COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
SPRING 2007
English 101 – Introduction to Expository Writing
4 semester hours
Wilkerson, Carmiele
This course has been designed to aid in your development into a confident, responsible and persuasive writer. By the end of this course, students will
- develop competency in all stages of the writing process
- develop critical thinking and reading skills
- develop a writing standard consistent with the MLA style guide
English 101 - Introduction to Expository Writing: Writing and the Environment
4 semester hours
Savola, David
This section of ENGL 101 focuses on writing and the environment. The course explores the ways in which people have used writing as a means of understanding the rights, duties, and obligations we have in relation to the natural environment.
This course will offer students the opportunity to learn to write effective thesis statements and arguments, to support arguments with evidence, to write in clear prose, and to consider their audience. It will also help students to approach writing as a process, from initial planning through drafting and revision, and to conduct college-level research. Course work will include reading the work of numerous environmentally-concerned writers, keeping a journal of informal responses to course readings, writing multiple drafts of four papers, writing a research paper of 6 to 8 pages, and a final essay exam. Instruction in the MLA system of documentation is included. Writing intensive.
English 101 – Introduction to Expository Writing
4 semester hours
Dixon, Kent
English 101 introduces writing on the college level. Its purpose is to foster the skills necessary to produce coherent, persuasive prose: developing ideas thoroughly, using rhetorical strategies appropriate to subject and audience, focusing and supporting a thesis, structuring well developed paragraphs, generating mature and effective sentences. Choosing precise and expressive language, and observing the conventions of written prose.
Individual sections employ a variety of techniques for inculcating standards of good prose; but all 101 classes require a variety of writing assignments including paragraphs and short essays written in and out of class (about 4000 words is total), a short research paper designed to introduce techniques of library research and documentation (about 2000 words), and a final in-class examination. Our main "text" will be The New York Times.
English 101 – Introduction to Expository Writing
4 semester hours
Fallon, D’Arcy
English 101 introduces students to academic reading and writing processes. You will develop critical reading, writing, and thinking skills through class discussions based on readings in Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers. As you make your way through these essays and articles by the writers, remember that the dictionary lists “essay” only secondarily as a noun. It is first a verb—“to try out; attempt.” In this course, you’ll be developing your own voice and testing your own thoughts in response to the assigned readings. The textbook reflects diverse viewpoints and voices exploring the signs and symbols of popular culture, including those found in film and television, advertising, modern-day heroes and icons, consumerism, etc.
English 101 – Introduction to Expository Writing
4 semester hours
Dixon, Mimi
In this course, students will work through the writing process, from planning to revising and editing essays. Our text for the course will be Seeing & Writing, which provides visual images and readings that will invite us to think critically about popular culture, everything from images of beauty in advertising, to ethnic stereotypes in film, gender roles on TV and music videos, to cultural icons and heroes. Writing in the course will move from more personal essays to researched arguments. The course will also provide an introduction to using Wittenberg's research resources in the library and on the Internet.
English 101 – Expository Writing
4 semester hours
Incorvati, Rick
This course aims to sharpen your writing by developing your skills in argumentation, the assumption being that the qualities often valued in a variety of writing tasks—qualities like clarity, strong critical thinking, logical organization, and unity—are salient features of successful argumentative writing. In the process of practicing this style of composition, you will have opportunities to hone your research, public speaking, and writing skills, and you will read essays by some influential writers who have used their argumentative techniques to persuade readers on topics such as environmental policy, civil rights, and freedom of speech issues. The writing component of this class involves multiple drafts and the sharing of critical feedback among classmates.
English 101 – Introduction to Expository Writing
4 semester hours
Hinson, Scot
"Art is not meant to be polite, secret, coded, or timid. Art is the sphere in which the impulse to hide and lie is the most dangerous." Dorothy Allison, "This is Our World".
Taking intellectual and emotional risks lies at the heart of writing. Testing your limits, stretching your intellectual and creative abilities, expanding the boundaries of your intellectual and emotion lives - this is the writer's project. You will only realize your full potential as a thinker and writer by doing more and better work that you ever thought possible, and, above all, by learning to take risks. This course provides you the opportunities and the environment in which to take the risks necessary for writing well.
