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ENGW 8130 is also offered in Spring 2025
ENGW 8130 is also offered in Spring 2024
ENGW 8130 is also offered in Spring 2023
ENGW 8130 is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2025 | ENGW 8130 Section 001: Seminar: Writing of Literary Nonfiction (64619)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 12 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Department Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025Mon 11:15AM - 01:45PMUMTC, East Bank
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (0 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Advanced workshop. Assignments in common and individual projects. prereq: dept consent
- Class Description:
- Grief Memoirs and Humorous Reminiscence: Nonfiction is often at its most powerful when it acknowledges deep grief - or achieves deep humor. In this seminar, we'll read to see how memoirists handle both loss and levity. What patterns can we see in works that handle extremely sad material?
How do writers excavate humor from ostensibly unfunny situations? How can we hit these emotional registers in our own work? We will think about why and how writers articulate intense experiences - and will also endeavor to analyze jokes without destroying them. Texts may include work by Elizabeth Alexander, Shalom Auslander, Elif Batuman, Alison Bechdel, Sonali Deraniyagala, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Roxane Gay, Leslie Jamison, Elizabeth McCracken, James Alan McPherson, Tig Notaro, Marjane Satrapi, David Sedaris, Gary Shteyngart, Sarah Vowell, and selected others. We will also read critical theory on humor writing, and watch some performance clips. This will be a combined seminar and writing workshop. - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/64619/1253
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 13 October 2015
Spring 2024 | ENGW 8130 Section 001: Seminar: Writing of Literary Nonfiction -- Nonfiction as Witness (64987)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 12 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Department Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2024 - 04/29/2024Thu 03:35PM - 06:05PMUMTC, East BankPillsbury Hall 312
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (6 of 10 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Advanced workshop. Assignments in common and individual projects. prereq: dept consent
- Class Description:
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/64987/1243
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 4 April 2017
Spring 2023 | ENGW 8130 Section 001: Seminar: Writing of Literary Nonfiction -- Writing About War (64577)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 12 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Department Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- Delivery ModeTopics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2023 - 05/01/2023Wed 03:35PM - 06:05PMUMTC, East BankPillsbury Hall 312
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (9 of 10 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Advanced workshop. Assignments in common and individual projects. prereq: dept consent
- Class Notes:
- Women Writing About War This course will focus on how we write about wars. In a world where there are more and more refugees all the time, in a state that is home to more refugees per capita than any other in the nation, we must contend with one of the primary sources of displacement. We will read literary nonfiction books written about wars from diverse authors, some refugees, others not. We will engage with how these authors portray war and its aftermath, engage with the big questions of who fights, who dies, who sacrifices. Are there victors in the carnage of humanity? *Of note: this class is taught by a refugee writer.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/64577/1233
Spring 2022 | ENGW 8130 Section 001: Seminar: Writing of Literary Nonfiction -- Science/Nature/Environment (65801)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 12 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Department Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/18/2022 - 05/02/2022Wed 03:35PM - 06:05PMUMTC, East BankPillsbury Hall 212
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (8 of 10 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Advanced workshop. Assignments in common and individual projects. prereq: dept consent
- Class Notes:
- In this literary nonfiction seminar, we will experiment with ways to incorporate elements of science, nature, and the environment into our writing, whether that means building an essay around an equation, questioning the assumptions at the heart of a given study in a piece of literary journalism, or deepening a memoir by telling stories of human and non-human histories of the land where it unfolds.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65801/1223
Spring 2021 | ENGW 8130 Section 001: Seminar: Writing of Literary Nonfiction -- Narrative Challenges in the Memoir (65489)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 8 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Department Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021Wed 03:35PM - 06:05PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (9 of 10 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Advanced workshop. Assignments in common and individual projects. prereq: dept consent
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65489/1213
Spring 2020 | ENGW 8130 Section 001: Seminar: Writing of Literary Nonfiction -- Research Techniques for Literary Nonfiction (65030)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Department Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020Wed 03:35PM - 06:05PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 207A
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (10 of 10 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Advanced workshop. Assignments in common and individual projects. prereq: dept consent
- Class Notes:
- Much of the richest contemporary nonfiction is informed by research--essays and memoir as much as literary journalism. In this seminar we'll explore research techniques that bring the broader world into personal stories, whether in the form of biology, history, genealogy, chemistry, photographs, or maps. We will visit the university archives, conduct interviews, untangle scientific research, learn to manage our piles of data and attempt to bend the information to our will. We will read model texts that are memoirs, essays, literary journalism, and hybrids. Finally, we'll discuss ways of incorporating facts without losing the scene, story, and individual voice that make literary nonfiction such a pleasure to read.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65030/1203
Spring 2019 | ENGW 8130 Section 001: Seminar: Writing of Literary Nonfiction -- Fractured Autobiographies: Lyric or Personal Essay (64767)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Department Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019Tue 03:35PM - 06:05PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 216
