ENGL303 - Biography: Writing About People

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Academic Year 2000/2001

Biography: Writing About People
ENGL 303 FA

This writing course focuses on biography as a mode of knowledge as well as an art form. Students will be helped to conceptualize, research, and write a mini-biography (30 pg.) of family member or Middletown resident. Format will be that of a writing workshop and seminar.

MAJOR READINGS

Will include: Geoffrey Wolff, THE DUKE OF DECEPTION;
Vivian Gornick, FIERCE ATTACHMENTS;
Jung Chang, WILD SWANS;
Studs Terkel, WORKING;
Ronald Blythe, AKENFIELD;
Richard Holmes, FOOTSTEPS

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Weekly writing assignments for six weeks, then 30 pages in three installments.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Each student will write about one person, preferably a parent, grandparent, or a local resident not born in America. Admission by interview about subject and interest is on August 29 and 30, 2000, 11am-3pm, in Room 305 of 285 Court Street. Sign up on the door. Class list will be posted on the English Dept. bulletin board by first class meeting. You may not take this course and another writing course concurrently. Preference to juniors and seniors. No first-year students.

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ENGL Grading Mode: Student Option

Prerequisites: NONE

SECTION 01

Instructor(s): Rose,Phyllis D.

Times: .....F. 01:10PM-04:00PM; Location: FISK114

Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 12)

SR. major: Jr. major:

SR. non-major: Jr. non-major: SO: FR: X

Special Attributes:

Curricular Renewal: Writing

Permission: Permission of Instructor Required

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Last Updated on MAR-26-2001