Description: This class will look at the depictions of race within the horror genre. We will read and discuss a combination of older and newer works to better understand how the depictions of race have changed throughout the years. Some of the questions we will consider include how marginalized groups are/were depicted in horror? How do authors from those marginalized groups use the genre to respond to their marginalization? What issues do authors from marginalized groups address in their work? Throughout the semester we will look at works from various authors including Zora Neale Hurston, H.P. Lovecraft, Victor LaValle, Stephen Graham Jones, and more.
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 121N MWF 12:00 Noon-12:50PM
Time Category: Afternoon
Used Seats: 20 / Total Seats: 20
Description: Since ancient Greece, rhetoric, the "art of persuasion," has been concerned withmaking.Discussions oftechne,a Greek word that loosely translates to "craft," are prominent in the works of Aristotle, Plato, and others. This course engages with the history, theory, and production of DIY (Do It Yourself), multimodal, and craft rhetorics as a way to better understand public rhetorical actions connected to social activist movements, including feminist, environmentalist, anti-capitalist, anti-war, and anti-racist movements. Students will learn to define and practice composition as a process and practice that involves more than the production of static words on a page. This project-based course requires students to closely examine the rhetorical significance of various writing tools, materials, and techniques and gain hands-on practice with multiple compositional materials, from paper to fabric, pencil to pixels.
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Location and Time: 245 Beacon Street Room 204 TuTh 01:30PM-02:45PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 10 / Total Seats: 20
Description: From driverless cars to gene therapy to cryptocurrency, the latest scientific and technological breakthroughs promise to transform life as we know it. When science moves from the laboratory, to corporate boardrooms, to news headlines, and into our daily lives, writing is involved in every step along the way. In this course, we will read works created by and about scientists, and explore how science circulates through society via social media and blog posts, traditional media, and government policy making. We'll also examine how companies communicate with the public via press releases, the media, and advertisements. In written and oral assignments, students will practice the skills essential for success in writing about science--researching and reporting, interviewing scientists, pitching new ideas, understanding audience expectations, and clearly communicating essential knowledge. Students will have multiple opportunities to conceive, draft, revise, and complete writing projects tailored to diverse audiences. This course aims to help students understand and explore science writing as a career--including opportunities in media, research labs, university news offices, museums, science and technology focused companies, and many other venues.
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 476S M 04:30PM-06:55PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 12 / Total Seats: 14
Description: Over the past few decades, the best nonfiction being written has expanded to include not only such traditional forms as argument and exposition but also the mixed modes of creative nonfiction. As an intermediate-level course, we will build on the work of the First Year Writing Seminar and hone the skills needed in advanced writing electives. Students in this course choose their own topics and explore the range of possibilities now available to the nonfiction writer.
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 207S M 11:30AM-01:55PM
Time Category: Afternoon
Used Seats: 6 / Total Seats: 15
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 207S Tu 09:00AM-11:25AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 14 / Total Seats: 15
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 207S W 04:30PM-06:55PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 12 / Total Seats: 12
Description: In this advanced creative nonfiction writing course we practice and study the craft of magazine writing. We will write and read a variety of articlesfeatures, profiles, reviews, columns, essays, etc.and work on professional skills, such as pitching a story and interviewing. We will also consider models provided by accomplished journalists, by reading their work and by having them in for class visits. A variety of writing assignments, workshopping of student prose, and discussion of assigned reading are regular features of the courses workload.Admission to this course is by permission of instructor on the basis of manuscript submission. Please submit up to 8 double-spaced pages of writing, which can be an entire piece, part of a longer piece, or a compilation of shorter ones. You can explain the nature of what you have submitted in an accompanying note, and please also list any writing workshops you have already taken. Be sure to include your name and email address. Materials should be submitted to Carlo Rotella via email ([email protected]) before the date on which registration for the next semester begins. Students will be promptly notified by email as to whether they have been admitted to the course.
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 209S Th 04:30PM-06:55PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 8 / Total Seats: 15
Description: A course in writing poetry in a variety of forms, with an emphasis on craft and revision. Students will produce roughly one poem a week and will workshop each other's drafts in group discussion.
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 207S W 09:00AM-11:25AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 14 / Total Seats: 13
Description: TBD
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Location and Time: By Arrangement
Time Category: Unspecified
Used Seats: 1 / Total Seats: 0
Description: Enrollment limited to 15. Students in this course will study and practice elements of fiction writing: character development, point of view, voice, setting, imagery, sentence design, plot, pacing, and the use of time in a narrative. Enrollment in the course commits students to intensive writing, both in class and out, and full participation in the workshop editing process. Class time will be used for discussion of models from our anthology, in-class writing exercises, and group workshop focused on student writing. In addition to the feedback writers receive in workshop, they will meet with the instructor for editing conferences throughout the semester. Students will submit a final portfolio of polished, revised fiction.
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 207S Th 11:30AM-01:55PM
Time Category: Afternoon
Used Seats: 10 / Total Seats: 14
Description: TBD
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Location and Time: By Arrangement
Time Category: Unspecified
Used Seats: 0 / Total Seats: 0
Description: For Carroll School of Management students, the course is also available as BCOM6688. This course is designed to expose students to the type of writing done on the job. It is a practical course where real-life examples are used to illustrate appropriate writing strategies, style, language and formats commonly found in a business setting. By the end of the semester, students will be proficient in producing business correspondence, instructions, reports, proposals, resumes, and presentation materials.
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 109S Tu 04:30PM-06:55PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 15 / Total Seats: 15