Creative Writing Archive 2020-2021

4.00

A study of the major genres in creative writing (poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction) in which students will read as writers. Students will write a combination of analytical and original works, and learn the format and processes of writing workshops of writing workshops. Offered every semester.

ENG-212

4.00

An intensive workshop in which the student will be required to write original fiction. The focus of the course will be on the student's own work, submitted on a weekly basis. The course will also provide the student writer with practical experience in matters of plot, character, dialogue, structure, etc. Normally offered annually.

ENG-212

4.00

For students interested in writing autobiography and/or other forms of the personal essay. Topics can include childhood, place, sexuality, religion, work, the nature of memory. The focus will be on the writing process, with students presenting work-in-progress to the class for discussion and revision. The student should plan to read models of creative non-fiction. Normally offered annually.

ENG-212

4.00

An intensive workshop course in which the student will be required to write original poetry for each class meeting. The focus of the course will be on the student's own work. We will examine the highly individual processes of composition and revision, and the methods writers use to keep their own practice of poetry alive and well. We will also examine as many of the constituent elements of poetry as possible, from image and rhythm to line and structure. Normally offered annually.

4.00

Survey of drama and theatre as part of world culture from classical Greece through 18th-century China. Normally offered yearly.

4.00

Survey of drama and theatre as part of world culture from the 19th century to the present.

Course requires a study abroad component and an additional fee to cover airfare and accommodations in Ireland during spring break.

4.00

In this course, through an examination of Irish and Irish American literature, we will connect the historical and cultural forces that have led to emigration and exile from Ireland to the literature that has developed on both sides of the Atlantic. We will read some of the classic works of Irish literature that address national identity, exile, cultural unity, and cultural division, and we will also read literary works by Irish Americans that trace the ripple effects of these topics on the Irish diaspora. During Spring Break we will travel to Ireland to witness first-hand the sites associated with the Irish literature we study, paying particular attention to the politics of language, the influence of the Roman Catholic church on culture, and the formation and revision of literary traditions.

4.00

Literary masterpieces from ancient times to the Renaissance, including: Homer's Odyssey, Sophocles' Oedipus, Virgil's Aeneid, selections from the Hebrew Bible and the Gospels, and Dante's Divine Comedy. List may vary at the discretion of the instructor.

4.00

This course will introduce students to a selection of Great Books from around the world from the 17th century to the 21st, such as Don Quixote (Spain), Madame Bovary (France), The Communist Manifesto (Germany), The Origin of Species (England), War and Peace (Russia), On Dreams (Austria), Night (Hungary), Things Fall Apart (Nigeria), "Satyagraha" (India), "I Am Prepared to Die" (South Africa), Saeed the Pessoptomist (Israel), The Rouge of the North (China), and The House of Spirits (Chile). Readings may vary at the discretion of the instructor.

4.00

Study of poetry, prose, and drama, with emphasis on close reading and literary analysis. Students will compose formal essays discussing the meanings and relationship between texts as well as the author's craft and relationship to the reader. Offered every semester.

CAS Honors students only.

4.00

Study of poetry, prose, and drama, with emphasis on close reading and literary analysis. Students will compose formal essays discussing the meanings and relationship between texts as well as the author's craft and relationship to the reader.

4.00

A study of literature written in English from cultures around the world, with emphasis on major modern and contemporary writers from countries such as Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, Nigeria, South Africa and the Caribbean. Regularly assigned essays on reading provide the basis for individualized instruction in clear, correct and persuasive writing. Offered every semester.

3.3 GPA or Honors student

4.00

A study of literature written in English from cultures around the world, with emphasis on major modern and contemporary writers from countries such as Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, Nigeria, South Africa and the Caribbean. Regularly assigned essays on reading provide the basis for individualized instruction in clear, correct and persuasive writing. Offered every semester. Cultural Diversity B

4.00

Study of poetry, prose, and drama from the British literary tradition, with emphasis on close reading and literary analysis. Students will compose formal essays discussing the meanings and relationship between texts as well as the author's craft and relationship to the reader. Offered every semester.

4.00

Study of poetry, prose, and drama from the American literary tradition, with emphasis on close reading and literary analysis. Students will compose formal essays discussing the meanings and relationship between texts as well as the author's craft and relationship to the reader. Offered every semester.

4.00

Mysteries are sometimes dismissed as "pulp" but they are often highly reflective of the era in which they were written. This class will use mystery stories, novels and plays as a lens through which to view the major social, cultural and literary movements of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. With an emphasis on close reading and analysis, students will compose essays that explore the relationships between texts and the relationship between literary production and history. Additional assessments will include exams, a written response to a play we attend as a class, and a creative group project and presentation.

