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2020-2021 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses

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  • CRWR 199A Topics in Creative Writing

    This course is designed to respond to contemporary trends and topical issues in creative writing by focusing on specific topics, genres, and forms relative to the intersection of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction writing. Topics may range from the traditional to the experimental (examples: Creative Writing & Performance, Cross-Genre Writing, Creating Hybrid Texts, Creative Writing for New Media, Contemporary Publishing) or focus upon a particular author or theme or purpose in creative work. This course is repeatable, as topics rotate each semester to cover material that is not included in the permanent course offerings.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly CRWR 199
    Co-requisites CRWR 110 Foundations in Creative Writing  or CRWR 150 Fiction Workshop: Beginning  or CRWR 155 Poetry Workshop: Beginning  or CRWR 160 Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Beginning 
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 199B Topics in Creative Writing

    This course is designed to respond to contemporary trends and topical issues in creative writing by focusing on specific topics, genres, and forms relative to the intersection of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction writing. Topics may range from the traditional to the experimental (examples: Creative Writing & Performance, Cross-Genre Writing, Creating Hybrid Texts, Creative Writing for New Media, Contemporary Publishing) or focus upon a particular author or theme or purpose in creative work. This course is repeatable, as topics rotate each semester to cover material that is not included in the permanent course offerings.

    Repeatable: Y
    Co-requisites CRWR 110 Foundations in Creative Writing  or CRWR 150 Fiction Workshop: Beginning  or CRWR 155 Poetry Workshop: Beginning  or CRWR 160 Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Beginning 
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 199C Topics in Creative Writing

    This course is designed to respond to contemporary trends and topical issues in creative writing by focusing on specific topics, genres, and forms relative to the intersection of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction writing. Topics may range from the traditional to the experimental (examples: Creative Writing & Performance, Cross-Genre Writing, Creating Hybrid Texts, Creative Writing for New Media, Contemporary Publishing) or focus upon a particular author or theme or purpose in creative work. This course is repeatable, as topics rotate each semester to cover material that is not included in the permanent course offerings.

    Repeatable: Y
    Co-requisites CRWR 110 Foundations in Creative Writing  or CRWR 150 Fiction Workshop: Beginning  or CRWR 155 Poetry Workshop: Beginning  or CRWR 160 Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Beginning 
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  
  
  

  • CRWR 217 Manuscript Preparation for Writers

    Course teaches students how to prepare final manuscripts. While students will consider the development of manuscript conventions and writing industry standards, they will also compare and contrast how other writers (such as Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and others) have prepared their manuscripts, based on their vision of the final product and its impact on various audiences. Students will learn to give close attention to issues regarding the relationship between story content and the important role of style, punctuation, usage, and the many ways in which the visual appearance and impact of a manuscript’s features (chapters, sections, breaks, etc.) affect not only the way in which the work is received by readers, editors, and publishers, but also how layout/setup affects the manipulation of time, movement, and dramatic impact.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 59-2450J
    Co-requisites CRWR 150 Fiction Workshop: Beginning 
    Minimum Credits 2 Maximum Credits 2



  

  • CRWR 220 Craft and Process Seminar in Fiction: Novelists

    Course examines the ways in which novelists read, respond to what they read, and incorporate their reading responses dynamically into their own fiction-writing processes. In addition to their own written responses to reading, students work individually and in small groups researching the reading and writing processes behind selected novels (mainstream and alternative), ranging from the beginnings of the form to the present day. Drawing upon authors’ journals, notebooks, letters, and more public writings, students explore the writing processes of well-known writers and ways in which students’ own responses to reading can nourish and heighten the development of their fiction. Course will survey many of the principal novelists and novels and the development of the genre from its roots to contemporary fiction. Students should be writing fiction, but novel-length material is not required.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 59-2301
    Co-requisites   CRWR 250 Fiction Workshop: Intermediate  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 221 Craft and Process Seminar in Fiction: Short Story

    Course encourages development of lively, well-crafted, short fiction by examining reading and writing processes that guide some of the best examples of the form. Students select from a wide range of writers, representing many different voices, backgrounds, subjects, and approaches, to research ways in which writers read, respond to their reading, and use that reading to generate and heighten their short stories. Students write their responses to reading short stories and discuss the relationship of reading to the development of their own fiction.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 59-2302
    Co-requisites CRWR 250 Fiction Workshop: Intermediate  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 222 Craft and Process Seminar in Fiction: Women Writer

    Course researches writing processes of women writers and ways in which their reading and responses to reading play influential roles in the fiction-writing process. Journals and other writings by Virginia Woolf, Zora Neale Hurston, Katherine Anne Porter, Katherine Mansfield, Eudora Welty, Toni Cade Bambara, and others are used as examples of how writers read, write about what they read to develop their fiction, and see their work in relation to other writers’ works. Manuscripts and notes of famous works may be used to show writers’ processes and development. Students’ own fiction writing is also part of the course.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 59-2303
    PL
    Co-requisites   CRWR 250 Fiction Workshop: Intermediate  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 223 Craft and Process Seminar in Fiction: Fiction Writers and Censorship

