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CRW 2100: Intro to Creative Writing

In this course, students will learn about various genres such as fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and comics with an emphasis on craft elements common to more than one genre. students will also learn about the process of writing, including idea generation, drafting, and revision. This course affords students the ability to communicate effectively, including the ability to write clearly and engage in public speaking.

CRW 2100: Intro to Creative Writing

In this course, students will learn about various genres such as fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and comics with an emphasis on craft elements common to more than one genre. students will also learn about the process of writing, including idea generation, drafting, and revision. This course affords students the ability to communicate effectively, including the ability to write clearly and engage in public speaking.

CRW 3111: Form & Technique of Fiction

This course will encourage you to innovate, explore, and discover your own interests & style. You鈥檒l incorporate the basic elements of narrative craft in weekly exercises, practice the language of critique and analyze writers鈥� choices through readings and workshops. You鈥檒l begin the semester with a short anecdote, and using a framework of revision suggestions, work through a series of transformations to complete a short story.

CRW 3111: Form & Technique of Fiction

A study of short narrative forms such as the anecdote, tale, character sketch, incident, monologue, epistolary story, and short story as they have been used in the development of fiction and as they exist today.

CRW 3112: Fiction I

This course is the study of short narrative forms such as the anecdote, tale, character sketch, incident, monologue, epistolary story, and short story as they have been used in the development of fiction and as they exist today.

CRW 3112: Fiction I

This course is a 3-credit studio- and discussion-based course on the art of writing fiction. Over the course of the semester, we will read a range of fiction, (varying in form, genre, and style), and experiment writing in various fictional forms. This course emphasizes the writer鈥檚 process and assumes fiction to be an imaginative endeavor. The activities and assignments are aimed at strengthening our imaginative faculties.

CRW 3112: Fiction I

In this course, we will study how authors create a strong sense of place to better establish character and drive plot. We will talk about how historical events can put pressure on the present. How racial, generational, gender, and other group identities can define characters and set up conflicts before any action takes place. How weather, sickness, celebration, and other interruptions can amplify existing tensions. How use of language, customs, and belief systems can subtly change how characters relate to one another. How physical objects can set tone and reveal which characters control a given space. And much, much more. Our discussions will be useful for both literary and speculative writers.

CRW 3112: Fiction I

In this asynchronous, fully online course, we will aim to improve our skills as readers and writers of fiction. Through close readings of published short stories, we will examine the choices made by the authors and experiment with a wide variety of techniques and styles in our own work. This class is first and foremost a workshop, meaning you will be reading the stories of your fellow students and then thoughtfully and constructively providing feedback on their work via online discussion. Above all, the course aims to provide a rigorous and nurturing environment in which the primary goal is to make our writing better.

CRW 3121: Fiction II

The focus of this class will be workshop, and every manuscript will be considered a work in progress. We鈥檒l use a modified critical response process that will be author-centered and consist of observations and questions adjusted according to the author鈥檚 needs. We鈥檒l be redefining craft terms including plot, character, conflict, structure, and believability as we read and critique an author鈥檚 work with the goal of encouraging all storytelling traditions.

CRW 3211: Form & Technique of Nonfiction

Nonfiction gives creative writers the opportunity to use craft techniques from fiction and poetry (scene, character, setting, imagery, metaphor, etc) to write true stories. In this Form and Technique of Nonfiction course, we will learn about this popular genre, exploring various forms, including micro memoir, flash nonfiction, the list essay, visual narratives, and other forms. Considering the work of contemporary nonfiction writers, we will discuss a range of nonfiction craft techniques, and you鈥檒l write and receive feedback on your own narrative nonfiction. As you鈥檙e writing your stories, you can speculate, use your imagination, and play with form. This course provides a wonderful opportunity for cross-training for both poets and fiction writers.

All are welcome in this supportive, friendly, introductory course. No previous nonfiction experience is assumed or expected.

