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CAMS 277 CAMS Production in Los Angeles Program: In the Writers’ Room 6 credits
In this course, students will explore the art and craft of writing for television as they learn, from writers' room insiders, how TV series are conceived and created. We'll break the writing process into a series of manageable steps, from pilot premise to polishing. Topics will include: story structure, character development, tone, stakes, theme, and more. In-class conversations with working, award-winning television writers, as well as visits to sets and show tapings, will complement the classroom curriculum.
Open only to participants in Carleton OCS CAMS Production in Los Angeles Program
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): CAMS 111 – Digital Foundations with a grade of C- or better AND acceptance into the Carleton OCS CAMS Production – Los Angeles Program.
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CAMS 280 Advanced Screenwriting 6 credits
Topic: Advanced Writing for Television. This is an intensive writing practicum for motivated students to complete a well-structured original television pilot. The course will explore dramatic structure, character motivation and action, and the complex interplay between plot and character. Students will refine their tools for television writing as they develop and revise their pilot’s logline, tone, stakes, theme, and more. Over ten weeks students will move from concept to outline and then to a full draft of their original pilot. Weekly feedback provides students with an honest evaluation of their material in a dynamic and supportive environment.
OCS New Media Program
Not offered in 2024-25
- ARP, Arts Practice WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): CAMS 264 – Story Development Workshop or CAMS 278 – Writing for Television or CAMS 279 – Screenwriting with a grade of C- or better.
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ENGL 160 Creative Writing 6 credits
You will work in several genres and forms, among them: traditional and experimental poetry, prose fiction, and creative nonfiction. In your writing you will explore the relationship between the self, the imagination, the word, and the world. In this practitioner’s guide to the creative writing process, we will examine writings from past and current authors, and your writings will be critiqued in a workshop setting and revised throughout the term.
Sophomore Priority
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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ENGL 233 Writing and Social Justice 6 credits
Social justice is fairness as it manifests in society, but who gets to determine what fairness looks, sounds, feels like? The self-described Black Canadian poet Dionne Brand says that she doesn’t write toward justice because that doesn’t exist, but that she writes against tyranny. If we use that framework, how does that change our own writing and our own notions of justice in our or any time? What is the role of literary writing, especially fiction, the essay, and poetry in the collective and individual quest to understand and build conditions that could yield increased potential for social justice? In this course, students will read, analyze, discuss, and write about various texts that might be considered to be against myriad tyrannies, if not necessarily toward social justice. Authors may include Octavia Butler, Phillip Metres, Toni Morrison, Myung Mi Kim, and M. NourbeSe Philipe.
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ENGL 265 News Stories 6 credits
This journalism course explores the process of moving from event to news story. Students will study and write different forms of journalism (including news, reviews, features, interviews, investigative pieces, and images), critique one another’s writing, work in teams with community partners, and revise their pieces to produce a final portfolio of professional work.
Not offered in 2024-25
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ENGL 267 Studies in Description 6 credits
Why do we describe things? Why do writers put so much care into their descriptions of objects and inner states? What authority do they draw from precise descriptive language? What is an “exactly perceived” detail? How do phrases carry sensory information? This class explores the power of description in capturing perceptions and making pictures of the world more felt. To understand the range of technical strategies involved in description, we will read and imitate the acute sensory visions of Basho, Issa, Hopkins, Rilke, and a range of American poets. Each week the reading will be a springboard for written exercises.
Not offered in 2024-25
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ENGL 270 Short Story Workshop 6 credits
An introduction to the writing of the short story. Each student will become familiar with contemporary short stories, complete a number of short writing exercises, and have discussed in class two full-length stories (from 3,000 to 7,000 words in length) and give constructive suggestions, including written critiques, for revising the stories written by other members of the class. Attention will be paid to all the elements of fiction: characterization, point of view, conflict, setting, dialogue, etc.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): One 6 credit English course excluding Independent Studies and Comps with a grade of C- or better.
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ENGL 271 Poetry Workshop 6 credits
This workshop offers you ways of developing poetic craft, voice, and vision in a small-group setting. Your poetry and individual expression is the heart and soul of the course. Through intensive writing and revision of poems written in a variety of styles and forms, you will create a significant portfolio.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): One 6 credit English course excluding Independent Studies and Comps with a grade of C- or better.
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ENGL 281 Living London Program 6 credits
A wide range of British writers have depicted London as a site of displacement, diaspora, community, and belonging. From the “Windrush Generation” in the 1950s to the present context of Brexit, this course will examine the depiction of multicultural London in fiction, film, and essay. Selected texts will reveal how diverse writers have been shaped by London and in turn shaped its narratives. Readings may include Samuel Selvon, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali, Zadie Smith, Andrea Levy, Kamala Shamsie, and Xiaolu Guo; and we will incorporate relevant museum exhibits and cultural events.
Requires participation in Carleton OCS London Program
Not offered in 2024-25
- IS, International Studies WR2 Writing Requirement 2 LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Acceptance in the Carleton OCS Living London Program.
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ENGL 370 Advanced Fiction Workshop 6 credits
An advanced course in the writing of fiction. Students will write three to four short stories or novel chapters which will be read and critiqued by the class.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): English (ENGL) 160 or ENGL 161 or ENGL 263 or ENGL 265 or ENGL 270 or ENGL 271 or ENGL 273 or Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 271 or CAMS 278 or CAMS 279 or Cross Cultural Studies 270 or Theater 246 with a grade of C- or better.
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ENGL 371 Advanced Poetry Workshop 6 credits
In this workshop, students choose to write poems from a broad range of forms, from sonnets to spoken word, from ghazals to slam, from free-verse to blues. Over the ten weeks, each poet will write and revise their own collection of poems. Student work is the centerpiece of the course, but readings from a diverse selection of contemporary poets will be used to expand each student’s individual poetic range, and to explore the power of poetic language. For students with some experience in writing poetry, this workshop further develops your craft and poetic voice and vision.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): English (ENGL) 160 or ENGL 161 or ENGL 263 or ENGL 265 or ENGL 270 or ENGL 271 or ENGL 273 or Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 271 or CAMS 278 or CAMS 279 or Cross Cultural Studies 270 or Theater 246 with a grade of C- or better.
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ENGL 381 Living London Program 6 credits
A wide range of British writers have depicted London as a site of displacement, diaspora, community, and belonging. From the “Windrush Generation” in the 1950s to the present context of Brexit, this course will examine the depiction of multicultural London in fiction, film, and essay. Selected texts will reveal how diverse writers have been shaped by London and in turn shaped its narratives. Readings may include Samuel Selvon, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali, Zadie Smith, Andrea Levy, Kamala Shamsie, and Xiaolu Guo; and we will incorporate relevant museum exhibits and cultural events.
Open only to students participating in OCS London Program
Not offered in 2024-25
- IS, International Studies WR2 Writing Requirement 2 LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Acceptance in the Carleton OCS Living London Program.