English 101 is a composition course designed to give you intensive practice in the art of expository writing. The course emphasizes the writing process and the development of clear and purposeful, well-focused writing which addresses a well-defined audience. English 101 will call on your analytical and organizational skills, as well as provide opportunities for you to enhance your ability to design and structure writing and to improve your technical expertise. The course will focus on the conventions of academic discourse and selecting, integrating, and documenting sources. This course is also designed to teach you how to read and write effectively in the University. Also, it will help you to discover that reading and writing are not separate activities, but closely related ones. The course is founded on a belief that learning to read, and see, critically is essential to becoming a proficient, accomplished writer. English 101 requires a series of shorter essays, 4 longer, 5-7 page essays, and an 8-10 page researched essay. There will be a midterm and a final.
English 101 – Introduction to Expository Writing
4 semester hours
McClelland, Michael
This course will teach the writing process through essays, extensive class discussion and work shopping, reading, and journal-keeping. Students will improve their academic writing skills, including grammar and punctuation, and will learn that there is much more to successful writing than the dreaded five-paragraph essay. Along the way, students should learn more about themselves, their world and the many different values of writing, including the revolutionary concept that writing can be fun.
Class requirement includes four papers, class attendance and participation, regular journal writing and frequent in-class writing.
English 101 – Introduction to Expository Writing
4 semester hours
Buckman, Ty
This is a composition course in which students will improve their ability to write clear, forceful prose, to formulate and support a compelling thesis, to employ rhetorical strategies effectively, and, when appropriate, to observe the conventions of academic writing. In the course of the term students will explore a variety of forms, from film reviews to academic research papers, and will also work collaboratively in writing workshops to aid in the revision of their prose. Because the best way to learn to write is to practice writing, some form of written work will be required at nearly every class meeting. This section of English 101 will be unusual in that the majority of readings and other content in the course first appeared in a single year, 1929, and the final research assignment will involve examining life in Springfield during that year as well. Four papers and a final examination.
English 101: Introduction to Expository Writing: Reading the Signs
4 semester hours
Askeland, Lori
English 101 introduces students to academic reading and writing processes. You will develop critical reading, writing, and thinking skills through class discussions as well as through the rhetorical analysis of various texts based on the readings in Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers. The essays reflect diverse viewpoints and voices exploring the signs and symbols of popular culture, including those found in film and television, advertising, icons and idols, consumerism, etc. Writing assignments: Three argumentative or persuasive essays based on readings in the textbook using MLA-style documentation. The fourth assignment is a researched essay.
English 101 – Introduction to Expository Writing
4 semester hours
Smith, J. Fitz
This course is designed to illustrate the potential of the written word---the potential to present well-wrought ideas carefully and persuasively. At once intensely personal and inevitable public, writing allows one to not simply describe but also create a world. This course, then, will strengthen the mastery of the elements of style as it will assist in reconceiving our relationship to the world around us. Focusing on both analytical and nonfiction essays, our readings will provide materials and models for our discussions and essays. In addition to several short essays, the course’s requirements also include a commitment to discussion; this is not a lecture course, so the student is strongly encouraged to bring ideas, questions, insights and observations to each class meeting. Ultimately, this course prepares the student to meet the expectations that you will encounter in your academic career and beyond: you will be expected to read critically and thoughtfully, to organize your ideas into a coherent argument, and to present your thoughts with confidence and grace.
English 101 – Introduction to Expository Writing
4 semester hours
Hayes, Karen
Preparation of the academic essay is the focus of this writing intensive course. Students read essays from several different academic disciplines in order to prompt their own writing on issues from these fields. Emphasizing writing as a process, the course asks students to prepare several drafts of their work. We will work together to improve style and grow as college-level writers and thinkers. Five revised essays, two tests, and informal journals and quizzes will be evaluated during the term.
English 180 – War in Literature and Film
4 semester hours
Jones, Mary Ellen
Prerequisite: ENGL 101
There will be wars and rumors of wars....From the Biblical assaults on the walls of Jericho to yesterday's car bombs in Bagdad, war seems always with us. Apparently, war is an archetypal experience. Combat changes soldiers forever and, as it becomes more total, affects civilians as well. The course readings will range from the American Civil War through World Wars I and II to Vietnam and the Gulf War and perhaps, given published materials, even to the present "war on terrorism". Readings will be supplemented by occasional films. Writing will include several short papers and one long one. Active class participation is a must.
