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2021-22 Hamilton Holt Undergraduate [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

 

English
  

  • ENG 215 - Studies Contemporary Lit

    Credit(s): 4
    Studies contemporary literature of the 21st centuries. Suitable for nonmajors. May be repeated for credit.

  

  • ENG 216 - Sandspur Production

    Writing- and design-intensive course that supports production of The Sandspur. Covers various kinds of journalistic writing and news reporting: basic news pieces, features, editorials, and reviews. Provides skills necessary to produce and edit well-written, accurate, insightful stories, and to do journalistic investigation and research. Classroom workshops are conducted before weekly newspaper staff meetings. Familiarizes students with contemporary journalistic practices and issues involving ethics and standards in the media.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent.
  

  • ENG 221 - Selected Studies in World Literature

    Introduces major writers and theoretical approaches in one or more literary traditions other than - or in combination with - British and/or American. Specific topics vary.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140 .
  

  • ENG 221 - Studies in Transnational Literature

    Studies literature and literary movements or forms produced in diverse national contexts, including postcolonial and diasporic literatures. Suitable for nonmajors. For 300-level credit, see ENG 321. 

    May be repeated for credit
  

  • ENG 222 - Studies Multiethnic Literature

    Credit(s): 4
    Studies literature by writers of different racial and ethnic origins. Suitable for nonmajors. May be repeated for credit.

  

  • ENG 225 - Practices of Effective Writing

    Helps students refine writing skills by developing sound rhetorical practices and editing strategies. In order to earn credit for this course, students must receive a grade of “C” or higher. Note: A mandatory pre-course assessment will be required. The results of this assessment may exempt some students from the need to complete the course. Students who do not take the assessment will be required to complete the course.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent.
  

  • ENG 230 - Literary Nonfiction

    Allows students to sample a wide array of writing forms and strategies under the heading of “creative nonfiction.” Examines the personal essay, memoir, travel writing, literary journalism, nature writing, and social criticism.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140 .
  

  • ENG 231 - Media and Literature

    Credit(s): 4
    Studies the history and aesthetics of media and the relationship of media to literature. Material and focus will vary from year to year. Suitable for nonmajors. For 300-level credit, see ENG 331. 

    May be repeated for credit
  

  • ENG 231 - The Bible as Literature

    Considers the Old and New Testaments as works of creative literature and includes frequent excursions into poems, plays, music/musicals, and novels influenced by the Bible.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent.
  

  • ENG 232 - Literature and Experience

    This genre course may focus on drama, poetry, fiction, and/or prose.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent. Suitable for nonmajors.
  

  • ENG 232 - Studies in Film

    Credit(s): 4
    Focuses on film literacy and the culture of film, using representative works that allow immersion in a specific area of film director, genre, national cinema(s), film making, film festivals, and/or examination of race, class, gender, sexuality, multiculturalism, and globalization. Suitable for nonmajors. For 300-level credit, see ENG 332.

    May be repeated for credit.
  

  • ENG 233 - Studies in Television

    Credit(s): 4
    Focuses on television literacy and the culture of television, using representative works that allow immersion in a specific area of television director, genre, aesthetic, and/or examination of race, class, gender, sexuality, multiculturalism, and globalization. Suitable for nonmajors. May be repeated for credit.

  

  • ENG 233 - Women Writers

    Focuses on literary works by women writers. Authors, genres, and historical periods vary.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent. Suitable for nonmajors.
  

  • ENG 234 - Selected Studies in Literary Themes

    Focuses on drama, poetry, fiction, and prose.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent. Suitable for nonmajors.
  

  • ENG 234 - Studies Contemporary Media

    Credit(s): 4
    Focuses on media literacy and the culture of media, using representative works that allow immersion in a specific genre, aesthetic, and/or examination of race, class, gender, sexuality, multiculturalism, and globalization. Suitable for nonmajors. May be repeated for credit.

  

  • ENG 235 - Selected Studies in Environmental Literature

    Focuses on poets, novelists, and essayists who have spoken out strongly for the preservation of the environment. Readings may include works by Whitman, Thoreau, Emerson, Burroughs, Muir, Austin, Rawlings, Hurston, and Abbey.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent. Suitable for nonmajors.
  

  • ENG 240 - Literary Nonfiction

    Credit(s): 4
    Allows students to sample a wide array of writing forms and strategies under the heading of “creative nonfiction.” Examines the personal essay, memoir, travel writing, literary journalism, nature writing, and social criticism. Suitable for nonmajors.