4.00

Literature has the capacity to record and interrogate history in an imaginative and artistic context. African-American literature is a rich, varied, and complex body of literature that faces our tainted history directly. The authors we will read in this class examine slavery's long-term psychological and social effects while forging a literary history that is at once a part of and apart from American literary history more generally.

4.00

This course focuses on the reading and analysis of horror literature and the ways in which horror reflects and represents personal and cultural anxieties. Readings will include both classic and contemporary authors, for example, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, and others. Assignments will include analytical essays as well as creative writing.

4.00

This course will examine a wide range of writers and film makers who have sought to bridge the gap that exists between those who have experienced war and those who have not. Some stories we will examine are told from an American perspective; some are told from the perspective of soldiers who fought against Americans; and some are told from those who experienced life under U.S. military occupation.

4.00

A study of literary works by the so-called "Beat Generation," the American literary underworld of the late 1950s and 1960s, including major works by the three central figures (Ginsburg, Kerouac, Burroughs) and less central figures (Corso, Snyder, DiPrima, Jones/Baraka) as well as the influence of the Beats on the work of Bob Dylan, the only musician to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

CAS Honors students only.

4.00

A study of literary works by the so-called "Beat Generation," the American literary underworld of the late 1950s and 1960s, including major works by the three central figures (Ginsburg, Kerouac, Burroughs) and less central figures (Corso, Snyder, DiPrima, Jones/Baraka) as well as the influence of the Beats on the work of Bob Dylan, the only musician to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

4.00

Young Adult Literature's recent explosion in popularity raises important questions about the stories it tells, the values it promotes, and the audiences it seeks. This course approaches the YA phenomenon as one with deep historical roots as well as contemporary cultural relevance. From nineteenth century classics to current series favorites, literary works focused on young people reframe perennially fresh narratives about coming of age, negotiating personal identity, and navigating a complex moral universe. This course also considers YA literature as part of an evolving network of writers, readers, publishers, critics and filmmakers.

4.00

Young Adult Literature's recent explosion in popularity raises important questions about the stories it tells, the values it promotes, and the audiences it seeks. This course approaches the YA phenomenon as one with deep historical roots as well as contemporary cultural relevance. From nineteenth century classics to current series favorites, literary works focused on young people reframe perennially fresh narratives about coming of age, negotiating personal identity, and navigating a complex moral universe. This course also considers YA literature as part of an evolving network of writers, readers, publishers, critics and filmmakers.

4.00

Explores the stories of individuals and groups who have traveled to the United States - a country that the poet Walt Whitman celebrated as a "nation of nations" - in search of greater freedom and opportunity. While some discover their version of the American Dream, others find themselves lost in exile, caught in between identities, and in danger due to their undocumented status. Moving from 19th-century visions of the U.S. as a crucible, or melting pot, of cultures to today's political tensions about borders and law enforcement, our readings reflect on the promise and peril of being new to America. Students will analyze fiction, nonfiction, and film and visit an immigrant advocacy coalition in Boston.

4.00

This course will use close readings to examine poetry as a heightened form of language seeking to make contact with divine sources of faith. We will consider poems that provide examples of the struggle to attain belief, as well as poems that deny belief. Language as both the grammar of ascent and the locus of descent. The position of human beings in relation to God, or the gods, or the absence of the divine.

4.00

This course takes students on a tour of witches, "nasty women," and other "unruly tongues" or "bitter spirits" throughout American literary history. Regularly assigned essays on the reading provide the basis for individualized instruction in clear, correct, and persuasive writing. Fulfills the Literature Requirement of the CAS Core Curriculum.

CAS Honors students only.

4.00

This course takes students on a tour of witches, "nasty women," and other "unruly tongues" or "bitter spirits" throughout American literary history. Regularly assigned essays on the reading provide the basis for individualized instruction in clear, correct, and persuasive writing. Fulfills the Literature Requirement of the CAS Core Curriculum.

3.00

For more than a thousand years, the city of London has been a cultural center, the home of playwrights and poets, novelists and critics, theaters and libraries. In this class we will read a wide range of literary works in different genres that take the city of London, and the experience of living or writing there, as central themes. The class will emphasize close reading and literary analysis of London texts, and will also explore contextualizing materials from newspaper articles to music and art. Designed to be taken in tandem with an optional one-credit study abroad trip to London, UK.

