Fall 2004
English 522: Academic Writing Workshop
Professor Harriet Malinowitz
Mondays
6:00 pm to 8:30 pm
This course is an intensive, advanced writing workshop
for graduate students (across the disciplines) who wish
to develop their academic writing skills. The main emphases
will be on critical analysis, argumentation, and research.
Students will write several short essays in response to
common course readings and one longer research paper. There
will also be discussion of effective rhetorical strategies
for analytic, persuasive prose. Assignments will be derived
from readings by intellectual figures with broad interdisciplinary
relevance-for example, Plato, Aristotle, Freud, Darwin,
Baldwin, Machiavelli, Marx, Lao-Tzu, Arendt, Rousseau, Douglass,
Rachel Carson, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
English 523: Fiction Writing Workshop
Professor Lewis Warsh
Tuesdays
6:00 pm to 8:30 pm
This workshop explores both the art and the craft of fiction
writing. Frequent writing assignments and exercises will
concentrate on the conventions of fiction-description, dialogue,
characterization-as well as more experimental possibilities
such as fragmentation and shifting point of view. Focus
will be on the ways autobiography overlaps with fiction
and how the past is fictionalized as a way of keeping it
alive. Among the models we will look at are stories and
novels by Marguerite Duras, Don DeLillo, Lydia Davis, and
James Ellroy. Much of the workshop time will be spent reading
and discussing student work.
English 524: Poetry Workshop
Professor Barbara Henning
Mondays
6:00 pm to 8:30 pm
This graduate poetry workshop will have an emphasis on
innovative and experimental poetry. I will provide you with
a list of experiments and handouts, but the workshop for
the most part will be open. One of the requirements will
be that you explore at least three different approaches
to writing during the semester. Some of the approaches/forms
we will study will include blues & jazz poems, sonnets,
prose poetry, Oulipo constraints, projective verse, cubism,
and personism. Besides writing and workshopping a group
of poems, we will examine the structure, history and ways
the form/approach has been accepted and/or transgressed.
There will be a required handbook and an anthology.
English 526: Writing Media I--Story
Professor Claire Goodman (Media
Arts Department)
Thursdays
6:00 pm to 8:50 pm
This cross-listed course is an introduction to the methods
and principles of great storytellin in the media. It is
the cornerstone course for all forms of story: commercials,
sitcoms, movies, experimental shorts, even documentaries
and photographic essays. In the first half of the semester,
by means of screenings and discussion, students will learn
to recognize and analyze basic story elements such as narrative
structure, character, setting, plot, design, irony, and
comedy. In the second half, in workshop-style classes, students
will work on creating their own stories using these elements.
Each student will develop a movie--short screenplay and
treatment--as a final project. A professional screenwriter
will be a guest speaker at one of the classes.
Requirements: access to a computer, purchase of Final Draft
writing software, permission of instructor to take the course.
English 625: Nineteenth Century American Literature
Professor Carol Allen
Wednesdays
6:10 pm to 8:00 pm
This course will focus on representation and masking and
will assume minstrelsy to be a dominant nineteenth century
trope that bridges the gap between sentimentality and "realism."
Connections will be made between this aesthetic mode and
the writing of such artists as Melville, Chesnutt, Poe,
Hawthorne, Dickinson, Hopkins, Cooper, Stowe, Douglass,
and Jewett. Supplemental, critical and theoretical material
will be introduced as well. The requirements include close
reading and research assignments.
English 643: Seminar in Shakespeare
Professor Seymour Kleinberg
Tuesdays
6:10 pm to 8:00 pm
Seminar in Shakespeare emphasizes close reading of selected
comedies and tragedies, as well as the sonnets, to explore
character and theme in the works of one of our greatest
writers.
English 646: Individual and Small Group Writing Instruction
Professor Patricia Stephens
Wednesdays
6:10 pm to 8:00 pm
In this course, students will examine the theory and practice
of individual and small group writing instruction. We will
examine a range of strategies for working with students
one-on-one as we locate that work within its various theoretical
and historical contexts. Our work will focus on the following:
structuring sessions and establishing priorities; assessing,
diagnosing, and responding to student writing; strategies
for intervention, planning, drafting, revising, proofreading,
and editing; helping students with grammatical and mechanical
concerns; helping students improve reading comprehension;
working with ESL students; attending to interpersonal dynamics
and cultural and ethnic differences; and tutoring online.
Students who enroll in the course will be required to tutor
for one hour per week during the semester at the Writing
Center and to audio- and/or videotape one session with a
student. The taped session will be transcribed and analyzed
by the student for use in a self-study. Classes will be
conducted as seminars/workshops so that all students have
the opportunity to participate in class presentations, mock
tutorials, etc. Each student will generate her/his own idea/s
for a final written (and/or action) project, based on topics
of interest that arise during the semester.
Possible Texts: Lindemann, A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers;
Meyer and Smith, The Practical Tutor; Bouquet, Noise from
the Writing Center; Kolln, Rhetorical Grammar; and, Murphy
and Law, Landmark Essays on Writing Centers.
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