|
ENG 205: Introduction to Professional Writing (B)
Introduces students to the principles of writing in a range of professional
genres and presents options that they may pursue in future course work
and careers. (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 212: Introduction to Fiction Writing (C)
ENG 213: Poetry Writing (B)
You're a college student, right? Don't leave college without taking a
creative writing class. Creative writing is one of the great traditions
of a liberal arts education. Whether you choose fiction or poetry, a
creative writing workshop is a unique college experience, and a chance
to stretch yourself, to take some chances, and give voice to your individual
perspective. And for those of you who decide to take on creative writing
as a more serious endeavor, these courses are the gateway to our series
of courses on fiction and poetics through the professional writing major
or minor.
ENG 299: Rhetoric: The Art of Influence
(O) Provides fundamental theory about how writing exerts powerful influences
on audiences. Students will explore the situations and purposes that
writing serves and the voices and genres that historically have defined
written texts. (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 300: Writing in Cyberspace
Cyberspace is more than just web-surfing! It's more than the latest DVD
or video game or MP3 download. It's a whole new way of looking at the
world that will dramatically change the ways we communicate with one
another. Cyberspace is opening entirely new ways to work and exciting
new professions from multimedia and game design to distance education
and e-commerce. Find out how these technologies will affect you in your
personal and professional life as we investigate the social implications
of cyberspace.
ENG 301: Creative Writing
So you took 211 or 212 and found it interesting. Maybe there's a potential
novelist or poet inside you. The only way to find out is to keep going.
In this class everyone will have experience with the workshop environment;
class will be productive right from the start. Take this class and experience
being part of a community of serious writers.
ENG 303: Technical Writing
Technical writing may sound like a dry course, but it's really far from
it. Technical writing is an expanding and well-paid profession that stretches
across a variety of fields from medicine and science to computers and
corporate communications. In this course we will introduce you to professional
techniques, the many genres of technical communication, and persuasive
strategies for addressing a variety of audiences. This course will enhance
your writing skills and prepare you for success in the written aspects
of your future profession.
ENG 306: Advanced Writing Workshop
Advanced Writing Workshop emphasizes developing the advanced writing student's
breadth (the ability to experiment in writing and attempt new genres) and
depth (the ability to revise for coherence and power). The assignments
are various: creative nonfiction, interviews, reports, personal essays, playwriting
and the like are all typical features in this instructor's sections.
ENG 308: Business Writing
From resumes and application letters to business proposals and corporate
reports, your writing ability will play a crucial part in presenting
your best possible image in the professional world. Business writing
covers all the fundamental rhetorical issues and writing techniques
that separate the fast-track professional from the rest of the pack.
If you are thinking about moving upward in your career (and you should
be), you should be thinking about taking this course.
ENG 309: Electronic Writing
Are you interested in learning to use the latest applications for web
and multimedia design? Regardless of your major, you can improve your
job market value by becoming a proficient user of the latest electronic
communication and design tools. And we'll do more than just show you
how these applications work; this course will also teach you how to
write effectively and persuasively in these new media.
ENG 323: Writing Children's Literature
(O) Writing and illustrating children's literature.
ENG 410: Revising and Editing
(B) Students will examine theories of revising and editing. In workshops
students will learn strategies for revision, effective editing and
proofreading. (3 cr. hr.)
ENG413: Contemporary Poetics
Writers write, but they also think about writing, talk about writing,
and write about writing. Poetics is more than a "theory" about poetry;
it's more than the literary analysis of poetry; it's the study of how
texts are made and what they do in the world. It's a study as old as
Western civilization, going back to Aristotle, and is as vibrant and
relevant today as it was then. Anyone whose serious about writing needs
to understand poetics.
ENG 415: Experiments in Creative Writing
(C) Students will, in a workshop setting, compose, share and critique
cross-genre and experimental works-prose, poems, short shorts, experimental
texts and multi-media and performance works. Prerequisite: ENG 212,
or ENG 213, or ENG 214. (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 495: Internship in Professional Writing
(O) Supervised experience in the professional work force in areas such
as publishing, multi media, public relations, advertising and management.
Prerequisite: 2.75 GPA, computer literacy, nine credit hours of writing
courses (300 level or higher), permission of English Department internship
coordinator. (3-15 cr. hr.)
ENG 497: Senior Seminar in Professional Writing
(B) Students will produce a Senior Writer's Project that provides evidence
of writing and editing skills through publication of a finished work
and compile a portfolio of works. Prerequisite: Senior standing or permission
of instructor. (3 cr. hr.)
PWR 315: Writing Creative Nonfiction
Writing Creative Nonfiction emphasizes the practice of writing and revising
the nebulous, amorphous form of "the essay." Students will read and
respond to essay that take as their impetus the natural world, travel,
personalities, personal expePrience, physical objects, and the like. The
first half of the semester will consist of blog responses to the frequent
readings; the second half of the semester will be devoted to drafts of
essays, using focused workshops and blogging. Students will submit
work to a nonfiction journal at the end of their final project.
PWR 399: (Rhetoric)
This upper-level Professional Writing course studies the theory and practice
of Western rhetoric; that is, the way that now-ancient practice of writing,
reading and speaking is implicated in some basic human questions: Where
do my opinions come from? Do I have good reasons for holding them? How
should one influence others? What is good writing? How should
I learn and teach writing? These issues will be studied in light
of the strong swing to the right in recent American politics and culture. Students
will study discussions of rhetoric from ancient Greek and Roman writing,
medieval and early modern writing, and ending with an emphasis on modern
rhetorical theory: Freud, Foucault, Nietzsche, Burke, Mallioux. The
final section of the course will turn to the study of rhetoric and composition
studies: Phelps, Booth, North, Miller. Students will write weekly
response papers, keep a commonplace book, take a midterm and write a final
paper.
|