    Course emphasizes research, writing, and discussion of creative processes of successful writers, among them Lawrence, Flaubert, Hurston, Wright, Selby, Joyce, and Burroughs, who have been forced to confront directly forms of censorship or marginalization. Writers must be free to draw on their strongest material and use their best, most authentic, telling voices. However, writers often confront external or internal inhibitions: outright legal challenges, vocal attacks upon certain types of stories, subtle publishing prejudices, or self-censoring.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 59-2304
    Co-requisites   CRWR 250 Fiction Workshop: Intermediate  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 233 Researching and Writing Historical Fiction

    Course focuses on the ever-popular genre of historical fiction, which combines the study of research techniques with fictional techniques necessary to produce marketable prose. Through reading, research, and guidance of a historical fiction writer, students produce their own historical fiction. Course fulfills the bibliography and research requirement of the Fiction Writing major.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 59-2410
    Co-requisites CRWR 250 Fiction Workshop: Intermediate  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 234 Advanced Young Adult Fiction

    Course provides students with the opportunity to complete full-length original novellas begun in Young Adult Fiction (55-4301). Emphasis is on deepening understanding of scene, transition, character, and plot development. Rigorous rewriting and revision are key in working toward publishable quality. Students discuss the latest in young adult literature and current trends in publishing.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 59-2411
    Prerequisites CRWR 134 Young Adult Fiction  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 238 Advanced Science Fiction Writing Workshop

    Workshop course builds on the original science fiction class, focusing on writing skills and techniques unique to the genre. Students practice generating story ideas, tempering imagination with logic, thinking in terms of the future and its multiple possibilities, selecting appropriate characters, and constructing plausible plots. Readings include collected short stories of science fiction master Alfred Bester and individual works by Robert Heinlein, C.M. Kornbluth, and others.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 59-2416
    Prerequisites CRWR 138 Science Fiction Writing  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 239 Dialects and Fiction Writing

    Course provides students with informed training in listening with a good ear and distinguishing between eye dialect and dialect that is both accurately and artistically rendered, with an understanding of the tradition of dialect writing in fiction. Dialect speech and writing have richly contributed to the breadth, variety, and authenticity of American and English literature. Students keep journals and research the ways in which writers employ dialect in their fiction as well as what they have to say about such uses, while also developing a facility with dialect in their own fiction writing.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 59-2430
    PL
    Co-requisites CRWR 250 Fiction Workshop: Intermediate  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 242A Topics in Nonfiction

    A number and variety of courses are included under the umbrella of nonfiction topics, such as: Journal Writing (writing, reading and discussing nonfiction journals that explore the writer’s life or an aspect of it, such as travel, memories or relationships to art or food. Course also examines ways personal writing can become public writing within genre of creative nonfiction.); Memoir Writing (how to select the most meaningful memories, and how to develop, focus and structure those memories); and the Graphic Memoir (While the emphasis will be on writing, the course will also explore the connection of writing to drawing and how one can enhance the other, such as how the images and language are placed in panels or pages). These courses will revolve and be offered different semesters. Content will vary slightly according to instructors.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly CRWR 242
    Prerequisites ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  or CRWR 160 Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Beginning  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 242B Topics in Nonfiction

    A number and variety of courses are included under the umbrella of nonfiction topics, such as: Journal Writing (writing, reading and discussing nonfiction journals that explore the writer’s life or an aspect of it, such as travel, memories or relationships to art or food. Course also examines ways personal writing can become public writing within genre of creative nonfiction.); Memoir Writing (how to select the most meaningful memories, and how to develop, focus and structure those memories); and the Graphic Memoir (While the emphasis will be on writing, the course will also explore the connection of writing to drawing and how one can enhance the other, such as how the images and language are placed in panels or pages). These courses will revolve and be offered different semesters. Content will vary slightly according to instructors.

    Repeatable: Y
    Prerequisites ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  or CRWR 160 Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Beginning  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 249 Nonfiction Film As Literature

    This class will explore nonfiction films in their relationship to nonfiction literature. What does it mean to speak of films as essays or memoirs or autobiographies? What is the relationship between text and image, fact, truth, and composition in films presenting themselves as nonfictional? We will also consider some nonfiction literature that invokes and plays off film. Filmmakers such as Ross McElwee, Spike Lee, Erroll Morris, Chris Marker, Barbara Hammer, Su Friedrich, Jonathan Caouette, and Spalding Gray will be considered.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 59-2850
    HL
    Prerequisites ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112H Writing and Rhetoric II: Honors  or ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 250 Fiction Workshop: Intermediate

    Course is the second workshop in the core curriculum for the Fiction concentration. Course continues the development of perceptual and technical abilities begun in Fiction Writing: Beginning, with a focus that may include, but is not limited to: point of view, structure, and parody of form.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 59-2201
    Prerequisites CRWR 150 Fiction Workshop: Beginning  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 255 Poetry Workshop: Intermediate

    Through in-class writing exercises, the reading of model poems, and discussion of student work, students are encouraged to produce poetry of greater sophistication. Familiarity with work of notable poets is strongly encouraged.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 59-2500
    Prerequisites CRWR 155 Poetry Workshop: Beginning   
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 260 Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Intermediate

    Intermediate class in writing creative nonfiction. This class will build on the introductory workshop, with students expected to expand the range and sophistication of their work. Students will read works of nonfiction and present their work to the rest of the class in a workshop format.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 59-2700
    Prerequisites     CRWR 160 Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Beginning  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 288 Practice Teaching: Tutor Training

