English Curriculum
Creative Writing Major Requirements | ||
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| 13 courses, including: | ||
| ENG242 | Introduction to Creative Writing This course introduces students to the distinguishing features and traditional elements of poems, plays, fiction, and nonfiction writing. Students read classic and contemporary works in each of these genres, while attending to how a given text adheres to or plays with generic norms. Readings in genre theory will accompany each unit of the course. |
3 Credits |
| ENG243 | Creative Writing I Students present a selection of their work each week for class comment and criticism. In addition, special problem topics are assigned weekly to develop writing skills. Readings concentrate on contemporary prose and verse. Prerequisite: ENG 242 or professor's permission |
3 Credits |
| ENG244 | Creative Writing II Students present a selection of their work each week for class comment and criticism. In addition, special problem topics are assigned weekly to develop writing skills. Readings concentrate on contemporary prose and verse. Prerequisite: ENG 243 or professor's permission |
3 Credits |
| ENG245 | Advanced Writing Workshop This course focuses on creative writing for experienced writers, geared toward preparing a finished manuscript for potential publication. Fiction writers work intensively on a single story, revising and integrating its various parts. Poets write either long poems or poetic sequences and experiment with contemporary variations on traditional forms. Prerequisite(s): ENG 243 and 244, or professor's permission |
3 Credits |
| ENG249 | Writing for Children Explores multiple facets of writing literature for preschool through adolescent audiences. Focuses on the transformation of experience and memory into a fictional story, developing a voice and point of view, character development, plot construction and intensification, describing setting, and use of vocabulary appropriate to the age of the audience. |
3 Credits |
| ENG350 | Seminar in Literary Theory and Scholarly Writing An advanced course in writing literary analysis and methods of literary research; required of all junior English majors and interdepartmental majors before enrollment in the tutorial. Prerequisite(s): Second-term junior status. |
3 Credits |
| ENG498 | Tutorial: English | 4 Credits |
| ENG499 | Tutorial: English | 4 Credits |
| 3 Literature survey courses from the following: | ||
| ENG204 | World Literature A critical approach to major writers in several world traditions, from various periods, including such representative authors as Chuang Tze, Plato, and Wole Soyinka, and such representative works as the "Book of Genesis," The Bacchae, and The Odyssey. |
3 Credits |
| ENG207 | British Writers I A critical and historical approach to major writers in English during the Anglo-Saxon, medieval, and Renaissance periods, including such representative authors as the Beowulf poet, Chaucer, Spenser, Shake-speare, Donne, and Milton. |
3 Credits |
| ENG208 | British Writers II A critical and historical approach to major writers in English during the Augustan, Romantic, and Victorian periods, including such representative authors as Swift, Pope, Johnson, Wordsworth, Keats, Arnold, Tennyson, and Browning. |
3 Credits |
| ENG216 | American Writers I A study of cultural and literary developments in America, beginning with the Puritans and culminating with the writers of the American Renaissance: Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, Hawthorne, and Melville. |
3 Credits |
| ENG322 | Fiction-amer Exploration FICTION OF AMERICAN EXPLORATIOR PERM |
3 Credits |
| ENG287 | African-American Writers This course provides an introduction to the African-American expressive tradition, including poetry, fiction, autobiography, song and folktales from the 18th century to the present. Examining writers such as Douglass, Chesnutt, Brooks, Baldwin, Ellison, and Walker, this course works to delineate the critical and historical contours of the African-American literary tradition. |
3 Credits |
| 1 English Content Course at 300-level or above | ||
| 2 300-level or above Creative Writing Courses from the following: (one of which must be a craft course in the area of student tutorial) | ||
| ENG313 | Special Topics | 3 Credits |
| ENG481 | The Craft of Fiction This is a required entry-level course for all MFA students specializing in fiction. Students will experiment with creating scene, sense of place, summary, dialogue, framing, flashbacks, and transitions. Students will be introduced to the workshop method and given instruction on sending work out for publication. |
3 Credits |
| ENG482 | The Craft of Nonfiction This is a required entry-level course for all MFA students specializing in nonfiction. Readings and writing will include exploration of scene construction, sense of place, point of view, character and narrator development, tone, lyricism, structure and oral presentation of the work. Students will be introduced to the workshop method and given instruction on sending work out for publication. |
3 Credits |
| ENG483 | The Craft of Poetry This is a required entry-level course for all MFA students specializing in poetry. Reading and writing will center on the craft of poetry, and willl include exploration of the tools of the poet including figures of speech, meter, music and rhythmic devices in both traditional and experimental forms, as well as instruction in oral performance of poetry. Students will be introduced to the workshop method and given instruction on sending work out for publication. |
3 Credits |
| ENG484 | The Craft of Environmental and Nature Writing This is a multi-genre course that focuses on the art and craft of nature and environmental writing. Students will read and study contemprary nature and environmental writing, and will be expected to generate creative work that illustrates a deep understanding of the literary tools available to writers in this genre. |
3 Credits |
| ENG485 | The Craft of Travel Writing This course focuses on the art and craft of travel writing. Students will read and study contemporary travel writing, and will be expected to generate creative work that illustrates a deep understanding of the literary tools available to writers in this genre. |
3 Credits |
| ENG486 | The Craft of Writing for Children This course examines the basic principles that guide writers for children and adolescents, beginning with concept and picture books and extending into full-length works of fiction and nonfiction. Students will explore multiple genres and audiences in the writing-intensive course and will be expected to produce written work that will enhance their understanding of publishable quality work. Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into program or permission of program director. |
3 Credits |
| FDT331 | Foundations of Screenwriting This course focuses on content writing for film and emerging media creative projects. Theory and practice are intentionally intermingled to demonstrate the mixture of intellectual context and intuition with which the writer works. Students learn how to imagine, write and produce a project that illustrates innovations in story development. |
3 Credits |