printer friendly pageENGLISH 186B: The American Underground: Crime and the Criminal in American Literature
The literary representation of crime and the criminal from postrevolutionary through contemporary American literature. Topics will include the enigma of the criminal personality; varieties of crime, from those underwritten by religious or ethical principle to those produced by the deformations of bias; the impact on narrative form of the challenge of narrating crime; and the significance attributed to gratuitous crime in the American cultural context.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
Instructors:
Ruttenburg, N. (PI)
ENGLISH 190D: Dialogue Writing
For Fiction and Film students. Study how dialogue develops character, reveals information, moves plots forward, and creates tension. Use of short story, novels, graphic novels, and films. Students will write many short assignments, one dialogue scene, and one longer story or script (10-20pages). Priority to Fiction Into Film students, but open to all. Prerequisite: 90.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
Instructors:
Kealey, T. (PI)
ENGLISH 190F: Fiction into Film
Workshop. For screenwriting students. Story craft, structure, and dialogue. Assignments include short scene creation, character development, and a long story. How fictional works are adapted to screenplays, and how each form uses elements of conflict, time, summary, and scene. Priority to seniors and Film Studies majors. Prerequisite: 90.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
Instructors:
Tanaka, S. (PI)
ENGLISH 190H: The Graphic Novel
Continuation of
English 190G. Interdisciplinary. Evolution, subject matter, form, conventions, possibilities, and future of the graphic novel genre. Guest lectures. Collaborative creation of a graphic novel by a team of writers, illustrators, and designers. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
Instructors:
Hutchins, S. (PI)
;
Tanaka, S. (PI)
ENGLISH 190T: Special Topics in Intermediate Fiction Writing
Focus on a particular topic or process. Work includes aspects of reading short stories and novels, writing at least 30-50 pages of fiction, and responding to peers' work in workshop. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: 91 or 90.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
| Repeatable
4 times
(up to 20 units total)
Instructors:
Clark, H. (PI)
;
Frisch, S. (PI)
;
Hutchins, S. (PI)
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Instructors:
Clark, H. (PI)
;
Frisch, S. (PI)
;
Hutchins, S. (PI)
;
Kealey, T. (PI)
;
Kletter, D. (PI)
;
Schloesser Tarano, N. (PI)
;
Shewmaker, M. (PI)
ENGLISH 190V: Reading for Writers
Taught by the Stein Visiting Fiction Writer. Prerequisite: 90 or 91
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Dybek, S. (PI)
ENGLISH 191: Intermediate Creative Nonfiction
Continuation of 91. Workshop. The application of advanced storytelling techniques to fact-based personal narratives, emphasizing organic writing, discovering audience, and publication. Guest lecturers, collaborative writing, and publication of the final project in print, audio, or web formats. Prerequisite: 91 or 90.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
Instructors:
Evans, J. (PI)
;
Pufahl, S. (PI)
ENGLISH 191T: Special Topics in Intermediate Creative Nonfiction
Workshop. Continuation of 91. Focus is on forms of the essay. Works from across time and nationality for their craft and technique; experimentation with writing exercises. Students read and respond to each other's longer nonfiction projects. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: 91 or 90.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
Instructors:
Kletter, D. (PI)
ENGLISH 192V: The Occasions of Poetry
Taught by the Mohr Visiting Poet. Prerequisite: 92. Permission number required to enroll.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
Instructors:
Pinsky, R. (PI)
ENGLISH 194: Individual Research
See section above on Undergraduate Programs, Opportunities for Advanced Work, Individual Research.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 5
| Repeatable
for credit
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