Narrative Journalism
Storytelling & Media
Creative Nonfiction
Technical Writing
College Composition
Science & Environ. Journalism
Nature Writing
Critical Writing
Fiction
English and American Literature
World Literature
Native American Literature
Grammar
Research Writing
Film Studies
Focuses on the study and practice of writing and rhetoric, with special emphasis on the writing process. Students write and read critically a range of texts, and consider academic and nonacademic genres and conventions.
This course is a survey of the major genres of film, chiefly in historical and political perspective, but also in the light of important intellectual frameworks (e.g., feminism, psychoanalytical theory). The films selected will be examined both for their visual codes of meaning and for their wider role in developing a powerful social language in various cultural contexts.
Instruction and practice in designing technical reports. Students study the rhetorical problems facing the professional engineer in industry and learn practical strategies for analyzing and communicating technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences. Topics include audience analysis, technical research methods, report formats (written and oral, formal and informal), argumentation and persuasion, editing.
Students learn to identify, understand, and use the techniques of narrative storytelling to produce nonfiction writing. Assignments can include the writing and revising of articles based on research and interviews, personal essays, adaptations, and documentary scripts that draw from literary techniques.
This course introduces students to the building blocks that make up great storytelling across multiple types of media and approaches, including online journalism, movies, podcasting, and more. Students will learn the foundations of narrative and apply that understanding to creating both fiction and nonfiction stories of their own for a variety of media, including websites, video, and audio.
In this Independent Study, the student will read an assortment of nature writers throughout the semester. This will include poetry, essays (both short and longform), and at least one full-length book. The student will gain an understanding of the ‘nature writing’ subgenre (within the Creative Nonfiction genre), and the key topics and concerns of this form, including both past and present nature writers, the evolution of the craft and its legacy, and the future promise of nature writing in the Anthropocene.