  

  • ENG 241 - Film and Literature

    Focuses on the history and aesthetics of film and its relationship to literature.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent. Suitable for nonmajors.
  

  • ENG 241 - The Bible as Literature

    Credit(s): 4
    A study of the Old and New Testaments as works of creative literature, with frequent excursions into poems, plays, and novels influenced by the Bible. Works range from black spirituals to Jesus Christ Superstar. Suitable for nonmajors

  

  • ENG 242 - Contemporary American Short Fiction

    Covers short stories written since 1975 by key contemporary authors of short fiction. Topics may include civil rights, feminism, the legacy of Vietnam, or the mundane challenges of simply getting out of bed in the morning and going to work.

  

  • ENG 243 - Studies Literary Themes

    Credit(s): 4
    Focuses on drama, poetry, fiction, and prose. Suitable for nonmajors. May be repeated for credit.

  

  • ENG 245 - Selected Studies in Popular Culture

    Topics vary. May focus on theories, historical periods, themes, and/or genres that reflect and are representative of popular culture.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent. Suitable for nonmajors.
  

  • ENG 245 - Studies in American Literature

    Credit(s): 4
    Studies forms, traditions, themes, and genres, varying from year to year. For 300-level credit, see ENG 345.

    May be repeated for credit
  

  • ENG 246 - Studies British Literature

    Credit(s): 4
    Studies forms, traditions, themes, and genres, varying from year to year. Suitable for nonmajors. May be repeated for credit.

  

  • ENG 249 - Darkness Visible: Radio Drama

    Studies the almost nonexistent art of radio drama. Students are responsible for writing, directing, producing, and starring in their own weekly radio drama show on Rollins’ WPRK (Tuesdays, 9:00 p.m.).

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent.
  

  • ENG 250 - Studies in Rhetoric

    Credit(s): 4
    Studies rhetorical and linguistic theories of public discourse to analyze, critique, and create persuasive texts and media. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: WCMP

  

  • ENG 259 - Topics in Popular Culture

    Specific topics vary. Possibilities include visual culture; performance art; virtual reality; the mixing of media; Cuisine [and/as/in] Art; outsider art; interactive literary venues; personal aesthetics; or some combination thereof.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent. Suitable for nonmajors.
  

  • ENG 260 - Writer’s Studio

    In this course, you will learn about your creative potential and how to nurture it. You will take up a writing “practice” that includes regular writing and attention to the conditions under which you are most creative and productive. You will learn how to respond effectively to the writing of others. And you will be introduced to some basic techniques of craft that good writers use to achieve effect and meaning.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent.
  

  • ENG 264 - Exploring the Fringe

    Provides an immersion in the Orlando International Fringe Festival (OIFF), an internationally known alternative theater festival. Students attend performances; meet with performers, directors, and playwrights; and write reviews. Discussions cover historical, technical, cultural, and performance issues. Class size is limited to twelve (12) students. Although there are no required texts, a nonrefundable lab fee (covering fringe membership and tickets for all performances) must be paid in full by March 31st. Nota Bene: Because fringe performances often explore controversial topics, the class will encounter adult language, ideas, and situations.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent.
  

  • ENG 268 - Writing Intensives

    Seven (7) intensive experiences in specific genres: memoir, short-short story, profile, sonnet, and writing about art. Each session introduces students to a particular type of writing and leads them in a series of exercises to practice writing the genre. Sessions are designed to be fun, informative, and inspirational. Instructors provide specific strategies for tackling a type of writing and for deepening and extending daily writing practice.

  

  • ENG 271 - Personal Writing

    Explores writing as self-discovery and self-expression, as a means of discovering thoughts, feelings, and intuitions that would otherwise remain inchoate.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent.
  

  • ENG 273 - Journalistic Writing

    This writing-intensive course is designed to introduce students to the various kinds of journalistic writing: basic news pieces, features, editorials, and reviews. It will provide them with the skills necessary to produce well written, accurate, insightful stories, and develop the skills necessary to do journalistic investigation and research. Through classroom workshops, students will also learn the basics of story editing, and the way in which generalized themes can be turned into specific, clearly defined journalistic pieces. In addition, they will become familiar with contemporary journalistic practices and issues involving ethics and standards in the media. Students in Journalistic Writing I will be encouraged to submit stories to Sandspur and join Sandspur’s staff.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent.
  

