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"It
takes less time to learn to write nobly than to learn to write lightly
and straightforwardly."
-Friedrich
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Writing
Program Courses: 2007-2008
Semester
I
WRIT 125 01, 02/ENG 120 Critical Interpretation
Hickey, Wall-Randell (English)
A course designed to increase power and skill in critical interpretation
by the detailed reading of poems and the writing of interpretive essays.
This course satisfies both the WRIT 125 requirement and the critical
interpretation requirement of the English major. Includes a third session
each week.
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: Language and Literature
Semester: Fall, Spring
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 125 03, 04/ARTH 100 Introduction
to the History of Art Part I: Ancient and Medieval Art
Bedell, Rhodes (Art)
A foundation course in the history of art, part 1. From the ancient Egyptian
pyramids to the Buddhist temples of India, from the mosques of Arabia
to the Gothic cathedrals of Europe, the course introduces the visual
cultures of the Ancient and Medieval worlds. Students in this section
of ARTH 100 will attend the same twice-weekly lectures as the other ARTH
100 students, but their assignments will be different, and they will
attend two special WRIT 125 conferences each week. Through writing about
art, students in 100/125 will develop skills in visual and critical analysis.
This course satisfies the WRIT 125 requirement and counts as a unit towards
a major in art history, architecture, or studio art.
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: Arts, Music, Theatre, Film, Video
Semester: Fall
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 125 05/RUSS 125 Great Short Stories from Russia
Bishop (Russian)
Russian literature has given the world some of the best stories ever
told, and this course surveys two centuries' worth of them. Someone
once quipped that all of twentieth century Russian literature came out
of Nikolai Gogol's "Nose." And so we begin with "The
Nose" and other ridiculous stories by Gogol. We will go on to read
some of the finest short stories of Chekhov and the Nobel Prize winner
Ivan Bunin. The grotesque realism of Isaac Babel's stories and
the magical realism of Vladimir Nabokov's also lie within the scope
of this course. We will conclude with the late and post-Soviet stories
of Tatiana Tolstaia and Ludmilla Petrushevskaia. No prior knowledge of
Russian language or literature is required. This course satisfies the
requirements for both WRIT 125 and RUSS 125. Includes a third session
each week.
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: Language and Literature
Semester:Fall
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 125 06 Popular Science Writing
Anderson (Computer Science)
We live in an exciting time when new discoveries are being published in scientific journals every day--but
what does it take to make that information accessible to the interested lay person? This course focuses
on the best of public science writing: essays, articles, and books that have won national book awards,
Pulitzer prizes or critical acclaim. Readings will be drawn from several scientific disciplines, including
evolutionary biology (Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Dawkins), genetics (Matt Ridley), cognitive science
(Daniel Dennett and Stephen Pinker), linguistics (Pinker again), physics (Richard Feynman and John Gribben),
and medicine (Robert Sapolsky). Through their reading and writing, students will ask: What makes such writing
good? How can we communicate complex ideas both vividly and accurately?
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: None
Semester: Fall
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 125 07/CAMS 120 Women in Film
Wood (The Writing Program)
To a large extent, film is about watching, and much film is about watching women. This
course provides basic instruction in film analysis, and then makes a foray into theories of
cinema. How does the camera work, not only to display its characters, but also to direct the
gaze upon them? What are the relationships between the visual spectacle and the progress of
the film's story? Writing assignments ask students to observe, analyze, interpret, and explain.
This course satisfies the WRIT 125 requirement and counts as a unit towards a major in cinema
and media studies. Includes a third session each week.
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: Arts, Music, Theatre, Film, Video
Semester: Fall, Spring
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 125 08 The Story and the Writer
Cezair-Thompson (English)
Students will read and discuss stories by a wide range of writers, including James Joyce,
Flannery O'Connor, and Gabriel Garcia-Marquez. Essays will be based on these readings.
Mandatory credit/non-credit.
