WR 352 - Biography and Autobiography

(3.00 cr.)

Prerequisite: WR 100 , one WR 200-level course. A study of the ways writers create a "self" and an "other" in language. Covers the range from private writing such as journals to more public forms of biography and autobiography and the imaginative use of those forms. Students read a broad sample of authors and types of writing and write three essays in which they experiment with those types.