English 180: Themes and Traditions in Literature: Lit. and the Natural World
4 semester hours
Savola, David
Prerequisite: ENGL 101
The natural world is affected by the language we use to describe it. Whether we call it “the howling wilderness,” “the fresh, green breast of the new world,” or “mother earth,” literary depictions of the natural world encode powerful cultural assumptions about the land, our relationship to it, and our rights and obligations concerning the creatures who inhabit it. In this course, we will examine the way literature has been used to understand our relationship to the natural world. Our readings will be primarily American essays, fiction, and poetry, from the 18th through the 20th centuries. Writing assignments will involve literary analysis of assigned texts. Students will keep a journal of informal responses to assigned readings. There will be 3- 4 major papers, and a final essay exam. Writing intensive
ENGLISH 180 – “Words and Worlds: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis”
4 semester hours
Hayes, Karen
Prerequisite: ENGL 101
Recently hailed as “the writer of the century,” Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien was actually less a public figure during his own lifetime than his friend C.S. Lewis, best known today for his Chronicles of Narnia. Both were professors of literature who gathered regularly with other academic friends to discuss the works they studied and taught as well as their own creations – and both have recently emerged as sources for major films. In this class, we’ll study some of Lewis and Tolkien’s works, paying particular attention to the way in which the worlds they created reflect the 20th century world in which they lived. Be prepared for lots of reading; these authors are neither simple nor brief, but they are fascinating. Students will write one longer essay and three brief papers, respond to several quizzes and exams, and be part of presentation teams in this writing intensive course.
English 180 - Gender Trouble
4 semester hours
Incorvati, Rick
Prerequiste: ENGL 101
In reading Shakespeare’s As You Like It, we come across the famous lines “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” The idea here sounds simple enough, but it can get complicated when men and women don’t always stick to their roles. In fact, in the same play where we find these lines, we watch the heroine, Rosalind, conceal her true identity under the dress of a man, a masking that becomes all the more complicated when she finds herself/himself in the company of Orlando, the man she loves. Plays, novels, poems, and films frequently revel in the dramatic potential of such gender play, and in this course we will undertake a survey of such works. In addition to the role swapping found in As You Like It and in films like Boy’s Don’t Cry, we will consider stories in which characters actually shift from one sex to another, as in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, and stories in which desire deviates significantly from convention, as in films like Brokeback Mountain and in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room. The course will also consider what some influential theorists, from Plato on up to contemporary critics, have had to say about gender and sexuality. This writing intensive course will involve several interpretive papers and several exams.
English 180 - Literature and the Green World
4 semester hours
Dixon, Mimi
Prerequisite: ENGL 101
"Through metaphor to reconcile/ The people and the stones." -WC Williams
This introduction to literature will look at the ways fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction explore our human relation to the natural world. We will begin with myths which narrate origins or transformations, blurring boundaries between the human and the "green world" of nature. We will read the Greek romance Daphnis and Chloe and Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, both taking us into an innocent or magical "green world" that provides an escape from restrictrive laws and corruptions of the city. From these early works, we will move on to Milton's Eden, Romantic and contemporary poetry, a novel by Thomas Hardy, essays by Thoreau and Annie Dillard, and Stoppard's contemporary play Arcadia. Writing assignments will include several critical and creative pieces, and a final essay exam. Writing Intensive.