CRW 3221: Nonfiction II

In her graphic memoir Good Talk, Mira Jacob writes, 鈥淲e think our hearts break only from endings鈥攖he love gone, the rooms empty, the future unhappening as we stand ready to step into it鈥攂ut what about how they can shatter in the face of what is possible?鈥� In this Nonfiction II workshop, we will read, write, and workshop creative nonfiction about love, desire, and heartbreak. From friendship, to familial love, to romantic love, to complicated love, to the love of basketball and the places we call home, we will discuss how different authors write about their own experiences and cultural expectations around love, desire, the body, and loss. We will use fiction and poetry craft techniques to write true stories. Writers from all genres welcome!

CRW 3311: Form & Technique of Poetry

An examination of the techniques employed in fixed forms from the couplet through the sonnet to such various forms as the Rondel, ballad, villanelle, sestina, etc. Principles in the narrative, dramatic, and lyric modes are also explored.

CRW 3311: Form & Technique of Poetry

This course teaches poetry鈥檚 fundamental craft techniques and formal structures. You鈥檒l learn how to write in traditional forms including the sonnet, the villanelle, the pantoum, and many more. We鈥檒l also ask deeper questions about the benefits and limitations of each form. As we progress through the course, we鈥檒l shift our focus to contemporary poetry in which open forms, invented forms, and hybrid forms abound. Our study will include craft techniques like imagery, figurative language, diction, and lineation. In addition to reading and discussing poems, you鈥檒l also be asked to write your own poetry. Throughout the term, you鈥檒l draft and revise poems, complete weekly exercises, present material to the class, participate in a poetry workshop, and create a class anthology of the poems you and your peers have written.

CRW 3311: Form & Technique of Poetry

Form and Technique of Poetry focuses on creating original work by the course participants and the study of work of established poets. You鈥檒l learn the history of various poetic forms (sonnet, ghazal, villanelle, etc.), practice using form, and engage in core writing techniques (imagery, metaphor, sound, etc.) used to create effective poetry. Principles in the narrative, dramatic, and lyric modes are also explored. This course serves as a pre-requisite for Poetry I and Nonfiction I.

CRW 3311: Form & Technique of Poetry

Form & Technique of Poetry introduces students to the techniques involved in crafting poetry in a variety of established forms (sonnet, ballad, ghazal, villanelle, sestina, etc.) with a focus on core writing principles in the genre (imagery, metaphor, sound, etc.). Each week students will study the work of established poets, learn about different forms, and practice crafting their own original works of poetry. This course also provides an excellent opportunity for writers in other genres to expand their creative repertoire. All are welcome in this supportive, friendly, introductory environment. No previous poetry experience required.

CRW 3321: Poetry II

A poetry workshop that provides individual and peer guidance for the student's writing and that encourages the development of critical skills.

CRW 4930: Making Comics

This course is an experiment with image-text work focused on comics and graphic narrative. Throughout the semester, we will read comics, read about comics, and make our own comics in an attempt to investigate what is possible at the intersection of words and pictures, to see what happens when language and sensation collide. As a medium, comics exists outside traditional literary genre boundaries, and so this course should be thought of not just as multi-genre, but as post-genre, where you can bring what you know with you and use it to make something new. No drawing skills are required, no previous knowledge of comics is necessary. This course is designed as a studio course, where we will be making and sharing work together each week. Over the course of the semester students will create: short and long-form comics, diary comics, comic strips, and zines, among other things.

CRW 4930: Poetry of Human Crises

The focus of the course will be governed by student demand and instructor interest. Topics to be covered may include writing the literary essay, writing in mixed genres, and utilizing popular conventions in serious works. May be taken twice for credit with different topics.

CRW 4930: Writing Role-Playing Games

For fans of Dungeons and Dragons, tabletop role-playing games, and storytelling games of all kinds. In this class, students will dissect popular story game engines and study sample games from indie developers and larger publishers. Students will analyze how fiction, game mechanics, and performance intersect to create immersive shared stories. Working in teams, students will reflect on play sessions, hack existing games, create modules or other RPG content, and write original tabletop games. All players, brand new or experienced, are welcome.

CRW 4930: Flash Nonfiction

Write the story in a flash! This friendly, supportive, content-rich course provides in-depth instruction in the art of flash nonfiction鈥攕uper short, true stories that linger long in the reader鈥檚 mind. Students read and write pieces that demonstrate powerful voice and strong storytelling skills and provide for the reader sudden flashes of insight. We also explore publishing strategies so you can share your work and build a readership in the wide wonderful world of short-form nonfiction.