4.00

This course examines a variety of literature and films that highlight the point of view of students (and sometimes teachers) as they negotiate the power dynamics of educational institutions. Through reading and viewing such diverse texts as Gus van Sant's film Good Will Hunting, Booker T. Washington's autobiography Up from Slavery, and J.K. Rowling's classic fantasy Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, we will analyze how the politics of race, social class, gender, and colonialism inform classroom practices, structures, and ideologies while also considering how students work to resist oppressive educational systems. This course uses literature as a vehicle to explore and problematize the promise of education to facilitate equality, modernization, or the American Dream.

4.00

Study of 20th century writing on the American West by American women and men in the form of novels, memoirs, and short stories. Regularly assigned reading responses and essays on the readings as well as discussion questions and quizzes provide the basis for the study of "frontier" or western literature by American authors. Fulfills the Literature Requirement of the CAS Core Curriculum.

4.00

This course examines Shakespeare as a playwright and cultural icon in both the modern and early modern worlds. Students will develop analytical and creative writing after reading selected plays and criticism, and after watching selected modern film and media adaptations.

4.00

This course offers an opportunity to read and discuss a sampling of contemporary Latinx literature, that is, fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and comics by writers of Latin American origin who may or may not categorize themselves under the gender neutral/nonbinary term Latinx, a variation of Latino or Latina (the history and use of this term will be part of course discussion and readings). Students will learn how to engage with this work and some of the current issues affecting the Latinx community through informal, formal, and creative assignments. Focus will be placed on using the tools of literary analysis to bear on the intersections of the creative, aesthetic, personal, political, and marginalized spaces that inform Latinx literature. Along with supplementary readings, clips, and discussions about the texts and related issues, students will consider, reflect upon, and conduct inquiry into the narratives and social conversations they feel are part of their own personal journeys.

4.00

This course will provide an introduction to the literature written about medicine and medical research. We will study the ways in which narrative complexly represents illness, disability, doctor-patient relationships, health insurance, and other medical issues, including the end of life. The nonfiction books, short stories, and poems we read this semester are written from the viewpoints of patients, doctors, researchers, and literary critics, and provide us with nuanced, often ethically-challenging examples of how literary techniques-plot, character, point of view, image and metaphor-work to reveal the subjective experiences of diagnosis, treatment, healing, and paying in the world of medicine, and how these experiences ultimately ask questions about what makes life and the body worth valuing. Our readings will explore the intersections between storytelling and science in an effort to better understand the relationship between self and society.

CAS Honors students only.

4.00

This course will provide an introduction to the literature written about medicine and medical research. We will study the ways in which narrative complexly represents illness, disability, doctor-patient relationships, health insurance, and other medical issues, including the end of life. The nonfiction books, short stories, and poems we read this semester are written from the viewpoints of patients, doctors, researchers, and literary critics, and provide us with nuanced, often ethically-challenging examples of how literary techniques-plot, character, point of view, image and metaphor-work to reveal the subjective experiences of diagnosis, treatment, healing, and paying in the world of medicine, and how these experiences ultimately ask questions about what makes life and the body worth valuing. Our readings will explore the intersections between storytelling and science in an effort to better understand the relationship between self and society.

4.00

This course studies different genres of sports literature, such as fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, as well as the literary elements and writer's craft used to create these literary works. As an object of literary study, sporting contests, spectacles, and athletes themselves, provide authors rich characters and complex scenes to explore themes about cultural values, social roles, and also personal struggle and success. Throughout the semester, students will examine literature connected to such sports as ice hockey, baseball, basketball, tennis, wrestling, and rodeo, to look deeply into not only human nature, but also how stories about sports may transcend the sport itself.

4.00

A study of the major genres in creative writing (poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction) in which students will read as writers. Students will write a combination of analytical and original works, and learn the format and processes of writing workshops of writing workshops. Offered every semester.

English Majors and Minors or Instructor Permission

4.00

Study of major writers of England from the beginning to the mid-18th century. Regularly assigned essays on the reading provide the basis for individualized instruction in clear, correct, and persuasive writing. Offered every semester.

English Majors and Minors or Instructor Permission

4.00

Study of major English writers from the mid-18th century to the present. Regularly assigned essays on the reading provide the basis for individualized instruction in clear, correct and persuasive writing. Offered every semester.

English Majors and Minors or Instructor Permission

4.00

Study of major American writing from its origins through 1865. Regularly assigned essays on reading provide the basis for individualized instruction in clear, correct, and persuasive writing. Offered every semester.

