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ENGL3460J – Introduction to Literary Journalism (Winter Program)

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Credits: 2

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Description:

The focus of this course is the intersection between journalism and literature; its aim, to encourage students to develop a journalistic and critical understanding of some of the finest reportage in the English language and engage in some of its practices. The class will survey the work of a generous range of print journalists, analyze relationships between form and content, as well as the historical context in which the pieces were produced. Finally, students will look at trends in digital literature and blogging and engage in creating pieces of literary journalism themselves.

Course Topics:

1.The divergence between tradition journalistic reporting and creative nonfiction, which started in the 1950s
2.Analyzing the qualities of this new type of literature and evaluating what makes one of these pieces ??good.??
3.Looking at travel writing as both a genre and as a profession, and thinking about the differences between public-facing essays and academic writing essays.
4.Engage in the practices of creative journalism with profile essays and autoethnographic essays that explore writers?? experiences.
5.Learning how research is both done and integrated into professional essays.
6.Looking at what digital literature is, how is it new and how is it old, and how we can best learn from its practices.