• Weekly reading assignments
• Weekly short writing assignment
• Final project

Questions? Email Professor Heather Sellers at sellersh@usf.edu

ENG 3014: Intro to Literary Methodology: Marvelous Monsters

This course prepares English majors and minors with the basic critical and technical skills and understanding for subsequent literary study in 3000- and 4000-level courses towards the major. Substantial writing.
Recommended during first 2 semesters of LIT major. Our course texts include Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, so we'll have a monster of a time!

ENG 3674: Film & Culture

This course will examine various films by significant filmmakers, especially those films that illustrate popular culture(s). We will consider different perspectives of popular culture according to shifts in cultural and intellectual assumptions over time that are represented in the cinematic tradition. Our class time will be spent viewing films and discussing cinema as well as discussing their development and importance, with particular attention paid to discussing various ways of "reading" films in terms of the ways they reflect popular culture. Careful reading of the textbook is essential to success in the course.

Objectives of the course include: (1) a better understanding of popular culture through the art of film, (2) an improved ability to think and write analytically and evaluatively, and (3) an acquired knowledge of film history and cinematic techniques.

At the conclusion of the course, outcomes and goals include the ability to write articulately and persuasively about your understanding of film as an important popular art, especially as film relates to the representation of diverse cultural practices and experiences.

ENG 4934: Senior Literature Seminar

From the small, downtrodden island of Ireland, a richly multifaceted and resourceful tradition of theater developed that in turn has inspired and captivated communities worldwide. In this Senior Literature Seminar, we鈥檒l read modern and contemporary Irish plays written and performed between 1900 and the 2010s. We鈥檒l discuss how the Irish have been inventing and reinventing themselves over the decades, and how their experiences, as dramatically explored, are curiously both particular to Ireland and relatable to other communities of the world. We鈥檒l encounter a metamorphosed Irish goddess, an imploding working-class Irish family in the 1920s tenements of Dublin, ghosts and ghost stories, Irish Travellers beyond the stereotypical 鈥渢inkers,鈥� and the Irish living in the post-Celtic Tiger era.

AML 3031: American Literature from 1860 to 1912: Grit & Glamor in the Gilded Age

This course examines the grit and glamor of America鈥檚 Gilded Age, along with the transformative years surrounding it. From mansions and railroads to ambition and reinvention, the period of 1860 to 1912 was a time of great opportunity and complexity. We will read a variety of written genres to examine how literature captured a society shaped by rapid change, rising fortunes, and differing visions of success. As we read, we鈥檒l consider how many of the questions raised during the original Gilded Age still resonate in what some now call a 鈥淪econd Gilded Age.鈥� 

AML 3604: African American Literature

A study of black American literature from the nineteenth century to the present, including the works of such writers as W.E.B. Dubois, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, LeRoi Jones, and Nikki Giovanni.

AML 4111: 19th-Century American Novel: Out to Sea!

Arrrrgggghhh! For this semester of Nineteenth-Century American Novel, we are going out to sea. Yes, we're going after the White Whale (Herman Melville, Moby Dick). We'll read about cross-dressing sailors (The Female Marine), onboard rebellion (Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave), queer swamps (Sarah Orne Jewett, A Marsh Island), and what not to do when caught in a riptide (Stephen Crane, "The Open Boat"). The course will involve experiential learning and loopy assignments. Pirate costumes optional.

AML 4265: 91社区 Writers

This course will examine writers who have lived in and written about 91社区, such as Hemingway, Rawlings, Hurston, and Stevens.

ENL 3251: Studies in American Literature & Culture

This course examines a particular topic or theme, varying with individual selection, in the American literary tradition.

ENL 3015: British Literature to 1616: Worlds of Wonder

Literature has always encouraged audiences to pause and wonder at what we might otherwise disregard, from a dazzling night sky to a hazelnut in the palm of a hand. Writers also craft their own wonders in poetry, prose, and drama. We鈥檒l explore continuities and changes as Britain transforms from a set of small, distinct kingdoms to an empire. We will read with attention both to medieval and early modern historical and cultural contexts and to how these texts continue to be meaningful and entertaining in our own times. In our readings, we鈥檒l meet sea monsters and a dragon, a talking cross, a werewolf with marital difficulties, a mystic who shares her visions, a man who sells his soul to the devil, and much more. Settings will range from intimate, everyday spaces to wild, open seas, from Scotland to Jerusalem. This course will deepen your understanding of literature and its social, cultural, and aesthetic dimensions while helping you improve your skills in close reading, writing, discussion, and analysis.