    Course uses a range of pedagogical strategies to train and provide tutors who, concurrent with their training semester, staff the Department of Creative Writing’s Fiction tutoring program. Tutors assist Fiction students who need help with reading and writing skills.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 59-3450
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 289 Practice Teaching: Classroom

    Students explore a range of pedagogical strategies in order to prepare to teach the writing of Fiction.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 59-3451
    Prerequisites CRWR 288 Practice Teaching: Tutor Training  
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 315 Creative Writers and Publishing

    Course is designed to give developing creative writers an understanding of the publishing industry, and experience navigating it. Students will write and prepare work for potential publication, familiarize themselves with the literary marketplace and current publishing trends, participate in conversations and interviews with editors, agents, publishers, and other members of the publishing industry and literary community. Assignments will include research, presentations, and opportunities for submission of students’ creative work. Students will undertake, present, and potentially publish in-depth research into literary magazines and journals, as well as independent and major publishing houses. Guest speakers may include bookstore owners, editors, publishers, and published creative writers.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 59-3100
    Prerequisites CRWR 250 Fiction Workshop: Intermediate  or CRWR 255 Poetry Workshop: Intermediate  or CRWR 260 Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Intermediate 
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 316 Writer’s Portfolio

    Course combines the study of aesthetics with the study of the business of creative writing. Student writing in class may include (but is not limited to) critical essays on the craft of creative writing; craft commentaries on your own work and on the work of others; interviews with other writers; cover letters; query letters; and research essays on publishing markets. Students will learn about professional presentation for submitting their writing for publication and for evaluation by employers and graduate-admission committees in fields where effective communication, creative problem-solving, critical analysis, editing, and group relationship skills are crucial factors.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 59-3150
    Prerequisites   CRWR 250 Fiction Workshop: Intermediate  or  CRWR 255 Poetry Workshop: Intermediate  or  CRWR 260 Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Intermediate  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 320 Craft and Process Seminar in Fiction: Kafka and European Masters

    With a focus on Franz Kafka, this course presents the work of Prague’s most influential writers, paying special attention to how the historical and cultural landscape of Eastern Europe in the 20th century impacted their lives and work, and exploring the myriad ways culture and geography inform creative process. In this course, students will interact with the city of Prague through the lenses of great works such as Kafka’s The Trial, Haceks, outrageous novel Good Soldier Svejk, Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being and works by Karol Capek and Bohumil Hrabel.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 59-3173
    GA
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 326A Craft and Process Seminar in Nonfiction

    The Readings in Nonfiction Literature class is designed to explore a variety of subjects in nonfiction, and topics of classes offered might include readings in the essay, twentieth century nonfiction, feminist readings in nonfiction, queer nonfiction, graphic novel memoirs, single or double author courses (Baldwin’s Essays, or Montaigne and Bacon), etc. The class will change from semester to semester. The class will explore what makes a work of nonfiction specific to its genre and how writers establish their voices in nonfiction.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly CRWR 326
    Prerequisites   CRWR 160 Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Beginning  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 326B Craft and Process Seminar in Nonfiction

    The Readings in Nonfiction Literature class is designed to explore a variety of subjects in nonfiction, and topics of classes offered might include readings in the essay, twentieth century nonfiction, feminist readings in nonfiction, queer nonfiction, graphic novel memoirs, single or double author courses (Baldwin’s Essays, or Montaigne and Bacon), etc. The class will change from semester to semester. The class will explore what makes a work of nonfiction specific to its genre and how writers establish their voices in nonfiction.

    Repeatable: Y
    Prerequisites   CRWR 160 Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Beginning  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 350 Fiction Workshop: Advanced

    Course is the third workshop in the core sequence for the Fiction concentration. Students intensively explore new fictional possibilities in the writing of short fiction and novels (students also have the option to continue to develop strong writing material from previous classes). Workshop may have an emphasis on a particular craft element of fiction and will stress rewriting and revision. Course is repeatable.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 59-3201
    Prerequisites   CRWR 250 Fiction Workshop: Intermediate  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 355 Poetry Workshop: Advanced

    Students are encouraged to write poetry of the very highest quality. Workshop format makes use of in-class writing exercises and discussions of student work. Students become familiar with a wide range of models and formal strategies.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 59-3500
    Prerequisites   CRWR 255 Poetry Workshop: Intermediate   
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 357A Craft and Process Seminar in Poetry

    Rotating topics craft class. Students read literature of specific periods and movements in order to generate poetry (and hybrid writing forms) based on these reading assignments. Craft Seminars that have been offered in past semesters include Poetry Translation, Hybrid Poetics, and Literary College.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly CRWR 357
    Prerequisites   CRWR 155 Poetry Workshop: Beginning  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 357B Craft and Process Seminar in Poetry

    Rotating topics craft class. Students read literature of specific periods and movements in order to generate poetry (and hybrid writing forms) based on these reading assignments. Craft Seminars that have been offered in past semesters include Poetry Translation, Hybrid Poetics, and Literary College.

