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COURSE OFFERINGS and DESCRIPTIONS

For

SPRING 2020

OVERVIEW as in OWL EXPRESS Spring Semester 2020 CRN Time Days Course

Num/Sec Instructor Max Avail Location SES

15291 6:30PM-9:15PM W PRWR 6000/01 Harper, Michael 15 15 English Building- 235 1 15295 6:30PM-9:15PM T PRWR 6410/01 Giddens, Elizabeth 15 15 English Building- 140 1 15299 6:30PM-9:15PM R PRWR 6460/01 Plattner, Andrew 6 6 English Building- 231 1 16051 6:30PM-9:15PM M PRWR 6460/02 Grooms, Tony 15 15 English Building- 235 1 15300 6:30PM-9:15PM W PRWR 6490/01 Olson, Mitchell 8 8 English Building- 231 1 15296 3:30PM-6:15PM W PRWR 6500/01 Odom, Mary Lou 15 15 English Building- 140 1 15294 6:30PM-9:15PM M PRWR 6550/01 Figueiredo, Sergio 15 15 English Building- 140 1 15292 6:30PM-9:15PM R PRWR 6760/01 Palmer, Christopher 10 10 English Building- 235 1 15298 6:30PM-9:15PM R PRWR 7460/01 Plattner, Andrew 15 15 English Building- 231 1 16028 6:30PM-7:15PM W PRWR 7490/01 Olson, Mitchell 6 6 English Building- 231 1 15303 TBA-TBA PRWR 7600/01 Smith-Sitton, Lara Smith 0 0 Not Assigned 1 15304 TBA-TBA PRWR 7950/01 Staff 0 0 Not Assigned 1 15305 TBA-TBA PRWR 7960/01 Grooms, Tony 0 0 Not Assigned 1

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COURSES by CONCENTRATION CREDIT

Core requirement

CRN Time Days Course

Num/Sec Instructor Max Avail Location

15291 6:30PM-9:15PM W PRWR 6000/01 Harper, Michael 15 15 English Building- 235

Credit in All Concentrations

CRN Time Days Course

Num/Sec Instructor Max Avail Location

15292 6:30PM-

9:15PM R PRWR 6760/01 Palmer,

Christopher 10 10 English

Building- 235

Applied Concentration Credit

CRN Time Days Course

Num/Sec Instructor Max Avail Location

15295 6:30PM-9:15PM T PRWR 6410/01 Giddens, Elizabeth 15 15 English Building- 140

15294 6:30PM-9:15PM M PRWR 6550/01 Figueiredo, Sergio 15 15 English Building- 140

15292 6:30PM-9:15PM R PRWR 6760/01 Palmer, Christopher 10 10 English Building- 235

Creative Writing Credit CRN Time Days Course

Num/Sec Instructor Max Avail Location SES

16051 6:30PM-9:15PM M PRWR 6460/02 Grooms, Tony 15 15 English Building- 235 1 15300 6:30PM-9:15PM W PRWR 6490/01 Olson, Mitchell 8 8 English Building- 231 1 15292 6:30PM-9:15PM R PRWR 6760/01 Palmer, Christopher 10 10 English Building- 235 1 15298 6:30PM-9:15PM R PRWR 7460/01 Plattner, Andrew 15 15 English Building- 231 1 16028 6:30PM-7:15PM W PRWR 7490/01 Olson, Mitchell 6 6 English Building- 231 1 15295 6:30PM-

9:15PM T PRWR 6410/01 Giddens,

Elizabeth 15 15 English

Building- 140

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Mustafa chats with visiting British author Aminatta Forna.

Rhetoric & Composition Credit CRN Time Days Course

Num/Sec Instructor Max Avail Location

15296 3:30PM-6:15PM W PRWR 6500/01 Odom, Mary Lou 15 15 English

Building- 140

15292 6:30PM-9:15PM R PRWR

6760/01 Palmer, Christopher 10 10 English

Building-

235

Varied Credit CRN Time Days Course

Num/Sec Instructor Max Avail Location

15303 TBA-TBA PRWR 7600/01 Smith-Sitton, Lara Smith 0 0 Not

Assigned

15304 TBA-TBA PRWR 7950/01 Staff 0 0 Not

Assigned

15305 TBA-TBA PRWR 7960/01 Grooms, Tony 0 0 Not

Assigned

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Course Descriptions and Notes

15291 6:30PM-9:15PM W PRWR 6000/01 Harper, Michael 15 15 English Building- 235 1

PRWR 6000: Issues and Research in Professional Writing

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: Admission to the MAPW program or permission of the graduate program director.

The course is the required core course in the Master of Arts in Professional Writing (MAPW) program. It

introduces students to the three program concentrations applied writing, composition and rhetoric, and

creative writing by focusing on key issues, theories, and research methods specific to each field as well

as those that cut across all three concentrations. The course provides the necessary foundation of

knowledge, skills, and practice through a variety of readings on contemporary issues and through

discussion, critique, and application of research methodologies for students to complete MAPW

requirements and course work within their concentration and support areas.

