Writing the War on Terror: Crafting Literary Responses to Fiction, Film, and Television after 9/11
ENGL 358
Fall 2016
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| Certificates: Muslim Studies, Writing |
In this interdisciplinary, nonfiction writing seminar, students will work on writing book and film reviews, oped pieces, blogs, memoirs, and narrative non-fiction as they explore the ways contemporary literature and film have depicted the post-9/11 War on Terror. They will watch documentaries by Laura Poitras, and Alex Gibney's We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks. They will read fiction by Mohsin Hamid, Elina Hirvonen, Deborah Eisenberg, and Martin Amis, and nonfiction prose by Dunya Mikhail, Pankaj Mishra, and George Packer. There will be a workshop component to this course. Students will focus on presenting their ideas in sophisticated, accessible prose, paying close attention to language, style, and syntax at the line and paragraph levels. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: ENGL292 OR ENGL296 |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (ENGL)(ENGL-Creative W)(MUST-MN) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 75% - 89% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Mohsin Hamid, THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST
Elina Hirvonen, WHEN I FORGOT
Nadeem Aslam, THE BLIND MAN'S GARDEN
Michel Houellebecq, SUBMISSION
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Examinations and Assignments:
Students will complete frequent short writing assignments that will be workshopped by their peers. They will write reviews, op-eds, blogs, memoir, and journalistic profiles. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Students of all backgrounds are welcome in this course, but you should have taken at least one course in Creative Writing (Techniques, Workshops, or Special Topics, in any genre), OR have some other relevant background in the study of literature or history. Students who haven't taken Techniques of Fiction/Techniques of Nonfiction can request a prerequisite override for instructor approval.
Students may not take this course and another creative writing workshop concurrently.
This course contributes to the Creative Writing concentration as a Special Topics course as well as the Theory & Literary Forms concentration of the English major. |
| Instructor(s): Sawhney,Hirsh Times: .M..... 01:20PM-04:10PM; Location: ZLKA106; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 3 | JR major: 3 | | |
| Seats Available: 3 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 3 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 3 | FR: 0 |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 1 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 1 |
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