English 180 - Film Noir
4 semester hours
Hinson, Scot
Prerequisite: ENGL 101
Film noir, or "black film," has been variously labeled as a period in film history, a style of film, and as a separate film genre with its own themes and conventions. No matter how you define it, films labeled as film noir are "deeply unromantic" films that "take a sneaking delight in their displays of passion gone wrong and of murderous calculation confounded". This course will examine the distinctive "noir" visual style and the characteristic "noir" thematics of lives ruled by an unkind fate. We will also trace the history of film noir from its origins in German expressionism and postwar nihilism, to its golden period in the 1940's and 1950's, and to its persistence through the rest of the 20th century in neo-noir (post classic noir or nouveau noir). We will also look at the debt these films owe to what the French called "serie noir," the searing crime and detective fiction of the 1930's, 40's, and 50's. We will also examine particularly closly the cultural work of these films and their representations. Our goals will include confronting and exploring film noir's and neo-noir's sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, and racism. The course requires weekly screenings of film outside of class on Wednesdays from 3:00-6:00 PM. In addition, we will have frequent quizzes, several short papers, a long paper, a midterm and final examination.
English 190 A/C – Afro-Caribbean Literature: Migratory Subjects
4 semester hours
Wilkerson, Carmiele
Prerequisite: ENGL 101
This course will introduce students to the literary works and cultural history of English-speaking Caribbean authors. This semester, we will examine essays, poetry, and novels by several authors who were born in the Caribbean and migrated to the UK, Canada and the US. We will discover the beauty of works by selected authors as they lead us on the path of discovery into the world of nationhood, language and African Diasporic culture.
English 200 – Introduction to Literary Studies
4 semester hours
Smith, J. Fitz
Prerequisite: ENGL 170, 180 or 190
Introduction to the discipline and methodology of literary study. Designed to refine skills in critical reading and writing, to build a vocabulary of analytical terms and concepts, to raise central questions of literary theory, to introduce a variety of critical approaches, and to give familiarity with the materials and methods of literary research. Readings vary in different sections. Required of the English major and minor. Writing intensive. Every year.
English 240 - Beginning Creative Writing
4 semester hours
Dixon, Kent
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; 170, 180 or 190
This is a beginning creative writing course. It assumes nothing about the student's previous reading or writing experience. We will take ourselves seriously as writers, however, and build from the rudiments individually, each at their own pace, and we'll do this in four major genres-fiction, poetry, drama, and creative nonfiction. By the end of the semester, the student will have narrowed the field to one or two genres, turning in only their best work, in their preferred genre(s), for a final portfolio evaluation. The balance of the grade is based on a journal/writer's notebook, and on class participation. Class format is "workshop," essentially group critique of student work as well as published work-classic and current. All students will have at least two of their works edited and critiqued by the rest of the class. There are no exams; there may be an occasional quiz.
English 240 is WI, and is pre-requisite for all advanced English 322 courses. Pre-requisite for Engl 240 are Engl 101 and Engl 180 (or 170 or 190). One may by-pass these prerequisites by permission of the instructor only.
English 241 - Beginning Journalism
4 semester hours
McClelland, Michael
Prerequisite: ENGL 101
This course will provide a basic introduction to the practice and principles of journalism, with an emphasis on newspaper production. We will discuss news, features, opinion and sports writing; interviewing skills, journalistic ethics, copy-editing, layout, and other related topics. Students will write regularly, and will be expected to contribute to The Torch, Wittenberg's weekly student newspaper.
English 242 - Writing and Peer Editing
4 semester hours
Fry, Maureen
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 and permission by instructor
This intermediate writing course will help students write more fluently and become more effective critics of their own and others= writing. Designed chiefly for prospective writing advisors in the Writing Center, it also attracts future teachers, those needing editing skills in a later profession, and those who simply wish to strengthen their writing. The course focuses on the personal essay, a genre which encourages individuality and creativity, and emphasizes collaborative learning. The main text is students= own writing. Through a combination of readings, writing exercises, papers, and projects and peer editing sessions, students will explore a variety of rhetorical strategies, audiences, structures, and styles. Class organization features a workshop approach and practical experience. This course is limited to 15 students, and the instructor=s permission is required before enrolling.
English 244-Opinion Journalism
4 semester hours
Fallon, D’Arcy
Prerequisite: ENGL 241
This course helps students gain an appreciation for the important role that balanced, articulate, well-thought out opinion plays in democratic society. The course refines the journalistic skills students acquired in Intro. to Journalism by focusing on writing editorials, columns, and reviews for various media. Students will usually have a writing assignment due in each class. The assignment could be an original piece, a revised piece, or a written critique or comment on an assigned reading. Lectures will be kept to a minimum. We’ll spend the bulk of our time learning from each other through discussions and critiques.