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15295 6:30PM-9:15PM T PRWR 6410/01 Giddens, Elizabeth 15 15 English Building- 140 1

PRWR 6410: Feature Writing

This course will count for both applied and creative writing credit.

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: Admission to the MAPW program or permission of the graduate program director

Features present the human, “soft” side of news and are published in websites, blogs, and online

magazines or their print counterparts and newspapers. Features may be written in first or third person

and give writers the opportunity to share their personality, voice, and insights with readers. They may be

serious, informative, entertaining, or humorous. They include many types such as profiles, how-to

articles, columns (personal, advice, and pundit varieties), slice-of-life stories, travel stories,

backgrounders, and reviews. KSU even has its own student feature magazine, The Peak, which may be

one place to send finished pieces.

In this course, students will use both nonfiction and fiction writing techniques to produce features about

people, places, trends, and events that are meaningful to the writer and to readers. The course includes

ways to research, draft, and pitch story ideas to publishers. Students will practice writing ledes,

descriptions, anecdotes, and background passages, and they will learn to use quotes and dialogue from

interviews and observations. Students will produce three features: one sidebar, one mid-length piece,

and one long profile or investigative piece. Ideally, all three pieces will share research on one topic; both

field research methods (interviews and observations) and library research will be used.

The main text for the course will be eight weeks of the New York Times Magazine (online or print)

because it publishes a range of features every week by skilled contemporary writers. For example, a

recent issue included a profile of Venus Williams, a column about crickets, a sidebar about fitness

trackers, a health story about a heart condition, a story (with recipe) about shortbread cookies, ethical

advice, and a piece about why Neil Young hates streaming music. For the first two months of the course,

the class will analyze and discuss each week’s features and consider the writing lessons they provide.

Additional texts will be Jack Hart’s Storycraft and Mark Kramer and Wendy Call’s Telling True Stories,

which offer succinct, helpful advice by experts.

Texts: Hart, Jack. Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction. Univ. of Chicago Pr., 2012

Kramer, Mark and Wendy Call. Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman

Foundation at Harvard University. Plume, 2007 New York Times Magazine (January 12-March 1,

2020 issues)

Questions? Please contact Dr. Giddens at egiddens@kennesaw.edu or 470-578-6766.

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16051 6:30PM-9:15PM M PRWR 6460/02 Grooms, Tony 15 15 English Building- 235 1

PRWR 6460: (Beginning) Fiction Writing

NOTE: This is beginning fiction writing. If you’ve had beginning fiction writing, take advanced fiction

writing PRWR 7960—see below. Also, you do not need a prerequisite to take this course. If you are

unsure about whether the course is right for you, contact Prof. Grooms at tgrooms@kennesaw.edu.

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: Admission to the MAPW program or permission of the graduate program director.

In this seminar and workshop the beginning graduate student writer will examine prose fiction writing

by exploring literary works and literary theory, and by work shopping with original manuscripts. The

manuscripts may be drafts of complete short works, or, by arrangement, substantial sections of long

works. In addition to the study and practice of prose writing, the student will encounter the processes

and institutions that comprise the "literature field," the professional field in which creative writing is

situated. The goals of the course are to strengthen the student’s knowledge (1) of narrative technique

and analysis; (2) of heuristics, revision and editing; (3) of professional processes and institutions; (4) of

recent literary history and current trends; (5) and, to encourage intellectual and creative thinking by

practice in composing, drafting, and editing original manuscripts

15300 6:30PM-9:15PM W PRWR 6490/01 Olson, Mitchell 8 8 English Building- 231 1

PRWR 6490: Screen and Television Writing

This course will focus on screen writing. It is

cross-listed with PRWR 7490-Advanced Screen

and Television Writing. If you have already

had PRWR 6490, take PRWR 7490, below.

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit

Hours

Prerequisite: Admission to the MAPW program

or permission of the graduate program

director.

Workshop course in writing for cinema, radio

and television. Study and practice in effective

screenplay writing techniques, on air report

writing, on screen news writing and the

principles of script writing, evaluation and

promotion will be examined.

Mitch Olson teaches at the Georgia Film

Academy summer program.

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15296 3:30PM-6:15PM W PRWR 6500/01 Odom, Mary Lou 15 15 English Building- 140 1

PRWR 6500: Teaching Writing in High Schools and Colleges

This course is required of First-Year Teaching Assistants, but it is open to ALL students.

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: Admission to the MAPW program or permission of the graduate program director.

An investigation into the theories and practices that have shaped writing instruction over the past thirty

years. Students will examine student-centered instruction, writing process theories, current methods of

assessment, technologies of writing, and other important advances in order to produce curricular design

for high school and college writing classes.

15294 6:30PM-9:15PM M PRWR 6550/01 Figueiredo, Sergio 15 15 English Building- 140 1

PRWR 6550: Document Design and Desktop Publishing

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: Admission to the MAPW program or permission of the graduate program director.

