Dates: 09/05 - 12/21
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	1:30 pm 3:10 pm BEC LL03		1:30 pm 3:10 pm BEC LL03

Subject: English (UG) (ENGL)

CRN: 42525

Lecture

St Paul: Brady Educational Center LL03

Requirements Met:
     Writing Intensive

  Heather Bouwman

“What we owe children: we owe them stories that matter.” –children’s author Phillis Root. In English 326, we’ll study and write literature for children and young adults (YA). We’ll read five or six middle grade and YA novels and many picture books and excerpts of novels, and we’ll complete many short writing attempts; you’ll also write several longer pieces that you’ll revise and polish. The class will focus primarily on three kinds of fiction writing—picture books, middle grade, and young adult—and all students will be expected to try their hand at writing for all three age groups. Because most middle grade and young adult fiction is published in novel form, you’ll be encouraged to begin a novel or a novel-in-verse over the semester (opening chapter[s] and outlines). This course satisfies the writing distribution requirement for English with a Creative Writing Emphasis students and the Genre Studies distribution requirement for standard English majors who are under the Fall 2015 Undergraduate Catalog or later. This course also satisfies the Writing Across the Curriculum Writing Intensive requirement. Prerequisite: ENGL 255 or permission of the instructor; ideally, it's recommended that you will also have taken either 321 Writing Poetry or ENGL 322 Writing Fiction as well, though those are not required prerequisites for this course.

4 Credits