English Majors and Minors or Instructor Permission

4.00

Study of major American writing from 1865 through the present. Regularly assigned essays on reading provide the basis for individualized instruction in clear, correct, and persuasive writing. Offered every semester.

4.00

The class will consider various theoretical approaches to the TV Series Mad Men beginning with ideas gleaned from the discourse of visual literacy and proceed by applying textual analysis adapted from more traditional modes of literary studies and film analysis. A combination of critical and evaluative critiques will be examined, including book-length studies of the series and essays based on the series' appeal to style, American popular culture, advertising, gender roles, race, and 60s nostalgia. The recent phenomenon of the series recap will serve as a touchstone to the class's collective viewing of the first two seasons of the series.

Restricted to CAS Honor Students

4.00

This course will focus on the cultural phenomenon of the TV Series Mad Men, considered by many to be the foremost example of Quality TV produced during the so-called "golden age of television" and engage with it on visual, cultural, literary and filmic levels. The basic premise of the course is that the current practice of "binge watching" one's favorite shows should be a heightened experience rather than a guilty pleasure, one akin to reading a novel. Watching a complex and sophisticated TV narrative involves taking into account the viewer's positionality as a filmic consumer, textual critic and social commentator. The class will consider various theoretical approaches to television narrative, beginning with ideas gleaned from the discourse of visual literacy, and proceed by applying textual analysis adapted from the more traditional modes of literary studies and film analysis. A combination of critical and evaluative sources will be examined, including book-length studies of the series, individual essays based on the series' appeal to style, American popular culture, advertising, gender roles, race, and 60s nostalgia. Additionally, the recent phenomenon of the "series recap" will serve as the touchstone to the class's collective viewing of the series and students will be challenged to synthesize and assess these popular on-line critiques as they draft their own recaps and creative readings of the episodes. The entire first two seasons of Mad Men will be studied and the invaluable resource of director/producer commentaries will be incorporated into the study of the series with a view to acquiring critical insights and analytical skills that may be applied to other quality TV series that students currently enjoy watching.

Take WRI-102

4.00

This course is an exploration of careers in Teaching English and Composition at the secondary and post-secondary level. Students will engage with theories of teaching and learning, practice designing assignments and lesson plans, and compose pedagogy statements that outline their informed stance on teaching. Students will consider the theoretical and practical aspects, or praxis, of a career in teaching as they learn about the day-to-day work of English teachers and the big ideas and commitments that drive people to teach.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

4.00

This course seeks to answer the following questions. What is literature? Why do we study literature? What methods aid the study of literature? What are English Studies all about? This course extends reading and writing skills, and provides more specialized terms, knowledge, and approaches to prepare students for study at the junior and senior level. Topics vary from term to term.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

4.00

An introduction to medieval literature, this course will focus on short readings from various genres, such as the lyric, chronicle, fable, with emphasis on the romance.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

4.00

This course provides a thorough review and analysis of the rules of standard English grammar and usage, including the debate between prescriptive and descriptive grammar, the origin and authority of the rules taught in school and in handbooks of English, and the insights of modern linguistics. Normally offered alternate years

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

4.00

An introduction to Periclean Athens, the golden age of classical Greek literature and thought. Close readings of selections from the historians Herodotus and Thucydides, the dramatists Aeschylus and Euripides, the poetry of Pindar, and Plato's great work on politics, The Republic. Cross-listed with History 336.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

4.00

Ancient Greek and Roman myths, their motifs, themes and interpretations. Normally offered every third year.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

1.00

This course serves as the vehicle for training students who have been hired as writing tutors at CLAS. Students will be trained a one-on-one basis and will discuss a tutoring experience they have had in CLAS the previous week each class.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

1.00

This course is a continuation of ENG 320. This course serves as the vehicle for training students who have been hired as writing tutors at CLAS. Students will be trained a one-on-one basis and will discuss a tutoring experience they have had in CLAS the previous week each class.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

4.00

Shakespeare's background and development as a dramatist through an examination of selected comedies. Collateral reading of the minor plays and Shakespeare criticism. Normally offered every third semester.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

4.00

Shakespeare's major tragedies reflecting the range, resourcefulness, and power of his dramaturgy. Collateral reading in Shakespeare criticism. Normally offered every third semester.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

4.00

A thematic study of Shakespeare's plays from the major genres- comedies, tragedies, histories, and romances. The course will examine playtexts, original source-texts, modern adaptations, and a range of Shakespearean criticism. The theme for this course will change yearly.