Principles and practice in computer-aided publishing. Examine word processing and desktop publishing

capabilities, develop graphic and text design experience, explore the skills needed to produce

professional quality newsletters, brochures, reports, pamphlets and books.

15292 6:30PM-9:15PM R PRWR 6760/01 Palmer, Christopher 10 10 English Building- 235 1

PRWR 6760: World Englishes

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: Admission to the MAPW program, or permission of the graduate program director

This course challenges the notion that there is an English language, focusing on the use and spread of different varieties of English around the globe. Students will analyze examples of standard and nonstandard dialects from different continents and cultures, particularly with an eye on the use of English in different professional writing contexts. How can research on world Englishes inform creative writers’ use of dialect in dialogue or narrative? Or applied writers’ understanding of international writing conventions in different business or non-profit contexts? Or the teaching of writing to speakers who use one or more Englishes in academic or professional communication? Assignments will task students to research world Englishes and apply that research to professional projects that interest them, including (but not limited to) linguistic and/or literary analysis of writing that incorporates one or more world Englishes; original creative writing incorporating dialect in prose, poetry, stage, screen, or games; or pedagogical materials for teaching dialect in composition classrooms.

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HE SAID/SHE SAID?

“While he and she are both old forms, they have different histories: he emerged from the earliest stages of English, while she was not used until the Middle English period. (The earliest speakers used other feminine pronouns, such as hēo and hīe.)” 1

To learn more about the history and variations of the English

language, take World Englishes with Dr. Chris Palmer, Associate Professor of English, Linguistics

& Literature. The course is designed to be useful to Applied, Creative and Rhet/Comp students

and credit will be given in each area. To learn more about Dr. Palmer and his new book,

Teaching Language Variation in the Classroom, click here.

1 MLA Style Center. “Teaching the History of the English Language: An Interview with Chris Palmer and

Colette Moore.” WEB.

15298 6:30PM-9:15PM R PRWR 7460/01 Plattner, Andrew 9 9 English Building- 231 1

PRWR 7460: Advanced Fiction Writing

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: Admission to the MAPW program, or permission of the graduate program director.

This is an advanced course in the writing of fiction. Short stories and novellas may be studied. Small-

group critique, one-on-one conferences and peer revision techniques may be used.

Note May be repeated for credit.

16028 6:30PM-7:15PM W PRWR 7490/01 Olson, Mitchell 6 6 English Building- 231

PRWR 7490: Advanced Screen and Television Writing

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: Admission to the MAPW program, or permission of the graduate program

director. This is an advanced course in the writing of scripts. Scripts for both film and TV may

be studied. Small-group critique, one-on-one conferences and peer revision techniques may be

used.

Note May be repeated for credit.

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MAPW students at work.

15303 TBA-TBA PRWR 7600/01 Smith-Sitton, Lara 0 0 Not Assigned 1

PRWR 7600: Internship Enrollment in this course provides graduate students in the MAPW program to earn credit

hours for engagement with internships in the three concentrations—applied writing, creative

writing, or rhetoric & composition. With a flexible schedule of conferences and a range of

assignment options, graduate students receive opportunities to receive faculty support,

develop professional materials, and maximize their internship experiences in line with

professional and academic interests. This course is a part of the KSU English Department’s

Signature Internship Program. Prerequisites: To register for the closed course, students must

secure an internship and submit an application for the Signature Internship Program for

approval by the Director of Community Engagement (an override for registration will be

provided). 3.0 GPA Credit Hours: 3 or 6 credit hours, depending on the internship commitment.

Contact Dr. Lara Smith-Sitton/ Office: English Building (EB 27), Room 220 Email: lsmith11@kennesaw.edu/ Phone: 470-578-3943

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15304 TBA-TBA PRWR 7950/01 Staff 0 0 Not Assigned 1

PRWR 7950 Directed Study (student arranges with faculty member)

An intensive, advanced investigation of selected topics derived from individual courses of study. The content will be determined jointly by the instructor, the student, and the student’s advisor. The proposed course of study must be submitted to the graduate director by a deadline published each term for MAPW Committee approval. Credits: 3-0-3 (repeatable once). Proposals must be submitted to Program Director by December 9, 2019 in order to be submitted to the Registrar for Spring 2020 enrollment. See instructions at https://chss.kennesaw.edu/mapw/resources.php.

15305 TBA-TBA PRWR 7960/01 Advisors 0 0 Not Assigned 1

PRWR 7960 MAPW Capstone (Student arranges with 2 advisors) A project designated as a thesis, portfolio or practicum and accompanied by a rationale for its purpose and design that involves electronic and/or print media and is relevant to the student’s concentration in professional writing. Prerequisite: Completion of 27 credit hours in the MAPW program and at least four courses in the concentration; approval of capstone committee. Proposals must be submitted to Program Coordinator by December 9, 2019 in order to be submitted to the Registrar for Spring 2020 enrollment. See instructions at https://chss.kennesaw.edu/mapw/resources.php.