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: None
Semester: Fall
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 125 09 The Image of Islam in Western Literature,
Media and the Arts
Rollman (History)
Through critical evaluation of selected texts and images produced by European and American
travelers, academics, journalists, and artists during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the
course will explore how cultural stereotypes have had, and continue to have, a formative impact on
the way Islam, Muslims, and the Middle East are understood in the West. Students will analyze the
processes by which these representations and assumptions are created and perpetuated, their impact
in specific historical contexts, and their relevance to broader issues of intercultural communication
and understanding.
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: None
Semester: Fall
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 125 10, 11 The Role of Stories
Schwartz (The Writing Program)
This course looks at the rich and various roles stories play. We look
at the short story as a literary form, examining the techniques by which
writers reveal their visions. These two sections are appropriate
for students who have not done much writing in high school or who perhaps
lack confidence in writing (but who love to read stories). Registration
in section 11 is restricted to students selected for the Wellesley Plus Program.
Section 10 is open to all other underconfident writers. Mandatory credit/non-credit.
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: None
Semester: Fall
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 125 12 Women and Memoir: Shaping a Life
Alex Johnson (The Writing Program)
This course explores how writers select and fashion events from their
own lives to provide context for their ideas. For women writers especially,
this revision of personal experience has proved a powerful
forum for addressing artistic, social, and political issues. Readings
will include essays and selections from autobiographies by Virginia Woolf,
Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Joan Didion. Mandatory
credit/non-credit.
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: None
Semester: Fall
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 125 13 Leaving a Trace: Women's Lives at Crossroads
Alex Johnson(The Writing Program)
The instinct to leave a trace of a life, as Virginia Woolf notes, is
the first stage in the journey from private to public voice. Yet how
do writers develop the courage to write for an audience? This course
focuses on young women at crucial life junctures, who often resist social
pressures in order to define voice and identity on their own terms. Drawing
on memoir, such as Susanna Kaysen's Girl Interrupted, as well as
journals by Anne Frank and Etty Hillesum, the course examines how social
and psychological adversity shape and often strengthen self-expression.
Registration in section 13 is restricted to students selected for the Wellesley
Plus Program. Mandatory credit/non-credit.
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: None
Semester: Fall
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 125 14 The International Short Story
Iwanaga (The Writing Program)
Fiction may not be about real lives, but it certainly is about real
life. As we read short stories by writers from a variety of countries,
we will discuss and discover both what is particular and what is universal about
their experiences, issues, and themes. Topics may include gender issues, parent-child relationships,
work, and war. Students will do close readings of texts to discover the tools that writers use to reveal
and develop their ideas. Formal assignments will ask students to analyze texts, while a few shorter
assignments will offer students the opportunity to write creatively as well. For students who speak English
as an additional language. Mandatory credit/non-credit.
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: None
Semester: Fall
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 125 15 Privacy and the Law
Viti (The Writing Program)
In this course we will read cases and essays focusing on the developing law of privacy, from
Griswold v. Connecticut through the most recent United States Supreme Court decisions
affecting our privacy rights. Students will write papers analyzing these cases and articles and
presenting arguments based on the issues contained in the readings.
Prerequisite: None
Semester: Fall
Distribution: None
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 125 16 Watching the Supreme Court
Viti (The Writing Program)
In this course, students will read and write about landmark United States
Supreme Court opinions, and in doing so, locate important themes and
trends in the Court's decisions, beginning with the power of judicial
review in Marbury v. Madison, and jumping ahead to more recent decisions
about the Fourteenth Amendment and equal educational opportunity (Brown
v. Board of Education,), privacy rights (Griswold v. Connecticut and Roe
v. Wade), executive privilege (U.S. v. Nixon), and federalism (Bush v.
Gore). We will also read and analyze essays and reports by journalists
and legal scholars who comment on the Supreme Court, including Laurence
Tribe, Bob Woodward, Nina Totenberg, Jeffrey Rosen, and Jeffrey Toobin.
