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Subject: English (Grad) (GENG)
CRN: 41599
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: John Roach Center 301
Introduction to Creative Writing and Publishing provides a primer to the expectations and conventions of graduate study in the field of creative writing, including creative writing pedagogy and practice, the running of a literary reading series, innovative forms of creative writing such as podcasting and interactive writing, as well as the study of the publishing world from the point of view of a writer, reader, and editor. Additionally, it will introduce students to the academic field of creative writing: its area of specialization, key issues, and forms of writing. How do writers orient themselves and their work in 21st century workshops? What are the tools that govern print design, interactive prose, or literary podcasts? What is the history of the publishing industry and how does that inform our present moment? This course is required for the Master of Arts in Creative Writing & Publishing and is an elective for the Master of Arts in English.
3 Credits
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Subject: English (Grad) (GENG)
CRN: 41600
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St Paul: John Roach Center 301
This course provides an introduction to the expectations and conventions of graduate study, including research and writing methodology. In addition, it will introduce students to the field of English studies: its areas of specialization, key issues, and genres of writing. This course must be taken as one of the first three courses in the MA in English program.
3 Credits
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Subject: English (Grad) (GENG)
CRN: 41601
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: John Roach Center 301
Requirements Met:
Global Literature
Identity & Power
This literature seminar examines novels written by Black authors on either side of the Atlantic. The course probes works that grapple with the ghosts of the Middle Passage, colonial occupation and contemporary immigration. Employing a global and comparative lens, students will explore manifestations and intersections of Blackness, history and literature across four continents. Through unpacking key formal and thematic parallels, the course fashions the Atlantic as a site of literary transformation and imagination. Novels include work by authors like Zadie Smith, Yaa Gyasi and Jamaica Kincaid, and have roots in Antigua, Trinidad, Liberia, France, Senegal, Brazil, England, South Africa, Jamaica and Ghana. Students will write critical essays (including one comparative essay) and reading responses. The course will also outline relevant historical and cultural contexts relating to texts, as well as explore effective strategies for crafting historical and place-based fiction. This course satisfies the Identity & Power requirement and the Global, Transatlantic, or Transnational Perspective requirement.
3 Credits
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Subject: English (Grad) (GENG)
CRN: 41602
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: John Roach Center 301
A multi-genre workshop using the "Pile and Style" method. This course is divided into two distinct halves. The first portion of the semester will be spent on heavy amounts of generative writing. Students will be encouraged to consider how and why they make particular writing choices and how they might maximize their writing abilities. During the second half of the course we will focus on intensive workshops and revision techniques to comb through the raw material we've created. This method is a great way to tackle larger writing projects or to envision your work as a collective whole. The writing and workshops will exist alongside readings, discussions, and self-assessments reflecting on the creative process.
3 Credits