ENL 3016: studies in 17th & 18th Centry Brit Lit: The Golden Age of Piracy

The 鈥淕olden Age of Piracy,鈥� a period of time from roughly the 1650鈥檚 through 1730鈥檚, has left an indelible mark on literature and popular culture: from the 17th and 18th centuries through today, pirates have been both romanticized and vilified in tales that alternately celebrate and condemn their sense of adventure, opportunism, and lawlessness. Piracy in the North Atlantic and Indian Oceans increased at the same time as British and European colonial expansion in the Americas and Caribbean, connecting piracy with larger conversations around maritime exploration and imperial expansion in this era. In this course, we鈥檒l examine cultural representations of this Golden Age of Piracy from their contemporary context in Charles Johnson鈥檚 highly influential A General History of the Pyrates (1724) alongside later works of historical fiction, including Robert Louis Stevenson鈥檚 Treasure Island (1883) and the HBO TV series Our Flag Means Death (2022-24), both set during the Golden Age. Along the way, we鈥檒l meet iconic pirates like Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, and Anne Bonny, and we鈥檒l explore how pirates have become rich cultural figures for discussing historical representations of gender, sexuality, race, and colonialism. 

ENL 4931: British Lit & Culture: Hardy & Forster, Victorian to Modern

Writing on either side of the centurial divide, Thomas Hardy and E.M. Forster grappled with the problems of the modern age. Their fiction represents a transitional period in British culture, as 鈥渢raditional鈥� modes of life and literary forms surrendered to modernity. Their works are peopled by individuals lost in worlds they do not understand, buffeted by forces beyond their control. Their novels echo with anxieties, resound with uncertainties, and ring with the clash of cultures and social classes.
In this course, we will read significant portions of the work of Hardy and Forster, as we consider how these two turn-of-the-century authors represented the cultural upheavals that accompanied the shift from the Victorian Period to the Modern Age. We will also consider some of the later film adaptations of these novels, as we explore the lasting cultural legacy of Hardy and Forster.

ENL 4303: Selected British Authors

Artists have long provided a means through which to experience the beautiful, disastrous, and complex relationships that humans share with the environment. In this class, we will explore how literature is influenced by a time period鈥檚 perception of the environment, tracking and examining how we arrived at our current ecological epoch, known as the Anthropocene. For each work, we will ask ourselves: How does world-building influence or shape our perceptions of nature, and how have humans impacted climate and their relationships with nature? Can literature help us discover our responsibilities to the environment? We will read 鈥渃lassics鈥� such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poetry and Charlotte Bront毛鈥檚 famous novel Jane Eyre to examine how nature was perceived during the long 18th century. We will also read Postcolonial works by Jean Rhys, Aim茅 C茅saire, Jamaica Kincaid, and Ursula Le Guin (among others) as we investigate the concept of 鈥渨orld-making鈥� in the context of climate disaster. We will consider alternative futures in which environmental collapse prefaces not merely ruin, but new ways of being in the world.

LIT 2000: Intro to Literature

Are you interested in ghost stories and haunted houses? Are you fascinated by the psychology of horror? Then please consider signing up for 鈥淟IT 2000: Aesthetics of American Gothic Literature.鈥� This survey course will introduce you to classic authors like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, and Toni Morrison, along with authors whose Gothic literary works have been adapted into popular films.

Throughout the semester, you will learn about the development of American Gothic literature and how its regional iterations exhibit unique qualities that reflect the cultural hallmarks of the author鈥檚 time and place. In total, these works and adaptations are examined in order to provide you with a comprehensive introduction to the American Gothic literary tradition in a manner that goes deeper than shuddering at ghosts and haunted houses (though there are plenty of those).     

