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2013-2014 Course Catalog

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	52-2680 Doing Time in America: An Interdisciplinary Approach In this class, students will explore prison culture in America by examining the history and philosophy of prisons, and the way prisons are portrayed in literature, film, and television, including popular shows such as Prison Break and OZ. Given America’s fascination with crime and the swelling number of incarcerated individuals (over two million in America), the class raises important questions and issues about poverty and privilege, punishment and redemption. Students will discuss the similarities between prisons and various dissimilar institutions (such as colleges) that also have their own language, rituals, and hierarchy. In addition to readings, screenings, and discussions, the class will host guest speakers (such as a prison guard, a former inmate, a public defender, and a prison minister) who work closely with prison populations. Students will read one novel about crime and punishment in America, as well as articles, essays, stories, poems, prison narratives, song lyrics, and excerpts from longer works of both fiction and nonfiction about prisoners and life behind bars, as well as about the culture that surrounds those incarcerated. 3 Credits PL HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning
	52-2690 Literature on Film Class concerns the relationship between written and filmed versions of a story, novel, or play. Course explores how character development, plot, narrative, symbols, and language are translated from text to film. To facilitate analysis, students acquire a basic vocabulary for discussing literature and film. Instructors may focus on a particular theme, such as the love story, fantasy, or mythology. Works studied have been as diverse as The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke. 3 Credits HU Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning
	52-2691 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. 4 Credits HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-2900 Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Intermediate
	52-2692HN Victorian Illustrated Poetry: Honors In this seminar, we will focus on Victorian illustrated poetry and its dynamic interplay between image and word. We will consider the function and effect of illustration in general, and the special problematic associated with the visual interpretation of poetry. We will also pay attention to the illustrated book as a material object, a collaboration of many makers working within the context of particular human, institutional, and cultural relationships. 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. 3 Credits HL Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA
	52-2695 Connections in Literature Course features rotating topics that explore a particular theme, region, or interdisciplinary approach to literature. Specific topics included in this course are: Journalists as Authors, Literature of Place, Family in Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature of the Environment, Literature of the Vietnam War, and Chicago in Literature. Course is repeatable as topic changes. 3 Credits Repeatable HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced or 52-1121 Writing and Rhetoric I for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or Writing SAT score >= 710
	52-2697 Literary Genres Series of courses focuses on specific literary genres, sub-genres, or modes. Specific courses include Detective Fiction, American Autobiography, American Short Story, and Magical Realism. Course is repeatable as topic changes. 3 Credits Repeatable HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced or 52-1121 Writing and Rhetoric I for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or Writing SAT score >= 710
	52-2700 Topics in Literature Series is for new courses that deal with specific topics, themes, or types of literature. Topics that have been offered in past semesters include The Blues as Literature, Literature of the Holocaust, Literature of the Occult, and Sherlock Holmes, Course is repeatable as topic changes. 3 Credits Repeatable HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced or 52-1121 Writing and Rhetoric I for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or Writing SAT score >= 710
	52-2701 The Literature of HIV/AIDS: Service Learning The Literature of HIV/AIDS: Service Learning explores the subject of HIV/AIDS through a variety of literary texts as well as through involvement in service. Students read and write about poetry, fiction, nonfiction and drama and investigate the different ways in which literature has intervened in representations of HIV/AIDS. Students will also volunteer at community agencies such as Howard Brown Health Center that address issues of awareness, prevention, and the needs of those living with HIV/AIDS. Using an ethnographic approach, students incorporate their own experiences as volunteers into their discussion and writing about the discourses and representations of HIV/AIDS. 4 Credits HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced or 52-1121 Writing and Rhetoric I for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or Writing SAT score >= 710
	52-2701LDM Florence and the Victorian Imagination 3 Credits WI GA HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-112
	52-2707 Spike Lee and August Wilson This course examines the relationship between the written and filmed versions of a story, novel, or play. The course will explore how character development, plot, narrative, symbols, and language are translated from text to film. To facilitate analysis, students will acquire a basic vocabulary for discussing literature and film. African-American themes regarding socio-historical context, aesthetics, and critical theory will be examined. The course establishes connections between literature and other areas of arts and communications. 3 Credits PL HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced or 52-1121 Writing and Rhetoric I for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or Writing SAT score >= 710
	52-2708 Science Fiction Course explores the emergence of science fiction, especially from the late nineteenth century to the present, with some attention to the cultural and historical issues that shaped its development. The relationships among literary, film, and other expressions of science fiction will also be considered. 3 Credits HL Requisites 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced or 52-1121 Writing and Rhetoric I for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or Writing SAT score >= 710