  • ENG 275 - Selected Studies in Minority Literature

    Minority literary studies. Offerings vary year to year.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent. Suitable for non-majors.
  

  • ENG 276 - Writing for the Future

    How do we depict ourselves when we’re communicating on the internet? How does our understanding of audience shift? This course in the genre of cyberspace writing explores how our own personal reading and writing are being changed by advances in technology, as well as how online forms and practices are reshaping corporate and academic writing. Focusing on new skills we’d like to master, we’ll consider whether our ability to learn is affected by our uses of technology. Previous experience is NOT a prerequisite.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent.
  

  • ENG 278 - The Beat: Writing and Reporting in the Community

    Explores interests with eyes and ears of journalists, picking a beat (e.g., Politics, Environment) to generate stories, identify stories off campus of interest to report on campus. Enables students to evaluate sources, enterprise content, write in lively journalistic styles. Submissions to Sandspur encouraged. Fulfills a core course in Professional Writing Minor.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent.
  

  • ENG 291 - Magical Realism

    When a love story filters through the centuries or a man awakens as a giant cockroach (this could happen in Florida); when an owl perches on a window crying sweet warnings or a baron lives his life in the treetops; when a dead baby rises from the grave or the local shopping mall draws us into fairyland–what are we to think? Exploring several works of magical realism, this course offers delightful metaphors, strange dreams, strategies for reading literature, and a whole new way of understanding experience.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent.
  

  • ENG 295 - Studies in Nonfiction

    Focus on forms, themes, and techniques of specific nonfiction prose genres (biography, environmental writing, etc.). Students study closely both peer and professional examples of the genre, learning to develop their own style and voice in practicing the form.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent.
  

  • ENG 301 - Anglo Saxon & Medieval Lit

    Credit(s): 4
    Studies Medieval literature in historical context of Anglo-Saxon and Middle English periods, from 600 to 1500. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: 200-level ENG course or instructor consent.

  

  • ENG 302 - Studies Early Modern Lit

    Credit(s): 4
    Examines British literature from 1500 to 1700. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: 200-level ENG course or instructor consent.

  

  • ENG 303 - Historical Approaches to American Literature

    Explores representative works from the beginnings of American literature to the present, covering the evolution of literary periodization and changes in literary form, against their historical and cultural backgrounds.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  and one 200-level ENG course or consent.
  

  • ENG 303 - Studies in 19th and 19th-Century British Literature

    Credit(s): 4
    Examines British literature from 1700 to 1900. May be repeated for credit.

    Prerequisite(s): 200-level ENG course or instructor consent.
  

  • ENG 304A - Genre Study in American Literature: Drama

    Examines drama in American literature, emphasizing the changing forms and conventions of the genre. Playwrights discussed include Treadwell, Miller, Williams, Hansberry, Shepard, Mamet, and Finley.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent.
  

  • ENG 304B - Genre Study in American Literature: Fiction

    Examines fiction in American literature, emphasizing the changing forms and conventions of the genre. Focus varies, sometimes by broad literary movement (American Renaissance, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, Postmodernism), sometimes by theme (race, gender, experimentation, the West).

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  and one 200-level ENG elective.
  

  • ENG 304C - Genre Study in American Literature: Poetry

    Examines poetry in American literature, emphasizing the changing forms and conventions of the genre. Focus varies, sometimes by broad literary movement (American Romanticism, Modernism, Postmodernism), sometimes by theme (race, gender, experimentation).

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  and one 200-level ENG elective.
  

  • ENG 305 - American Literature I: Beginnings through 1865

    Explores representative works of the period, focusing on the evolution of American literary consciousness and shifting literary strategies, against their historical and cultural backgrounds. Includes traditional canonical works, as well as works that expand that canon.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  and one 200-level ENG course or consent.
  

  • ENG 305 - Studies in Early American Literature

    Credit(s): 4
    Examines literature, history and culture from writings of exploration and conquest through through the colonial period. This course may include texts from Puritan and Native American writings as well as revolutionary texts and slave narratives.

     

    Prerequisite(s): 200-level ENG course or instructor consent.

  

  • ENG 306 - American Literature II: 1865 to Present

    Explores representative works of the period, focusing on the evolution of American literary consciousness and shifting literary strategies, against their historical and cultural backgrounds. Includes traditional canonical works, as well as works that expand that canon.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  and one 200-level ENG course or consent.
  

