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Special Topics Courses
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Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 Special Topics Courses
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Sports Journalism
ENG 295
Instructor: Professor Caulfield
In this course, students will learn the basics of sports reporting/writing while reading a series of essays/articles that were recognized in the field as significant works. This course will focus on the current trends in sports reporting/writing with an emphasis on important local, regional, national sports events and sports related issues. Sports reporting and writing will include such areas as interviews, previews, wrap-ups, game reviews, columns, profiles, and features. In addition, this course will discuss the professional end of sports journalism and show students how to obtain media credentials and publish work. Lastly, when students complete the course, they will have a portfolio of their revised sports writing.
Contemporary Young Adult Literature
ENG 296(H)
Instructor: Professor Lauer
In this course, we will examine trends in contemporary young adult literature, with a focus on the current prevalence of dystopian fiction for young adults. We will read, discuss and write about texts published in the last decade that place adolescent protagonists in systematically determined adverse circumstances. In a study of what comprises the genre, we will explore what it takes to mature under such conditions, in both realistic and speculative fiction.
We will discuss the political rhetoric in the texts we read, bolstered by supplemental theoretical texts about society, the nature of dystopia, and issues inherent in any text aimed at an adolescent readership. Connected to the political rhetoric of the texts themselves, we will also examine how films, merchandising, author blogs and other cultural productions shape the role of such texts in our own society.
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