	52-2712 Blues as Literature Course reviews historical definitions of blues and explores how various literary and cinematic genres employ blues’ elements to create art. While studying different types of blues and blues literature, students will understand how blues is increasingly called into service as a critical tool. Bukka White, Son House, Robert Johnson, Charles Patton, Memphis Minnie, Victoria Spivey, Willie Dixon, Bessie Smith, Muddy Waters, Richard Wright, Gwendolyn Grooks, John Edgar Wideman, Ann Petry, and Willard Motely are among the literati studied in this course. 3 Credits PL HL Requisites 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced or 52-1121 Writing and Rhetoric I for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or Writing SAT score >= 710
	52-2717 Singleton & Hughes This course examines the relationship between the written and filmed versions of a story, novel, play, or poetry. The course will explore how character development, plot, narrative, symbols, and language are translated from text to film. To facilitate analysis, students will acquire a basic vocabulary for discussing literature and film. African American themes regarding socio-historical context, aesthetics, and critical theory will be examined. The course establishes connections between literature and other areas of arts and communications. 3 Credits PL HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced or 52-1121 Writing and Rhetoric I for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score >= 710 or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97
	52-2719 Fantasy Literature The course will examine the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, focusing on their thematic structure, stylistic features, and rhetorical strategies. It will analyze their relationship to the Fantasy Literature which preceded and succeeded them and the context of the socio-political milieu in which they were written. It will also explore the interpretation of the texts, especially The Lord of the Rings, in their post-publication manifestations in the various media. 3 Credits Repeatable HL Requisites 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced or 52-1121 Writing and Rhetoric I for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or Writing SAT score >= 710
	52-2725J Zombies in Popular Media This course explores the history, significance, and representation of the zombie as a figure in horror and fantasy texts. Instruction follows an intense schedule, using critical theory and source media (literature, comics, and films) to spur discussion and exploration of the figure’s many incarnations. Daily assignments focus on reflection and commentary, while final projects foster thoughtful connections between student disciplines and the figure of the zombie. 3 Credits HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced or 52-1121 Writing and Rhetoric I for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or Writing SAT score >= 710
	52-2751 Literature and Visual Culture This course introduces students to a broad range of approaches to visual texts and written literature. Students will learn how visual, cultural, and literary theories enable them to create different interpretive strategies in their approaches to specific texts. Critical concepts studied may include subjectivity, the gaze, (re)presentation, gendered bodies, the practice of everyday life, the posthuman. The class will emphasize students’ critical writing as a creative process. 3 Credits HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced or 52-1121 Writing and Rhetoric I for Non-Native Speakers of English or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or Writing SAT score >= 710
	52-2751HN Literature and Visual Culture: Honors This course introduces students to a broad range of approaches to visual texts and written literature. Students will learn how visual, cultural, and literary theories enable them to create different interpretive strategies in their approaches to specific texts. Critical concepts studied may include subjectivity, the gaze, (re)presentation, gendered bodies, the practice of everyday life, the posthuman. The class will emphasize students’ critical writing as a creative process. 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. 3 Credits HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced or 52-1121 Writing and Rhetoric I for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score >= 710 or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA
	52-2751LDM Literature and Visual Culture: Florence This course introduces students to a broad range of approaches to visual texts and written literature. Students will learn how visual, cultural, and literary theories enable them to create different interpretive strategies in their approaches to specific texts. Critical concepts studied may include subjectivity, the gaze, (re)presentation, gendered bodies, the practice of everyday life, the posthuman. The class will emphasize students’ critical writing as a creative process. 3 Credits GA HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I or 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced or 52-1121 Writing and Rhetoric I for Non-Native Speakers of English or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score >= 710
	52-2753 Literature and the Culture of Cyberspace Students consider representations of cyberspace in literature and explore themes such as cyberspace and postmodernism; virtual reality; the posthuman; and definitions of space, time, and identity. Authors studied may include William Gibson, Jeanette Winterson, Shelley Jackson, Michael Joyce, and Stuart Moulthrop. 3 Credits HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I or 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced or 52-1121 Writing and Rhetoric I for Non-Native Speakers of English or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or Writing SAT score >= 710
	52-2753HN Literature and the Culture of Cyberspace: Honors Students consider representations of cyberspace in literature and explore themes such as cyberspace and postmodernism; virtual reality; the posthuman; and definitions of space, time, and identity. Authors studied may include William Gibson, Jeanette Winterson, Shelley Jackson, Michael Joyce, and Stuart Moulthrop. 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. 3 Credits HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I or 52-1121 Writing and Rhetoric I for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or Writing SAT score >= 710 Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA
