reading stories and analyzing...

...attendance is mandatory. You are also required to attend two Poetry @ MIT events. We will meet for two conferences, but my office door is always open to...

...or may be two substantial sections of two different works in different forms of fantasy. Each major piece will be submitted to workshop and rewritten...

...that is at the heart of genre writing. We shall also think about the ways in which crossing genres has led to the establishment of new genres (steampunk...

...For the first eight weeks, readings in contemporary science fiction accompany lectures and formal writing assignments intended to illuminate various aspects...

...Seminars: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session In 2006, Henry Jenkins defined 'transmedia' as narrative that has been conceived across multiple storytelling...

...MIT OpenCourseWare is a free & open publication of material from thousands of MIT courses, covering the entire MIT curriculum. No enrollment or registration...

...The primary focus of the class is the development of narrative projects. Projects can be web sites, computer games, live action role-playing games...