    Repeatable: Y
    Prerequisites   CRWR 155 Poetry Workshop: Beginning  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 360 Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Advanced

    An advanced class in writing creative nonfiction. This class will build on the intermediate workshop, with students expected to have attained a certain mastery in the writing of nonfiction. Students will read works of nonfiction and participate in presenting their work to the rest of the class in a workshop format.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 59-3700
    Prerequisites  CRWR 260 Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Intermediate  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 370 Creative Writing: J-Term in Paris

    Dislocation from the familiar has for centuries played upon the imaginative processes of writers. This J-Session course offers an immersion in the literature, art, history, and culture of another city or country. Students read fiction and nonfiction by noted authors; visit major sites associated with these authors; write journal entries and reading responses; and intensively explore new fictional and creative nonfiction possibilities, as well as having the option of continuing to develop strong writing material from previous classes.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 59-3171J
    GA
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 371 Dreams and Creative Writing: Prague

    Mixing medieval with ultra-modern, the surreal and the mythological, the city of Prague has long inspired fantastic and dream-like literature, art, and architecture. In this course, students are invited to tap into the wildly imaginative world of dreams and explore their influence on the work of well-known Czech writers such as Franz Kafka and Gustav Meyrink. With site visits to weird and dreamy locales throughout the city, and through creative prompts and exercises, students will explore first-hand the role of dreams and dream imagery on the creative process.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 59-3172
    GA
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 372 Topics in Writing Abroad: Rome

    This J-session course offers an intensive two-week immersion in Rome’s literature, art, history, and culture. Students read fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by noted authors; visit major sites, including the Colosseum, Vatican, Roman Forum, Pompeii, churches, museums and places associated with noted authors; and participate in writing workshops at Lorenzo d’ Medici. Journal entries and reading responses lead to an extended story, essay, or digital project, which may be done in collaboration with students from the Business and Entrepreneurship Department.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 59-3170J
    GA
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 415 Literary Magazine Editing

    Course teaches students basic principles of literary magazine editing. This includes the processing and managing of submissions, editorial discussions of submitted material, editorial correspondence (rejections and acceptances), ordering of the final manuscript, and preparation of the electronic manuscript for typesetting.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 59-4150
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 416 Literary Magazine Production

    Course teaches students basic principles of magazine production. Students act as editors and assistants for Columbia literary journals, learning the fundamentals of editorial selection, copyediting, proofreading, design, production and distribution.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 59-4151
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 450 Fiction Workshop: Thesis

    This capstone course for the Fiction concentration focuses on the writing, revisions, and compilation of a fiction manuscript suitable for submission to publishers and/or submission for graduate school.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 59-4290
    Prerequisites CRWR 350 Fiction Workshop: Advanced  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 455 Poetry Workshop: Thesis

    This capstone course for the Poetry concentration focuses on the writing, revisions, and compilation of a chapbook-length poetry manuscript suitable for submission to publishers and/or submission for graduate school.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 59-4690
    Prerequisites CRWR 355 Poetry Workshop: Advanced  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 460 Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Thesis

    This capstone course for the Nonfiction concentration focuses on the writing, revisions, and compilation of a nonfiction manuscript suitable for submission to publishers and/or submission for graduate school.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 59-4890
    Prerequisites CRWR 360 Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Advanced  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 490 Internship: Creative Writing

    Course provides internships to advanced students with an opportunity to gain work experience in an area of concentration or interest while receiving academic credit toward their degrees.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 59-3990
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 6



  

  • CRWR 495 Directed Study: Creative Writing

    This course consists of learning activities involving student independence within the context of regular guidance and direction from a faculty advisor. Directed Studies are appropriate for students who wish to explore a subject beyond what is possible in regular courses or for students who wish to engage in a subject or activity not otherwise offered that semester by the College. Directed Studies involve close collaboration with a faculty advisor who will assist in development and design of the project, oversee its progress, evaluate the final results, and submit a grade.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 59-3999
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 4



  

  • CRWR 496 Independent Project: Creative Writing

    An independent project is designed by the student, with approval of supervising faculty member, to study an area not available in the curriculum. Prior to registration, student must submit written proposal that outlines the project.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 59-3998
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 6



  

  • CRWR 515 Literary Magazine Editing

    Course teaches students basic principles of literary magazine editing. This includes the processing and managing of submissions, editorial discussions of submitted material, editorial correspondence (rejections and acceptances), ordering of the final manuscript, and preparation of the electronic manuscript for typesetting.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 59-5150
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 516 Literary Magazine Production

    Course teaches students basic principles of magazine production. Students act as editors and assistants for Columbia literary journals, learning the fundamentals of editorial selection, copyediting, proofreading, design, production and distribution.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 59-5151
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 610 Advanced Graduate Fiction Workshop

    This repeatable Fiction workshop emphasizes further development in the writing of short fiction and novels.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 59-6203
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 612A Graduate Critical Reading and Writing

    Course requires that qualified students study the works of writers’ processes, styles, techniques and choices by reading and researching published novels, short stories, journals, letters and interviews, as well as author biographies. Students gain in-depth knowledge of the cultural context of authors’ works. Students explore the writing processes of well known authors and the ways in which students’ own responses to the reading can nourish and heighten the development of their own fiction and other forms of creative writing.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly CRWR 612
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 612B Graduate Critical Reading and Writing

    Course requires that qualified students study the works of writers’ processes, styles, techniques and choices by reading and researching published novels, short stories, journals, letters and interviews, as well as author biographies. Students gain in-depth knowledge of the cultural context of authors’ works. Students explore the writing processes of well known authors and the ways in which students’ own responses to the reading can nourish and heighten the development of their own fiction and other forms of creative writing.

