Advanced Nonfiction Workshop
ENGL 326
Spring 2024
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| This course may be repeated for credit. |
In this upper-level nonfiction workshop, we will read texts that investigate the meanings of place, particularly as they concern intersecting intimacies and violences of home, of migration, of colonial settlement, of environmental racism, and of climate crisis. Being from, leaving, and returning to both actual and imagined spaces are often at stake in these texts, as are forms of enclosure, naming, and mapping. Questions about how language moves on a page are inextricable from these concerns. Your own writing will include short exercises and experiments, a longer essay, revision, and responses to the published work, and throughout the semester, we will attend collectively to your work, as well as to these published texts. This course is part of the Sustainability and Environmental Justice Pedagogical Initiative. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (ENGL)(ENGL-Creative W) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Authors studied will include: Sarah Broom, Lacey Johnson, Jamaica Kincaid, Dawn Lundy Martin, Christina Nichol, Lauret Savoy, Bela Shayevich, Rebecca Solnit, and others."
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Examinations and Assignments:
Short essays, long essay, revision, presentation, regular feedback on peers' writing
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Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Student Option Grading Mode: If you are planning to pursue the Creative Writing path in English, you should choose the Graded option to fulfill those requirements.
Attendance at and participation in every class are required. Students must also make every effort to attend events with visiting writers.
The application deadline is November 6 (the Monday after the start of preregistration) at 5:00 PM.
Application Process: Permission of instructor approval will be granted by the instructor during pre-registration through the Electronic Portfolio. Click "Add to My Courses" and "To request a POI electronically, click here" to submit your request. In addition, please email lcohen01@wesleyan.edu the following in one document: a) 5 double-spaced pages of nonfiction. b) a cover page that includes the following: your name, email address, class year, major (if any); the number of this course; some of your favorite writers and any other influences; a short biographical statement (a paragraph) describing your creative writing background. c) list the creative writing course(s) you have taken previous to this one. Please use either Microsoft Word or rich text format for your attachment, with the file name: "Last Name-First Initial" (e.g. Smith-J.docx). You will be notified electronically of the status of your application by November 15. Students who have missed this deadline should submit materials to lcohen01@wesleyan.edu from mid-January until January 25th, in case there are any last-minute openings.
It is highly recommended that students be enrolled in only one Creative Writing course in a semester. If you are admitted to more than one Creative Writing course, you will choose one and let the instructors know during Adjustment Period. Please be serious about your choice for the consideration of instructors and other students.
Contributes to fulfillment of English major requirements: CW requirement, CW 300-level course, CW upper-level workshop, electives.
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| Instructor(s): Cohen,Lisa Times: ..T.... 01:20PM-04:10PM; Location: RLAN106; |
Permission of Instructor Required
Enrollment capacity: 12 | Permission of instructor approval will be granted by the instructor during pre-registration through the Electronic Portfolio. Click "Add to My Courses" and "To request a POI electronically, click here" to submit your request. |
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| Total Submitted Requests: 3 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 2 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 1 |
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