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: None
Semester: Fall
Unit:1.0
WRIT 125 18 Macbeth:Shakespeare's Anatomy of Evil
Cain (English)
In this course, we focus on Macbeth, the most intense and disturbing of Shakespeare's
tragedies. We will analyze the language, characters, and themes of the play in depth and
detail, as well as documents and texts from the period dealing with free will and predestination,
witchcraft, and tyrannicide. We will consider important film versions by Orson Welles, Roman Polanski,
Akiri Kurosawa, and Trevor Nunn, and attend a production on campus of Macbeth by the Actors from
the London Stage. We also will meet with the actors and actresses to learn more about the challenges of
presenting the play on stage. Students with some prior interest in and knowledge of Shakespeare will
especially enjoy and benefit from the course.Mandatory credit/non-credit
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: None
Semester: Fall
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 125 19 Wealth and Poverty
in America: An Economist's Perspective
Velenchik (Economics)
America has become increasingly unequal over the past 30 years. Corporate
executives' earnings are hundreds of times those of their blue collar
employees. The middle class is "on the precipice," according
to Harvard Magazine. More Americans are millionaires than
ever before, but more of us are poor as well. What is happening? Why?
What does this change mean for our economy and society? This course
will use primary data, government publications, and articles in both
the popular and scholarly press as a basis for writing about the causes
and consequences of these trends. We will pay particular attention
to learning to write about quantitative phenomena using numbers, charts
and graphs. No previous knowledge of Economics is required. Mandatory
credit/non-credit.
Prerequisite: Fulfillment
of the basic skills component of the Quantitative Reasoning requirement.
Distribution: None
Semester: Fall
Unit 1.0
WRIT 125 20 Primates and Us
Pepper (The Writing Program)
The animal and the human may be closer than we think. Where we draw the line between them
is indicative of how we situate ourselves in the natural world. For example, if we consider
intelligence to be a uniquely human attribute, we may cultivate particular attitudes towards
animals. The great apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, and gibbons), even as they stand on
the verge of extinction, offer an extraordinary window through which to explore the human/nature divide.
In this course, we will consider these amazing creatures and the remarkable studies that have been
done of them, as well as our common evolution and our ongoing relationships, cultural, biological, and scientific.
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: None
Semester: Fall, Spring
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 125 21 Source and Sorcery: All about Food
Pepper (The Writing Program)
We begin life as dependent creatures, needing both food and someone to feed us. Dependence on food
continues throughout our lives, connecting us, ultimately, to the earth as the source of all our
(physical) nourishment. Individuals--and, indeed, cultures--handle the provision, distribution,
and sharing of food in various ways. Industrial agriculture is one model. But with industrialization,
food has been profoundly transformed. This course will explore several questions. What are our
sources of food? What decisions do we make concerning food, as individuals and as a society? How do
we evaluate information concerning food and nutrition? And how much "sorcery," from food additives
to pesticides to genetic engineering, are we willing to accept?
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: None
Semester: Fall
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 125 22, 23 Poetry and other Arts
Johnson (English and The Writing Program)
Drawn both to tradition and innovation, modern poets have reinvented older forms and explored links
between poetry and other arts, such as painting, music, film, and even the medical arts. This course
will feature sonnets and ekphrastic poems (including those on exhibit at the Davis Museum), as well as
poems by Stevens and Neruda that were used as source material for, respectively, a musical composition
and the film Il Postino. In addition to studying these various forms of poetry and their links to
art, we will consider the relationship between poetry and healing. Also, in examining spoken word poetry,
students will view the film SlamNation and debate whether and how we should distinguish "good" poems
from "bad" ones. Students will be required to attend at least one live poetry reading or slam.
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: None
Semester: Fall
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 125 24 Nature and Nurture
Tincoff (Psychology)
The nature-nurture debate stems from a classic problem in psychology and many other disciplines:
how to explain the traits that we have and why we behave the way we do. A strong nature perspective
argues for internal causes such as genes. A strong nurture perspective argues for external causes
such as personal experience. An interactionist or emergentist perspective argues for a combination.
As we examine arguments from three domains in which the nature-nurture debate is most relevant--the
domains of cognition, language, and social development--we will consider how popular science books, essays,
media articles, and scientific journal articles shape the argument. Primary goals will be for you to
identify your conclusion about the debate and to experience different forms of writing to express your
argument. Mandatory credit/non-credit
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: None
Semester: Fall
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 125 25 Caught between Cultures: Identity, Choice,
and the Hyphenated American
Iwanaga (The Writing Program)
What happens when people identify with (or are identified as having) a particular ethnicity? In this course
we examine how non-Anglo writers have contended with the issues they face living in this predominantly Anglo
society: stereotyping, culture clashes, racism, and Old World parental expectations. Texts we will read and write
about may include works by Julia Alvarez, Danzy Senna, Le Thi Diem Thuy, and Velina Hasu Houston.