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (8 of 10 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Advanced workshop. Assignments in common and individual projects. prereq: dept consent
- Class Notes:
- This course studies the choices writers make between traditional personal essays and experimental non-fiction known as a lyric essay. Emphasis will be made on how autobiographical events and the life of the writer influence the form a non-fiction essay may take. A reading list of books of contemporary essays will be a major part of the course.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/64767/1193
Spring 2018 | ENGW 8130 Section 001: Seminar: Writing of Literary Nonfiction -- Nonfiction as Witness (67124)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Department Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018Tue 03:35PM - 06:05PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 202
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (9 of 10 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Advanced workshop. Assignments in common and individual projects. prereq: dept consent
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?kftodd+ENGW8130+Spring2018
- Class Description:
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67124/1183
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 4 April 2017
Spring 2017 | ENGW 8130 Section 001: Seminar: Writing of Literary Nonfiction -- Research Techniques for Literary Nonfiction (50240)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Department Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Tue 03:35PM - 06:05PMUMTC, East BankFolwell Hall 104
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Advanced workshop. Assignments in common and individual projects. prereq: dept consent
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?kftodd+ENGW8130+Spring2017
- Class Description:
- Research Techniques for Literary Nonfiction:
Much of the richest contemporary nonfiction is informed by research--essays and memoir as much as literary journalism. In this seminar we'll explore research techniques that bring the broader world into personal stories, whether in the form of biology, history, genealogy, chemistry, photographs, or maps. We will visit the university archives, conduct interviews, untangle scientific research, learn to manage our piles of data and attempt to bend the information to our will. We will read model texts that are memoirs, essays, literary journalism, and hybrids. Finally, we'll discuss ways of incorporating facts without losing the scene, story, and individual voice that make literary nonfiction such a pleasure to read. - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50240/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 7 September 2016
Spring 2016 | ENGW 8130 Section 001: Seminar: Writing of Literary Nonfiction -- Grief Memoirs and Humorous Reminiscence (50058)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Department Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016Thu 03:35PM - 06:05PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 50
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Advanced workshop. Assignments in common and individual projects. prereq: dept consent
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?vganesha+ENGW8130+Spring2016
- Class Description:
- Grief Memoirs and Humorous Reminiscence: Nonfiction is often at its most powerful when it acknowledges deep grief - or achieves deep humor. In this seminar, we'll read to see how memoirists handle both loss and levity. What patterns can we see in works that handle extremely sad material? How do writers excavate humor from ostensibly unfunny situations? How can we hit these emotional registers in our own work? We will think about why and how writers articulate intense experiences - and will also endeavor to analyze jokes without destroying them. Texts may include work by Elizabeth Alexander, Shalom Auslander, Elif Batuman, Alison Bechdel, Sonali Deraniyagala, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Roxane Gay, Leslie Jamison, Elizabeth McCracken, James Alan McPherson, Tig Notaro, Marjane Satrapi, David Sedaris, Gary Shteyngart, Sarah Vowell, and selected others. We will also read critical theory on humor writing, and watch some performance clips. This will be a combined seminar and writing workshop.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50058/1163
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 4 November 2015
Spring 2015 | ENGW 8130 Section 001: Seminar: Writing of Literary Nonfiction (50088)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Department Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Delivery MediumTopics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015Tue 03:35PM - 06:05PMUMTC, East BankAkerman Hall 227
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Advanced workshop. Assignments in common and individual projects. prereq: dept consent
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50088/1153
Spring 2014 | ENGW 8130 Section 001: Seminar: Writing of Literary Nonfiction (54929)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Department Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Delivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014Thu 03:35PM - 06:05PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 50
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Advanced workshop. Assignments in common and individual projects.
- Class Notes:
- The Researched Essay and Memoir
- Class Description:
- This course focuses on the reading and writing of researched non-fiction. These are essays and memoirs that often go outside of the immediate experiences and perceptions of the author and narrator to encompass the larger world. By stepping beyond the life of the writer, these essays and memoirs use history, culture, politics, travel, and the environment to build narratives from various points of view. We will study the difference between literary journalism and the researched personal essay. We will find effective ways of researching this kind of writing that lies outside of academic and scholarly texts. It is currently dominant in contemporary non-fiction and highly influential. We will read and discuss numerous books by some of today's leading writers in the field. Each student will be required to research, develop, and write two major essays.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54929/1143
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 3 October 2013
Spring 2013 | ENGW 8130 Section 001: Seminar: Writing of Literary Nonfiction (50037)
- Instructor(s)
- Patricia Francisco
- Class Component:
- Seminar
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Department Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Delivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013Thu 03:35PM - 06:05PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 216
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Advanced workshop. Assignments in common and individual projects.
- Class Notes:
- Literary Memoir
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50037/1133
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