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Academic Year 2000/2001


Biography: Writing About People
ENGL 303 SP

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 Edmund Gosse, FATHER AND SON Vivian Gornick, FIERCE ATTACHMENTS Mary Karr, THE LIARS' CLUB

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, either a parent or grandparent. Admission by interview about subject and interest is on Jan. 20-21 11 a.m. - 3 p.m., in Room 305 of 285 Court Street. Sign up on door. Class list will be posted on English Dept. bulletin board by Jan. 25.

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

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

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-26-2001


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