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Spring 2010 Courses - Writing Program
(Notice for Writing Program students: Early registration usually guarantees students get the courses they want; last-minute registration means students may not find room to enroll. Please read ALL course notes and notices below this schedule before selecting your courses for the term. Saturday courses are designed for students from both D.C. and Baltimore, even if they are listed only at one campus. Other courses combine students from two campuses using online tools and video-conferencing equipment. Full course descriptions are available online at http://writing.jhu.edu). (IMPORTANT NOTE: Full or Canceled courses are highlighted in the schedules below during the current registration period but may not reflect up-to-the-minute status. For real-time status of whether courses are full or canceled, please see https://isis.jhu.edu/classes)
Notes to the Writing ProgramWaiting Lists
Video Conference / Online-Supported Courses
General Notes and Requirements COURSE NOTES 490.655.06 & .56 Poetry Techniques (Baltimore & DC) This course combines students from both campuses into a single class, using live video conferencing and online teaching tools. The instructor will regularly visit both campuses to teach on-site. 490.709.05 & .56 Science in Action (Washington and Baltimore) This new course takes students to the front lines of science, labs, and current research, with a focus on developing writing ideas, reporting skills, and the craft of explanatory writing. Depending on individual student interest, this course is designed as a companion or alternative to our Medicine in Action course at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Science in Action focuses on fields beyond medicine and health, including space, environment, energy, climate change, and other topics. While this course will meet in regular classrooms for most of the term, the course also involves four to six field trips during regular class time but beyond the student's home campus – including the student’s choice of one of two available Saturday field trips. To help students plan, tentative dates for these trips will be announced weeks in advance, before the course begins. This course also may use video conference technology or digital teaching tools to link to out-of-town labs or events, to discuss research with guest scientists, and to combine students from Washington and Baltimore. Teaching Writing 490.712.01 (Washington) 490.743 Trends in Narrative Poetry For much of the past century, lyric poetic forms were favored so much that the reading public almost forgot narrative poems existed. But a close look at poetry from Frost, Robinson, and Jeffers reveals the beginnings of modernist narrative that survives richly into the 21st Century. From older poems like Frost's "Maple" or Warren's "Audubon," to today's longer works such as Bricuth's "Just Let Me Say This About That" or Leithauser's "Darlington's Fall," readers frequently find a symbiotic combination of lyric and narrative elements so closely enjoined it is impossible to tease them apart. In this new reading course, poetry and fiction students focus on a broad selection of styles, forms, and subjects to explore narrative arc, character and scene development, dialogue, imagery, metaphor, and other elements. Poets will compose shorter narrative poems, and fiction writers will practice tight, intense narrative using poetic devices. 490.801.01 and .51 Thesis and Publication (DC and Baltimore)
490.888.01 and .51 Thesis Continuation (
Faculty Advisors Fiction, All Campuses
Nonfiction, Washington: Cathy Alter, 202-288-0842, calter1@jhu.edu Science-Medical Writing, All Campuses
Poetry, All Campuses
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