ENGH 608: Craft Seminars

ENGH 608-DL4: Writing About Culture: your own or others’
(Fall 2020)

07:20 PM to 10:00 PM W

Online

Section Information for Fall 2020

This course will examine the strategies writers use in writing about their own cultural background (taking an insider’s perspective) and in writing about other people’s cultural background (taking an outsider’s perspective). What are the pleasures and challenges of each perspective? What can an inside say that an outsider cannot? What can an outsider see that an insider cannot? How do writers establish their authority as an insider or an outsider? These and other questions will be considered. The authors whose books we study together may include Margo Jefferson, Esmeralda Santiago, Maxine Hong Kingston, Peter Hessler, Anne Fadiman, Lucas Mann. There will be short weekly writing exercises and a final project (a full-length essay or feature piece about your home or your “away” investigation). This class is intended for a student enrolled in the MFA Program (in any genre). Others must contact the instructor and submit a writing sample before being granted permission to enroll.

 

ENGH 608 DL4 is a distance education section that meet synchronously. Students should expect to be online during the days and times scheduled.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Non-MFA students seeking permission must submit manuscript of original written work in appropriate genre. Various sections offer work in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, each focusing in different ways on the practices and the craft development of writers. Numerous writing assignments mixed with reading followed by careful analytical and craft discussions. Notes: Assignments vary with genre and specific topic. May be taken concurrently with ENGH 564, 565, 566. May be repeated within the term for a maximum 15 credits.
Specialized Designation: Topic Varies
Recommended Prerequisite: Admission to MFA program or ENGH 494, ENGH 492, ENGH 486, or permission of instructor. Non-MFA students must submit manuscript for review prior to registration.
Registration Restrictions:

Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate, Junior Plus, Non-Degree or Senior Plus.

Enrollment is limited to Graduate, Non-Degree or Undergraduate level students.

Students in a Non-Degree Undergraduate degree may not enroll.

Schedule Type: Lec/Sem #1, Lec/Sem #2, Lec/Sem #3, Lec/Sem #4, Lec/Sem #5, Lec/Sem #6, Lec/Sem #7, Lec/Sem #8, Lec/Sem #9, Sem/Lec #10, Sem/Lec #11, Sem/Lec #12, Sem/Lec #13, Sem/Lec #14, Sem/Lec #15, Sem/Lec #16, Sem/Lec #17, Sem/Lec #18, Seminar
Grading:
This course is graded on the Graduate Regular scale.

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