New York University Bulletin - Gallatin School of Individualized ...

NEW YORK UNIVERSITYMaster’s Thesis and DefenseCORE-GG 2335 3 units. Pass/fail onlyStudents registering for this course meet in the beginning of the semester with the thesisreviewer to discuss the procedures for organizing and presenting the thesis. It then becomesan independent project with the student’s adviser to complete the thesis. Students are requiredto register for this course when they have completed 37 units in the M.A. program.This course is required for completion of the master’s degree program.Thesis AdvisementCORE-GG 2340 1 unit. Pass/fail onlyStudents who do not defend the thesis successfully or have not completed the thesis duringthe semester in which they are registered for Master’s Thesis and Defense, CORE-GG2335, are required to register for Thesis Advisement each semester (including the summer,for students graduating in September) until the thesis is defended. Credits earned throughThesis Advisement are not included in the 40-credit requirement for the master’s degree.The special tuition rate forThesis Advisement is $400.00 plus a non-refundable registrationand services fee.ELECTIVE COURSESThe Shape of the Story: Content into FormELEC-GG 2545 King. 4 unitsHow does the telling transform the story? And how can a story govern its own telling? Inthis course for writers of fiction and nonfiction, we’ll consider diverse storytelling strategies,looking at fiction, creative nonfiction and narrative poetry, and also viewing a few shortfilms. Through exercises in both prose and poetry, we explore how a writer reimagines aproject by making formal decisions about voice, genre, point of view, diction, even meter andrhyme.The intent is to move us away from our comfort zones, to help us draw inventionfrom the unfamiliar and to broaden our literary palettes, so students should be prepared tobe daring, open-minded and seriously playful. (Please note that while this is not a workshopin the conventional sense, the instructor will be available during office hours to discuss personalcreative projects at the student’s request.) Readings will include works by Amy Hempel,Ryszard Kapuscinski,Vikram Seth,Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, NicholsonBaker, Robert Frost, David Foster Wallace, Marjane Satrapi, David Shields and others; alsofilms by Su Friedrich, Maya Deren and Kenneth Anger.84 NewYork University Bulletin 2012-2013