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Fall 2008 Honors Classes
UNIV 320
Peer Tutoring in Writing Workshop, 3 credit hoursWednesday 6-8:50 PM 0032 MAcAlister Instructor: Henry Israeli
Take this course and learn how to become a better writer and how to help others improve their writing. UNIV 320 is a seminar/workshop based around such questions as, Is writing well a talent or can it be learned? What is good writing? How can technology, even popular activities such as video games, help improve literacy? These question and others will quide our study to give you the theoretical basis to understand writing processes and to become a peer tutor (WIT) in the University Writing Program. All students interested in working as WITS must first take this course. As a WIT, you will practice what you’ve learned in this class. WITS earn $715.00 a term and help up to 20 students twice each term in a specific Writing Intensive class.
This class is open to Honors and non-Honors students. It can be taken for Honors or Elective credit and may be applied toward the Honors Recognition in Creative Writing. To register for this class, you must receive permission from Writing Program Director, Harriet Millan. Please write to Honorscollege@drexel.edu to request an application. You must be at least a third term freshman to apply.
Honors
Live Poets and Poetry! 3 Credit HoursThis class is an unique opportunity to write poetry in a small seminar/workshop under the guidance of several nationally recognized authors. National Book Award winner, Gerald Stern, who is a national treasure will lead four sessions and comment on your work. Other prominent authors including Ravi Shankar, Henry Israeli, Jane Miller and Jeffrey Ethan Lee will lead the remaining sessions. Class will be a dialogue on poetry and writing poems. Working with these pros, you will get a bird’s eye view into the process of writing poems with discussions on practice, ritual and technique. Although this is not an introductory level class and you will be required to have some previous familiarity with contemporary poetry and experience with creative writing, the class is open to all students. This class can be taken for Honors or Elective credit and may be applied toward the Honors Recognition in Creative Writing
Travel Writing 3 Credit HoursThursday 6-8:50 PM 0032 MAcAlister Instructor: Jason Wilson
Join Jason Wilson, editor of both Houghton Mifflin’s Best Travel Writing and Pennoni Honors College, The Smart Set, on a travel writing adventure. You will learn the craft of travel writing and practice real assignments to places you have visited or dream of visiting. This seminar/workshop will be a great preparation for students interested in studying or traveling abroad, for students with travel or multinational backgrounds or for anyone interested in exploring a new writing career from an expert practioneer.
Ongoing Events
Thursdays, 4PM, Writing Center, 0032 MacAlister, Writers Blok!, Student
Writing Club. Everyone is welcome.
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