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: None
Semester: Fall
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 225/ENG 206 Non-Fiction Writing
Writing 225 is a changing topics writing workship that will each year take up a particular
non-fiction writing genre. Open to all students who have fulfilled the Writing 125
requirement; please note that this course is not intended as a substitute for Writing 125.
Topic A for 2007-2008: Writing the Travel Essay
Sides (English)
If you have taken a trip lately--junior year abroad, summer vacation, spring break--or look
back fondly or in horror at a family road trip, come write about your travels! We will be
studying the genre of the literary travel essay (as distinguished from the more journalistic
travel writing in newspaper travel sections) and writing our own travel narratives. The course
will focus on the essentials of travel writing: evocation of place, a sophisticated appreciation
of cultural differences, a considered use of the first person (remember, travel narratives
are closely related to the genre of memoir), research, and strong basic writing skills
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: Language and Literature
Semester: Fall
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 250 Research or Individual Study
Prerequisite: Open to qualified students who have completed 125. Permission
of the instructor and the Director of the Writing Program required.
Distribution: None
Semester: Fall, Spring
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 250H Research or Individual Study
Prerequisite: Open to qualified students who have completed 125. Permission
of the instructor and the Director of the Writing Program required.
Distribution: None
Semester: Fall, Spring
Unit: 0.5
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Semester
II
WRIT 125 01, 02/ENG 120 Critical Interpretation
Noggle, Rodensky (English)
Please refer to description for WRIT 125 01, 02/ENG 120, Semester I.
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: Language and Literature
Semester: Fall, Spring
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 125 03/ARTH 101 Introduction
to the History of Art Part II: Renaissance to the Present
Rhodes (Art)
A foundation course in the history of art. From Michelangelo to media
culture, this course introduces the visual cultures of Europe, Africa,
and the Americas, beginning with the Renaissance, using key issues and
monuments as the focus of discussion. Students in this section of ARTH
101 will attend the same twice-weekly lectures as the other ARTH 101
students, but their assignments will be different, and they will attend
two special Writing 125 conferences each week. Through writing about
art, students in 101/125 will develop skills in visual and critical analysis.
This course satisfies the WRIT 125 requirement and counts as a unit towards
a major in art history, architecture, or studio art.
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: Arts, Music, Theatre, Film, Video
Semester: Spring
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 125 04/WOST 108 The Social Construction of Gender
Marshall (Women's Studies)
This course discusses the ways in which gender is socially constructed through social
interactions and within social institutions. The relationship among gender, race, ethnicity,
and social class will be stressed. The processes and mechanisms that construct and
institutionalize gender will be considered in a variety of contexts: political, economic, religious,
educational, and familial.This course both satisfies the Writing 125 requirement and counts as an
introductory course towards the major in Women's Studies. Includes a third section each week.
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: Social and Behavioral Analysis
Semester: Spring
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 125 05/EDUC 102 Education
in Philosophical Perspective
Hawes (Education)
This course is guided by questions such as: What is education? How do
an individual's own efforts to make sense of the world and to guide
her life relate to schools and academic work? To the diversity of experiences
and cultures? What should the aims of education be? The focus will be
on perspectives and processes of learning and teaching. We will use the
works of earlier writers (for example, Confucius, Plato, and Dewey) and
contemporary writers as starting points in our investigations. This course
satisfies the WRIT 125 requirement and counts as a unit toward the Teacher Education
or Education Studies minor. Includes a third session each week.