    Repeatable: Y
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 620 Critical Reading and Writing: Kafka and European Masters

    With a focus on Franz Kafka, this course presents the work of Prague’s most influential writers, paying special attention to how the historical and cultural landscape of Eastern Europe in the 20th century impacted their lives and work, and exploring the myriad ways culture and geography inform creative process. In this course, students will interact with the city of Prague through the lenses of great works such as Kafka’s The Trial, Hasek’s outrageous novel, The Good Soldier Svejk, Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and works by Karol Capek and Bohumil Hrabel.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 59-6173
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 625 MFA Poetry Workshop

    Students are encouraged to write poetry of the very highest quality. Workshop format makes use of reading assignments, writing exercises, and critique of student work. Students are expected to become familiar with a wide range of models and formal strategies.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 59-6500
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 626 Graduate Poetics Seminar

    The Graduate Poetics Seminar, required of MFA Creative Writing-Poetry students, provides an overview of foundational and touchstone theories of poetic making from Aristotle to the present.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 59-6510
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 630A Craft Seminar

    Rotating topics craft class. Students read literature of specific periods and movements in order to generate poetry (and hybrid writing forms) based on these reading assignments. Craft Seminars that have been offered in past semesters include Poetry Translation, Hybrid Poetics, and Literary College.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly CRWR 630
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 630B Craft Seminar

    Rotating topics craft class. Students read literature of specific periods and movements in order to generate poetry (and hybrid writing forms) based on these reading assignments. Craft Seminars that have been offered in past semesters include Poetry Translation, Hybrid Poetics, and Literary College.

    Repeatable: Y
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 640 Workshop: Open Genre

    Students will have their creative work discussed and critiqued in a workshop format. Engaging in a variety of genres and the possibilities inherent in transgenre work, students will explore methods in theory and discourse of genre inclusivity. To that end, students will read a variety of texts that explore the demarcation or blurring of genre as well as the current publishing landscape.  

    Repeatable: Y
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 645 Thesis Development: Open Genre

    Students will work towards completing a draft of the thesis, in any genre, required for graduation. Course includes revising and arranging the manuscript and analyzing books in various genres as well as publishing. This course prepares students to work with their thesis advisors.

    Repeatable: N
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 650 Thesis Development: Fiction

    This course concentrates on the process and extended development necessary for the completion of a book-length thesis. The course is designed for graduate students who normally have completed at least two semesters of Advanced Fiction Writing (or will be concurrently enrolled in a second Advanced class), who have sixty to seventy manuscript pages of what they have identified to a Workshop teacher as thesis material, and are in the early stages of working with a thesis advisor. The course is not for graduate students well on their way to completing the thesis, but rather for those in the early developmental stages of thesis work. The course will focus on how to put it all together; that is, such matters as novel structure and movement, short-story structure and movement, dimensions of point of view, and the uniqueness of such in the individual writing of the students.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 59-6401
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 651 Thesis: Fiction

    Includes one-on-one intensive rewriting manuscript in preparation for candidate’s thesis.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 59-6402
    TH
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 2



  

  • CRWR 655 Thesis Development: Poetry

    Students in this course will complete the first draft of the thesis required for graduation and prepares students to work with their thesis advisor. Course includes revising and arranging the manuscript, analyzing first books of poetry and the marketplace, and composing the critical essay.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 59-6690
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 656 Thesis: Poetry

    One-on-one intensive revision of the book-length thesis manuscript and/or critical essay required for graduation with an MFA in Poetry. Repeatable once.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 59-6691
    TH
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1



  

  • CRWR 660 Thesis: Nonfiction

    Thesis credits, under individual direction by faculty, toward completion of the thesis.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 59-6891
    TH
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 2



  

  • CRWR 661A Form and Theory of Nonfiction

    A class in the craft and theory of different forms of creative nonfiction. Students might write autobiographical essays, journals, prose poetry, letters, biographical pieces, and experimental kinds of prose that are hybrids, or invented forms. The class may also focus on a certain kind of nonfiction writing, such as writing queer nonfiction, or the experimental essay. Some of this work will be discussed in the workshop format. Students will also read different theoretical works that discuss the nature of nonfiction literature.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly CRWR 661
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 661B Form and Theory of Nonfiction

    A class in the craft and theory of different forms of creative nonfiction. Students might write autobiographical essays, journals, prose poetry, letters, biographical pieces, and experimental kinds of prose that are hybrids, or invented forms. The class may also focus on a certain kind of nonfiction writing, such as writing queer nonfiction, or the experimental essay. Some of this work will be discussed in the workshop format. Students will also read different theoretical works that discuss the nature of nonfiction literature.

    Repeatable: Y
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 662 Graduate Workshop: Nonfiction

    Graduate-only advanced seminar in literature focuses on one author or a group of authors. Course is repeatable as topic changes.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 59-6700
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 663 Topics in Nonfiction

    A number and variety of courses are included under the umbrella of nonfiction topics, such as: Journal Writing (writing, reading and discussing nonfiction journals that explore the writer’s life or an aspect of it. Course also examines ways personal writing can become public writing within genre of creative nonfiction.); Memoir Writing (how to select the most meaningful memories, and how to develop, focus and structure those memories); and other contemporary NF forms and topics. These courses will be offered different semesters. Content will vary slightly according to instructors.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 59-6810
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 665 Thesis Development: Nonfiction

    Students in this course will work towards completing a draft of the nonfiction thesis required for graduation. Course includes revising and arranging the manuscript and analyzing books of nonfiction as well as nonfiction publishing. This course prepares students to work with their thesis advisors.