	52-2760 Introduction to Post Colonial Literature Course provides an introduction to post-colonial literature. 3 Credits GA HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced or 52-1121 Writing and Rhetoric I for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or Writing SAT score >= 710
	52-2760HN Introduction to Post Colonial Literature: Honors Course provides an introduction to post-colonial literature. 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. 3 Credits GA HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced or 52-1121 Writing and Rhetoric I for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score >= 710 or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA
	52-2761 Introduction to U.S. Latino/a Literature Course provides an introduction to U.S. Latino/a Literature. 3 Credits PL HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I or 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced or 52-1121 Writing and Rhetoric I for Non-Native Speakers of English or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or Writing SAT score >= 710
	52-2801 Writing for the Workplace This course is a workshop and seminar in which students practice forms of writing that are common in professional contexts. Examples include business correspondence, job application materials, proposals, and reports. Other communication and collaboration practices that occur in the workplace may also be covered, such as group work and oral presentation. The course will teach students to consider audience, purpose, document design, and language use in all the texts they produce. 3 Credits WI Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning
	52-2802 Writing for the World Wide Web This course offers students practical experience in creating, editing, and evaluating a variety of forms common to the World Wide Web.Readings from and about the web’s many textual genres sponsor a series of writing assignments focused on blogging, social media, and other forms of user-provided content. Students will learn composition, design, and delivery strategies that can make their work distinctive in the crowded public forum of the Web. Technical and/or programming skills are not required. 3 Credits WI Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning
	52-2802LDM Writing for the World Wide Web: A New Media Travel Writing Workshop 3 Credits WI GA Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-112
	52-2803 Literary Magazine Production: South Loop Review 3 Credits Repeatable Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1603 Introduction to Readings in Creative Nonfiction or 52-1900 Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Beginning
	52-2804 Careers in Writing Introductory course provides students with opportunity to explore various careers available in field of writing. Students investigate job potential, examine demands of various writing professions, and interview professionals who have made writing a career. 3 Credits WI Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II
	52-2809 Introduction to Writing Satire and Parody Course presents an in-depth analysis of twentieth-century satire and parody from several disciplines, including works written for film, television, print media, and fiction. Students write short comedic pieces that exemplify the various types of satire and parody covered in the course. Over the first eight weeks, students deconstruct many different genres to create original works that celebrate these source materials. The last seven weeks of the course revolve around the creation of a full-length script for an original parody of satire. 3 Credits Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning
	52-2814 Writing Comedy Course provides overview of various aspects of writing comic prose, including writing for growing field of business humor. Students learn how to structure the comedic scene and are introduced to various comedic forms, including parody and satiric humor. 3 Credits WI Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning
	52-2816 Reviewing the Arts Students are introduced to fundamental critical skills necessary for a sensitive reading of works in different art forms such as drama, fiction, painting, photography, and cinema. Students write reviews of concerts, plays, films, and gallery exhibitions and try to produce writing of publishable quality. 4 Credits WI HU Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning
	52-2816HN Reviewing the Arts: Honors Students are introduced to fundamental critical skills necessary for a sensitive reading of works in different art forms such as drama, fiction, painting, photography, and cinema. Students write reviews of concerts, plays, films, and gallery exhibitions and try to produce writing of publishable quality. 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. 4 Credits WI HU Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning or 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA
	52-2824 Creative Nonfiction: Writing and Drawing the Graphic Memoir The course will focus on writing memoir, how to select the most meaningful memories, and how to determine the focus and structure of either a series of memories or a particular time period and/or event in one’s life, and how to develop the story. 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, composition (how the images and language are placed in panels or pages), as well as the other decisions that go into creating a visual memoir, such as typography. Students will also read and discuss published graphic memoirs. 3 Credits Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-112 or 52-1900 Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Beginning
	52-2832 Creative Non-Fiction: Journal Writing Course offers students structured exploration of journal writing techniques. Students develop journal writing as a powerful means of self-exploration and self-expression. Course also examines ways personal writing can become public writing within genre of creative nonfiction. 3 Credits WI Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning
	52-2833 Creative Non-Fiction: Writing Theory Course is designed for students who are interested in writing critical, academic non-fiction. Content examines how the theorizing of writing by writers and philosophers has changed our perception not only of the act of writing, but also our identities as subjects of language. 3 Credits WI Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning
	52-2834 Creative Non-Fiction: Writing Memoir This course will focus on writing memoir, a sub-genre of Creative Nonfiction. Class will be exposed to a variety of readings and will develop greater understanding and appreciation of memoir as a form of Creative Nonfiction writing. Creative techniques for writing and crafting memoir, including approach and selecting a topic, research, organization, and stylistic and creative concerns, will be explored. Students will also become familiar with how to pursue publishing their work. 3 Credits WI Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1900 Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Beginning
