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Students will study American authors from the beginning to 1900, focusing on selected major figures in either poetry or the novel. Writers such as Hawthorne, Melville, Cooper, Dickinson, Poe and Whitman are among those considered, although the list of writers studied may vary from term to term. Counts in the Humanities or Literature area of General Education Requirements. Prerequisite(s): LAE101 and LAE102 or equivalent 5 quarter hours/3 semester hours

Students will study American authors from 1900-1950, focusing on selected major figures in either poetry or the novel. Novelists such as Wharton, Lewis, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinberg and Wright, and poets such as T.S. Eliot, are among those considered, although the list of writers studied may vary from term to term. Counts in the Humanities or Literature area of General Education Requirements. Prerequisite(s): LAE101 and LAE102 or equivalent 5 quarter hours/3 semester hours

A survey of the best and most influential writers following World War II and continuing through to the close of the turbulent sixties. Includes primarily fiction writers such as Mailer, O'Hara, Salinger, Cheever, Updike, O'Connor, Baldwin, Kesey, Heller, Roth, Bellow, Malamud and Nabokov. Takes a look at the stunning contrasts between the fifties and the sixties, politically, socially, ethically, aesthetically, and psychologically. Prerequisite(s): LAE101 and LAE102. 5 quarter hours OR 3 semester hours Counts in the Humanities or Literature area of General Education Requirements.

A survey of classic 20th-century British novelists such as James, Lawrence, Joyce, Forster, Woolf, Greene, Orwell, Huxley, and Amis. Focuses on the growth and development of technique and on the ethical, psychological and political concerns of the period. Counts in the Humanities or Literature area of General Education Requirements. 5 quarter hours OR 3 semester hours

Online course focusing on basic techniques of creative writing of poetry and responding to poetry. Wide reading from internet and print sources expected as a stimulus to creative expression. Prerequisite(s): LAE102 or equivalent; completion of needed developmental coursework 5 quarter hours or 3 semester hours

Students read and discuss a variety of outstanding examples of the short story form as potential models for their own writing. In the process, they write and then revise one short story of their own. Using a writing workshop framework, students do close reading and discussion of their peers' work and make suggestions for revisions. Counts in the Written Communication Area of General Education Requirements. Prerequisite(s): Senior standing or graduate status. 5 quarter hours or 3 semester hours

Oral history constitutes the accounts of personal and public events as told by ordinary people. Students learning how to interview ordinary people, how to assemble the history of major events as seen through the eyes of ordinary people and how to analyze literature based on oral histories. Students are guided in using oral history as a basis for their own nonfiction writing. Books by Studs Terkel, Alex Kotlowitz, James McBride and plays by Anna Deavere Smith are used. Prerequisite(s): LAE101 and LAE102 5 quarter hours OR 3 semester hours

Women's Lives into Literature examines the process of transforming life experience into fiction, plays and poetry- what is left out, what is added, how elements are altered, considering the special skills of each writer. The historical context and specific cultural influences on American writers of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries will be considered using the works of Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sylvia Plath, Lillian Hellman, Lorraine Hansberry and Wendy Wasserstein. Prerequisites: Admission to the Master of Science in Written Communication or Consent of the Instructor. 5 quarter hours OR 3 semester hours. Counts in the Humanities or Literature area of General Education Requirements.

A course in the special techniques and format of writing the narrative film, with emphasis on dramatic structure, character development, creating visual metaphors and orchestrating these elements around a coherent dramatic question or premise. Viewing and reading of noteworthy screenplays is combined with the development of an original screenplay idea and the execution of a portion of that screenplay into proper format. Prerequisite(s): Graduate status or permission of the instructor. 5 quarter hours

Study of the Elizabethan stage and Elizabethan-Jacobean drama and the development of Shakespeare's dramatic art. Students read selected comedies, tragedies and histories by Shakespeare and some of his contemporaries. 5 quarter hours OR 3 semester hours Counts in the Humanities or Literature area of General Education Requirements.

Introduction to various kinds of journalistic writing appropriate to newspapers, magazines and other periodicals. News-writing, feature-writing, and interviewing are some of the journalistic types covered. Liability laws, guidelines pertaining to plagiarism, copyright laws, and journalistic ethics are discussed. 3 semester hours

In this contemporary literature course, students explore the fiction of major Latino writers in the U.S. Students read and examine a selection of representative texts of authors who portray the complex realities of the fastest- growing minority population in the United States. Teaching, class discussions, readings, written work and testing are in English. (Also active as SPAN455) Prerequisite(s): Dept Lang Stud (for Spanish majors) - SPAN320, SPAN325, SPAN330, SPAN415, and SPAN450, or consent of the department. English and Philosophy - LAE101, LAE102, or consent of the department. Counts in the Humanities Area of General Education Requirements. 5 quarter hours

Students polish the practical skills that an editor needs to edit clearly, confidently, and correctly. Students will sharpen grammar and style, learn conventional editing symbols and methods to trim a story for content or space. Writing assignments focus on finding and fixing errors. The goal for students is to become their own editors for their own work and to become qualified to be "last read" on a professional paper/publication. Prerequisite(s): LAE101 and LAE102. 5 quarter hours OR 3 semester hours

A course taught by professionals in the field of advertising and promotion. Students receive coaching and practice in writing spots for radio and television, as well as layout and design for print media and direct mail. Public relations strategies are introduced: how advertising builds and communicates the corporate image. Available markets for writers will be explored. Speakers will discuss working for agencies and writing freelance. 3 semester hours

An initial discussion of the basic principles of humor, followed by an overview of specific types of humor-writing. This course analyzes various styles of humor, such as iconoclasm, absurdism, exaggeration, "gallows humor," "Jewish humor," etc. in order to imitate their techniques in weekly written assignments. Each student works on development of his or her own comic "voice." 3 semester hours

Students will meet in the Collections Room of the Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton, Chicago, IL. They will examine first-hand several seminal texts in English literature in their first or very early editions. Examples of texts include: Malory's "Morte d' Arthur" (1485); Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" (1490); "First Folio" edition of Shakespeare (1623); Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" (1726); Samuel Johnson's "Dictionary" (1773); Other magnificent rarities. Prerequisite(s): None 2 quarter hours OR 1 semester hour

Writer's Week Workshops are a series of sessions with outstanding writers in a variety of writing areas, including creative nonfiction, biography, screenwriting and writing children and young adult books. Each writer will discuss his/her methods of developing a significant work. Students will submit brief samples of their work in the relevant writing area for discussion and revision. Prerequisite(s): Graduate status or permission of the instructor 1 semester hour or 2 quarter hours

Opportunity for students in this major or concentration to pursue acceptable study in an aspect of literature or writing independently. Students are assigned to department advisors for guidance and tutoring. 2-5 quarter hours

Opportunity for students and faculty to create a course topic not on the regular schedule. ( A recent example: The Sixties: Evolution and Revolution.) Students may register for more than one Special topic in the course of their degree program. 2-5 quarter hours

A course designed by faculty and students, from time to time, in which students assume a major responsibility for course materials and content, in conventional seminar fashion, with the instructor acting primarily as advisor and evaluator. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. 3-5 quarter hours/ 1-3 semester hours