English 280 - British Survey I
4 semester hours
Dixon, Mimi
Prerequisite: ENGL 170, 180, or 190
In this course, we will look at the development of English literature from its beginnings in the Middle Ages to the rise of the novel in the eighteenth century. We will read and discuss representative literary texts and ask a series of important questions: how do these texts grow out of their historical and cultural contexts? How do they build upon, speak to one another? How do they define and redefine the roles of writer and reader? What does a growing literary canon have in constructing what it means to be a British subject, a self, a man, a woman? We will explore as well the way genres-epic and romance, tragedy and comedy, prose fiction-emerge, change, disappear, in response to a changing culture and readership. You should come out of this course with a foundational knowledge of important writers, dates, literary styles, genres, and critical terms that you can build on in more advanced courses. The course will include some periods and a comprehensive final; two or three formal papers and several informal responses to the reading. Writing Intensive. Prerequisite: English 200
English 290 - Survey of American Literature I
4 semester hours
Hinson, Scot
Prerequisite: ENGL 170, 180, 190
The ideas that give shape to American Literature have become increasingly difficult to define. Is American literature a literature that defines itself against a European tradition? Or, is it a literature that constantly confronts and tests the limits of a language to give expression to an American experience? Can we compare American literature to the grid that underlies our American cities, vast and repeatable, or to the skyscraper that struggles to reach an unreachable height? Through a survey of American literature that includes writing about the myth of the American Eden by Europeans, the writing of the mythologizing Puritans, the symbolizing Transcendentalists, and finally the romanticizing "scribblers" of the nineteenth century, we will explore these and other questions that shape our understanding of early American literature. Midterm, final, response papers, and two five-page researched essays.
English 306 - Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture: 1590's London
4 semester hours
Buckman, Ty
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 & 280
This course focuses on literature, art, and the material conditions of life in the last full decade of Elizabeth's reign in England's great capitol. We will read works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, Sidney, Donne, Johnson, and a host of less well known writers, study the role of the theater and other popular art forms in this period, explore life "on the ground" in London, and otherwise drink deeply from one of the richest literary decades of all time. A reading journal, three papers, a midterm and final. Writing intensive.
English 311: The American Renaissance: Transcending, Diving, Breaching
4 semester hours
Askeland, Lori
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 & 290
The “American Renaissance,” traditionally seen as spanning the decade preceding the Civil War, is a time of literary fertility, “re-birth,” full of possibility and revolution, leavened by philosophical “transcendentalism” and yet mired in legal slavery and genocidal policies against American Indians. During this decade leading up to the Civil War, the still toddling nation, “conceived in liberty,” as Lincoln so memorably put it, faced a strange moment of splitting. Yet no one knew for certain whether the division was a necessary phase of national development, like the splitting of a fertilized cell, or an utter loss of integrity—or something more akin the architectural and familial wreckage that culminates Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher.” This critical period is typically highlighted by the works of several luminous figures: Melville, Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, and sometimes Poe and Dickinson, depending on who you talk to. But various political, philosophical, and social movements have scholars in the latter half of our current turning century questioning precisely what “counts” as “good,” or even “great” literature, and how do we know? Thus other voices from this fecund decade have emerged, broken surface: Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Susan Warner, Fanny Fern, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Charles Loring Brace, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Chief Seattle, and George Copway (Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh), John Rollin Ridge. A stream of sensational, wild, reform-minded, even sometimes lurid literature has forced itself on the view of critics who thought they “knew” this literary period. Are they part of the “real” American Renaissance? Should we even still use this term? We’ll rise to the heights with the literary giants, and maybe sink to the so-called depths with some of the smaller, rowdier writers, and keep asking lots of questions as we go. Students will write a great deal in this writing and reading intensive course, including formal and informal papers, journaling and using the moodle forum, a midterm, and an extended, researched paper.
