Literature Undergraduate Degrees in USA

...Primo Levi, and Ursula K. LeGuin. We will also sample works by less well known geologists, hydrologists, and biologists. Students will have a chance...

...brain-storming, incubating, and whatever else works for you. Talking over ideas also helps; you may look for a buddy. The essential process of writing is revision...

...New York, NY: Penguin Press HC, 2008. ISBN: 9781594201455. Lunsford, Andrea. Easy Writer. 3rd ed. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's Books,...

...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...

...We will spend a good bit of time in class workshops, learning from and responding to the writing done by members of the class. Your purpose in those workshops...

...In this course we will read and write about how some writers and filmmakers have responded to the present as a way of imagining—and warning about—possible worlds to come... Learn about: Quality Training...

...Students will explore the craft of storytelling and the multiple ways in which one can employ the tools of fiction in crafting creative nonfiction and fiction narratives... Learn about: Maya training...

...you will almost certainly work with people who speak more than one language, whose ancestry or origins are in a country other than the...

...Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, Kesaya E. Noda's "Growing Up Asian in America," Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek, Gary Soto's... Learn about: Communication Training...

...information obtained from sources outside the classroom must be clearly stated in all written work submitted. All ideas, arguments, and direct phrasings...

...in Benito Cereno (1856); and Alison Bechdel's rewriting of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) in her graphic novel Fun Home (2006)...

...This is a course focused on the literary genre of the essay, that wide-ranging, elastic, and currently very popular form that attracts not only nonfiction... Learn about: Quality Training...

...Ruth Ozeki, Kip Fulbeck, James McBride and others, we will focus not on how multiracial people are seen or imagined by the dominant culture...

...pieces that engage the complexity of social and cultural issues in vivid, dynamic, and memorable prose. The writers whose work we will read will include Alice Walker... Learn about: Quality Training...

...Even if you have read the assigned stories in a different context, read them again with a view towards technique and elements of style. The second...

...one who steals the thoughts or writings of another." In academia plagiarism is a serious crime punishable by failure of the course and withdrawal from the Institute...

...be not only writing exercises, but world building as well. Students will be required to prepare critiques for workshop, which will include thoughtful prepared...

...preternatural romance) and strongly established subgenres (historical mystery, urban fantasy). Seminars: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session While...

...We will read stories from early to contemporary science fiction in many subgenres to explore the flexibility and mutability of the field, as well as analyze...

...solid storytelling in speculative fiction before we move on to how to translate those elements into various media. We will then explore how different presentations...