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: Epistemology and Cognition
Semester:Spring
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 125 06/AMST 150
Defining Asian American Literature
Iwanaga (The Writing Program)
The question we will pose at the outset, and that we will revisit
frequently, is "What defines Asian American literature?" The writer's
ethnicity? The topic? Both? Neither? Authors studied will likely
include Maxine Hong Kingston, Patti Kim, Jhumpa Lahiri, R.O. Butler,
Peter Ho Davies, Sandra Tsing Loh, Monique T.D. Truong. Students will
also read essays on the power of creativity and the imagination. As students
refine their definitions of Asian American literature, spurred on by
texts that challenge their initial ideas, they will work toward defining
American identity itself. This course satisfies the Writing 125 requirement
and counts as a unit toward the Asian American Studies major. Includes
a third session each week.
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: Language and Literature
Semester: Spring
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 125 07/CAMS 120 Women in Film
Wood (The Writing Program)
To a large extent, film is about watching, and much film is about watching
women. This course provides basic instruction in film analysis, and then
makes a foray into theories of cinema. How does the camera work, not
only to display its characters, but also to direct the gaze upon them?
What are the relationships between the visual spectacle and the progress
of the film's story? Writing assignments ask students to observe,
analyze, interpret, and explain. This course satisfies the WRIT 125 requirement
and counts as a unit towards a major in cinema and media studies. Includes
a third session each week.
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: Arts, Music, Theatre, Film, Video
Semester: Fall, Spring
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 125 08 New Voices in American Fiction: Jhumpa Lahiri and Ha Jin
Schwartz (The Writing Program)
In 1994, Ha Jin and Jhumpa Lahiri were classmates in a fiction writing workshop at Boston
University. Six years later, in 2000, Ha Jin won the National Book award for his novel, Waiting,
and Lahiri was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her book of stories, The Interpreter of Maladies.
Despite the similar label both share–Asian-American immigrant writer–their fictional
worlds are very different: Ha Jin's fiction is set in China and Lahiri's stories chronicle the
experiences of South Asian immigrants and their first generation American children in the United States.
Nevertheless, both writers have mined their "outsider" status to produce an extraordinarily rich and
important body of fiction.
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: None
Semester: Spring
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 125 09/EDUC 115 New Immigrants, Education, and Social
Mobility
Richards (Education)
This course examines the extent to which race, ethnicity, and social class
of new immigrants shape their educational and economic trajectories.
Students will read and write about texts that analyze and critique
conventional wisdom regarding immigrant success in American society.
Next, we take a closer look at theoretical explanations for why some
groups of Asian, Latino, and West Indian national origin might be more
successful in school, and thus in the labor market, than others. In
addition to studying the prospects for social mobility among today’s
immigrant groups, we will identify writing strategies that work, explore
ways to improve areas of weakness, and learn the conventions of academic
writing that will be especially useful in improving research and writing
skills in the social sciences. This course satisfies the Writing 125
requirement and counts as a unit toward the Teacher Education or
Education Studies minor. Includes a third session each week.
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: Social and Behavioral Analysis
Semester: Spring
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 125 10 Muckrakers: From The Jungle to
Abu Ghraib
Viti (The Writing Program)
In this course we will read the work of investigative journalists whose
writing exposed social and political ills in American society and eventually
brought about positive changes in the culture. Among the writers whose
work we will study are Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens,
Woodward and Bernstein, Frances FitzGerald and Seymour Hersh. This
course focuses on the development of critical analysis skills and argument.
In addition to writing essays about the readings, students will design
and carry out an investigative project, writing a sustained essay based
on their findings and on traditional research into their subject matter.
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: None
Semester: Spring
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 125 11 Crime and Punishment in America:
Its Roots and Its Future
Viti (The Writing Program)
In this course students will read and write about some well-known criminal law cases,
including Regina v. Dudley, Furman v. Georgia (The United States Supreme Court's decision
striking down the death penalty as unconstitutional), and the Bobby Joe Leaster case. We will
read essays about the criminal justice system (in particular, about the death penalty as it currently
exists and is applied in the United States); excerpts from the work of Helen Préjean and
Norman Mailer (The Executioner's Song); and writings of advocates for and opponents of the
death penalty. Finally, we will screen and critique the films Dead Man Walking and Hurricane.
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: None
Semester: Spring
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 125 12 Mothers and Daughters in Asian-American
Literature
Lee (English)
The site of rebellion, resistance, identification, and desire, the mother-daughter relationship
has been a crucial one in works of Asian-American literature from the 40s and 50s to the present.
