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  • ENGL 3440: Intermediate Poetry Writing

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2250 or ENGL 2250H with a C- or higher and University Advanced Standing. Provides intermediate instruction in practices and techniques for generating, writing, and revising original poetry. Focuses on contemporary poetry and critical theories associated with contemporary poetry. Utilizes the creative writing workshop as the primary method of critical engagement with and critique of original poetry. May include attendance at poetry readings, memorizations, and submission of original poetry to literary journals.
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  • ENGL 3450: Intermediate Creative Nonfiction Writing

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2250 or ENGL 2250H with a C- or higher and University Advanced Standing. Provides intermediate instruction in practices and techniques for generating, writing, and revising original creative nonfiction. Focuses on contemporary nonfiction and critical theories associated with contemporary nonfiction. Explores and provides practice in various categories of nonfiction. Utilizes the creative writing workshop as the primary method of critical engagement with and critique of original writing. Addresses the challenges of transforming experience into writing.
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  • ENGL 3460: Wilderness and Environmental Writing

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 with a grade of C- or higher and University Advanced Standing. Introduces students to writing about our natural world. Teaches meaningful engagement in conversations about the environment. Requires extensive reading and analysis of texts about environmental stewardship, a portfolio of written work that engages specific audiences of complex issues connected to the wilderness, and critical discussions of assigned texts. Includes workshops of student writing. May require wilderness field trips; students with disabilities will be accommodated on field trips.
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  • ENGL 3470R: Popular Genre Writing

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): English 2250 or English 2250H with a C- or better, and University Advanced Standing. Provides an overview of genre conventions and required skills for composing original creative writing in a specified genre. Focuses on genres such as science fiction, fantasy, visual poetry, young adult writing, wilderness writing, or travel writing, among others. Utilizes readings, writing exercises, workshops, and other strategies to build competency in writing in the chosen genre. May be repeated up to 6 credits toward graduation.
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  • ENGL 3480R: Creative Writing Craft and Theory

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): English 2250 or English 2250H with a C- or better, and University Advanced Standing. Investigates a specific writing skill or skills relevant to the creative writing process. Focuses on craft concepts such as the construction of the sentence, line, image, metaphor, or other essential components of literary writing. Provides more intensive practice on an element of writing craft than general workshops. Topics for this course may be focused on a specific genre, or they may be appropriate for writers working in multiple genres. Requires reading and study of representative works and creating original writing. May be repeated for up to 6 credits toward graduation.
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  • ENGL 3510: Early American Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 and (ENGL 2850 or ENGL 2870), both with a grade of C- or higher, and University Advanced Standing. Examines selected authors and themes in American literature from its beginnings through the 1820s. Identifies texts within their cultural and historical contexts. Explores multiple genres, including autobiography, essay, poetry, drama, and fiction.
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  • ENGL 3520: Nineteenth Century American Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 and (ENGL 2850 or ENGL 2870), both with a grade of C- or higher, and University Advanced Standing. Explores American literature of the romantic period, the Civil War, and the post-war movements of realism and naturalism (c. 1830-1900). Examines multiple genres, authors, and texts in relation to intellectual and historical developments.
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  • ENGL 3530: Modern American Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 and (ENGL 2850 or ENGL 2870), both with a grade of C- or higher, and University Advanced Standing. Studies modern American literature (c. 1900-1960s) in relation to intellectual, historical, and ethical developments. Emphasizes important works by major fiction writers, poets, and playwrights responding to radical changes in America brought on by industrial-capitalist transformation, shifting demographics, women's rights, minority rights, artistic experimentation, and world wars.
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  • ENGL 3540: Contemporary American Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 and (ENGL 2850 or ENGL 2870), both with a grade of C- or higher, and University Advanced Standing. Studies significant authors, themes, and topics in American literature (c. 1968 to present) in relation to historical and intellectual developments and contemporary literary theory. Explores multiple genres, including fiction, poetry, drama, and film.
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  • ENGL 3570G: Native American Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 and University Advanced Standing. Surveys a wide range of Native American literature. Examines the cultures and identities of Native Americans through the study of literary texts including mythology and works by contemporary writers such as N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, and Sherman Alexie, among others.
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