2022-2023 Bradford Campus Catalog [Archived Catalog]
Course Information
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Please note, when searching courses by Catalog Number, an asterisk (*) can be used to return mass results. For instance a Catalog Number search of ” 1* ” can be entered, returning all 1000-level courses.
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THEA 1499 - INTERNSHIP: THEATRE ARTS
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
Practical experience in theatre in a professional setting. Work is directed by the employer and evaluated jointly with the faculty supervisor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
Course Requirements: Prerequisites: Upper-Level Courses require completion of ENG 0101, ENG 0102, FS 0102, and the MATH competency
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Women’s Studies |
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GSWS 0101 - INTRODUCTION TO GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND WOMEN’S STUDIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The purpose of this course is to provide an interdisciplinary overview of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. Course content will incorporate a range of conceptual tools and methods to critically analyze the ways in which social and cultural forces shape identity.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
General Education: Cultures
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WOMNST 1494 - UNDERGRADUATE FACULTY ASSISTANT
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
The undergraduate faculty assistant (UFA) serves as an assistant for a course or lab under the supervision of a faculty member. The experience develops students’ communication and leadership skills, and their understanding of the learning process. The responsibilities of the UFA will vary by the faculty supervisor. Responsibilities might include (but not limited to): assisting students outside of class (e.g., conducting weekly review sessions), assisting with classroom demonstrations, or assisting faculty with delivery of labs.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
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WOMNST 1499 - INTERNSHIP: WOMEN’S STUDIES
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
An internship is a special type of independent study in which the student works in a professional setting. The project is designed in consultation with the academic supervisor and conducted under the guidance of an on-site supervisor. An internship allows students to apply the knowledge and skills learned in the classroom to practical situations in a professional setting. Internships are assigned on the basis of student’s interest and the availability of positions.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
Course Requirements: Prerequisites: Upper-Level Courses require completion of ENG 0101, ENG 0102, FS 0102, and the MATH competency
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Writing |
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WRITNG 0106 - FICTION WRITING 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Explores the basic elements of fiction writing, including narrative, scene, character, and dialogue, as well as the habits necessary to grow as a writer. Students will read a wide variety of fiction in different forms and genres alongside essays on writing craft in order to develop a language for talking about how fiction works. Frequent writing exercises, often inspired by the readings, will underscore specific craft problems and perhaps generate longer stories. Students will write at least two short stories and 15 pages of significant revision and present their work for critique in a supportive workshop setting.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: UPB Arts General Ed. Requirement
General Education: Arts
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WRITNG 0107 - POETRY WRITING 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
In this introductory course, students will write and read widely, exploring various aspects of poetic craft, including imagery, metaphor, line, stanza, music, rhythm, diction, and tone. Students will also examine a number of poetic traditions, including the sonnet, the villanelle, the sestina, found poetry, and ekphrastic poetry. Through peer critique, students respond closely to the work of fellow writers in a supportive workshop.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: UPB Arts General Ed. Requirement
General Education: Arts
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WRITNG 0108 - CREATIVE NONFICTION 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Introduces the groundbreaking genre of creative nonfiction, exploring its many and fluid forms,including memoir, personal essays, immersion journalism, nature, travel, food, and spiritual writing, lyric essays, and flash nonfiction. Students will read a wide variety of works in the genre alongside essays on writing craft in order to develop techniques for telling their stories, including voice, scene, description, and structure. Frequent writing exercises, often inspired by the readings, will underscore specific craft problems and help to generate longer works. Students will write three pieces and at least 15 pages of revision, presenting their work for critique in a supportive workshop setting.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: UPB Arts General Ed. Requirement
General Education: Arts
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WRITNG 0109 - INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introduction to the four genres of creative writing: poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama. Students will explore aspects of poetic craft, including imagery, metaphor, stanza, music, rhythm, diction, and tone; experiment with element of storytelling such as narrative, scene, character, voice, and dialogue; and examine overlapping and distinct elements of drama such as structure, scene, and dialogue. Students will complete exercises, drafts, and a longer final project in the genre of their choice and present them for critique in a supportive workshop setting.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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WRITNG 0110 - SCRIPTWRITING FOR STAGE AND SCREEN
