Course Descriptions
Fall Quarter
| Dept |
Course No and Title |
Instructor |
|---|
| LIT JRN (F25) | 20 INTR LIT JOURNALISM | DEPAUL, A. |
| No detailed description available. |
| LIT JRN (F25) | 20 INTR LIT JOURNALISM | PIERSON, P. |
| No detailed description available. |
| LIT JRN (F25) | 21 REPORTING LIT JOURN | DEPAUL, A. |
| No detailed description available. |
| LIT JRN (F25) | 21 REPORTING LIT JOURN | DEPAUL, A. |
| No detailed description available. |
| LIT JRN (F25) | 101BW ART OF RECONSTRUCTN | SIEGEL, B. |
| In some quarters, the practice of “reconstructing” a story is seen as suspect if not impossible. How can you write about events if you weren’t present when they happened? How can you know what other people think or feel? Doesn’t reconstruction border on fiction? In this workshop, students will explore such questions—and learn just how literary journalists manage to practice the art of reconstruction in entirely ethical, accurate ways. Students will read exemplary models of reconstructed narrative by writers such as Tom French and Michael Paterniti. They will see why reconstruction plays such a crucial, honorable role in the field of literary journalism. They will also do a good deal of their own reconstruction (learning, along the way, what Tom Wolfe meant when he said that “entering people’s minds” was just “one more doorbell a reporter had to push.”) This course is an advanced writing workshop: Students will regularly share their work with classmates in a constructive process of peer-review, then revise based on that feedback. By the end of the quarter, students will have produced a major example of reconstructed narrative writing. |
| LIT JRN (F25) | 101BW ART OF FACT | GOFFARD, C. |
| The Art of Fact is an advanced writing workshop about storytelling with facts. It is about making true stories, scrupulously reported, as engaging as any novel or mini-series. Using some of the tools of fiction -- scenes, dialogue, rounded characters, the development of theme and conflict -- students will endeavor to produce factual stories that transcend the news. Students will learn how the same narrative strategies that make "Harry Potter" and "The White Lotus" so engaging lie at the heart of the best newspaper and magazine stories. Students will practice advanced reporting techniques, and analyze exemplars of literary journalism, with an eye toward applying the lessons to their own work. |
| LIT JRN (F25) | 101BW PROFILE WRITING | CORWIN, M. |
| No detailed description available. |
| LIT JRN (F25) | 103 WRITING LATINX EXPR | TOBAR, H. |
| No detailed description available. |
| LIT JRN (F25) | 103 LIT OF TRUE CRIME | CORWIN, M. |
| No detailed description available. |
| LIT JRN (F25) | 198 STORYTELLING LAB | PIERSON, P. |
| No detailed description available. |
| LIT JRN (F25) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
| No detailed description available. |
| LIT JRN (F25) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
| No detailed description available. |
| LIT JRN (F25) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
| No detailed description available. |
| LIT JRN (F25) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
| No detailed description available. |
| LIT JRN (F25) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
| No detailed description available. |
| LIT JRN (F25) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
| No detailed description available. |