    Repeatable: N
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 670 Creative Writing: J-Term in Paris

    Dislocation from the familiar has for centuries played upon the imaginative processes of writers. This J-Session course offers an immersion in the literature, art, history, and culture of another city or country. Students read fiction and nonfiction by noted authors; visit major sites associated with these authors; write journal entries and reading responses; and intensively explore new fictional and creative nonfiction possibilities, as well as having the option of continuing to develop strong writing material from previous classes.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 59-6171J
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 671 Dreams and Creative Writing: Prague

    Mixing medieval with ultra-modern, the surreal and the mythological, the city of Prague has long inspired fantastic and dream-like literature, art, and architecture. In this course, students are invited to tap into the wildly imaginative world of dreams and explore their influence on the work of well-known Czech writers such as Franz Kafka and Gustav Meyrink. With site visits to weird and dreamy locales throughout the city, and through creative prompts and exercises, students will explore first-hand the role of dreams and dream imagery on the creative process.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 59-6172
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 672 Topics in Writing Abroad: Rome

    This J-session course offers an intensive two-week immersion in Rome’s literature, art, history, and culture. Students read fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by noted authors; visit major sites, including the Colosseum, Vatican, Roman Forum, Pompeii, churches, museums and places associated with noted authors; and participate in writing workshops at Lorenzo d’ Medici. Journal entries and reading responses lead to an extended story, essay, or digital project, which may be done in collaboration with students from the Business and Entrepreneurship Department.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 59-6170J
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 690 Internship: Creative Writing

    Course provides internships to advanced students with an opportunity to gain work experience in an area of concentration or interest while receiving academic credit toward their degrees.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 59-6990
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 4



  

  • CRWR 695 Directed Study

    Course consists of learning activities involving student independence within the context of regular guidance and direction from a faculty advisor. Directed Studies are appropriate for students who wish to explore a subject beyond what is possible in regular courses or for students who wish to engage in a subject or activity not otherwise offered that semester by the College. They involve close collaboration with a faculty advisor who will assist in development and design of the project, oversee its progress, evaluate the final results, and submit a grade.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 59-6999
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 5



  

  • CRWR 696 Independent Project: Creative Writing

    No description available.



    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 59-6898
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 6



  

  • CRWR 699A Topics in Creative Writing

    This course focuses on specific topics, genres, and forms relative to the intersection of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction writing, establishing the connection between the written word and other media. Topics covered may include traditional creative writing topics such as structure, form voice, and image, or may concentrate on experimental forms and trends in contemporary creative writing as well as publishing, performance, and new media. Topics include Pedagogy, Publishing, Experimental Writing, and Multimedia Applications.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly CRWR 699
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CRWR 699B Topics in Creative Writing

    This course focuses on specific topics, genres, and forms relative to the intersection of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction writing, establishing the connection between the written word and other media. Topics covered may include traditional creative writing topics such as structure, form voice, and image, or may concentrate on experimental forms and trends in contemporary creative writing as well as publishing, performance, and new media. Topics include Pedagogy, Publishing, Experimental Writing, and Multimedia Applications.

    Repeatable: Y
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CULS 101 Introduction to Cultural Studies

    This course introduces students to the terms, analytical techniques, and interpretive strategies commonly employed in cultural studies. Emphasis is on interdisciplinary approaches to exploring how cultural processes and artifacts are produced, shaped, distributed, consumed, and responded to in diverse ways. Through discussion, research, and writing, class members investigate these varied dimensions of culture; learn to understand them in their broader social, aesthetic, ethical, and political contexts; and thereby prepare for more advanced coursework in Cultural Studies.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 46-1100
    HU DEI
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CULS 101H Introduction to Cultural Studies: Honors

    This course introduces students to the terms, analytical techniques, and interpretive strategies commonly employed in cultural studies. Emphasis is on critical approaches to exploring how cultural processes and artifacts are produced, shaped, distributed, consumed, and responded to in diverse ways. Through discussion, research, and writing, class members investigate these varied dimensions of culture; learn to understand them in their broader social, aesthetic, ethical, political, and economic contexts; and thereby prepare for more advanced coursework in cultural studies. This is an Honors class. In addition to other possible pre-requisites, students need a minimum G.P.A. of 3.50 or higher to enroll.

    Repeatable: N
    HU DEI
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA (35GP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CULS 201 Cultural Theories

    This course maps the major concepts, paradigms and methodologies underlying Cultural Studies theory and practice. Assignments draw upon a diverse range of scholars whose work engages with Marxism, Media Studies, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, Anthropology, Sociology, Post-Colonial Theory, and the interdisciplinary field of Cultural Studies itself. We will make use of examples from art, mass media, literature, and architecture to critically examine themes of production and consumption, power and resistance, technologies and bodies, identity and representation, space, place, and globalization.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 46-2100
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CULS 205 Methods of Inquiry in Cultural Studies

    This course introduces students to diverse methods of inquiry in the field of cultural studies. It provides students with an understanding of critical vocabularies and examines key issues in cultural studies research. Students in this class will learn to utilize various methodologies relevant to interdisciplinary problems and questions that the field of cultural studies poses.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 46-2150
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CULS 207 Critical Issues in Cultural Studies