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is an introduction to dramatic writing as a way of telling stories. It is designed to expose students to the concepts of dramatic structure in scriptwriting with a focus on the craft of story. Students explore story structure, character development, use of conflict, scene writing, and dialogue, applying these basic dramatic principles to the development of their own original material. Students will participate in invention work, outlines/drafts, writing exercises, table readings, workshop review, discussion of plays and screenplays by professional writers, and giving and receiving feedback in a supportive workshop environment. Students will write monologues and brief plays as well as a longer final project of their choice, either a play, a television script, or a screenplay.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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WRITNG 0111 - LITERARY EDITING AND MAGAZINE PRODUCTION 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introductory seminar in the philosophical and practical issues of magazine production. Students will work in practical situations to become acquainted with the field of literary editing and magazine production including production values, editing practices, proofreading, layout and design, preparation of text, publicity, and promotion. Coursework will include researching and studying the history and traditions of literary magazines and examining ethical issues related to print media.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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WRITNG 0197 - DIRECTED STUDY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
Independent study in a topic in writing. Permission of the instructor is required.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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WRITNG 0210 - INTRODUCTION TO BLOGGING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
In this course, we will explore the form of the personal blog, examining the way expectations intersect with creative nonfiction and feature writing and also depart from it. We’ll examine the functions of teaching, persuading, curating, and, in particular, storytelling, looking at methods of reaching and moving audiences in a relatively short form as well as using social media to attract readers, cultivating an online presence and sense of community, and using a blog to establish a platform for your other writing. We’ll look at models of online blogs as well as blogs that became books. GE Arts
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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WRITNG 0211 - LITERARY EDITING AND MAGAZINE PRODUCTION 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An intermediate seminar in the philosophical and practical issues of magazine production. Students will continue work begun in literary editing and magazine production 1, further developing skills and knowledge of production values, editing practices, proofreading, layout and design, preparation of text, publicity, and promotion. Coursework will include researching and studying the history and traditions of literary magazines and examining ethical issues related to print media.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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WRITNG 0220 - FEATURE WRITING FOR MAGAZINES AND THE WEB
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students will explore the myriad ways that staff and freelance writers make a living producing features for magazines, the web, and other publications. Students will experiment with a variety of forms, including profiles of people and places, instructional, informational and service, essay, narrative and opinion, humor and satire, historical or inspirational, spot features and trend stories. Students will read examples from current print and online publication as well as articles on crafting features, writing four pieces throughout the semester and presenting them for critique in a supportive workshop setting.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: UPB Arts General Ed. Requirement
General Education: Arts
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WRITNG 0250 - SPECIAL TOPICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The study of a special topic in writing.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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WRITNG 1302 - FICTION WRITING 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will continue to examine the basic elements of fiction and models from different forms and genres, including short stories and novels, literary, fantasy, detective, women’s, and science fiction, as well as readings on craft. Frequent writing exercises and response papers to the readings will underscore specific craft issues. Students will write at least two short stories or novel excerpts as well as significant revision, presenting work for critique in a supportive workshop setting.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: Prerequisite: Completion of Competencies and WRITNG 0106
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WRITNG 1304 - POETRY WRITING 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
In this course, students will continue to explore poetic craft, reading and writing a variety of poetry as well as response papers to the readings that will underscore specific craft issues. Students will participate in writing exercises and produce a poem a week as well as revision, presenting their work for critique in a supportive workshop setting.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: UPB preq: WRITNG 0107&Competencies
