200 Level Courses

Course Number	Name	Gen. Eds	Description	Credits
201	Fiction Workshop	IIIO, IIIW, V6b	A course in which students will submit original fiction to be discussed in class and in individual conferences with the instuctor. This course may be repeated once for credit.	3
203	Major British Writers I	IIIW, V2	A study of important works by and critical approaches to writers of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Spenser, and Milton. Close reading, various interpretive strategies and research skills will be stressed.	3
204	Major British Writers II	IIIW, V2	A study of the poets and novelists of England and Ireland after the English Renaissance. Writers may include satirists like Pope and Austen, innovators like Wordsworth and Joyce, romantics like Emily Bronte, and realists like Dickens. Close reading, various interpretive strategies, and research skills will be stressed.	3
205	Business Writing	IIIW	In this course, students will study and practice various forms of business writing, including reports, letters, memoranda, proposals, and other documents. Assignments will replicate typical business cases, scenarios, and cultures. Selected readings introduce students to business discourse. This course cannot be taken on a P/CR/NC grading option.	3
207	Poetry Workshop	IIIO, IIIW, V6b	A course in which students will be given writing assignments with particular emphasis on craft and will submit original poems to be discussed in class. This course may be repeated once for credit.	3
211	Print/Electronic Journalism I	IIIW, V6b	Introductory course in researching, reporting, and writing stories for both print and electronic media. The course covers investigative reporting, arts criticism, and general event reporting.	3
217	Special Topics in Literature	IIIO, V2	Topic will vary by semester. Close reading, various interpretive strategies and research skills will be stressed.	3
226	Tutoring Writing: Theory/Practice		TBA	1
228	The Art of the Essay	IIIW, V6b	The study and writing of advanced expository prose that goes beyond the academic essay and pays attention to concerns such as audience, point of view, metaphor and tone. The readings for the course will be essays by current and former students of this course as well as by well-known writers such as Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, E.B. White, James Baldwin, and Joan Didion. This course counts as a 200-level workshop in creative writing.	3
233	Special Topics in Creative Writing	IIIW, V6b	TBA	3
258	Native American Literature	V2	Native American life and texts are bicultural products which combine, sometimes uneasily, tribal concepts and narrative forms with "Western" ones. This course will examine some of the literary effects of such intersections and issues such as gender constructions in the works. The class will introduce students to a variety of significant native writers and cultural traditions. Works studied can include fiction. Close reading, various interpretive strategies, and research skills will be stressed.	3
282	Modern American Authors	V2	Works in different genres by selected modern and contemporary American authors will be studied in relation to larger literary, social, and cultural developments. Writers may include Edith Wharton, Sherwood Anderson, Robert Frost, Sterling Brown, Richard Wright, Carson McCullers, Lorraine Hansberry, Allen Ginsberg, Maxine Hong Kingston, Richard Rodriguez, Anna Deveare Smith, and Li-Young Lee. Close reading, various interpretive strategies, and research skills will be stressed.	3
282	Modern American Authors	V2	Works in different genres by selected modern and contemporary American authors will be studied in relation to larger literary, social, and cultural developments. Writers may include Edith Wharton, Sherwood Anderson, Robert Frost, Sterling Brown, Richard Wright, Carson McCullers, Lorraine Hansberry, Allen Ginsberg, Maxine Hong Kingston, Richard Rodriguez, Anna Deveare Smith, and Li-Young Lee. Close reading, various interpretive strategies, and research skills will be stressed.	3