	52-2835 Creative Non-Fiction: Queer Writings This is a creative nonfiction writing workshop developing themes related to gender issues. Students read and write creative nonfiction material focusing on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender material. 3 Credits WI PL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II
	52-2836 Creative Non-Fiction: Travel & Food Writing Students would read and critique travel and food writing, be required to write short essays and reviews in both subjects, and select one of the two areas for a final, more in-depth paper/project. Students would study the language, style, elements, and forms specific to writing in various genres (reviews, essays, guides, creative nonfiction, etc., that focus on the subject. 3 Credits Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II
	52-2844 Creative Nonfiction: Writing Memoir II This class will focus on an advanced level of writing memoir as a sub-genre of Creative Nonfiction. This class will build on the level one memoir class, with students expected to expand the range and sophistication of their work. Students will research, re-envision and expand upon theme and form in memoir. Students will read memoirs and develop a critical discourse and understanding of memoir as a narrative form. Students will investigate the various placements of the memoir form in the literary marketplace. 3 Credits Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-2834 Creative Non-Fiction: Writing Memoir
	52-2900 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. 3 Credits WI Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1900 Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Beginning
	52-3100 Writing Center Theory and Practice Course covers basics of peer tutoring in writing skills. Emphasis is on developing skills in the following areas: 1) peer tutoring techniques and interpersonal communication, 2) writing process–critical analysis, 3) error identification–grammar and punctuation, 4) writing across the curriculum. Students often begin peer tutoring early in the semester, and the dynamics of the sessions are analyzed and discussed in class. This is a hands-on course, combining Writing Center theory and practice. Successful students of this course tutor their peers in Columbia’s Writing Center. 3 Credits WI Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning Requirements 24 Enrolled Credit Hour and 3.0 GPA required
	52-3500 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. 3 Credits Repeatable Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II and 52-2500 Poetry Workshop: Intermediate or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English and 52-2500 Poetry Workshop: Intermediate or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning and 52-2500 Poetry Workshop: Intermediate or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II and 52-2500 Poetry Workshop: Intermediate
	52-3510 Poetics Craft and process course combines the writing of poetry by advanced students with the study of theory and poetics. As the result of reading works of criticism as well as poems that have been influenced by such critical inquiry, students are able to examine and articulate their own craft. 3 Credits WI Requisites COREQUISITES: 52-3500 Poetry Workshop: Advanced
	52-3520 Undergraduate Thesis Development Seminar Capstone course for Poetry majors focuses on the writing, revisions, and compilation of a chapbook-length poetry manuscript suitable for publication or submission for a graduate school application. 3 Credits Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-3500 Poetry Workshop: Advanced
	52-3603 Readings 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. 3 Credits WI Repeatable Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II and 52-1603 Introduction to Readings in Creative Nonfiction or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning and 52-1603 Introduction to Readings in Creative Nonfiction or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English and 52-1603 Introduction to Readings in Creative Nonfiction or 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II and 52-1603 Introduction to Readings in Creative Nonfiction
	52-3610 Topics in the Novel Rotating topics course examines origins and development of the novel in British, American, World, Postcolonial, or other contexts. Consideration of narrative form and style in light of related historical, aesthetic, and cultural factors. Course is repeatable as topic changes. 3 Credits WI Repeatable HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning
	52-3610HN Topics in the Novel: Honors Rotating topics course examines origins and development of the novel in British, American, World, Postcolonial, or other contexts. Consideration of narrative form and style in light of related historical, aesthetic, and cultural factors. Course is repeatable as topic changes. 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. 3 Credits WI Repeatable HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning or 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA
	52-3642 African American Literature Series of courses focuses on African-American literature. African-American Women Writers examines figures such as Harriet Wilson, Frances Harper, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Ann Petry, Toni Morrison, and Terry McMillan. African-American Novel examines novelists such as James Weldon Johnson, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison, and Zora Neale Hurston. Course is repeatable as topic changes. 3 Credits WI PL Repeatable HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning
	52-3643 Issues in African and African American Studies Course offers focused, in-depth study of a significant issue or issues in African and African-American literary and cultural production. Students will read, discuss, research, and write about the issues. Course includes readings in theory as well as literature and may include examples from disciplines such as art, film, and music. Representing the African in the New World focuses on such writers as Houston Baker, Jacques Derrida, Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Toni Morrison, and others. Course is repeatable as topic changes. 3 Credits GA Repeatable HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II