    This is a topics course designed to engage students in current work in the field of Cultural Studies. Students will and research the work of noted Cultural Studies scholars and activists and also engage them directly through a colloquium series showcasing local, national, or international contemporary scholars and activists. The topic of the course is changeable, and the course is repeatable with each topic change. Topics might include one of the following: Feminism and Film, Climate Change, Transgender Identity, Critical Prison Studies, and Critically Mapping Chicago.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 46-2200
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CULS 210 Critiquing Children’s Culture

    This course examines varied spheres of children’s culture while introducing students to the terms, analytical techniques, and interpretive strategies commonly employed in Cultural Studies. Emphasis is on interdisciplinary approaches to exploring how children’s cultural processes and artifacts are produced, shaped, distributed, consumed and responded to in diverse ways. Through discussion, research and writing, class members investigate dimensions of children’s culture, learning to understand them in their broader social, aesthetic, ethical, and political contexts. Topics studied include children’s literature, animated films, teen literature, toys, public schooling, children’s games and new media.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 46-2425
    Prerequisites ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112H Writing and Rhetoric II: Honors  or ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CULS 211 Art and Activism Studio Project

    This course presents opportunity for hands-on civic engagement, with two guiding questions: 1) Can art save lives 2) It might be activism, but is it art Students read theory and examine examples of artistic activism in the larger context of social and political issues informing artistic action. In the studio students execute their artistic action plan. Students will complete, present, and hand in written assignments reflecting on and connecting theories of artistic action with their own practice of creating activist art.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 46-2505
    GA
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CULS 212 Philosophical Issues in Film

    Course addresses a series of philosophical themes including ethical issues, metaphysical questions, and existential quandaries. Philosophical study can open up vistas of meaning to any student, and films can effectively realize abstract ideas in palpable and compelling ways. Several films are used with readings in philosophical literature to explore specific philosophical themes.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 46-2405
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  
  

  • CULS 214 Media, Politics and Intervention

    There is a belief that media attention can shame people and governments into stopping human rights abuses. Yet, when examining reality: from past ‘genocides’ to current ‘unexplained killings’ to ongoing systemic ‘abuses’- we know that media attention alone is not sufficient. This course will explore how intervention - by individuals, domestic/international advocacy groups and governments - does or does not occur. The focus will be on the successful and unsuccessful use of media to provoke and sustain tangible respect for human rights.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 46-2412
    HU DEI GA
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CULS 219 Puerto Rican Culture: Negotiation and Resistance

    This course is an inquiry into the concept of national culture, the issues of cultural resistance and negotiation, and the complexities of citizenship and representation in Puerto Rico. The island is unique in its development during the 20th century because it is, in fact, a nation without a sovereign state, and its political relationship with the United States, along with its cultural and historical links to Latin America, provide fascinating perspectives in subjectivity, transculturation, nationalism, and popular and official cultures.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 46-2420
    PL
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CULS 310 Theories of Media, Society, & Culture

    This course will explore the major theories of mass communication, society and culture that have led up to and departed from Cultural Studies. We will examine a variety of theories from communication and media studies that help us to better understand the role media play in society and culture and different ideas about that role. Theories studied will include early propaganda and administrative research, McLuhan and media ecology, as well as Critical Theory, Apparatus theory, political economy, and Cultural Studies.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 46-3535
    Prerequisites CULS 201 Cultural Theories  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CULS 311 Theorizing Power

    This seminar explores central questions and problems in contemporary cultural and political theory related to how we theorize power in two dominant forms, including its meanings, its mechanisms, and its ideology. We will contrast the dominant liberal image of power with other understandings of power derived from Foucault: discursive, disciplinary, and biopolitical. We will examine major texts and concepts from Foucault, Butler, Locke, Mill, and others.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 46-3540
    Prerequisites CULS 201 Cultural Theories  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CULS 312 Queer Theory

    This course engages concepts of Queer Theory and the central architects of this relatively new field. The course is divided into three sections: Theory, Cultural Manifestations, and Praxis. In section I: Theory, students become familiar with key concepts through both core texts and critical interpretations. Section 2: Cultural Manifestations, focuses on cultural expressions of theory, e.g. art, film, and literature. In section 3: Praxis, students demonstrate contemporary applications either through their own work or through the work of others.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 46-3530
    Prerequisites CULS 201 Cultural Theories  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CULS 313 Postmodernism and Posthumanism in Theory and Practice

    This seminar engages the leading theorists of postmodernism, posthumanism, and poststructuralism, offering students an opportunity to become literate in the debates, discourses, and terminology of postmodern cultures. Course also analyzes leading postmodern cultural practices in fields such as architecture, music, film, science, and fine art.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 46-3500
    Prerequisites CULS 201 Cultural Theories  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CULS 314 Marx and Marxisms: A Seminar on Marxist Cultural Theory

    This seminar will address key questions and problems in contemporary Marxist cultural theory. We will engage several major texts in the Marxist tradition, including those of Marx, Gramsci, Althusser, Adorno, and Jameson, among others. As a cultural studies seminar, this course will pay particular attention to questions of culture, art, ideology, and the subject, and how these questions have featured in debates within the Marxist tradition. We will also examine the historical and intellectual contexts in which these and other Marxist theories and accounts have emerged and developed.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 46-3520
    Prerequisites CULS 201 Cultural Theories  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CULS 315 Post-Colonial Studies