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WRITNG 1305 - TECHNICAL WRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to teach students on-the-job writing skills. Much industrial writing is informative and involves explaining something to varied audiences. If you always hated awkward assembly instructions or confusing manuals, here’s your chance to change the world. The course will teach techniques of audience analysis, user-testing and fog indexing to predict the success of a document. Organization of data will be stressed along with revision, team writing and document design.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: Prerequisites: Upper-Level Courses require completion of ENG 0101, ENG 0102, FS 0102, and the MATH competency
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WRITNG 1311 - LITERARY EDITING AND MAGAZIONE PRODUCTION 3
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An advanced seminar in the philosophical and practical issues of magazine production. Students will continue work begun in literary editing and magazine production 1, further developing skills and knowledge of production values, editing practices, proofreading, layout and design, preparation of text, publicity, and promotion. Coursework will include advanced work in layout and design.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: Prerequisites: Upper-Level Courses require completion of ENG 0101, ENG 0102, FS 0102, and the MATH competency
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WRITNG 1401 - CREATIVE NONFICTION: LITERARY JOURNALISM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will focus on the immersion journalism branch of creative nonfiction, building on students’ skills for producing magazine, newspaper, and web features as well as exploring longer projects. Students will read examples of book-length works that bring together journalistic and creative writing techniques, then produce three longer articles or chapters of their own and presenting them for critique in a supportive workshop setting.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: UPB PRQ: WRITNG 108&COMPETENCY
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WRITNG 1402 - CREATIVE NONFICTION: WRITING FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will focus on creative nonfiction forms that use personal experience as a starting point, including memoir and the personal essay and their many offshoots: travel, nature, spiritual, and food writing, lyric essays, and flash nonfiction. Students will read a wide variety of works in the genre alongside essays on writing craft in order to continue developing techniques for telling their stories, participate in frequent writing exercises, and write three pieces and do significant revision, presenting their work for critique in a supportive workshop setting.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: UPB PRQ: WRITNG 108&COMPETENCY
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WRITNG 1450 - TOPICS IN WRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Advanced study of a special topic in journalism, fiction, poetry, or technical writing.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: Prerequisites: Upper-Level Courses require completion of ENG 0101, ENG 0102, FS 0102, and the MATH competency
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WRITNG 1451 - CAPSTONE: WRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A seminar which requires students to complete one or more major writing projects on and/or in a particular genre or topic and to give at least one seminar presentation.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: Prerequisites: Upper-Level Courses require completion of ENG 0101, ENG 0102, FS 0102, and the MATH competency
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WRITNG 1494 - UNDERGRADUATE FACULTY ASSISTANT
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
The undergraduate faculty assistant (UFA) serves as an assistant for a course or lab under the supervision of a faculty member. The experience develops students’ communication and leadership skills, and their understanding of the learning process. The responsibilities of the UFA will vary by the faculty supervisor. Responsibilities might include (but not limited to): assisting students outside of class (e.g., conducting weekly review sessions), assisting with classroom demonstrations, or assisting faculty with delivery of labs.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
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WRITNG 1497 - DIRECTED STUDY: WRITING
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
Directed study is designed to give students the opportunity to design and carry out a research project to be agreed upon by the student and the supervising faculty member.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: Prerequisites: Upper-Level Courses require completion of ENG 0101, ENG 0102, FS 0102, and the MATH competency
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WRITNG 1498 - DIRECTED RESEARCH: WRITING
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
Independent work on a writing project in poetry, fiction, or nonfiction supervised by a member of the writing faculty.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: Prerequisites: Upper-Level Courses require completion of ENG 0101, ENG 0102, FS 0104 (or FS 0102), and the MATH competency
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WRITNG 1499 - INTERNSHIP: WRITING
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
Practical experience in writing in a professional setting. Students work at campus or community offices and businesses, including newspapers and radio stations. Work is directed by the employer and evaluated jointly with the faculty supervisor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
Course Requirements: Prerequisites: Upper-Level Courses require completion of ENG 0101, ENG 0102, FS 0102, and the MATH competency
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