Literature Undergraduate Degrees in USA

...in this course are taken from two books: Writing Worth Reading by Nancy Packer and John Timpane and Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. Some of the other readings...

...Skills required for successful classwork (and writing) include reading critically, contributing to discussion, formulating and exploring interesting ideas...

...It is discourteous to your classmates and to your professor. If you are 10 minutes late three times it will count as an absence. To participate in class discussions...

...These essays, as well as other writing exercises in your reader/writer notebook, are at the center of the course. Each essay will focus on a particular analytic... Learn about: Communication Training...

...attending always to the ways your purpose in writing and your intended audience shape what and how you write. The end result of our collaborative work will be a new edition...

...issues of race and gender, the romance of technology, robotics and cyborg cultures, media saturation, language and representation—and the persistent questions... Learn about: Quality Training...

...George Orwell, John Steinbeck, Amy Tan, Tobias Wolff, and Alice Walker. Throughout the semester we will explore the craft of storytelling and the multiple... 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...

...of stereotypes and of having multiple identities. We will consider the ways that either accepting or resisting a culture's patterns can give us power... Learn about: Communication Training...

...William Shakespeare didn't go to college. If he time-traveled like Dr. Who, he would be stunned to find his words on a university syllabus. However...

...and develop facility in oral presentations and discussions. The emphasis is on writing: the writing process, from pre-writing through drafting...

...consideration of its history and then will proceed to see what some critics and practitioners of the essay have had to say about it in an effort to outline its parameters... Learn about: Quality Training...

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...persuasive, lyrical, or incantatory. We will read nonfiction prose works by a wide array of writers who have used language to negotiate and represent aspects... 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...

...All of the work you present to this class must be your own and written for this class alone. T. S. Eliot famously wrote, "Immature poets imitate...

...(and the series) and short stories are far less common than in science fiction. Fantasy readers prefer longer novels, so a number of the required readings...

...black ink on white paper, double-spaced, with your surname, a keyword from the story and the page number on every page. In addition, the first page...

...While you are encouraged to write longer fiction or fantasy if that is your preference, I have chosen to use short fiction so that we can cover a larger...

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