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This beginning creative nonfiction writing course introduces students to the fundamentals of memoir writing, literary nonfiction, and personal essay, while cultivating creative and critical thinking skills through the examination of diverse authors, and preparing students for intermediate creative nonfiction writing, especially those students considering a major or minor in creative writing.

Examine the relationship between video games and selected literary texts based on shared themes, social issues, historical periods, and ethnic/cultural experience. Compare literary genres, tropes, context, and styles, and explore the way video games engage, complicate, and repurpose these literary elements.

This seminar explores effective revision and editing processes, providing students with ways to "re-think" their writing and incorporate concrete strategies for improvement.

This seminar teaches students how to create effective thesis statements and topic sentences, including considerations of language, style, and structure.

This seminar provides students models of the elements of an academic essay and how to create their own academic essays, including considerations of language, style, audience, and structure.

A course designed to help faculty-referred students strengthen and refine college English
skills and achieve course learning outcomes. Under faculty supervision, students utilize
technology, receive tutoring, attend workshops, and engage in writing, reading, study
skills, or research.

Critical analysis of literary texts in relation to film. Develop critical thinking and literary analysis skills, and acquire knowledge of literary and film techniques, by examining the relationship between filmed and written versions of a single text, theme, social issue, historical period, or ethnic/cultural experience.

An exploration of contemporary women's writing: fiction, poetry, drama, creative nonfiction, and hybrid forms written in English by contemporary women from diverse social, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds.

A survey of literature written in English by women over the last four hundred years,
emphasizing nineteenth and early twentieth century novels, poetry, and drama by major
as well as rediscovered authors prior to 1970.