This course is intended to give students a practical understanding of beginning techniques of nonfiction writing, taught through exercises, the writing of original nonfiction, and readings in contemporary nonfiction.  The course complements existing courses in poetry (ENGL209) and fiction (ENGL210).  All three courses are intended to improve undergraduate education by providing contact hours with Creative Writing faculty members early in the undergraduate's course of study.

Multi-genre craft course introducing creative writing craft terms and concepts via intensive reading in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

Study of genre and rhetorical situation; advanced practice in expository writing.

Practice in writing business letters, reports and proposals.

Analysis and presentation of scientific and technical information.

The origin and evolution of genres in literature, rhetoric, and nonfiction prose, among others.

Topics vary by instructor. 

Study of English form and use in relation to social and cultural contexts. Topics include regional and social dialectology, attitudes toward variation and change, strategies of interaction, gender and language use, and politeness, power and politics.

This course examines historical trends in rhetoric, both as a field of study and as a practical art.  The course connects theories of rhetoric to the historical development of literacy, print and electronic media, forms of public discourse, and literature.

An advanced topics course on environmental literature and rhetoric.  This course will explore issues that concern the literature, film, rhetoric, and cultural representation of the environment, nature, or ecological processes.  Frameworks from the environmental humanities, particularly the methods of ecocriticism, will inform the approaches of the course.

This course focuses on creative environmental writing and the study of environmental literature across multiple genres.  It is designed for two distinct groups: those in the sciences hoping to deepen their understanding of environmental issues through creative writing and the study of environmental literature, and those in the humanities seeking to further their creative writing skills on the specific subject of the environment.  Course content will include the reading of topical literature that demonstrates a range of formal and aesthetic styles; workshop discussion of student works-in-progress; and writing assignments culminating in a portfolio or series of completed writings.

This course will consist of both hands-on and academic experience and training in journal publishing; specific sections will be tied to one particular English Department journal.

Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment.

The practical application, on an individual basis, of previously studied theory and the collection of data for future theoretical interpretation.

Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.

Writing-Emphasis Course for creative writing majors.

Preparation of professional literature for publication.

History of the development of American English from the colonial period to the present. Topics include regional and social varieties, language contact, and slang. Geographic atlas, social survey, and lexicographic research methods are utilized.

This course offers students an opportunity to learn and practice methods and skills in engaging user communities at every step of their writing and design processes and reporting effectively on their research. Students will get hands-on experience in developing communicative, cultural, and technological resources in and beyond the classroom.

Writing in the practice of law is rhetoric, not simply description or narration or classification or exposition or even "logical" argument. In the practice of law writers are interested in effective writing, not in good writing, except to the extent that what may be considered good writing is also effective (Good writing can be effective writing: bad writing is almost always ineffective.) In this course, we will look at some of the many different kinds of writing lawyers do in the practice of law and learn as we do what it means to read writing not as mere exposition or logical argument but as a kind of action. We will perform several short writing assignments designed to help us address the issues that arise in a number of different kinds of legal writing. Some of this writing will be done collaboratively, as it often is in a law office. The writing will be collected in a final portfolio that will be accompanied by an analysis and estimate of the effectiveness of the writing you have done.

Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment.

The practical application, on an individual basis, of previously studied theory and the collection of data for future theoretical interpretation.

Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.

This course will lay a foundation for understanding how stories shape communities, identities, memories, and perspectives on our lives. In addition, this course will provide opportunities for the theoretical analysis of self representation, composite narratives on behalf of others, cultural heritage, and memories as they are preserved and performed within stories and through narrative. Influences on digital digital storytelling such as the sociocultural context, the institutional contexts of production the audience, and the needs or goals of the digital storyteller will be examined. Students will be required to call on their own intellectual, emotional, and imaginative processes, as well as to develop their own skills in digital storytelling, interviewing, oral history collection, and the use of relevant digital storytelling tools.

This course will lay a foundation for theoretical analyses of how people socially create and negotiate information in the digital age. In addition, this course investigates a variety of approaches ranging from critical/cultural studies to positivist/behavioral research, considering the differing ways to think about social life and information in contemporary times. Broader paradigmatic assumptions (e.g., feminist theory, systems research) as well as specific theoretical topics (e.g., interactivity, mobility, telecommunity) will be examined. In addition, this class will survey the theoretical underpinnings of new media research across a variety of topic areas to include gaming, digital labor, communities, and global culture online.