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| Title |
Language and Learning |
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| Description |
An interdisciplinary approach to theories of language development, and language as a mode of learning. |
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| Title |
Survey of American Literature I |
| Prerequisite |
ENGL 300 |
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| Description |
Historical and critical study of authors, genres, and literary movements from early American writings through American Romanticism. Authors may include William Bradford, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson. |
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| Title |
Survey of American Literature II |
| Prerequisite |
ENGL 300 |
| Course Outline |
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| Description |
Historical and critical study of authors, genres, and literary movements from 19th Century American Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, Post-Modernism to the present. Authors may include Henry James, Kate Chopin, Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Audust Wilson, Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Louise Erdrich. |
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Theory & Methods: Writing Grades 5-12 |
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Principles of clear and effective writing, elements of the writing process, research and methods in teaching, responding to, and evaluating writing. |
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| Title |
World Literature |
| Prerequisite |
ENGL 101 |
| Lasc Area |
Goal 8 |
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| Description |
Study of selected world masterpieces grouped by theme or genre. MnTC Goal 8. |
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| Title |
World Religion and Literature |
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| Writing Intensive |
Yes |
| Description |
An introduction to the academic study of sacred scriptures and contemporary fiction from Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions. Readings include selections from world scriptures paired with contemporary fiction. Focus on relevant historical, theological, and cultural contexts in the literary study of the texts. MnTC Goals 6 and 8. |
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| Title |
Technical Report Writing |
| Prerequisite |
ENGL 101
Limited to junior and senior status |
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| Writing Intensive |
Yes |
| Description |
Expository writing dealing with subjects in student's major and planned for a specialized audience: documenting, writing abstracts, preparing reports of original investigations. Recommended for students who have taken classes in their major. |
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Creative Writing |
| Prerequisite |
ENGL 288 OR ENGL 285 |
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Course Outline |
| Writing Intensive |
Yes |
| Description |
The writing of poetry, short fiction, non-fiction, plays, or film. Partly a dialogue on contemporary writing, but mainly workshop. May be repeated up to three times for credit if the genre changes. |
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| Title |
Topics in English |
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| Description |
Study of a particular literary genre, topic, or theme. |
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| Title |
Theory and Methods of Tutoring |
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Course Outline |
| Writing Intensive |
Yes |
| Description |
Presentation and discussion of theories and methods for conference teaching and the writing process. Writing and responding to writing to facilitate thinking about the course content. Observing and conducting tutorial sessions to gain hands-on experience in tutoring/teaching. This course is a prerequisite for students who wish to work as tutors in The Write Site. It's a relevant course for any prospective secondary English teachers. |
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| Title |
Introduction to Publishing |
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| Description |
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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| Title |
Big City, Big Impact |
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| Description |
This course uses a variety of texts for an exploration of the environmental and social impacts of big city life, as shown by various writers. MnTC Goal 6 and 10. |
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| Title |
Studies in British Literature |
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| Description |
Study of selected topics, movements, or genres. |
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| Title |
Writing About Art |
| Prerequisite |
ENGL 101 |
| Course Outline |
Course Outline |
| Writing Intensive |
Yes |
| Description |
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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| Title |
Issues of Death & Grief: Creative Non-Fiction of Life & Loss |
| Lasc Area |
Goal 9 |
| Course Outline |
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| Description |
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. MnTC Goal 9. |
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| Title |
Writing for Children |
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Course Outline |
| Writing Intensive |
Yes |
| Description |
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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| Title |
Grant Proposal Writing |
| Prerequisite |
ENGL 101 |
| Course Outline |
Course Outline |
| Writing Intensive |
Yes |
| Description |
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. ENGL 387 - Technical Report Writing is strongly recommended before you take this class. |
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| Title |
Nature Writing/Ecocriticism |
| Lasc Area |
Goal 10 |
| Course Outline |
Course Outline |
| Writing Intensive |
Yes |
| Description |
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. MnTC Goal 10. |
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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. MnTC Goals 6 and 9. |
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| Title |
Literary Editing: Red Weather |
| Prerequisite |
ENGL 288 OR ENGL 388 |
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Course Outline |
| Description |
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 authors whose work is chosen, to designing and promoting the finished magazine. |
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