  • ENG 306 - Studies in 19th Century American Lit

    Credit(s): 4
    Examines major writers and writings of the 19th Century. Emphases may include works of American romanticism, transcendentalism, realism, and naturalism, and examines literary movements in their cultural contexts. For 400-level credit, see ENG 406.

    Prerequisite(s): 200-level ENG course or instructor consent. May be repeated for credit.
  

  • ENG 307 - American Literature IV: African American Literature

    Surveys African-American literary forms from the seventeenth century through the present time while emphasizing the social, historical, economic, and cultural politics of literary production.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent.
  

  • ENG 309 - Studies Literature Before 1900

    Credit(s): 4
    Explores representative works from one or more cultural traditions before 1900. May be repeated for credit. 

    Prerequisite(s): 200-level ENG course or instructor consent.
  

  • ENG 310 - Anglo Saxon & Medieval Literature

    Studies literature in historical context of Anglo-Saxon and Middle English periods, from 600 to 1500, in England. Emphasis on the history of the language, the cultural diversity, and the oral-formulaic nature of the poetry. Primary focus: Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent.
  

  • ENG 310 - Studies in Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature

    Studies literature in historical context of Anglo-Saxon and Middle English periods, from 600 to 1500, in England. Emphasis on the history of the language, the cultural diversity, and the oral-formulaic nature of the poetry. Primary focus: Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.

  

  • ENG 311 - Studies in Renaissance Literature

    Examines English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, excepting the works of Shakespeare, in the context of the times. Focus varies, sometimes by genre (prose, lyric, epic, drama), sometimes by theme.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent.
  

  • ENG 311 - Studies in Renaissance Literature

    Examines English literature of the 16th and 17th centuries, excepting Shakespeare, in the context of the times. Focus varies from term to term, sometimes by genre (prose, lyric, epic, dramatic), sometimes by theme.

  

  • ENG 312 - Studies in 20th Century American Literature

    Credit(s): 4
    Examines American writers and writings of the 20th century. May be repeated for credit.

    Prerequisite(s): 200-level ENG course or instructor consent.
  

  • ENG 312 - Studies in Shakespeare

    Focuses on selected plays and/or poems by Shakespeare, examined in the context of history and culture. Satisfies “Major Author” requirement for English Majors.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent.
  

  • ENG 314 - Studies in 20th Century Literature

    Credit(s): 4
    Studies literature of the 20th century.  For 400-level credit, see ENG 414.

    Prerequisite(s): 200-level ENG course or instructor consent. May be repeated for credit. 
  

  • ENG 314 - Topics in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature

    Examines major writers and writings of the Restoration and neoclassical periods.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent.
  

  • ENG 315 - Studies Contemporary Literature

    Credit(s): 4
    Studies contemporary literature of the 21st century. May be repeated for credit. 

    Prerequisite(s): 200-level ENG course or instructor consent.
  

  • ENG 315 - Studies in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

    Examines major writers and writings of the Romantic and/or Victorian periods. Specific writers, works, and/or genres vary.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent.
  

  • ENG 319 - Studies in Twentieth-Century British Literature

    Examines major writers and writings of the Modernist, Contemporary, and/or Postmodern periods. Specific writers, works, and/or genres vary.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent.
  

  • ENG 321 - Studies in Transnational Literature

    Credit(s): 4
    Studies literature and literary movements or forms produced in diverse national contexts, including postcolonial and diasporic literatures. For 400-level credit, see ENG 421. 

    Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: 200-level ENG course or instructor consent. May be repeated for credit.
  

  • ENG 322 - Studies Multiethnic Literature

    Credit(s): 4
    Studies literature by writers of different racial and ethnic origins.

    Prerequisite(s): 200-level ENG course or instructor consent. May be repeated for credit.
  

  • ENG 324 - Selected Studies in Minority Literature

    Focuses on writers and literary works that represent minority groups and/or cultures. Specific topics vary. Possibilities include Native American literature; African-American literature; the literature of British Colonialism and/or Post-Colonialism; Latin American literature; Asian-American literature; gay/lesbian literature.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent.
  

  • ENG 325 - Modern Drama

    Focuses on American, British, and Continental plays written/produced from 1890 to 1945. Representative playwrights include Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Shaw, Synge, O’Neill, Treadwell, Pirandello, and Eliot. Emphasizes critical analysis, historical significance, and issues of performance. Satisfies “Genre Study” requirement for English Majors.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent. Formerly ENG 363.
  

