2010-2011 HBU Catalog - Houston Baptist University

WRIT 4353, 4354, 4355, 4356, 4357, 4358 Advanced Creative Writing Workshop
Prerequisites: ENGL 1313, 1323
These courses are designed for advanced students of creative writing and will stress individual instruction and work on
creative manuscripts such as a collection of poems or short stories, a novel or full-length play, screenplays, and radio
and television scripts. NOTE: WRIT 4353, 4354, 4355, 4356, 4357, and 4358 do not satisfy requirements for the
English major.
WRIT 4364 Advanced Poetry Writing
Prerequisite: WRIT 3354 or 3355, or permission of the instructor.
This advanced poetry writing course is designed to build upon the groundwork established in WRIT 3354. Class time is
spent in the analysis of models - works from the tradition and more recent works in experimental veins - and intensive
discussion of student poems. Students may select this course for credit toward the Professional Writing Specialization.
WRIT 4365 Advanced Fiction Writing
Prerequisites: ENGL 1313 and 1323.
This advanced fiction writing course is designed to build upon the groundwork established in WRIT 3355. Class time is
spent in the analysis of models - works from the tradition and more recent work in experimental veins - and intensive
discussion of student short stories or chapters from novels or novellas. Students may select this course for credit toward
the Professional Writing Specialization.
WRIT 4370 Grant Writing
Prerequisites: ENGL 1313 and 1323.
This course examines the conventions for researching and writing grant proposals, specifically for educational and nonprofit
organizations.
WRIT 4372 Information Design
Prerequisites: ENGL 1313 and 1323.
This course provides students with both theoretical knowledge and hands-on experience as they read the course
materials and participate in documentation projects with classmates. Students obtain a background in the rhetoric of
visual language and learn the basic principles of designing written information. In addition to learning the theory of
information design, they also participate in creating hand-on projects, such as brochures, posters, information guides,
and instruction manuals. This course may be used for credit towards the Professional Writing Specialization in
Technical Writing or Rhetoric, and for elective credit towards the Professional Writing Specialization in Creative
Writing. This course may also be used as an elective.
WRIT 4374 Rhetoric for Professional and Technical Writers
Prerequisites: ENGL 1313 and 1323.
This course provides students with an overview of classical and modern rhetoric from ancient Greece to the 20 th
century, with an emphasis on written documents. Students will read excerpts from the writings of Plato, Aristotle,
Cicero, Quintilian, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Bakhtin, Wittgenstein, Lyotard, and others. Students will also
analyze professional and technical documents in light of classical and contemporary rhetorical theories. Students may
select this course for credit towards the Professional Writing Specialization in Technical Writing or Rhetoric, and for
elective credit towards the Professional Writing Specialization in Creative Writing.
WRIT 4376 Promotion and Persuasive Writing
Prerequisites: ENGL 1313 and 1323.
This course provides students with an introduction to and an overview of persuasive and promotional writing. Students
will read, analyze, and produce several types of persuasive and promotional documents in the following categories:
proposal writing, political writing, non-profit/fundraising writing, religious writing, and sales/promotional writing.
Students may select this course for credit towards the Professional Writing Specialization in Technical Writing or
Rhetoric, and for elective credit towards the Professional Writing Specialization in Creative Writing.
WRIT 4391: Senior Seminar: Creative Writing in Poetry
Prerequisite: WRIT 3354 or permission of the instructor.
This seminar is designed to build upon the groundwork established in WRIT 3354. Class time is spent in the analysis of
model-works from the tradition and more recent works in experimental veins – and intensive discussion of student
poems. Students also present and monitor their progress on the research project and share final results with class.
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