Intermediate Nonfiction Workshop
ENGL 325
Fall 2024
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| This course may be repeated for credit. |
What is a lyric essay? What happens when we open the sentence to lyricism, inviting poetry into the paragraph? What happens when we leave room for silence, the unknown, wonder or multiplicity within narrative trajectory? What happens if we invite diaspora, queerness, grief, or even the land itself into syntax? Why compose in a liminal form-between-forms? In this generative workshop, we will ask these questions and devote ourselves to reading and writing experiments in the essay. Books will be approached as companion texts and guides. There will be weekly presentations, in-class writing experiments, and intensive workshops of one another's work. The class will culminate in a book arts project and reflective essay. Special attention will also be given to cultivating community and the benefits of sustaining an embodied writing practice during extreme times. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: ENGL224 OR ENGL228 OR ENGL278 OR ENGL292 OR ENGL326 OR ENGL266 |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (ENGL)(ENGL-Creative W) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 90% or above |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Authors studied will likely include: Mary Kim Arnold, Renee Gladman, Lars Horn, Bhanu Kapil, Jennifer S. Cheng, Don Mee Choi, Layli Long Soldier, Kristin Prevallet, and Christina Sharpe.
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Examinations and Assignments:
There will be bi-weekly presentations, in-class writing experiments, and intensive workshops of one another's work. The class will culminate in a book arts project and a reflective essay.
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Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
The course prerequisites are ENGL224 OR ENGL228 OR ENGL 266 OR ENGL278 OR ENGL292 OR ENGL326. Please submit a prerequisite override request describing your qualifications if you feel you qualify for the course but have not taken the prerequisites.
Contributes to fulfillment of ENGL major requirements: CW requirement, CW 300-level course, CW upper-level CW workshop, elective. The English department highly recommends that students be enrolled in only one Creative Writing course in a semester. If you are admitted to more than one Creative Writing course, the department requests that you choose one and let the instructors know during Adjustment Period. By doing so you will be considerate of instructors and other students. |
| Instructor(s): Vogel,Danielle Times: ....R.. 01:20PM-04:10PM; Location: RLAN106; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 12 | | SR major: 3 | JR major: 3 | | |
| Seats Available: 0 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 2 | JR non-major: 2 | SO: 2 | FR: 0 |
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| Total Submitted Requests: 3 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 3 |
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