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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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