	52-3644 U.S. Latino Literature Course examines short stories, poems, and novels dealing with bicultural experience of those from different parts of Latin America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and South and Central America. Course is for students who want to learn more about Hispanic culture in the U.S. as well as for those who want to learn more about their own culture. 3 Credits WI PL HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning
	52-3645 Slave Narrative as Documentary Course examines literary and cinematic traditions in which slave narratives and African-American documentary film share rhetorical, artistic and political purposes. Course demonstrates how slave narratives and documentary film functioned at the forefronts of the 20th century socio-cultural activism for the redress of inequalities. Through written text and cinema-graphic arguments, the course explores how slave narratives served as analogs to American literary conventions and how documentary films continue to inform popular and critical literary texts and images. This course is a critical research course that informs and supports the goals and objectives of Writing & Rhetoric I and II foundational courses within the English Department. 3 Credits PL HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II
	52-3646 Contemporary Native-American Novel Course explores several important novels published since 1965 by Native-American writers. These writers employ fresh approaches in contrast to traditional linearity of novel form. Readings include works by such writers as Sherman Alexie, N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Louise Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, Linda Hogan, and Paula Gunn Allen. 3 Credits WI PL HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning
	52-3650 Women Writers Series of courses explores women writers. Southern Women Writers considers myths and realities of American South in light of regionalism and socioeconomic, racial, and religious factors. Writers may include Welty, O’Connor, Walker, McCullers, Porter, Settle, Mason, and Humphreys. Contemporary course focuses on writers who examined woman’s place in culture and who helped shape new attitudes toward women. Representative artists may include Atwood, Lessing, Oates, Morrison, Wasserstein, and Churchill. Course is repeatable as topic changes. 3 Credits PL Repeatable HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced or 52-1121 Writing and Rhetoric I for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or Writing SAT score >= 710
	52-3660 Shakespeare Series of courses examines Shakespeare’s works in their literary, historical, and artistic contexts. Shakespeare: Tragedies may include Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. Shakespeare: Comedies may include The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, and The Tempest. Shakespeare: Histories focuses on Shakespeare’s dramatization of English history from Richard II to Richard III. Shakespeare: Political Plays considers some histories and plays such as Julius Caesar and Coriolanus. Course is repeatable as topic changes. 3 Credits WI Repeatable HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning
	52-3660HN Shakespeare: Honors Series of courses examines Shakespeare’s works in their literary, historical, and artistic contexts. Shakespeare: Tragedies may include Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. Shakespeare: Comedies may include The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, and The Tempest. Shakespeare: Histories focuses on Shakespeare’s dramatization of English history from Richard II to Richard III. Shakespeare: Political Plays considers some histories and plays such as Julius Caesar and Coriolanus. Course is repeatable as topic changes. 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. 3 Credits WI Repeatable HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA
	52-3670 Romantic Poets Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, and Byron receive attention in study of major Romantic poets. Students examine major complete works by these important figures and may look at portions of longer works such as The Prelude and Don Juan. 3 Credits WI HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning
	52-3671 Modern British and American Poetry The work of Gerard Manley Hopkins, W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, W.H. Auden, and others is read in this survey of the Modernist period, 1900-1945. The course also provides an introduction to Postmodernism. 3 Credits HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II and 52-1602 Introduction to Poetry or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English and 52-1602 Introduction to Poetry or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II and 52-1602 Introduction to Poetry or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning and 52-1602 Introduction to Poetry
	52-3672 Contemporary American Poetry Works of poets such as Roethke, Ginsberg, Plath, Lowell, Ashbery, Rich, Creeley, Bly, Baraka, Brooks, and others are read and discussed in survey of post-modernist period, 1945 to present. Course also examines rise of important movements such as projectivism, the Beats, the New York School, Confessional Poetry, Surrealism, Feminism, the New Formalism, and Multiculturalism. 3 Credits WI HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning
	52-3675 Poetry and Jazz This class will explore ways in which the creative impulses and procedures of jazz-a music of intense emotion, imagination (intuitively structured improvisation), and energy (fresh, vital rhythms and instrumental colors)-have inspired and intensified modern poetry. We will listen to jazz on record, read examples of poetry inspired by jazz, discuss their common social and cultural contexts, and discover how music may influence poetry’s subject, language, sound, and form. No previous knowledge of jazz is required for this course. 3 Credits PL HL Requisites PREREQUISITES:52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II
	52-3690 Seminar in Literature Advanced study focusing on selected writers, issues, trends, or movements in literature. Course may address American, British, and / or world literatures. Course repeatable as topic changes. 3 Credits WI Repeatable HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning
	52-3691 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. 4 Credits HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-2900 Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Intermediate
	52-3692 Proseminar in Literature Course provides an advanced, intensive study of selected authors, issues, or movements in literature for students in creative writing (Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Playwriting, Poetry). Course is repeatable as topic changes. 3 Credits WI Repeatable HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-112 and 55-4102 Fiction Writing II or 52-112 and 55-4310 Playwriting Workshop II or 52-112 and 52-2500 Poetry Workshop: Intermediate or 52-112 and 52-2900 Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Intermediate