4.00

An introduction to Periclean Athens, the golden age of classical Greek literature and thought. Close readings of selections from the historians Herodotus and Thucydides, the dramatists Aeschylus and Euripides, the poetry of Pindar, and Plato's great work on politics, The Republic. Cross-listed with ENG 316.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

4.00

This course will explore the concept of decadence as a transitional literary movement bridging the 19th and 20th centuries beginning with the proto-decadent writings of E.A. Poe and proceeding to foundational texts such as Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil and Wilde's Dorian Gray. Later manifestations of decadence in 20th century England, Europe and America will also be explored (Cavafy, H.D., Waugh, Isherwood, Kushner) with a view to understanding the ongoing relevance of decadence and the current debate over cultural decline. Readings will include poetic, narrative and dramatic works as well as seminal texts and manifestos defining the movement. Film adaptations will also be viewed.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

4.00

In this course we will read widely in the poetry and prose of the Romantic Period (1780-1830), including the work of well-known Romantic poets such as Wordsworth, Byron, and Keats as well as other important authors including Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Smith, and Olaudah Equiano. We will place the influential works of these authors in the context of their turbulent historical period and their often-dramatic lives, considering what Romantic literature has to tell us about the individual, scientific advancement, the environment, social justice, and the act of authorship itself.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

4.00

This course focuses on Gothic literature by women writers, from its origins in the 18th century to the present, focusing primarily on 20th century writers. The novels, short stories, and films we will discuss involve haunted houses, secret chambers, madness, and other Gothic tropes. Writers to be studied will include Charlotte Bronte, Daphne du Maurier, Shirley Jackson, Jean Rhys, Angela Carter, and others.

Take WRI-102 or WRI-H103

4.00

Introduces Jane Austen's major novels, including Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park, along with relevant current scholarship and contextualizing historical material. Contemporary parodies, updates, and film adaptations of Austen's work will also be considered. Topics to include the history of the novel, gender and authorship, and narrative theory.

Take WRI-102 or WRI-H103. Restricted to CAS Honors Students Only.

4.00

Introduces Jane Austen's major novels, including Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park, along with relevant current scholarship and contextualizing historical material. Contemporary parodies, updates, and film adaptations of Austen's work will also be considered. Topics to include the history of the novel, gender and authorship, and narrative theory.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

4.00

Explores American and African American literature in the context of cosmopolitan thought and revolutionary action. This course considers how writers balance their interest in building a national culture with their desire for global adventure and their concern for matters of race, gender, politics, and civil rights that transcend their time and place. Includes readings from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as well as a contemporary American journalist's memoir about life in the Middle East.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

4.00

An extended study of three major novels by Hawthorne, Melville and Stowe as prototypes of the Great American Novel: an elusive achievement that seeks to capture the essence of American experience. This course confronts issues of sin and redemption, ambition and failure, racial and national identity, and aesthetic and cultural value, and it assesses the imaginative influence of these foundational narratives in two contemporary rewritings by Mukherjee and Reed. This course requires prior approval in order to count towards the Women's and Gender Studies Minor. Students should consult with the instructor and the director of the WGS Minor no later than the first week of classes.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

4.00

An investigation of the lives and works of two of nineteenth-century America's greatest and most original poets. Topics will include types of poetic language and formal structure, the work of the poetic imagination in transforming observations of the world into art, and the ways in which poets process the idea of death and the reality of war. Finally, this course examines Whitman and Dickinson's impact on American popular culture as well as on the writings of modern poets and literary critics.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

4.00

African-American writing from the beginning through the present. Normally offered alternate years.

Take WRI-102 or WRI-H103

4.00

Study of 19th and 20th century writing on the American West by American women in the form of novels, memoirs, and short stories. Regularly assigned reading responses and essays on the readings as well as discussion questions and quizzes provide the basis for the study of the gendering of the "frontier" and literature of the West by American women authors.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

4.00

The course will cover major works of American fiction from the period between the end of the American war in Vietnam and the present. The course will emphasize fiction reflecting America's cultural diversity and current trends in fiction.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

4.00

An introduction to selected Asian-American writers with an emphasis on socio-cultural issues, such as race, gender and ethnicity. Authors include Bulosan, Hwang, Jen, Kingston, Lee, Mukherjee, Odada, and Tan.

