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2018-2019 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2018-2019 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

ENL 353 - Sports Writing

Credits 3
Seminar / 3 hours per week
Requirements: Prerequisite:Major in English and ENL 260; or Minor in Writing, Rhetoric and Communication and ENL 264, 265, 266 or 260; or Minor in Communication and ENL 264, 265, 266 or 260; or LAR-BA
An advanced writing course focusing on sports-related literary journalism. Students will read examples of great sports writing from the past century, from writers like Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, and Joyce Carol Oates, and use those pieces as models for their own work. Students will use the topic of sports as a vehicle through which to practice the techniques of opinion writing, personal writing, and deeply researched literary journalism.
Graded