ENGLISH AML 4170 Studies in American Literary Forms Credits: 3; may be repeated with a change of content up to a total of 9 credits. Topics may include one or more genres such as: novel, detective novel, political novel, historical novel, utopian fiction, Western; drama; short story; sermon traditions; African American cultural forms, African American folklore; long poem, lyric, philosophical poem, oral poetry; nature writing, autobiography, captivity narrative; narratives of exploration; political oratory; coming out stories; humor. AML 4213 Studies in American Literature and Culture Before 1800. Credits: 3; may be repeated with a change of content up to a total of 9 credits. A variable topics course focusing on one or more of the major issues, movements, forms, or themes in the study of American literature and culture before 1800. Topics may include narratives of exploration and encounter, Puritan and/or Enlightenment writings, captivity and slave narratives, traditions of spiritual autobiography, post-colonial approaches to colonial rhetoric and poetry, and/or in-depth studies of selected writers. AML 4225 Studies in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture Credits: 3; may be repeated with a change of content up to a total of 9 credits. A variable topics course focusing on one or more of the major issues, movements, forms, or themes in the study of American literature and culture before 1900. Topics may include the American Renaissance, litera- ture and abolition, African American novels and poetry, the romance and romanticism, the rise of the short story, realism, naturalism, representations of the city, representations of the South, tropes such as the Noble Savage or the American Girl, and/or in-depth studies of selected writers. AML 4242 Studies in Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture Credits: 3; may be repeated with a change of content up to a total of 9 credits. A variable topics course focusing on one or more of the major issues, movements, fo s, or themes in the study of 20th Century American literature and cul- ture. Topics may include Modernism, Post- Modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, Depression-era literature, American writers in Paris, consumer soci- ety, American fiction since 1945, poetry, Civil Rights literature, rhetoric of imperialism, and/or several major authors. AML 4282 Studies of American Genders and Sexualities in American Literature and Culture Credits: 3; may be repeated with a change of content up to a total of 9 credits. A variable topics course focusing on one or more of the major issues, movements, forms, or themes in the study of American literature and culture. Topics may include masculinity and femininity in literature, les- bian possibilities in popular culture, feminism and womanism, traditions of gay self-representation. AML 4311 Major Figures of American Literature and Culture. Credits: 3; May be repeated with change of content up to a total of 9 credits. This course will study one major author in depth. Authors have included Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, James, Eliot, Stevens, Stein, Wright, Faulkner, Hurston, Baldwin, Pynchon, Morrison. AML 4453 Studies in American Literature and Culture Credits: 3; may be repeated with a change of content up to a total of 9 credits. A variable topics course examining issues, move- ments, forms, or themes that cross traditional period boundaries. Topics may include the city and the coun- try in American fiction; Southern masculinity; reading and literacy in America, representations of class, reli- gion and American literature; the body and technol- ogy; American regionalisms; the Pragmatist tradition; and nature and eco-criticism in American letters. AML 4685 Race and Ethnicity in American Literature and Culture Credits: 3; may be repeated with a change of content up to a total of 9 credits. A variable topics course examining issues, move- ments, forms, or themes related to race and ethnicity in American literature. Topics may include Pacific Rim cultures in America, Chicana-Latina literature, the Black Arts Movement, constructing Native America, border-crossing and migration, post-war Jewish fiction, literature and the psychology of preju- dice, comparative representations of racial and ethnic experience, representing whiteness, literatures of assimilation, and multi-racial identities. Creative Writing CRW 1101 Beginning Fiction Writing. Credits: 3;for freshmen and sophomores only. In high school you told stories, making a chance encounter seem like a meeting with Garbo. You were reading novels by flashlight before you could under- stand long words. If you want to write fiction, this is a beginning workshop. We start with the basics, and you'll read a lot of fiction (you can't be a fiction writer without reading shelves of fiction). You'll write sto- ries, and your fiction