Through their silences and their stories, their labors and their lunacies, mothers seem to hold
the key to their daughters' selves. What can account for this overwhelmingly consistent pattern?
Why are mothers so often seen as the bearers of culture and history? Why are the protagonists of so
many Asian-American novels and poems daughters rather than sons? This course will explore these and
other questions in reading the works of writers such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa, Cathy Song,
and Nora Okja Keller.
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: None
Semester: Spring
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 125 13 21st Century Biomedical Literacy
Crum (Biological Sciences)
Should Wellesley students be immunized with the newly licensed cervical cancer vaccine? Is Avian
(bird) flu to be a 21st C pandemic of catastophic import? Is alcohol really "good" for you? If you
have a history of breast or ovarian cancer, should you be tested for BCRA mutations? How is biomedical
research effectively communicated to audiences both scientific and public? This course helps students
understand the basic structure of scientific investigation and writing by investigating such current
topics, comparing published studies in scientific journals to distillations by science writers in
newspapers and magazines. Writing assignments will range from the technical to the popular, and the
course will include instruction in effective figure design.Mandatory credit/non-credit.
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: None
Semester:Spring
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 125 14 Modern North American Writers: Identity and Struggle
Rollman (History)
Since independence (1956-1962), North African writers have played a prominent, often courageous, role in
the ongoing struggle to turn the promises of national liberation from colonial rule into daily life realities
for the people of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco. This course focuses on works in English translation by four
women writers who have spoken especially eloquently and strongly for human rights and against the harsh realities
of the post-colonial order: Laila Lalami, Assia Djebar, Monia Hejaiej, and Leila Abouzeid. Writing projects will
examine the issues (identity, patriarchy, democracy, poverty, freedom, of expression) addressed in their works, as
well as the evolution of the writing form and style in response to intensely contested linguistic, cultural, economic,
and political terrains that configure North Africa today.
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: None
Semester: Spring
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 125 15 Women and Memoir
will not be offered Spring 2008
WRIT 125 16, 17 Athletes and Artists
Johnson (The Writing Program)
In studying the intersections of sport and art in America, we will analyze the
ways in which athletes and athletics have been represented in literature and
film, and we will examine how writers and others use sport as a metaphor or
find deeper meaning in it. We will also consider philosophical questions
regarding the nature of art and of athletics and their proper role in our
society. In addition, we will explore the relationship between athletics and
the liberal arts, particularly in light of recent arguments that an increasing
focus on athletics is undermining the academic mission of many schools.
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: None
Semester: Spring
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 125 18 Primates and Us
Please refer to description for WRIT 125 20, Semester I.
WRIT 126 Writing Tutorial
Schwartz (The Writing Program)
An individual tutorial in expository writing, taught by juniors and seniors from a variety
of academic departments. An opportunity to tailor reading and writing assignments to the student's
particular needs and interests. Tutorial meetings are individually arranged by students with
their tutors. Mandatory credit/non-credit
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: None
Semester: Spring
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 225/ENG 206 Non-Fiction Writing
Writing 225 is a changing topics writing workshop that will each year take up a particular
non-fiction writing genre. Open to all students who have fulfilled the Writing 125
requirement; please note that this course is not intended as a substitute for Writing 125.
Topic B for 2007-2008: Writing the Personal Essay
Erian (English)
In this class you will write four personal essays. As well, we will read and discuss two non-fiction
books: Dispatches from a Not-So-Perfect Life, by Faulkner Fox, and Summers With Juliet,
by Bill Roorbach. Both works mix the personal with other outside elements: in Fox's book,
it's the writer's own experience with motherhood combined with the larger issue of feminism; in Roorbach's book,
it's romance combined with nature. After we finish each text, the respective author will visit our class
to discuss her or his process, and non-fiction writing in general. Come prepared to let it all hang out!
Prerequisite: None
Distribution: Language and Literature
Semester: Spring
Unit: 1.0
WRIT 250 Research or Individual Study
Please refer to description for WRIT 250, Semester I.
WRIT 250H Research or Individual Study
Please refer to description for WRIT 250H, Semester I.
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