ENG 570
Auto/Biography
This course examines autobiographical writings (including the diary,memoir, and letter) and biography (including literary and popular forms), and the connections between them. The study of life-writing sources may also include print and electronic sources, as well as film, photography, visual art, and performance art. Critical and theoretical readings are introduced to analyze issues including genre, aesthetics, identity, veracity, and commerce.
Weekly Contact: Lecture:3 hrs.
GPA Weight: 1.00
Course Count: 1.00
Billing Units: 1
Prerequisites
ENG 108 or ENG 110
Antirequisites
Co-Requisites
None
Custom Requisites
None
Mentioned in the Following Calendar Pages
*List may not include courses that are on a common table shared between programs.
- Arts and Contemporary Studies Professional Table I
- ENG 511 - The Art of Writing Life
- English Minor
- English Professional Table II
- English and History Professional Table II
- English and Philosophy Professional Table II
- History Professionally Related - Table IV
- Language and Intercultural Relations Professionally-Related Table IV
- Open Elective Table
- Philosophy Professionally-Related Table IV
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ENG 101
Laughter and Tears: Comedy and Tragedy -
ENG 104
The Short Story -
ENG 110
Literatures Across Borders -
ENG 112
Zap, Pow, Bang: Pop Lit -
ENG 200
Writing as a Cultural Act -
ENG 201
Myth and Literature -
ENG 203
The Literature of Indigenous Peoples -
ENG 208
Introduction to Non-Fiction -
ENG 212
Cultures in Crisis -
ENG 222
Fairy Tales and Fantasies -
ENG 223
Literatures of Exile and Migration -
ENG 224
Children's Literature -
ENG 230
Creativity, Writing, and Everyday Life -
ENG 302
Practicum: Writing in the Arts -
ENG 304
Practicum: Making Digital Work -
ENG 306
Practicum: Writing Poetry -
ENG 307
Practicum: Writing Fiction -
ENG 340
Practicum: Making Little Magazines -
ENG 390
Practicum: Open Topics -
ENG 400
Literary and Cultural Theory -
ENG 402
Comics -
ENG 408
World Literatures -
ENG 409
Urban Literatures -
ENG 413
Literature and Colonization -
ENG 416
American Literatures -
ENG 417
Special Topics in American Literatures -
ENG 421
16C Literature and Culture -
ENG 422
17C Literature and Culture -
ENG 503
Science Fiction -
ENG 504
The Modern in Literature 1900-1945 -
ENG 505
Creative Writing -
ENG 507
Science and the Literary Imagination -
ENG 510
Gothic Horror -
ENG 511
The Art of Writing Life -
ENG 517
Techniques and Topics in Creative Writing -
ENG 520
The Language of Persuasion -
ENG 529
Controversies in Public Discourse -
ENG 530
Literary Non-Fiction -
ENG 531
18C Literature and Culture -
ENG 540
The Novel -
ENG 550
Drama -
ENG 560
Poetry and Poetics -
ENG 570
Auto/Biography -
ENG 580
The Gothic -
ENG 590
Studies in Word and Image -
ENG 602
Women's Writing -
ENG 604
The Contemporary in Literature: Post 1945 -
ENG 610
The Language of Love, Sex and Gender -
ENG 611
Film and Literature -
ENG 620
English Caribbean Literatures and Cultures -
ENG 621
Women's Texts, Global Contexts -
ENG 623
Film/Literature: Middle East,North Africa -
ENG 624
20C Literature and Culture -
ENG 632
19C Literature and Culture -
ENG 634
Romantic Explorations -
ENG 635
Modernism -
ENG 640
Literatures of Asia and its Diasporas -
ENG 701
Canadian Literatures -
ENG 703
Popular Literatures -
ENG 705
Studies in Visual Cultures -
ENG 706
Shakespeare and Performance -
ENG 707
Shakespeare and His World -
ENG 710
Special Topics in Canadian Literatures -
ENG 720
Persuasion from Plato to Present -
ENG 730
The Social Life of Books -
ENG 810
Approaches to English Research -
ENG 888
Televisual Texts and Contexts -
ENG 904
Independent Research Paper -
ENG 907
Independent Research Project -
ENG 910
English Capstone Seminar -
ENG 921
Narrative in a Digital Age -
ENG 941
Gender and Sex in Literature and Culture -
ENG 942
Decolonizing Literature