will be discussed in workshop. Fulfills the Gordon Rule. (C) CRW 1301 Beginning Poetry Writing. Credits: 3;for freshmen and sophomores only. Perhaps you've always wanted to be a poet. You've never told anyone you scribble lines in a notebook. You've written poems in love and poems in anger. Or you've never written poems at all you've just wanted to write. This workshop concentrates on the basics of reading and writing poetry (in order to write you have to read, and in order to be a reader you have to be a critic). You'll write poems yourself, and some will be discussed in a workshop. Fulfills Gordon Rule. (C) CRW 2100 Fiction Writing. Credits: 3 (max 9); Prereq: CRW 1101 or status as a junior or senior. May be repeated for credit. If you find yourself inventing characters and scenes at all hours, and if you were delighted by the beginning workshop (or you're a junior or senior just starting), this course will continue instruction in basic tech- niques of voice, plot, and character, while introducing advanced ones. You'll read a lot of good stories, and write a few yourself. Samuel Johnson said, "No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money." (C) CRW 2300 Poetry Writing. Credits: 3 (max 9); Prereq: CRW 1301 or status as a junior or senior. May be repeated for credit. Writing poetry may become an addiction. If you enjoyed the beginning workshop, or are a junior or senior taking your first, this workshop will continue with matter-of-fact techniques and teach some fancy ones as well. You'll write poems, and read some diffi- cult and thrilling poetry of the past and the present. By the end you may be able to say, with Humpty Dumpty, "I can explain all the poems that ever were invented and a good many that haven't been invented just yet." (C) tt Grading is on S-U basis only. CRW 3110 Advanced Seminar in Fiction Writing. Credits: 3 (max 9); Prereq: CRW 2100. May be repeated for credit. By manuscript submission see depart- ment for guidelines. A small workshop for students who have made their way out of beginner's workshops with sanity intact. Now the work gets more difficult, more deranged, and more delightful. Emerson said, "People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad." By manuscript during pre-registration and registration; by prerequisite during drop/add. CRW 3310 Advanced Seminar in Poetry Writing. Credits: 3 (max 9); Prereq: CRW 2300. May be repeated for credit. By manuscript submission see depart- ment for guidelines. More reeling and writhing, as Lewis Carroll said. An intense workshop for a small group of poets who have stared at the Pacific with a wild surmise. Like Balboa - or was it Cortez? By manuscript during pre-registra- tion and registration; by prerequisite during drop/ add. CRW 4905 Senior Advanced Workshop in Fiction. Credits: 3 (max 9); Prereq: CRW 3110. May be repeated for credit. By manuscript submission see depart- ment for guidelines. For students who want to trouble the literary editors and readers of the future. Many members of this class have gone on to graduate school in writing. "Ants eat everything that is written," said an explorer. This is a workshop for ants. By manuscript during pre-registra- tion and registration; by preprequisite during drop/ add. CRW 4906 Senior Advanced Workshop in Poetry. Credits: 3 (max 9); Prereq: CRW 3310. May be repeated for credit. By manuscript submission see depart- ment for guidelines. George I said, "I hate all Boets and Bainters." For bat- tle-scarred veterans of previous workshops, who now want the full treatment. A small workshop for serious poets who want to write their names in water, as long as they are also in the Norton Anthology. Students often go from this class into MFA programs in poetry. By manuscript during pre-registration and registration; by prerequisite during drop/add. English Composition ENC 1101 Expository and Argumentative Writing. Credits: 3. This course prepares students to write expository- argumentative prose and to analyze their roles in con- temporary culture. ENC 1101 is designed to help stu- dents improve their grasp of standard written English, library research, critical analysis, and creative think- ing. Fulfills Gordon Rule. (C) ENC 1102 Writing About Literature. Credits: 3. A course offering instruction in writing about fiction, drama, and poetry. 6000 words min. Fulfills Gordon Rule. (C, H) ENC 1145 Topics for Composition. Credits: 3; May be repeated with change of content up toa maximum of 6 credits. In each section, instruction in expository-argumenta- tive writing will be related to one special topic selected by the instructor. Readings will include var- ied genres from different disciplines. 6,000 words minimum. Fulfills Gordon Rule. (C, H) ENC 2210 Technical Writing. Credits: 3. Prereq: 3 hours of composition or its equiv- alent (AP or SAT II scores, etc.) must be completed prior to this course. 297