This course considers how literature represents environmental change and crisis, and shapes our understanding of the natural world. How can poetry provide new ways for thinking through extinction, conservation, and environmental justice? We explore these issues by reading a selection of environmental poetry in conversation with key texts from the environmental humanities.

An introductory exploration of the English language, its history, current areas of change and future. Related topics such as how dictionaries are made and the structure of the modern publishing industry. Students learn about editing, proofreading and page layout; the course also entails a comprehensive review of grammar and punctuation.

Topics course: Reading and discussion of all Waugh’s novels (and some of his travel-books and journalism), from his early satires of the 1920s and 30s such as Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies, through his turn to explicit religious polemic in Brideshead Revisited and Helena, to his re-creation of the Second World War in the trilogy Sword of Honour. By permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 12.

Same as ENG 301. Conceived as the culmination of an undergraduate poet’s work, this course features a rigorous immersion in creative generation and revision. Student poets write a chapbook manuscript with thematic and/or stylistic cohesion (rather than disparate poems, as in prior workshop settings). For Poetry Concentrators, this course counts as the required Capstone; for English majors in the Creative Writing track, the course counts as an advanced workshop, and may count toward the fulfillment of the “capstone experience” requirement.

Same as PYX 301. Conceived as the culmination of an undergraduate poet's work, this course features a rigorous immersion in creative generation and revision. Student poets write a chapbook manuscript with thematic and/or stylistic cohesion (rather than disparate poems, as in prior workshop settings). For Poetry Concentrators, this course counts as the required Capstone; for English majors in the Creative Writing track, the course counts as an advanced workshop, and may count toward the fulfillment of the "capstone experience" requirement.

Thiscourse will help more advanced fiction writers improve their skills in a supportive workshop context, which encourages experimentation and attention to craft.We focus on technique, close reading, and the production of new work. Studentssubmit manuscripts for discussion, receive feedback from peers, and revise their work. They keep a process journal and practice mindfulness to cultivate powers of focus and observation. We readReading Like a Writer by Francine Prose, and short fiction by authors in different genres.A writing sample and permission of the instructor are required.

Same as IDP 290. An intermediate-level workshop in which writers develop their skills through intensive reading, writing, revising, and critique. Topic changes annually. Emphasis on narrative writing, broadly defined to include a variety of genres, depending on the interests of the current holder of the Lakes writing residency. Enrollment limited to 12: This interdisciplinary course explores community-engaged scholarship connecting marginalized communities with academics to jointly address our world's complex social problems.

A study of the major poems and selected prose of John Milton, radical and conservative, heretic and defender of the faith, apologist for regicide and advocate of human dignity, committed revolutionary andRenaissance humanist, and a poet of enormous creative power and influence, whose epic, Paradise Lost, changed subsequent English Literature. Not open to first-year students.

In this course we read as writers and write as readers, analyzing the poetic devices and strategies employed in a diverse range of contemporary poetry; gaining practical use of these elements to create a portfolio of original work; and developing the skills of critique and revision. In addition, students read and write on craft issues, and attend Poetry Center readings/Q&A’s. Writing sample and permission of the instructor are required. Enrollment limited to 12.

A writer’s workshop that focuses on sharpening and expanding each student’s fiction writing skills, as well as broadening and deepening her understanding of the short and long-form work. Exercises will concentrate on generative writing using a range of techniques to feed one's fictional imagination. Students will analyze and discuss each other's stories, and examine thewritings of established authors. Writing sample and permission of the instructor are required.