ENG-212

4.00

An intensive workshop in which the student will be required to write original fiction. The focus of the course will be on the student's own work, submitted on a weekly basis. The course will also provide the student writer with practical experience in matters of plot, character, dialogue, structure, etc. Normally offered annually.

ENG-212

4.00

For students interested in writing autobiography and/or other forms of the personal essay. Topics can include childhood, place, sexuality, religion, work, the nature of memory. The focus will be on the writing process, with students presenting work-in-progress to the class for discussion and revision. The student should plan to read models of creative non-fiction. Normally offered annually.

ENG-212

4.00

An intensive workshop course in which the student will be required to write original poetry for each class meeting. The focus of the course will be on the student's own work. We will examine the highly individual processes of composition and revision, and the methods writers use to keep their own practice of poetry alive and well. We will also examine as many of the constituent elements of poetry as possible, from image and rhythm to line and structure. Normally offered annually.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

4.00

Students interested in the world of literary publishing will explore both traditional print and online publishing models, the importance of literary journals, and the best practices of literary citizenship, including how to write reviews, conduct author interviews, and promote the work of journals and presses through blogging and other social media. Students will learn from a variety of industry professionals, and work to produce original content that furthers the mission of Suffolk's two literary journals: Salamander, which is nationally distributed twice a year and edited professionally, and Venture, which is produced annually and edited by Suffolk students.

WRI 102 or WRI H103

4.00

John Theibault, Director of the South Jersey Center for Digital Humanities, defines this burgeoning field as "an umbrella concept bringing together all of the different ways in which the computer, and especially the internet, have transformed humanities work. It includes using computer methods to mark and analyze analog humanities products, adapting the distinctive features of the World Wide Web for the production and presentation of humanities research, and bringing humanities methods to the evaluation of the entirely new genres of expression made possible by computers." Writing for Digital Media will focus on the latter two of these priorities: using digital tools for creative and communicative purposes, and understanding the rhetorical implications of writing in digital formats and spaces. Certainly, we can observe how traditional, analog forms of writing have been adapted for digital spaces in the proliferation of online magazines, newspapers, and literary journals, but digital technologies have also invented new genres of writing that English majors and other CAS students will find worthwhile to study alongside traditional fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry genres such as blogs, wikis, GIFS, text visualizations, social media narratives, crowdsourced documents, Twitter essays, interactive maps and calendars, and many more. These new genres can satisfy creative urges to use intermedia, organize information into user-friendly presentations, such as infographics, websites, and public-access archives, and communicate information about a company, nonprofit organization, product, initiative, or event.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

4.00

This course studies 19th and 20th century women writers and questions the type of women who write, what they write about, and why they write. Themes we examine include domesticity, assimilation, and madness. Authors studied in the past have included Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Anzia Yezierska, Nella Larsen, and Sylvia Plath. Normally offered alternate years.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

4.00

This course explores how literature helps us imagine better worlds and survive when things go horribly wrong. In his book Utopia, Thomas More created a fictional island that was both a "good place" and "no place," and ever since, writers and dreamers have tried to build their own utopias on principles of equality, simplicity, and happiness. As we discuss novels, poems, manifestos, and films from the 19th through the 21st centuries, we will consider how dystopias reflect anxieties about technology, gender inequality, racial injustice, and climate change as well as how utopias give us hope for our shared future.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

4.00

In this class we will explore an often-ignored aspect of literature: the physical way, manuscripts, books, e-readers, it has been produced and circulated to readers through the centuries. Through lectures, hands-on workshops, field trips, and written assignments, we will practice skills including paper- and ink-making, critical editing, and printing. Students will learn about the relationship between writing and its material contexts, and work with a wide range of historical literary materials in local archives, from handwritten manuscripts to Victorian magazines. In understanding how the book has developed through history, the class will reconsider the old saying, "don't judge a book by its cover!"

Any ENG course except for WRI-101

4.00

This course studies the expressive and cognitive approaches to the writing process through personal journal writing, metaphor use and a review of grammar and stylistics. Written assignments emphasize discovery and invention as well as the revising of academic prose. Normally offered every other year.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

4.00

This course explores research and writing in the context of qualitative research, field work and bibliography. This course requires a lengthy report and project based on extended field work of at least 25 hours at an off-campus research site chosen by the student, approved by the instructor, and validated by a field site representative.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

4.00

An Exploration of Post-colonial literature and how the "empire writes back" following the collapse of European colonialism. Special emphasis will be placed on the legacy of British Colonial rule and the contemporary use of literature and the English Language to both resist and problematize Eurocentric cultural assumptions. Authors studied will include E.M. Foster, Salman Rushdie, J.M. Coetzee, Anita Desai, Hanif Kureishi, and Zadie Smith, among others. Students will be introduced to Post-colonial critical theory and view film adaptations of literary texts.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

