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This course provides instruction in professional written communication. Students compose formal essays and a variety of technical documents to learn to communicate effectively. Students will focus on reading, interpreting, evaluating, planning...

Special Projects in English individual projects by special arrangement with instructor.

This advanced writing course focuses on critical thought and composition within academic/professional communities. Published works regarding current affairs, pressing social matters and/or political issues will be critically read and then written...

In this course students will develop the basic techniques that writers use to create imaginative and effective fiction, and use the writers workshop as a method for improving their work. Although this class focuses on writing short stories, it can be...

This creative writing course focuses on writing poetry and critiquing your classmates’ poems. Through dose examination of modem and contemporary poetry, you will begin to recognize elements of craft and form and use those techniques in your own...

William Shakespeare has been the central author of the English-speaking world for centuries. His plays and poems are quoted more often than those of any other English-speaking writer. This introduction to Shakespearean Comedy, History and Tragedy...

This course is designed for students who have completed an introductory fiction writing class (such as ENGL 211) and who want to continue their creative writing in a lecture and workshop setting. Students will further develop the techniques that...

This class will explore the rhetorical and narrative strategies used by Chicanx writers to explore the themes of identity, culture, and discrimination in Chicanx novels, short stories, and essays. Engagement with these texts requires not necessarily...

This course provides instruction in the genre of science fiction as a literary type and will provide instruction in analysis of short stories, novels, and films from within the genre of science fiction. The course will range from the beginnings of...

This course is designed to improve students’ written technical communication skills as are related to a range of professional applications. The goal of technical writing is to communicate a message clearly, concisely, and persuasively. This course...