LIT 2000: Intro to Literature

What makes a piece of art stand the test of time? In this course, we will strive to answer questions such as: Why do we value certain works of art over others? And why do some succeed while others fail? Inspired by the Museum of Bad Art and Jack Halberstam鈥檚 discussions on Queer Failure, this class will explore both art that fails to be considered 鈥渁rt鈥� and art that captures failure. Examining depictions of failure in literature, poetry, art, film, music, and other various forms of media will help us create an archive of eccentricity, one that broadens our conception of both art and success across cultures. In these failures, where can we find success? Ultimately, what does it mean to succeed?

LIT 2000: Intro to Literature

鈥淭his spring we venture into the forest of dreams, slowly and intentionally reading through William Shakespeare鈥檚 A Midsummer Night鈥檚 Dream (in graphic novel form), J.R.R. Tolkien鈥檚 famous fantasy manifesto 鈥淥n Fairy-stories鈥� and Christopher Nolan鈥檚 film Inception. Join us as we explore the land of fairy and the dreamscape!鈥�

LIT 2000: Intro to Literature

This course offers an engaging introduction to the study of literature through the lens of The Hunger Games series. By exploring fiction, poetry, drama, and multimedia texts, students will develop critical tools for literary analysis while considering the social, political, and cultural dimensions of storytelling. We will examine topics such as power, resistance, identity, disability, media, and gender, as well as the broader relevance of dystopian fiction in today鈥檚 world. Assignments include creative and analytical writing, multimodal projects, and class discussions that emphasize interpretation, empathy, and argumentation. Students will leave the course with a foundation in literary studies and a deeper understanding of how narrative shapes and reflects human experience.

LIT 2000: Intro to Literature

Explore the darker side of the voyage in this section of LIT 2000, Monsters, Maidens and Maps, Using Homer鈥檚 classic epic, The Odyssey as a foundation, we will explore how the poem, its adaptations, and works influenced by it have come to represent both the psychological and societal anxieties that create the human psyche. This course will also introduce students to the formal, cultural, historical, and theoretical dimensions of additional literary texts including novels, short stories, poetry, and drama. By examining journey narratives and the liminal spaces constructed within these works, students will gain an understanding of the ways Gothic conventions of space, haunting terrors, and monstrous figures shape physical, psychological, and metaphoric constructs within literary texts.

LIT 2000: Intro to Literature

In this section of Introduction to Literature, we will place the music of Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey in the context of the American literature that has inspired their art. In addition to this broader goal, we will consider select songs and albums as adaptations of major literary works鈥攏amely, Fitzgerald鈥檚 The Great Gatsby and William鈥檚 A Streetcar Named Desire鈥攁nd compare them to adaptations in other forms, especially film.

Why Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey? They are two incredibly prolific artists who will each have 12 albums to their names by the time the course begins. They have also both engaged consciously and consistently with literature since their debuts.

By the end of the course, you will have gained a thorough understanding of the 19th- and 20th-century authors and texts on our syllabus as well as of the concept of adaptation. We also have a third goal, though: to develop a sense of how Swift and Del Rey fit into the American literary tradition and function as authors in their own right. We will ask ourselves: what portraits of U.S. culture, past and present, emerge in their music? How do the subjects that resurface across their discographies鈥攃hildhood, romance, fame, and more鈥攃ontribute to these portraits?

Whether you鈥檙e a fan of these artists, a skeptic, or something in between, you will have something to contribute to this joint endeavor. Fans come prepared with knowledge and enthusiasm and learn how to examine their beloved 鈥渢exts鈥� with a more nuanced and critical eye. Skeptics are known for bringing both balance and refreshing new takes to the table. The only prerequisites for the course are a willingness to maintain an open mind and an ability to engage in respectful discussion. Easy enough; 鈥渙ff to the races,鈥� then!

LIT 2000: Intro to Literature

What is religion? What does it mean to be spiritual or non-religious? In this course, we will explore these questions and more as they manifest in works of fiction, music, cinema, and television. Our class will place us at the intersection of human cultural and spiritual encounters, challenging us to interrogate the dynamic between art and religion as well as our complex, often-painful relationship with literary and spiritual experiences. As we examine how religion influences the media that we consume, we will investigate how alternative spiritual frameworks can transform the human experience. Can we be religious without religion? How can media help us navigate the conflicts that we face in our everyday lives? In our course, we will work together to discover how our journeys through literature and religion shape our identities as human beings.

