ENGL 2860

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ENGL 2860
Creative, Lyric, and Expository Writing

Course information provided by the 2026-2027 Catalog.

On this course, students will explore creativity within essayistic form, considering its origins with Montaigne, exploring essays with expository roots, including texts by Virginia Woolf, Henry David Thoreau and James Baldwin alongside lyric essay and poetics forms from writers such as Jorge Borges, Ishion Hutchinson and Bhanu Kapil. Student writers will produce a portfolio of essays and a brief poetics of their developing essayistic style. Taken with the instructor’s permission, and with the letter grade option, this course satisfies First-Year Writing Seminar requirements for sophomores, juniors, and seniors. If counted toward the First-Year Writing Seminar requirement, the course will not count toward ALC-AS.


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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8555 ENGL 2860   SEM 101

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    • TR
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Byrne, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person