    An integral part of cultural studies, post-colonial studies deals with the complex implications of colonization and colonialism in societies and cultures. This seminar is an inquiry into concepts such as national culture, citizenship, othering, identity and alterity, cultural imperialism, hybridity, and origins, as well as issues of cultural resistance, negotiation, and agency, using examples from all over the world.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 46-3510
    GA
    Prerequisites CULS 201 Cultural Theories 
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CULS 316 Semiotics and Cultural Change

    The course explores the implications of systemic and structural theories of culture for issues of cultural change, both revolutionary and evolutionary, by considering particular case studies. Using dyadic and triadic methodologies for the study of signs, we examine case studies to interrogate political, social, and pragmatic outcomes of meta-analytic propositions. Fieldwork experiences engage students in contradictions, coherences, coincidences and confrontations between theory and praxis.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 46-3502
    Prerequisites CULS 201 Cultural Theories 
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CULS 317 Making and Unmaking Whiteness

    This advanced seminar examines the cultural and political-economic construction of white identities in the United States and analyzes how white identities are reproduced, maintained, and challenged. How has whiteness been defined in relation to notions of color, race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, language, and non-white perspectives? In this course, diverse student experiences come into contact with the work of historians and critical race theorists. The course will also examine counter-hegemonic white identities and the possibilities of ‘unmaking’ whiteness.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 46-3215
    DEI
    Prerequisites CULS 201 Cultural Theories  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CULS 318 Cybercultures

    This seminar course explores cyberspace, the most powerful and frequently inhabited site within contemporary culture. Students will explore specific themes such as, identity, community, bodies, virtuality, and sexuality through the lens of post-structuralist, postmodern, cyberfeminist, cyborg, and digital culture theories. Readings, discussions, research, writing, and a cyberethnographic project will help students gain a greater understanding of cyberspace, its culture, and the relationships that exist between machines and humans, as well as those between society and technology.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 46-3207
    Prerequisites CULS 201 Cultural Theories  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CULS 319 Technology and Culture

    The use of technologies raises complex and provocative questions about the relationships between humans, animals, the built environment and the natural world. This course engages these questions by introducing students to key theorists, critics and cultural historians of technology. The goal of this course is for students to utilize these perspectives as a means to initiate and/or develop a critical analysis of technologies in their specific cultural, political and historical contexts.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 46-3425
    Prerequisites CULS 201 Cultural Theories 
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  
  

  • CULS 321 Globalization and Culture

    Since the early 1990s, globalization–a multi-faceted and highly contested concept–has become the new buzz word used to name, frame, and also direct the processes of social and technological change that have been taking place all over the world. By the same token, and since then, issues of globalization have been a central preoccupation of intellectual debates and political discourses and practices. This course aims to introduce students to the hotly debated and highly contested conceptual and social phenomenon of globalization, its histories, manifestations, implications, as well as its consequences for the individual and society.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 46-3415
    HU GA
    Prerequisites CULS 101 Introduction to Cultural Studies   
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CULS 322 Writing, Language, and Culture Seminar

    Students study issues surrounding language, writing, and representation, and produce substantial, complex writing and research projects as they work to build skills in research, prose style, editing, and design. Topics include a rotating series of rhetorical and cultural analyses of consumer, popular culture, networked, and organizational settings. Overall, the course heightens student awareness of the power of writing and representation to shape the way we produce and are produced by the world around us.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 46-3430
    Prerequisites CULS 201 Cultural Theories 
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CULS 323 Quantitative Toolkit: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics

    This course introduces students to quantitative methods of research and analysis within the field of cultural studies. Students will focus on methods of surveying, interviewing and focus groups as a way to answer critical questions in the field of cultural studies, as well as practicing hands-on data analysis techniques. Students will also address ethical issues in data collection and management. This experience may be used in completing research in the Cultural Studies Capstone I and II (46-3994 & 46-3995).

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 46-3501
    Prerequisites CULS 201 Cultural Theories  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CULS 401 Practicing Media and Popular Culture Studies

    Prepares students with the tools and conventions of contemporary research in Media Studies and Popular Culture Studies in order to create a project proposal for the Cultural Studies Capstone Project course. Students learn how to identify an inquiry that interests them, develop that interest into a focused research problem, research for material related to their problem, and prepare a literature review summarizing how their inquiry relates to conversations already taking place within the field. After developing a focused inquiry, reviewing the existing literature, and articulating how they might contribute to ongoing conversations about their topic, students write a proposal that supports the development of a substantive piece of research in Media Studies and Popular Culture Studies.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 46-4991
    Prerequisites CULS 101 Introduction to Cultural Studies  and CULS 201 Cultural Theories  and CULS 205 Methods of Inquiry in Cultural Studies  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CULS 402 Practicing Literary Studies

    Prepares students with the tools and conventions of contemporary research in Literary Studies in order to create a project proposal for the Cultural Studies Capstone Project course. Students learn to develop an inquiry that interests them, search the MLA and other databases for sources related to their project, and prepare a literature review that summarizes perspectives others have contributed to their proposed topic. After developing a focused inquiry, reviewing the existing literature, and articulating how they might contribute to ongoing conversations about their topic, students write a proposal that supports the development of a substantive piece of research in literary studies.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 46-4992
    Prerequisites CULS 101 Introduction to Cultural Studies  and CULS 201 Cultural Theories  and CULS 205 Methods of Inquiry in Cultural Studies  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



 

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