LIT 3513: Literature, Gender, & Sexuality

How do stories help us imagine who we are鈥攁nd who we might become?

This course examines speculative and literary works that question and reimagine cultural assumptions about gender, sexuality, race, and power. Through fiction, graphic novels, and critical readings, you will develop skills in literary and rhetorical analysis while exploring how stories shape our understandings of identity, embodiment, and desire. Class discussions, writing, and collaboration will encourage you to connect the texts to broader cultural contexts and consider how storytelling both challenges dominant norms and imagines new possibilities for the self and society.

LIT 4386: British and American Literature by Women

How have female authors represented the female body? How has gender shaped understanding of the body? How have women violated taboos and challenged norms by portraying the female body?

To consider these questions, we will read significant works by women in a variety of genres.

LIT 4933: World Literary Movements & Genres: Migrant Tales

This is a course about leaving and recreating home in literature. We will trace the growth of the English-writing African, Jewish, and South Asian diasporas, following migrant tales through the stages of departure, arrival, adaptation, and return. We will encounter novelists and poets from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Samuel Selvon, Grace Paley to W. G. Sebald, Salman Rushdie to Zadie Smith鈥攑lus a few filmmakers to boot. What does it mean to lose and look for home? Which forms of literature arise from these experiences of dispersion, marginalization, and longing? By examining transnational narratives of migration across the twentieth century and into our own time, you will investigate issues of exile and belonging, place and displacement, identity and community. By reading and writing across genres and borders, you will transform this class into your own intellectual home base for exploring literature in the age of globalization.

ENC 3242: Technical Comm for Majors

The study of the range of possible careers for technical communicators with special emphasis on the issues that professional writers face in various workplace contexts and on the skills needed in word processing.

ENC 3266: Research for PTC

This course serves as that introduction. It helps students navigate the methodological communities that shape professional and technical communication (PTC)鈥攃reatives, designers, ethnographers, clinicians, scientists, and scholars鈥攁nd the methods and epistemologies that define their inquiries.

Students engage in rhetorical, citation, textual, genre, and methodological analyses of peer-reviewed PTC research, learning how scholars construct, test, and circulate knowledge. Course projects are designed to build understanding step by step.

ENC 3370: Writing Technologies

This course introduces students to essential writing and design technologies they will use in their careers and provides students the opportunity to practice writing and design while building a technological literacy around the use of new tools.

ENC 4353: Public Rhetorics

This course explores the role of rhetoric in the ways communities and individuals empower themselves to frame issues, tackle problems, and promote change. Students will adopt various roles and responsibilities to practice organizing and advocating positions.

ENC 4403: Grant Writing

This course will teach students the mechanics of grant and proposal writing and the skills that can be effectively learned to procure funding from those organizations.

ENC 4931: Rhetoric of Health and Medicine

Rhetoric of health and medicine (RHM) explores how language, culture, and technology shape individual and collective notions of illness, wellness, and health. In this course, students will read a variety of textual forms including peer-reviewed research articles, creative non-fiction, personal essays, technical documents, historical texts, news reports, and popular media. Through discussions, activities, and assignments students will examine and write about how policy, media, and medical infrastructures make persuasions of the body and inform health-based decision making.

Students will learn a variety of classical rhetorical concepts and terms and employ them in discussions, presentations, and written texts appropriate to contemporary and/or historical conversations on health and medicine. These concepts, many of which date back to antiquity, enrich notions of health in an algorithmic age where emergent technologies such as VR and AI are becoming increasingly integrated into medical settings and systems. Students will compose both technical and non-technical texts as they explore their RHM interests. 

ENC 4940: Professional Internship

This practice-driven course gives students hands-on experience in the publishing process, helping them develop the skills needed to prepare research and popular writing for publication. Ideal for students interested in writing, publishing, editing, marketing for scholarly or professional communication. Students will develop valuable experience for careers in writing, media, and publishing; gain insight into the full editorial and marketing process; and work on real-world publications with an international audience.