	52-3755 Literature and Gaming Students explore how game play and game design foster intersections between literary and technological approaches to representing human experience. Course may address theories of representation and simulation, relationships between print and digital cultures, and the implications of digital media for literary interpretation. Emphasis on collaborative student projects built around selected literary texts. Technology/gaming background not required, although students should have basic computer literacy. Course theme may change from term to term. Course repeatable as theme changes. 3 Credits HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II
	52-3798 Independent Project: Literature 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. 1-6 Credits Repeatable Requirements Permission of Instructor
	52-3801 Writing for New Media Students produce and collaborate on new media projects with an emphasis on writing for online environments. Course addresses strategies and technologies used for new media composition as well as the cultural factors which shape new media communications. Issues covered may include the relationship between print and digital culture, content licensing, perspectives on authorship, and the various uses of digital text. No prior experience in new media technology is required. 3 Credits WI Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning
	52-3803 Publishers and Writers Seminar Course explores the business of writing for publication while students polish manuscripts for submission. Students develop articles, essays, and reports while dealing with a variety of such publishing structures as newsletters, corporate reports, and memos. 3 Credits Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning
	52-3804 Writing, Language, and Culture Seminar In this course, students will 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 will include public debates such as the English Only movement and the politics of immigration, Ebonics and language education, the effects of media representations in public health, or the influence of digital culture on writing and literacy. 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. 3 Credits WI Repeatable Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning
	52-3816 Writing About Arts and Media Students hone fundamental skills for research and writing necessary for insightful, interdisciplinary critical readings of trends or topics in media culture. They also will come to understand how works of art from different media and be critiqued to make larger points, and how different media can be used to presenting that cultural criticism. Successful students produce writing of publishable quality and explore options for the distribution and circulation of their work online and in print. The course is designed to increase students? skills as writers, readers, and consumers of culture; as assertive and perceptive critics; and as careful editors and designers of complex writing projects. 3 Credits WI Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-2816 Reviewing the Arts
	52-3816HN Writing About Arts and Media: Honors Students hone fundamental skills for research and writing necessary for insightful, interdisciplinary critical readings of trends or topics in media culture. They also will come to understand how works of art from different media and be critiqued to make larger points, and how different media can be used to presenting that cultural criticism. Successful students produce writing of publishable quality and explore options for the distribution and circulation of their work online and in print. The course is designed to increase students? skills as writers, readers, and consumers of culture; as assertive and perceptive critics; and as careful editors and designers of complex writing projects. This course is part of the Honors program and requires, at a minimum, a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher to register (in addition to other possible pre-requisites). 3 Credits WI Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-2816 Reviewing the Arts or 52-2816HN Reviewing the Arts: Honors
	52-3888 Internship: Professional Writing Internships provide advanced students with the opportunity to gain work experience in a professional writing-related area of concentration or interest while receiving academic credit toward their degrees. 1-6 Credits Repeatable
	52-3898 Independent Project: English 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. 1-6 Credits Repeatable Requirements Permission of Instructor
	52-3899 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. 1-3 Credits
	52-3900 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. 3 Credits WI Repeatable Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-2900 Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Intermediate
	52-3910 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. 3 Credits Repeatable Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-2900 Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Intermediate
	52-3920 Nonfiction Workshop: Thesis 3 Credits Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-3900 Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Advanced
	52-3950 Undergraduate Research Mentorship The Undergraduate Research Mentorship connects talented students interested in the experience of conducting academic research in particular disciplines with faculty in the Liberal Arts and Sciences. This course, available to students from across the College, gives students the opportunity to gain real-world experience and learn research and scholarly techniques from practitioners in academic and integrative disciplines based in the Liberal Arts and Sciences. The experience will prove valuable to students as they enter professional fields or pursue higher academic degrees. Faculty members will gain assistance in completing their innovative research and scholarship while mentoring students in fields of specialization within the academic community. 1-3 Credits Repeatable Requirements Department Permission
	52-4502 Literary Magazine Editing: Columbia Poetry Review and Court Green Course teaches students basic principles of literary magazine editing. Students act as editors, readers, and assistants for the English Department’s award-winning poetry annuals Columbia Poetry Review and Court Green, learning the fundamentals of editorial selection. 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. 3 Credits Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-112 and 52-1500 Poetry Workshop: Beginning and 52-1602 Introduction to Poetry Requirements Department Permission
