33 courses with the subject WRI, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
WRI 111Writing4
This foundational course prepares students to write successful college-level essays informed by research. Together, the instructor and students consider the functions of writer and reader and come to understand writing as a process that requires careful reading, deep thinking, drafting, and revising. Students are expected to complete assigned readings and to construct a variety of original written works in genres including narrative and argument. Writing assignments are designed to improve students’ abilities to integrate source material effectively. Such assignments, supplemented by in-class exercises, help students gain confidence and independence as writers. All students take this course in fall or spring of the first year. A minimum passing grade of C- is required for graduation.
In this course, students will give their attention to the craft of writing by advancing their understanding of creative nonfiction and professional feature writing. Students will learn to critique their peers’ work in order to advance the class’s understanding of the editing process and the genres in which we are working. Having gained knowledge and confidence through these processes, students will begin to write convincingly about the art of writing. Over the course of the term, each student will write 2 or 3 creative nonfiction essays and 2 or 3 professional feature stories. These essays and stories will be modeled by the examples in the textbooks that we read and discuss. Regularly, students will submit drafts of their work to the class for discussion in a workshop format. For each draft submitted to the workshop, 3 students will be assigned the task of writing a thoughtful critique.
News reporting and writing, focusing on developing journalistic style and news judgment. Students will learn techniques of researching, interviewing, quoting, editing, beginning makeup and design, and rewriting the “handout,” or news release. This course also includes an introduction to press law, ethics and broadcast news. All students are expected to submit stories for print consideration.
Advanced news, feature, and editorial writing course designed to take students beyond the inverted pyramid. The focus is on polishing print and broadcast news writing style, developing techniques of writing various feature stories, and understanding opinion writing. Students will practice copy editing, photo editing, headline writing, caption writing, layout, and design. This course includes a closer study of press law and responsibilities. As lab requirement, students will work with the Holcad staff and submit stories for print consideration.
Creative Non-Fiction takes as its premise the core of all writing-narrative structure and imagery. In non-fiction, structure becomes plastic and changeable according to a writer’s goals. Students will explore ways to create imagery-rich text. Students will read a wide selection in this genre and analyze what individual writers have done and how they’ve done it.
WRI 111 or instructor permission. Cross-Listed: FS 356 Intellectual Perspective: VP
WRI 357Writing the Natural World4
Trees, puddles, cancer cells, earthquakes, climate change, grizzly bears, etc. Nature offers a bounty of subjects for a writer’s consideration. To give form to that consideration, this course provides students the opportunity to read and write poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction about the natural world. Students should expect to write and revise works in all three genres.
Throughout the ages, writing has always been mediated by the medium in which the words appear. With the advent of computers, in particular the Internet, the medium has shifted from paper-based to computer-based. We are in danger of losing the subtlety of language in the speed of technology and globalism. Instant messaging, e-mail, Web pages and other forms of computer-mediated communication are changing how we communicate with one another. It is important to emphasize that words must still be carefully crafted and writers must consider both the connotation and denotation of the words they choose. Because these documents will be technical in nature, they’ll contain graphs, charts, and a wide variety of visual elements as well as text.
Stories of monsters, ghosts, and all things supernatural have appeared in popular literature for centuries, from Hamlet to Dracula. Over the past few decades, contemporary literature has seen a resurrection of the supernatural narrative in multiple forms because the horror genre creates space for writers to probe into difficult questions about race, disability, gender, religion, identity formation, politics, history, queer bodies, etc. This course provides aspiring writers with a broad understanding of the modern horror scene, as well as the evolution of horror fiction as a domain of serious literary accomplishments, so that students can create insightful creative work of their own. While reading and analyzing the writing of predominant writers, as well as both critical and craft theory, students will experiment with horror techniques in their own writing. Students will be expected to write and workshop two stories with supernatural elements.
Students will develop their ability to write compellingly about athletes and their sports. We will work in various forms, from straight news reporting to feature writing. We may even have a go at fiction and poetry. All good writing, no matter its form, must exhibit attention to grammar and style, so those concerns will be on our agenda. Since this course is structured as a workshop, we will be discussing each other’s drafts in class. Always, the discussion will aim to improve students’ ability to write well.
A workshop that will meet once a week for two credit hours, in which students will develop their skills in writing and criticism through peer review and interchange with the instructor. Students will work in the genre of their choice.
successful completion of at least one of the following courses: WRI 351 , WRI 353 , WRI 354 , WRI 355 and WRI 356 .
WRI 402Advanced Writing Workshop2
A workshop that will meet once a week for two credit hours, in which students will develop their skills in writing and criticism through peer review and interchange with the instructor. Students will work in the genre of their choice.
successful completion of at least one of the following courses: WRI 251, 253, 254, 255 and 256.
WRI 451Advanced Creative Nonfiction Workshop4
Creative Non-Fiction takes as its premise the core of all writing-narrative structure and imagery. In non-fiction, structure becomes plastic and changeable according to a writer’s goals. Students will explore ways to create imagery-rich text. Students will read a wide selection in this genre and analyze what individual writers have done and how they’ve done it.
The advanced fiction writing workshop is designed to give students an intensive study and practice in the art of advanced fiction. The course will primarily focus on the production, reading, and constructive critique of student fiction. Students will refine the use of craft elements they started to develop in introductory writing courses and refine their implementation of story structure by writing, reading, and exploring the fundamentals of craft through stimulating exercises and course readings. Much of the course will be spent in various types of workshop formats (smaller and larger groups) where the class produces responses and suggestions to student work. Each student will compile a final portfolio of rigorously revised work by the end of the semester.
Writing 601 is the first half of the two-course Writing Concentration capstone. The capstone project should demonstrate a Writing major’s ability to develop a creative and/or professional writing project that is assisted and complemented by literary analysis. By the end of Writing 601, each student will have submitted a comprehensive proposal for a viable, appropriate writing project, and completed a significant segment of the project for evaluation.
Writing 602 is the second half of the two-course Writing capstone. The capstone project should demonstrate a Writing major’s ability to develop a creative and/or professional writing project that is assisted and complemented by literary analysis. By the end of Writing 602, each student will have completed a significant writing project.
