COURSE DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES: This course is an introduction to college level writing—a class designed to teach you ways of developing, organizing, and presenting your ideas. Our writing and thinking will focus on ...

COURSE DESCRIPTION: In 1967, as the civil rights and feminist movements continued to make waves, Gerry Goffin and Carole King co-wrote “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” and Aretha Franklin turned their song it ...

COURSE DESCRIPTION:¶ This is an honors writing seminar designed to teach you ways of developing, organizing and presenting your ideas in writing. Although I’ve chosen a subject for you to write about (short stories by ...

Fundamentals of journalism, featuring news writing skills and reporting techniques. This course will teach the basics of news writing.

COURSE OVERVIEW: This course proposes that we can learn a great deal about nineteenth century British literature and culture by paying attention to its monsters. Portrayed as outsiders, monsters and monstrous humans ...

COURSE DESCRIPTION Derided in 1592 as an “upstart crow”-- an arrogant literary hack from nowhere-- William Shakespeare hit his professional stride in the mid 1590s and spent years as a local celebrity writing tragedies ...

COURSE DESCRIPTION:The goal of this course is to familiarize students with the concept of modernism. Modernism can be defined variously as a cultural period of the Western World, from about 1900-1945; or as a style of ...

GENERAL EDUCATION GOALS: • Practice skills in close reading and interpretation • Express ideas in writing • Engage with secondary research GOALS OF THE COURSE: • Practice the skills of close reading of literature • ...

COURSE DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES:¶ Teachers cannot create poets, but we can create the conditions for poetry to emerge. Like any art form, an important part of poetry involves understanding craft, though in an art as ...

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course focuses on one of the most lively and fascinating periods in American history: the 1920s. Often referred to as "the Jazz Age" or "the Roaring Twenties," this decade saw the United States ...