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2020-2021 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2020-2021 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

ENL 353 - Sports Writing

Credits 3
Seminar / 3 hours per week
Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 262
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