Submitted by Caterina Rost on March 16, 2016 - 10:22am
ENGL 381 - ADV Expository Writing (21st Century Film Writing: The New Auteur as Master Collaborator)
MW 2:30- 4:20
SLN: 13967
This course uses the figure of the auteur as an access point into the examination, and rigorous development, of writerly style. Great films no doubt bear the signature of their director but as narrative works of composition are impossible without cinematographers, set designers, and of course, screenwriters. Consequently, when directors construct a visual language to re-imagine and possibly change the culture, they are working with both an individual vision and a collective design. Similarly, our own writing in this course emerges from deeply felt and imagined experience, audience awareness, and our ability to trust our peer editors. Among the films viewed are Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak, Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love and Sophia Coppola’s Lost in Translation. The course is organized in a workshop format, which means frequent writing and revision, in preparation for film reviews, critiques, and comparative essays.
Because this course fulfills the “C” (composition) requirement, you will produce 25-30 pages of writing, some of which will undergo a revision process.
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ENGL 382 - Writing for Web (Special topics in Multimodal Composition: Rhetoric in the Making)
TTH 10:30- 12:20
SLN: 13968
This course offers students in a variety of disciplines—humanities, business, art, sciences, engineering, etc.—an opportunity to learn and practice writing skills. Students are encouraged to work on projects connected to their interests as we examine and practice writing as a form ofmaking, as well as writing in support ofother kinds of making. The goal of this course will be to make rhetorical in(ter)ventions that matter, working in traditional and new media writing, as well as 2D and 3D forms. We will explore and practice strategies for getting ideas, designing, improvising, prototyping, testing, failing (yes, failing!), refining, and implementing. Please note that prerequisites have been waived and prior experience with web writing is not necessary. Contact the instructor or English advising for an add code. This course satisfies the UW “Composition” credit.