This course is a seminar-type exploration of creative writing techniques with emphasis on writing and criticism. There will be individual assignments according to the student's interests and abilities as interpreted by the instructor. The course is open, by permission, to a limited number of sophomores and freshmen of high aptitude. A continuation of COMP115. An intensive workshop course that stresses the hard news reporting and writing techniques important in both traditional print media and Internet publishing.
Students learn to gather information and check facts using Internet search engines.
This course surveys the development of American literature from Whitman to the present with emphasis upon thorough acquaintance with the work of the better-known writers of the period. This course features novels, short stories, poems, plays and other literature by, for, and about women in Britain from the medieval period to the present. Students examine the portrayal of women's lives, the relationship to women's roles in modern society, the expression of multi-cultural developments, and major movements in British literature. This course features novels, short stories, poems, and plays by women writers in America from the late 19th century to the present. Women Fall 1999 Reading and discussion in this course centers primarily on selected works of American and Western European literature which portray female characters in prominent roles and explore the problems of women in their various societies.