	52-4503 Literary Magazine Production: Columbia Poetry Review Course teaches students basic principles of magazine production. Students act as editors and assistants for the poetry annual Columbia Poetry Review, learning the fundamentals of editorial selection, copyediting, proofreading, design, production, and distribution. 3 Credits Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1500 Poetry Workshop: Beginning and 52-1602 Introduction to Poetry and 52-112 Requirements Department Permission
	52-4531 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. 3 Credits Repeatable HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-2500 Poetry Workshop: Intermediate and 52-1602 Introduction to Poetry
	52-4671 Modern British and American Poetry The work of Gerard Manley Hopkins, W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, W.H. Auden, and others is read in this survey of the Modernist period, 1900-1945. The course also provides an introduction to Postmodernism. 3 Credits HL Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1602 Introduction to Poetry and 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning and 52-1602 Introduction to Poetry or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English and 52-1602 Introduction to Poetry or 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II and 52-1602 Introduction to Poetry
	52-4690 Seminar in Literature Students in this advanced seminar will study a selected author or group of authors in depth. Course is repeatable as topic changes. 3 Credits Repeatable Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II and 52-1602 Introduction to Poetry or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning and 52-1602 Introduction to Poetry or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English and 52-1602 Introduction to Poetry or 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II and 52-1602 Introduction to Poetry
	52-5502 Literary Magazine Editing: Columbia Poetry Review and Court Green Course teaches students basic principles of literary magazine editing. Students act as editors, readers, and assistants for the English department’s award-winning poetry annuals Columbia Poetry Review and Court Green, learning the fundamentals of editorial selection. 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. 3 Credits Requirements Department Permission
	52-5503 Literary Magazine Production: Columbia Poetry Review Course teaches students basic principles of magazine production. Students act as editors and assistants for the poetry annual Columbia Poetry Review, learning the fundamentals of editorial selection, copyediting, proofreading, design, production and distribution. 3 Credits Requirements Department Permission
	52-5531 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. 3 Credits
	52-5671 Modern British and American Poetry 3 Credits
	52-5690 Seminar in Literature Students in this advanced seminar will study a selected author or group of authors in depth. Course is repeatable as topic changes. 3 Credits
	52-6110 Graduate Thesis Development 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. 3 Credits Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-6500 MFA Poetry Workshop or 52-6500 MFA Poetry Workshop
	52-6120 Graduate Thesis Work 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. 1 Credits Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-6110 Graduate Thesis Development and 52-6500 MFA Poetry Workshop and 52-6500 MFA Poetry Workshop
	52-6150 Composition Theory and Praxis Graduate students in poetry read current composition theory and discuss the specifics of writing classroom praxis in order to prepare to teach first-year composition courses. 3 Credits Requirements Grad MFA Poetry Majors
	52-6500 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. 3 Credits
	52-6510 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. 3 Credits Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-6500 MFA Poetry Workshop
	52-6531 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. 3 Credits
	52-6674 The Metaphysical Poets The metaphysical and Cavalier poets of the early 17th century wrote intense lyric reflections on human experience that exerted influence well into the 20th century. Their rationalist perspectives on life and death, love and fear, faith and doubt, and other enduring human concerns were articulated in carefully-elaborated, at times dissonant, figures and images. We will study the techniques, aesthetics, and influence of poets such as Donne, Herbert, Lanyer, Vaughan, Crashaw, Wroth, Jonson, Herrick, Suckling, and Marvell. 3 Credits
	52-6690 Graduate Seminar in Literature Graduate-only advanced seminar in literature focuses on one author or a group of authors. Course is repeatable as topic changes. 3 Credits
	52-6898 Independent Project: English 1-6 Credits
	52-6900 Graduate Workshop in Nonfiction This workshop will focus on the writing of essays and related forms.It will use the workshop model of producing and sharing student work intensively, and along with the generation of student work also involve reading contemporary and classic works of nonfiction. 3 Credits
	52-6910 Form and Theory of Nonfiction 3 Credits
	52-6920 Thesis Development: Nonfiction This course will serve to encourage students to develop, focus and move on to completing work on their theses, depending upon what stage of their work they are in at the time they take the class. This will have the effect of cross-pollinating studentsâ€™ work, moving students on to the germination of ideas through the example of their peers, motivating others to complete projects where the work is well on the way. Issues such as form, structure, shape, and theme will be addressed as well as how to put together a larger body of work, various strategies of conceiving, revising, and shaping a book-length manuscript. 3 Credits Requisites Concurrent Requisites: 52-6930 Thesis Hours: Nonfiction
	52-6930 Thesis Hours: Nonfiction Thesis credits, under individual direction by faculty, toward completion of the thesis. 3 Credits Requisites Co-requisites: 52-6920 Thesis Development: Nonfiction
	52-6940 History of the Essay Seneca to Montaigne to Alice Meynell to Simone Weil, etc … a linear, disjunctive, or creative tour into the heart of the essay. This class will explore the essay in its historical and theoretical forms and development. The class will spend considerable time on the classical essay, but also look deeply at the protean shapes the essay can take, the different ways it makes its lyrical and intellectual possibilities manifest. 3 Credits

