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| 2009-2010 Courses Elective Courses These English elective courses are available to the student who wishes to take the course in addition to his/her required English course, thereby counting toward overall graduation credits, but not toward the five required English graduation credits. Most of the elective courses are one trimester long and worth 0.5 credits.
COURSE TITLE: Hip Hop Diaspora LENGTH/CREDITS: One trimester, 0.5 Credit PREREQUISITES: Availability within schedule COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will explore hip hop culture across the globe – in the U.S., Asia, Africa, Europe, and South America. We will take case studies from each continent and closely examine the role of hip hop within each context. How has hip hop evolved to become not just music, but a lifestyle? How is authenticity in hip hop culture defined? How can hip hop be used to make positive change? To answer these—and other—questions, we will study music, lyrics, dance, film, literature, poetry, and the visual arts. This class will involve regular writing assignments, group work, and a final multi-media presentation. Come prepared to be critical and reflective and to step outside your comfort zone (by taking a dance class or visiting an art museum). It’s time to be transcendent!
COURSE TITLE: Creative Writing LENGTH/CREDITS: One trimester, 0.5 Credit PREREQUISITES: Availability within schedule COURSE DESCRIPTION: In this course, students will learn to unleash their imaginations and to believe in the extraordinary power of their words. In addition to composing short stories, poems and plays, students will also design their own websites where they will publish their writing.
COURSE TITLE: Film as Literature LENGTH/CREDITS: One trimester, 0.5 Credit PREREQUISITES: Availability within schedule COURSE DESCRIPTION: During the Film as Literature course, we will watch many films: short films, foreign language films, anime, controversial films, classic films, documentary films, and avant-garde films. We will treat each of these films as if it were a story or book, learning how to make sense of what the film is trying to do. Overall, you will learn how to view a film as if you were reading a book. We will watch films, we will discuss films, and we will write about films.
COURSE TITLE: Writer’s Workshop LENGTH/CREDITS: One trimester, 0.5 Credit PREREQUISITES: Availability within schedule COURSE DESCRIPTION: Learn writing at your own pace. You will read and write about things you like. You will read and write in a variety of genres. This is an English course with a focus on critical reading and writing. It is self-paced class. You must be able to work independently and with others.
COURSE TITLE: Hate Speech: The Power of Words LENGTH/CREDITS: One trimester, 0.5 Credit PREREQUISITES: Availability within schedule COURSE DESCRIPTION: This is a literature course devoted to the study of the affect that written, spoken, and oral language has on society. Students will dissect texts in terms of figurative language, imagery, symbolism, characterization, and looking closely at theme to gather an understanding of how we are shaped by the words we speak and hear.
COURSE TITLE: Rising Readers LENGTH/CREDITS: One trimester, 0.5 Credit PREREQUISITES: Availability within schedule COURSE DESCRIPTION: This will be a fall trimester course designed to support students who took Read-180 as freshmen as they transition out of it.
COURSE TITLE: Chicago Literature LENGTH/CREDITS: One trimester, 0.5 Credit PREREQUISITES: Availability within schedule COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course explores short fiction about Chicago. The stories reveal the lives and communities that usually do not get much attention and go uncelebrated. The purpose of the course is to look deeper into the people of our city to hopefully gain a better understanding of ourselves and our world. COURSE TITLE: The Writing Coach COURSE DESCRIPTION: This elective course invites students to explore writing as a process – and particularly, a social process. Through this course, students will become expert Writing Coaches for their peers and will, as part of the requirements of the course, commit approximately two hours per week outside of class to coaching at the NLCP Writing Center. In addition to learning how to be valuable outside readers to their peers, students in this course will develop new strategies for writing at all stages of the process, hone their mechanical skills, learn about writing in different genres and academic writing across the disciplines, and build confidence in themselves as writers and perceptive readers/editors. The students in this course will also work as a team to develop the NLCP Writing Center and plan for its future, including designing a publicity strategy, creating handouts for students about writing, and building connections with the larger Writing Center community.
COURSE TITLE: The Writing Coach Independent Study COURSE DESCRIPTION: Students who have successfully completed the one-trimester Writing Coach course are invited to continue their work in the NLCP Writing Center through this independent study. This independent study will serve as an additional class beyond the regular five each trimester and will require students to self-monitor their own progress. Each trimester, students must complete at least 30 hours of Writing Center work including at least 12 writing conferences with their peers. Beyond weekly Writing Center coaching shifts, students will write reflections about their conferences and their own growth, attend staff meetings to troubleshoot and collaborate with the other Writing Coaches, help out with Writing Center publicity efforts, and support other initiatives of the Writing Center.
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