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
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.
This course is graded on the Graduate Regular scale.
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