Readings will be drawn from the ancient literatures of India and Greece, medieval fabliaux, African storytelling traditions of Jamaica and the American South, and a variety of 19th- and 20th-century authors. Satisfies the prerequisite for the English major. Satisfies the Second Writing Requirement. In this course we'll read a selection of works from the European Middle Ages, concentrating especially on those in which the themes of love and death intersect. A course devoted to exploring George R.
Since the class may coincide with the release of season 8 rumored to be the last season of the HBO series , we may also discuss these final developments. Our world โ whether in its dystopian politics, climate catastrophes, or even just its driverless cars โ is increasingly written of in terms once reserved for the fantastic tales of science fiction. Through short stories, films, and games, this course will survey a range of these past visions, and speculate about the futures yet to come.
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An introduction to modern desktop publishing and literary editing. Students will use Adobe Indesign to design a print project, publish the project using print-on-demand, and convert their work to ePub for viewing on a Kindle or other electronic device. Students will also learn the fundamentals of the Chicago Manual of Style and how to edit literary works. Students must be able to bring a PC or Mac laptop to class, and purchase a one-month rental of Adobe Indesign.
Intermediate-level writing in news-media format, beginning with traditional hard-news stories and progressing to political stories and features. Both overnight and in-class writing assignments.
Workshop environment. This course investigates the figure of the unremarkable character in 20th and 21st-century U. These stories resist the more familiar myth of the American Dream, but we will explore what these obscure characters too can tell us about our culture, and even ourselves. This course for English majors and other students in the humanities introduces the basics of computer programming, text analysis, text encoding, and statistics as experimental methodologies that promote new kinds of reading and interpretation.