  • ENG 326 - Southern Writers

    Studies selected Southern writers, including novelists, dramatists, and poets.

    Prerequisite(s): Junior/senior status.
  

  • ENG 328 - Contemporary American Literature

    Focuses on American literature in the last half of the twentieth century, from the end of World War II and the emergence of the Beats, through the tumultuous ‘60s and ‘70s, and into the fin de siecle.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent.
  

  • ENG 329 - Selected Studies in American Literature

    Explores one or more specific topics in the American literary tradition. Writers, works, periods, and/or genres vary.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent.
  

  • ENG 331 - Media and Literature

    Credit(s): 4
    Studies the history and aesthetics of media and the relationship of media to literature. Material and focus will vary from year to year.

    Prerequisite(s): 200-level ENG course or instructor consent. May be repeated for credit.
  

  • ENG 332 - Studies in Film

    Credit(s): 4
    Focuses on film literacy and the culture of film, using representative works that allow immersion in a specific area of film director, genre, national cinema(s), film making, film festivals, and/or examination of race, class, gender, sexuality, multiculturalism, and globalization.

    Prerequisite(s): 200-level ENG course or instructor consent. May be repeated for credit.
  

  • ENG 333 - Studies in Television

    Credit(s): 4
    Focuses on television literacy and the culture of television, using representative works that allow immersion in a specific area of television director, genre, aesthetic, and/or examination of race, class, gender, sexuality, multiculturalism, and globalization.

    Prerequisite(s): 200-level ENG course or instructor consent. May be repeated for credit
  

  • ENG 334 - Studies Contemporary Media

    Credit(s): 4
    Focuses on media literacy and the culture of media, using representative works that allow immersion in a specific genre, aesthetic, and/or examination of race, class, gender, sexuality, multiculturalism, and globalization. 

    Prerequisite(s): 200-level ENG course or instructor consent. May be repeated for credit
  

  • ENG 335 - Critical Approaches to Literature

    Focuses on major works of critical theory as well as applications of critical theory to literary texts. Includes emphasis on literary terminology.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent.
  

  • ENG 336 - Twentieth-Century English and American Poetry

    Seminar on British and American poets of the 20th century, with emphasis upon the major poets.

  

  • ENG 340 - Great Books of English Lit

    Credit(s): 4
    This course will offer students a chance to explore writers and works they have not had a chance to read. Each student will choose ten works from a master list from Beowulf to Virginia Woolf to discuss and write about. 

    Prerequisite(s): 200-level ENG course or instructor consent.
  

  • ENG 341 - Film and Literature

    Focuses on the history and aesthetics of film and its relationship to literature. Specific topics vary.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent.
  

  • ENG 342 - Speculative Fiction

    Specific topics vary. May focus on science fiction; fantasy; utopias/dystopias; horror and the occult; magical realism; other; a combination thereof.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent.
  

  • ENG 342 - Speculative Fiction

    Credit(s): 4
    Specific topics vary. May focus on science fiction; fantasy; utopias/dystopias; horror and the occult; magical realism; other; a combination thereof.

    Prerequisite(s): 200-level ENG course or instructor consent.
  

  • ENG 344 - Literature & Cultural Studies

    Credit(s): 4
    Specific topics vary. Possibilities include The Postmodern; Visual Culture; Media Mixtures; Interactive Literary Venues; or some combination thereof. 

    Prerequisite(s): 200-level ENG course or instructor consent. May be repeated for credit.
  

  • ENG 344 - Literature and Cultural Studies

    Specific topics vary. Possibilities include The Postmodern; Visual Culture; Media Mixtures; Interactive Literary Venues; or some combination thereof.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent.
  

  • ENG 345 - Classical Rhetoric: The Art & Science of Persuasion

    A close study of the classical tradition of rhetoric. Students will become familiar with the work of the major figures of classical rhetoric (Aristotle, Plato, Cicero, Quintilliam), their theories of rhetoric, how those theories differ and overlap, and how they have influenced modern notions of persuasiveness. Fulfills elective requirements in classical studies and communication.

  

  • ENG 345 - Studies American Literature

    Credit(s): 4
    Studies forms, traditions, themes, and genres, varying from year to year.

    Prerequisite(s): 200-level ENG course or instructor consent. May be repeated for credit.
  

  • ENG 346 - Studies British Literature

    Credit(s): 4
    Studies forms, traditions, themes, and genres, varying from year to year. Suitable for nonmajors.

