Course Descriptions
Fall Quarter
| Dept | Course No and Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| LIT JRN (F26) | 20 INTR LIT JOURNALISM | DEPAUL, A. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| LIT JRN (F26) | 20 INTR LIT JOURNALISM | DEPAUL, A. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| LIT JRN (F26) | 21 REPORTING LIT JOURN | DEPAUL, A. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| LIT JRN (F26) | 21 REPORTING LIT JOURN | DEPAUL, A. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| LIT JRN (F26) | 101BW RECONSTRUCTED STORY | 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 Laura Hillenbrand 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 (F26) | 101BW ART OF FACT | GOFFARD, C. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| LIT JRN (F26) | 101BW NARR OFF THE NEWS | HAYASAKI, E. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| LIT JRN (F26) | 103 WRITING RACE | TOBAR, H. |
| Course is cross-listed as an English 105. This course is a survey of nonfiction writing about race in the United States of America, from the 19th century to the present. We will examine how writers have tackled issues of racial inequality and discrimination, and constructed narratives centered on the lives of people of color in various nonfiction genres, including: newspaper and magazine journalism, investigative reporting, essays, criticism, documentary film, and memoirs. Readings will include works by Ida B. Wells, W.E.B Du Bois, James Baldwin, Carey McWilliams, Ta-Nehisi Coates and others. Part of the aim of this class is what we can learn about the craft of writing as a tool of social engagement and change. How do writers construct works that cut through the falsehoods of prejudice and ignorance? How do they work to defend the humanity of those who have been marginalized or oppressed by dominant cultures? How do they express the joy and fortitude unseen or unknown by outsiders? As a final requirement, students will produce their own work of cultural reportage or criticism. Students will work on this project in several stages throughout the quarter, producing a 2,000-word piece by finals’ week. In addition, students will produce four, 300-word “responses” to the readings | ||
| LIT JRN (F26) | 103 CRIME | CORWIN, M. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| LIT JRN (F26) | 103 JOURNALISM ON EDGE | CORWIN, M. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| LIT JRN (F26) | 198 LIFE STORIES | PIERSON, P. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| LIT JRN (F26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| LIT JRN (F26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| LIT JRN (F26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| LIT JRN (F26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| LIT JRN (F26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| LIT JRN (F26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
| No detailed description available. | ||