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Introduction to Publishing |
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This course familiarizes students with small press publishing and with the various facets of the writing, publication and marketing processes. It also includes an orientation to New Rivers Press, a working non-profit press located at MSUM, and a daylong field trip to various publishing facilities in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. |
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Writing About Art |
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This course features writing about art, the visual arts particularly. It is a writing intensive course where we build and refine skills in writing about art, and we write about art to inform, persuade, clarify and account for our responses to works of art. All formal writing assignments written in response to gallery visits in the F/M area will pass through an in-class edit for the purposes of developing plans for revision of the writing. |
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Issues of Death & Grief: Creative Non-Fiction of Life & Loss |
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Within the gravities of life and death, love and grief, there is a search for understanding and healing. This course is designed to help students understand that death and grief present choices and changes that face us as citizens within a community of loved ones. During this course, students will consider the importance of care and customs surrounding death and dying and the value of honest dialogue when grief is set upon individuals struggling with loss. This course will develop students' awareness of the ethical dimensions of personal decisions (for self and others in the realm of loss, the business of mourning and the pain of grief) and to cultivate their deliberative skills through respectful engagement with others whose views differ. |
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Writing for Children |
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This course is a writing intensive course that focuses on writing for children and adolescents. Students will read several texts written for young readers and analyze the craft of writing in each. Students will also complete practice writing exercises that are specific to the conventions of genres in children's literature, workshop and revise major writing assignments, and produce a final polished project of a collection of poetry, a first chapter in fiction, or a short story. |
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Grant Proposal Writing |
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Students research significant problems or opportunities in their major fields and research applicable sources of private and/or public funding. In response to the problems or opportunities they select, students will research, design, and write grant proposals for cost-effective programs, including program-evaluation plans. |
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Ecocriticism |
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Ecocriticism is a fairly recent cultural and literary development, the term coined in the late 1970s. This course introduces students to representative ecocritical texts that study the relationship between humans and the environment. Significant attention will be devoted to issues of sustainability, eco-literacy, and the efficacy of literary expressions of environmental value. |
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Holocaust Literature |
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In this course, students examine a variety of literary works, including novels, diaries, memoirs, articles, essays, poems, short stories, historical documents, and/or films that illustrate prominent attitudes, historic events, and lived experience associated with the planned extermination of millions of people (including but not limited to Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, and Christians) during Hitler's reign. Through the study of these literary works, students come to recognize the consequences of stereotypes, prejudice, hate, and discrimination. As the class evaluates historic and current attitudes regarding the "other," students reflect upon their own ethical and moral views, identify personal responsibilities of citizenship, understand human rights as well as personal and societal obligations, examine the role of justice, and analyze the ethical dimensions of political, social, and scientific issues. |
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Literary Editing: Red Weather |
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This is a production-centered, hands-on class. Students will be responsible for producing a complete issue of Red Weather, MSUM's literary magazine, from screening and selecting manuscripts, interacting with the author's whose work is chosen, to designing and promoting the finished magazine. |
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Practicum in Publishing |
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This course is designed to familiarize students to the working functions of a small press literary publishing house through lectures, demonstrations, and supervised group activities such as participating on editorial book teams, writing teacher guides for the website for New Rivers Press books, developing marketing plans, reading tours, distributor marketing packets etc. All projects are presented in class to foster a broader class understanding of the overall activities of a small press. |
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Theory & Methods: CA/L Grades 5-8 |
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SARTE or instructor permission |
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Review of current trends in adolescent and young adult literature. Approaches and techniques for teaching reading and for studying literature in junior and senior high school. May be repeated after five years with consent of instructor. |
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Advanced Studies in Language or Literature |
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Study of selected topics, individual authors, genres or movements in linguistics or in American, British or world literature. The course may be offered as a seminar, as an independent study, or as an adjunct to another class taught by the same instructor. Repeatable when subject matter varies. |
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Topics in English |
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This is a graduate level topical course and may be repeated when the topic changes. |
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Theory & Methods: CA/L Grades 9-12 |
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SARTE or by permission. |
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Current practices in teaching secondary English; possible observation of secondary classes; discussion of curriculum, approaches, and techniques. |
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Capstone Seminar |
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Study of selected topics, individual authors, genres or movements in linguistics or in American, British or world literature. Is offered once per semester. It includes multiple approaches to analyzing literature and a documented research paper of substantial length with an extensive annotated bibliography. |
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| Title |
Grammars of English |
| Prerequisite |
ENGL 102 |
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A survey of the history of language study, of the history of the English language, and of the various kinds of grammars: traditional, structural, and transformational. |
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Independent Study |
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Independent reading or research allowing an individual student to explore a specific topic under faculty supervision. |
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Approaches to Contemporary Memoir |
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In this course, students will read three contemporary memoirs from three unique voices so that they might vicariously experience lives of "the other," reflect on the social and cultural values and beliefs that shape one's experience, examine the structure of contemporary memoir, and explore various approaches to teaching contemporary memoir. Subtopics may include (but are not limited to) the literary and rhetorical devices memoirists utilize, the unique problems memoirists encounter in their writing, and the ways in which good Creative Nonfiction captivates readers' attention and helps them understand how others think, feel, and overcome adversity. |
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Advanced Holocaust Literature |
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This discussion-based, graduate-level course is designed to engage students' intellectual curiosity, inspire critical thinking, recognize the dangers of prejudice, stereotypes, discrimination, propaganda, and abuse of power, as well as draw connections between the historic tragedy known as the Holocaust and our lives today. To meet this end, we will read and discuss a variety of diaries, memoirs, short stories, and well-researched encyclopedia articles on issues the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum calls the "essential topics" of the Holocaust. While the readings and images are dark and disturbing, students enrolled in this course will also come to recognize the power of courage, kindness, resiliency, and love as well as develop a deeper understanding of the age-old adage, "Whosoever saves a single life, saves an entire universe." |
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American Newcomers |
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This discussion-focused, highly interactive class explores both literary and social issues raised by various novels that portray the struggles and experiences of first- and second-generation Americans. We will examine the different artistic choices the authors make while also considering the historical and social context for each story. |
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