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21W.731-2 Writing and Experience: Crossing Borders, Fall 2010
(2010-12)
In this era of globalization, many of us have multi- or bi-cultural, multilingual or bilingual backgrounds, and even if we don't have such a background, we need urgently to understand the experiences of people who do. You ...
21W.784 Becoming Digital: Writing about Media Change, Fall 2009
(2009-12)
"Becoming Digital" traces the change in practice, theory and possibility as mechanical and chemical media are augmented or supplanted by digital media. These changes will be grounded in a semester length study ...
21W.765J / 21L.489J / CMS.845 Theory and Practice of Non-linear and Interactive Narrative, Spring 2003
(2003-06)
This class covers a range of topics including hypertext, interactive cinema, games, installation art, and soundscapes. It examines the potential for dynamic narrative in traditional media like novels and films and as well ...
21W.730-3 Expository Writing: Autobiography - Theory and Practice, Spring 2001
(2001-06)
Focus: What can we believe when we read an autobiography? How do writers recall, select, shape, and present their lives to construct life stories? Readings that ground these questions include selections from Incidents ...
21W.730-4 Expository Writing: Analyzing Mass Media, Spring 2001
(2001-06)
This course focuses on developing and refining the skills that will you need to express your voice more effectively as an academic writer. As a focus for our writing this semester, this course explores what it means to ...
21W.730-2 The Creative Spark, Fall 2004
(2004-12)
"Creative activity (isn't) the icing on the cake. Human creativity is the cake." (Jerry Hirschberg) Creativity - "the mastery of information and skills in the service of dreams" (Hirschberg) - is ...