4 semester hours
Wilkerson,Carmiele
Prerequisite : ENGL 200 & 290
Scholar David Levering Lewis describes the Harlem Renaissance as, “a somewhat forced phenomenon, a cultural nationalism of the parlor.” A period of social, artistic and political advancement for African Americans during the pre-World War era of 1908-1938, the Harlem Renaissance is extremely important to the study of twentieth century African American literature. This course will focus on novels, short fiction, poems, political essays, manifestos and speeches by several prominent figures of the Harlem Renaissance particularly, W.E.B Du Bois, Jessie Fauset, Langston Hughes, Marcus Garvey, Nella Larsen and Zora Neale Hurston.
English 320 – Advanced Journalism – Newswriting
4 semester hours
McClelland, Michael
Prerequisite: ENGL 241
This course is designed for students serious about pursuing a career in journalism or a related field. We will learn by doing, so come prepared to write. Areas covered will include advanced news gathering, reporting and writing techniques; writing for newspapers, magazines, broadcast outlets and the Web; news editing and layout; journalistic issues and ethics; and the state of American journalism today. In addition to regularly assigned stories, the class will produce and publish its own magazine. In addition, each student will be expected to do an outside internship at Wittenberg’s Torch or a comparable journalistic news organization. Prerequisite: English 241, Beginning Journalism.
English 332 – Modern and Contemporary Drama
4 semester hours
Smith, J. Fitz
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 & 280
When is a stage not a stage? When it’s a revolution. Far from an innocent, neutral space, the modern stage arguably directed the twentieth-century’s most remarkable discoveries---and the century’s most horrific nightmares. This course will read widely in the drama of the modern period, and it will consider closely the intersections of philosophy, psychology, and politics with drama as literature.
Readings will include but are not limited to a few of the century’s greatest literary voices: Wilde, Shaw, Chekhov, Ibsen, Synge, O’Casey, Jarry, Pirandello, Strindberg, Brecht, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, and Churchill. This course will include several short response essays, a midterm and final examination, and a culminating final essay. Broad in reading and precise in focus, this course will introduce students to the fascinating world often overlooked in discussions of modern literature---the world of modern drama.
English 340 - Advanced Fiction Writing
4 semesters
Dixon, Kent
Prerequisite: ENGL 240
This is a WI, advance creative writing course with pre-requisites of English 101 and English 240 (or permission of instructor in special cases). It is strictly fiction writing--all kinds, many subgenres. Realistic dramatic fiction, minimalism, magical realism, revisionist fiction, metafiction, minifiction ("short shorts"), experimental fiction, dramatic monologues, and possibly even narrative poetry and literary journalism (using the devices of fiction to report a true story). There is the option of working on a novella in lieu of genre experimentation. For twelve weeks students will read and write in each genre and then specialize in two or three genres. Grade will be based half on a final portfolio of work and half on class participation, peer editing, exercises, and a writer's notebook. Class format is workshop style. No exams, but possibility of occasional pop quizzes, and there will be an "expectations sheet" of techniques and terminology that must be met in full. Last three to four weeks given to work-shopping and rewriting work for final submission in portfolio. The mechanics of submitting work to literary journals, writing cover letters, and devising strategies will all be discussed and practiced. The focus is primarily shorter fiction, but novella writers will read a collection of novelle for discussions and models.
English 341 – Advanced Poetry
4 semester hours
Rambo, Jody
Prerequisite: ENGL 240
If poems are, as Jorie Graham writes, "records of true risks taken by the soul of the speaker" then the intent of this advanced writing course in poetry is to create the conditions for taking such risks. The course will be composed of equal parts reading and writing poetry to introduce students to developments in contemporary poetry and to help them develop further their craft. Students will also explore different forms of poetry such as the sonnet, villanelle, and sestina, along with free verse and prose poems. Regular writing workshops, a poet's notebook, diverse reading assignments, and a final manuscript. Prerequisite: English 240 or instructor's permission.
English 403-Special Projects in Creative Writing
4 semester hours
Fallon, D’Arcy
Prerequisite: Department Permission
Special Projects in Creative Writing offers serious creative writing students an opportunity to produce a significant piece in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, or with a screenplay. This advanced project combines the group experience of a workshop with the private conference, typically requiring weekly group meetings in a workshop format and individual meetings with the instructor in the given genre. Admission to the course is based on a writing sample and a brief description of the kind of project the student is proposing.