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52-2680 Doing Time in America: An Interdisciplinary Approach

52-2690 Literature on Film

52-2691 Nonfiction Film As Literature

52-2692HN Victorian Illustrated Poetry: Honors

52-2695 Connections in Literature

52-2697 Literary Genres

52-2700 Topics in Literature

52-2701 The Literature of HIV/AIDS: Service Learning

52-2701LDM Florence and the Victorian Imagination

52-2707 Spike Lee and August Wilson

52-2708 Science Fiction

52-2712 Blues as Literature

52-2717 Singleton & Hughes

52-2719 Fantasy Literature

52-2725J Zombies in Popular Media

52-2751 Literature and Visual Culture

52-2751HN Literature and Visual Culture: Honors

52-2751LDM Literature and Visual Culture: Florence

52-2753 Literature and the Culture of Cyberspace

52-2753HN Literature and the Culture of Cyberspace: Honors

52-2760 Introduction to Post Colonial Literature

52-2760HN Introduction to Post Colonial Literature: Honors

52-2761 Introduction to U.S. Latino/a Literature

52-2801 Writing for the Workplace

52-2802 Writing for the World Wide Web

52-2802LDM Writing for the World Wide Web: A New Media Travel Writing Workshop

52-2803 Literary Magazine Production: South Loop Review

52-2804 Careers in Writing

52-2809 Introduction to Writing Satire and Parody

52-2814 Writing Comedy

52-2816 Reviewing the Arts

52-2816HN Reviewing the Arts: Honors

52-2824 Creative Nonfiction: Writing and Drawing the Graphic Memoir

52-2832 Creative Non-Fiction: Journal Writing

52-2833 Creative Non-Fiction: Writing Theory

52-2834 Creative Non-Fiction: Writing Memoir

52-2835 Creative Non-Fiction: Queer Writings

52-2836 Creative Non-Fiction: Travel & Food Writing

52-2844 Creative Nonfiction: Writing Memoir II

52-2900 Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Intermediate

52-3100 Writing Center Theory and Practice

52-3500 Poetry Workshop: Advanced

52-3510 Poetics

52-3520 Undergraduate Thesis Development Seminar

52-3603 Readings in Nonfiction

52-3610 Topics in the Novel

52-3610HN Topics in the Novel: Honors

52-3642 African American Literature

52-3643 Issues in African and African American Studies

52-3644 U.S. Latino Literature

52-3645 Slave Narrative as Documentary

52-3646 Contemporary Native-American Novel

52-3650 Women Writers

52-3660 Shakespeare

52-3660HN Shakespeare: Honors

52-3670 Romantic Poets

52-3671 Modern British and American Poetry

52-3672 Contemporary American Poetry

52-3675 Poetry and Jazz

52-3690 Seminar in Literature

52-3691 Nonfiction Film As Literature

52-3692 Proseminar in Literature

52-3755 Literature and Gaming

52-3798 Independent Project: Literature

52-3801 Writing for New Media

52-3803 Publishers and Writers Seminar

52-3804 Writing, Language, and Culture Seminar

52-3816 Writing About Arts and Media

52-3816HN Writing About Arts and Media: Honors

52-3888 Internship: Professional Writing

52-3898 Independent Project: English

52-3899 Directed Study

52-3900 Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Advanced

52-3910 Form and Theory of Nonfiction

52-3920 Nonfiction Workshop: Thesis

52-3950 Undergraduate Research Mentorship

52-4502 Literary Magazine Editing: Columbia Poetry Review and Court Green

52-4503 Literary Magazine Production: Columbia Poetry Review

52-4531 Craft Seminar