    Prerequisite(s): 200-level ENG course or instructor consent. May be repeated for credit.
  

  • ENG 349 - Major Authors

    Credit(s): 4
    Focuses on the work of a single author OR a group of closely connected authors. 

    Prerequisite(s): 200-level ENG course or instructor consent. May be repeated for credit.
  

  • ENG 350 - Studies in Rhetoric

    Credit(s): 4
    Studies rhetorical and linguistic theories of public discourse to analyze, critique, and create persuasive texts and media. 

    Prerequisite(s): WCMP May be repeated for credit.
  

  • ENG 360A - Creative Non-Fiction Workshop: Autobiography

    Advanced writing course for upper-level students who wish to extend the basic intellectual, rhetorical, and composition skills necessary to compose clear and substantive prose. Studies various ways that autobiographical sketches, stories, and essays have been structured by contemporary American writers. Develops students single autobiographical text. Emphasis on a workshop approach to drafting, revising, and critiquing student writing.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGW 280 .
  

  • ENG 360B - Creative Non-Fiction Workshop: Travel Writing

    Students consider the nature of travel and reflect on their journeys while trying out strategies of travel writing in this workshop course. Through conversation, campus (or central Florida) trips, and the shaping of a polished piece of travel writing, the class looks at creation of people and place. Exploring the journey as both meaning and metaphor for the lived experience of travel writers, students recall previous travels or write about their own locales. Extensive travel not expected. experience of travel writers, students recall previous travels or write about their own locales. Extensive travel not expected.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGW 280 .
  

  • ENG 360C - Creative Non-Fiction Workshop: Literary Journalism

    This course introduces advanced techniques of non-fiction writing in the tradition of Truman Capote, Tom Wolfe, John McPhee and Susan Orlean. Students will become familiar with applying descriptive writing techniques and developing character and plot through a variety of non-fiction writing projects, including first-person narratives and personality profiles.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGW 280 .
  

  • ENG 361 - Writing for the Professions

    Make the transition from student to professional. This course gives students experience in developing the writing and presentation skills expected of them in their careers. They will learn and apply specific communication principles underlying the forms and practices of professionals. Appropriate for all majors.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent.
  

  • ENG 367A - Creative Writing Workshop: Poetry

    Focuses on the writing of poetry through workshops run by the student participants and supervised by the professor in a conventional creative writing format. Includes some reading and discussion of contemporary poets.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 167 .
  

  • ENG 367B - Creative Writing Workshop: Children’s Writing

    Workshop course in the writing of poetry or short fiction. Students will complete writing exercises, discuss structures of poems and stories, and make presentations of their original work.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 167 .
  

  • ENG 367C - Creative Writing Workshop: Fiction

    Focuses on the writing of short fiction through writing workshops run by the student participants and supervised by the professor in a conventional creative writing format. Includes some reading and discussion of contemporary short story writers.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 167 .
  

  • ENG 367D - Creative Writing Workshop: Screenwriting

    Through the reading of screenplays, watching of films, and multiple workshops, students write a full-length screenplay.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 167 .
  

  • ENG 370 - Spiritual Autobiography

    Examines autobiographies by persons who have successfully fostered both social activism and profound spirituality in their own lives. Readings include works by Mahatma Gandhi, Malcolm X, Thomas Merton, Frederick Buechner, Elie Weisel, Viktor Frankl, and Annie Dillard.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGW 280 .
  

  • ENG 373 - Journalistic Writing II

    This course extends and deepens the skills and approaches introduced in Journalistic Writing I.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 273 .
  

  • ENG 375 - The Role of the Critic: Writing Reviews

    Examines the role of professional critics as reviewers and shapers of culture. Writing assignments include reviews and review-essays about art, music, cinema, and literature, as well as review essays based on economic and social policies.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGW 280 .

Other Courses
  

English
  

  • ENG 390 - Major Author(s)

    Focuses on the works of a single author (excluding Shakespeare) OR a group of closely connected authors. Assigned texts may include secondary sources as well as primary works.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent.
  

  • ENG 392 - Environmental Writing

    Fosters skills in writing argumentative essays, technical reports, book reviews, and personal essays about nature and the environment.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or consent. Suitable for nonmajors.
  

  • ENG 395 - Studies in Nonfiction KEEP

    Challenges writers to experiment with various forms, themes, and genres of nonfiction prose including biography, environmental writing, food writing, etc.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 140  or equivalent. Suitable for nonmajors.
 

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