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Academic Year 2001/2002
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
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Last Updated on MAR-19-2002
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