4.00

This course examines the rhetoric of memoirs written primarily by international figures who seek to use personal stories to shape readers' perspectives on political issues. After a brief introduction to rhetorical theory and to the genre of memoir, this course will examine contemporary memoirs that address such issues as racism, sexism, religious extremism, war, and genocide.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

4.00

This course studies a variety of workplace writing including summaries,memos, letters, directions, descriptions, reports and other technical and professional documents. Students may be required to complete certain assignments in collaborative teams. Document design and layout will also be emphasized. Normally offered alternate years

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

4.00

Writers of the Irish Literary Revival, from the 1890s to the 1930s. Readings from Yeats, Joyce, Synge, O'Casey, and O'Flaherty. The influence of Anglo-Irish history on Irish writers.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103 with a minimum grade of B+

4.00

A survey of writings in Modern Greek from 1821 to the present exploring Hellenism and the Greek cultural identity. Authors studied will include Kostis Palamas, Georgios Vizyinos, Alexandros Papadiamantis, Stratis Myrivilis, Photis Kontoglou, Dido Sotiriou, George Seferis, Constantine Cavafy, and Odysseas Elytis. A section of the syllabus will be reserved for the Greek-American/diaspora writers Helen Papanikolas, Elia Kazan, Jeffrey Eugenides, Olga Broumas, and Tryfon Tolides. Films and music traditions will be sampled as well.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

4.00

This class will engage with the major novels and selected literary writings of two of the twentieth century's most important modernist voices, Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster. We will approach their writings within the intellectual framework of British modernism and the cultural context of the Bloomsbury Group out of which they emerged. Special attention will be paid to their theoretical writings on fiction as well as their respective contributions to feminism and queer theory. The class will also view cinematic adaptations of certain novels and discuss how these films have contributed to the enduring appeal and status of these texts as classics of twentieth-century fiction.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

4.00

A survey of major works of literature and thought crucial to the transformation of pagan models of reason to Christian systems of belief, including works by Plato and Plotinus, St. Augustine and Dante. Of central concern is the changing conception of love, from Eros to Agape. Note: This course is cross-listed with HST 339.

Any 200-level English course

1.00

A study of these poems by the Roman poet with a focus on the issues of translation.

Any 200-level English course

1.00

A week by week reading of the Mesopotamian Epic that predates the Iliad by one thousand years, and is a masterpiece of heroic endurance and tragic insight. Discussions will be led by David Ferry, whose beautiful translation the class will use as text.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

1.00

This course will conduct close reading and discussion of selections from classical Greek and Roman texts, as well as from ancient Mesopotamian texts, highlighting passages that trace the descent to the underworld. Some of these readings include: the realm of the shades in Gilgamesh, the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in Virgil, Homer's Odysseus and Achilles in Hades, the source of the River Styx in Pausanias.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

4.00

This course will examine some of the fiction, non-fiction, and poetry produced in response to the Vietnam War and the most recent war in Iraq. In addition to comparing the literature that has emerged from these two very different wars, these texts will also be examined in relation to peace studies, a field in which there is an emerging consensus that literature and the arts must play a central role in examining questions of war and peace.

Any 200 level ENG course.

1.00

A close reading of verse passages from various texts of narrative and lyric poetry. In particular the Roman absorption of, and resistance to, their Greek literary inheritance will be stressed.

Any 200-level English course

1.00

This course represents a journey through the poetry of Horace, contemporary of Virgil and celebrated poet of the Pax Romana. Discussions will be led by David Ferry, whose beautiful translation of Horace's poetry the class will use as text.

Take ENG-212

4.00

Salamander is a nationally known professional literary journal published from the Suffolk University English Department. In the Salamander Practicum course

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

4.00

This course offers an introduction to the Golden Age of Roman culture and power. Close readings of selections from major historians, poets, political thinkers, and philosophers will be examined in the context of Augustan Rome. Topics such as pietas, virtus, and gravitas, as well as the competing claims of public duty and private devotion, stoic maxim and erotic love lyric, will be discussed from the perspectives of writers such as Virgil, Livy, Tacitus, Horace, Catullus, and Lucretius. Note: This course is cross-listed with HST 304. Normally offered in alternate years.

