Special Topics in Writing Studies

Overview

Subject area

ENGL

Catalog Number

231

Course Title

Special Topics in Writing Studies

Department(s)

Description

These courses will focus on fiction and nonfiction writing about a specific theme or topic to be announced in advance and will vary each semester. Descriptions of the topic in a particular semester will be available in the English Department before registration.Students may take two such courses for credit, as long as they do not repeat the topic.

Typically Offered

Fall, Spring

Academic Career

Undergraduate

Liberal Arts

Yes

Credits

Minimum Units

3

Maximum Units

3

Academic Progress Units

3

Repeat For Credit

No

Components

Name

Lecture

Hours

4

Course Topic ID

1

Formal Description

Reading & Writing about Crime & Murder

Course Topic ID

2

Formal Description

Reading & Writing about the Immigrant Experience

Course Topic ID

3

Formal Description

Finding Nurture in Nature: R & about the Natural

Course Topic ID

4

Formal Description

Reading & Writing about Place,Geography, Travel

Course Topic ID

5

Formal Description

Reading & Writing about War

Course Topic ID

6

Formal Description

Be Home Before Dark: R & W about Family

Course Topic ID

7

Formal Description

Navigating Difference: R & W about Others

Course Topic ID

8

Formal Description

Love, Lust & Romance: R & W about Love

Course Topic ID

9

Formal Description

I Can't Believe I Ate the Whole Thing

Course Topic ID

10

Formal Description

R & W about Prison, Criminality and the Law

Course Topic ID

11

Formal Description

Writing for Child and Young Adults

Course Topic ID

12

Formal Description

The Teaching of Writing

Course Topic ID

13

Formal Description

Multimedia Writing

Course Topic ID

15

Formal Description

graphic genres

Course Topic ID

16

Formal Description

Science Fiction

Course Topic ID

17

Formal Description

Writing Intensive/Sci Fiction

Course Topic ID

18

Formal Description

African American Literature

Course Topic ID

19

Formal Description

Crimes Murder Writing Intensive

Course Topic ID

20

Formal Description

Asian American Lit Writing Int

Course Topic ID

21

Formal Description

Women’s Activism in American Literature

Course Topic ID

22

Formal Description

Monsters and Monstrosity in Literature and Film

Requisites

008121

Course Schedule