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Fiction Writing Course Required Books Wired for Story by Lisa Cron Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft by Janet Burroway Fiction Writing Course Suggested Books All of these books were written by my professor How to Write a Novel by Melanie Sumner (Free Amazon Audiobook) The Ghost of Milagro Creek by Melanie Sumner The… Continue reading Fiction Writing →

This course was one of my favorite courses during college, mostly due to my connection to the professor that taught it. I also learned quite a lot and had my eyes opened to the wonderful opportunities English majors can engage in. This course was also something that counted for my minor, which is professional writing.… Continue reading Careers in Writing →

For my senior seminar course, I decided to take a course that revolved around the environment and sustainability issues. The first half of the semester consisted of reading novels and texts that were about the environment. The second half was all about our final documented essay, which was essentially our capstone project for our entire… Continue reading Senior Seminar →

This course involved careful examination of the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, two leading American Transcendentalists, as well as their friendship. We also discussed their work among comtemporaries, including Margaret's Fullers protofeminist transformation of Emerson's Philosophy, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s complex satirizing of what he calls the “cloudy and dreamy metaphysics” of Transcendentalism,… Continue reading 19th Century American Literature →

This course was devoted to the study of Shakespeare's life and works. We focused on his career as a poet, playwright, actor, and theater owner. We also looked at the ecological context of Shakespeare's life and works. Sonnet 12 This paper was a deep reading paper of a sonnet from a given list. I went… Continue reading Shakespeare →

This course examined intersections between cultural norms and values of the Southern United States with gender and related identity categories such as race, class, and sexuality. The course got students to consider ways that gender, race, class, and sexuality are complicated by and related to regional ideas, history, and identity. It also explored gender in… Continue reading Gender and the US South →

This course allowed students to approach the problem of defining America from a variety of angles. We read a diverse selection of American writers from the seventeenth century until the present day and we explored historical, biographical, and cultural contexts for each writer for clues to his or her meaning. We also encountered many different… Continue reading American Lit Survey →

There wasn't a lot of writing in this course but we did have a term paper that weighed a lot for our course. I chose to write mine on Jean Toomer's Cane. We also read other novels throughout the course that can be seen below as well as my term paper. Required Books The Waste… Continue reading 20th Century American Literature →

This course was not something that I was used to taking as it focused on what I call "the other side of the English degree." I usually focused on courses that revolved around writing and different types of genre books. The other side of the English degree focused on philosophy, theorists and concepts such as… Continue reading Critical Theory →

This course was meant to read a series of (mainly) funny novels that were meant to resonate with most of the students. They were written to touch on the question of what higher education in the United States is and should be about. We were meant to see ourselves, our friends, our teachers, and our… Continue reading Comic Literature About College Life →