Take WRI-102 or WRI-H103. CAS Honors students, English majors and minors with 3.5 GPA, or instructor permission.

4.00

Why have so many great American writers (and their literary characters) left the United States, seeking inspiration and fulfillment elsewhere? Following three essential themes- consumption, liberation, and critique- this Honors seminar travels alongside writers from the 19th-century past to the 21st-century present as it investigates the extent to which American literature has benefited from their adventurous spirit and cosmopolitan outlook. What does Ernest Hemingway's celebration of the pleasures of Europe in A Moveable Feast have in common with Elizabeth Gilbert's pursuit of personal contentment in Eat, Pray, Love? In what ways does Frederick Douglass's transatlantic antislavery activism in My Bondage and My Freedom anticipate James Baldwin's exploration of LGBTQ identity in Giovanni's Room? Can we trace journalist Suzy Hansen's vision of today's "post-American world" back to pioneering foreign correspondent Margaret Fuller's insistence that the U.S. could do better in its practice of democracy? As we interrogate familiar myths of expatriates as members of a "Lost Generation," we will reflect on how much writers and readers actually gain from critical distance that puts American experiences in perspective.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

1.00- 4.00

By special arrangement, a junior or senior may pursue an independent research project under the supervision of a faculty member. Consent of instructor and chairperson required. Offered every semester.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103; Honors students only

1.00- 4.00

By special arrangement, a junior or senior may pursue an independent research project under the supervision of a faculty member. Consent of instructor and chairperson required. Offered every semester.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

1.00- 4.00

Individualized guidance in a career-related activity. Upper-class English majors may gain academic credit for work preparing them for an English-related career, provided that the work is monitored by a member of the English faculty. Department approval is required.

WRI-102 or WRI-H103

1.00

A semester-long internship working with the Editor and Managing Editor of Salamander Literary Magazine. Students will gain experience in editing, layout, and production of one of two annual editions of Salamander.

WRI 102 or WRI H103. Open to CAS Honors students, English majors and minors with GPA of 3.5 or above, or by instructor permission.

4.00

Honors seminar that fulfills Group I of the English major.

Restricted to CAS Honors students or other English majors with a GPA of 3.5 or above in English courses admitted by application to the department by the end of their junior year.

1.00- 3.00

Independent reading, research, and writing under the supervision of a full-time English faculty member. Restricted to CAS Honors students or other English majors with a GPA of 3.5 or above in English courses admitted by application to the department by the end of their junior year. Normally taken for 1 credit in the Fall and 3 credits in the Spring of senior year.

4.00

This course affords students extended practice with persuasive and expository writing in the essay form through frequent writing assignments based on critical readings of class texts and discussions. Students will also compose a research paper and study the process of writing and revising for an academic audience. No standard pre-requisites; offered every semester. Students who are placed into WRI-100 must complete the course with a C in order to continue on to WRI-101.

WRI-100T must be taken concurrently

4.00

This course affords students extended practice with persuasive and expository writing in the essay form through frequent writing assignments based on critical readings of class texts and discussions. Students will also compose a research paper and study the process of writing and revising for an academic audience. No standard pre-requisites; offered every semester. WRI-100+ sections require students to meet with their instructors once per week for a thirty-minute, one-to-one tutorial session, to be scheduled by the instructor with each individual student.

Must take WRI-100+ concurrently.

0.00

This is a thirty-minute individual tutorial section for students enrolled in WRI 100+. Each available tutorial section can accommodate one student only, as tutorials are held one-to-one with the WRI 100+ Professor. All tutorials are held in the English Department on the 8th floor of 73 Tremont.

4.00

Study and practice of the writing process and revision in terms of expository writing modes for an academic audience.

0.00

A non credit course for students enrolled in Freshman Composition who need to improve their control of the writing process, English mechanics, and fluency of expression. WRI L101 is a hybrid course that combines online grammar and writing practice with face-to-face support from English instructors.

WRI-101 or ENG-099 with at least a B and ENG-P099 with a P or WRI-H103

4.00

Study and practice of argumentative and research writing through further work with writing process and revision and the critical reading of a variety of texts.

WRI-101 or ENG-099 with at least a B and ENG-P099 with a P or WRI-H103. Restricted to Honors students

4.00

Study and practice of argumentative and research writing through further work with writing process and revision and the critical reading of a variety of texts.

By Invitation Only.

4.00

This course is by invitation only and reserved for incoming Suffolk students with high admission scores. Advanced study and practice of writing process, revision, and research, based on close readings of a variety of texts. Fall semester only.