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Affiliated ProgramsThe American Studies Program at the University of Connecticut provides students with the opportunity to enhance their university experience by studying with faculty members and students from a wide variety of disciplines. Among the goals of the program is to promote an awareness of the complex cultural, political, and economic structures at the root of the social organizations that have existed throughout the history of the Western Hemisphere. Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences, edited by Patrick Hogan, will feature over 500 entries composed by more than 350 experts in the field of linguistics, literature, neurology, and psychology. The volume will be published in 2008. The website includes a list of contributors and their affiliations as well as a detailed overview of its contents. Children’s Literature as a site of academic study was founded at the University of Connecticut. In the late 1960s, English Department faculty member Francelia Butler was the first English professor to teach courses in children’s literature at any university in the United States. Butler then created the journal Children’s Literature in 1972 and helped establish the Children’s Literature Association. Currently UConn’s English Department offers a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in children’s and young adult literature and supports a series of readings and workshops by children’s writers. The Creative Writing Program at the University of Connecticut provides undergraduate students in all departments with writing courses in poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, from beginning to advanced classes. Undergraduate students may choose to receive a Concentration in Creative Writing. Graduate courses in creative writing are also offered, generally one per semester. The Connecticut Writing Project, a site of the National Writing Project, established at the University of Connecticut in 1982, offers opportunities for professional growth to teachers in all disciplines who recognize the worth of using writing as a means of learning any subject matter. Improving writing skills improves thinking skills and thus leads to higher levels of achievement in all areas. The Early American Women Writers website contains primary works by a variety of American women writers who published texts between 1600 and 1850 as well as contextual data (writings about early women, illustrations, etc.). The website, currently under construction, is co-sponsored by the departments of English and American Studies and is managed by Sharon M. Harris. The Writing Internship puts students in a professional environment, working with professional writers on real-life problems. Current placements include positions in a museum, a newspaper, a publishing house, an advertising agency, a software company, a technical magazine and a variety of other businesses and organizations that employ writers and editors. Positions are available both on or off campus, and the internships are available in Spring, Fall, and Summer programs worth from one to six credits. LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory provides a lively forum for fresh and forceful interpretations of a wide range of literary texts. Lit puts literary theory into action, publishing theoretical analyses that are both rigorous and illuminating. By transcending the boundaries of conventional categories of period, region, and genre, Lit aims to forge a conversation among divergent and often competing critical perspectives as well as literature from different periods and nations. The University of Connecticut offers a semester or academic year program in London. Students enroll in a variety of core courses taught by the University of Connecticut's London faculty as well as a regular integrated course at City University, the host institution. Students are immersed in the culture of England and in the life of one of the world's great metropolitan centers, in its libraries, museums and musical and dramatic productions. A number of the classes will actually be conducted in museums and at historically important sites, including the Globe Theatre. The Long River Review is the University of Connecticut's literary and arts journal. It is produced entirely by undergraduate students and published each spring. Formerly Writing UConn , the journal received a new name-and a new life-in 1998 under the direction of Wally Lamb. The Long River Review 's primary mission is to give undergraduate student editors the opportunity to produce a high-quality journal and to publish exemplary works of creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and visual art by undergraduate and graduate students University-wide (including all of the regional campuses) The Medieval Studies Program at the University of Connecticut offers course work leading to the interdisciplinary degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in Medieval Studies. The Departments of Art and Art History, English, History, Modern and Classical Languages, Music, and Philosophy cooperate in the program. Students take courses in three cooperating departments, with a major emphasis in one department or departmental area. First published in 1974, MELUS features articles, interviews, and reviews encompassing the multi-ethnic scope of American literature past and present. Most issues are thematically organized for greater understanding of topics, criticism, and theory in the total picture of American literature MELUS hopes to present. Mystics Quarterly , recently located to the University of Connecticut, is a refereed scholarly journal focusing on mystical texts, especially but not exclusively of the Western Middle Ages. Poetic Journeys T was developed by the Creative Writing Program at the University of Connecticut and inspired by the MTA New York City Transit's Poetry in Motion series itself inspired by London's Poems on the Underground . Poetic Journeys T features poems written by UConn students, faculty and staff on placards designed by students in the University's Design Center. Wallace Stevens Poetry Program The Wallace Stevens Poetry Program was begun in 1964 with support from the Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. to honor the poet Wallace Stevens, a former Vice-President. The Program's mission is to promote poetry at the University of Connecticut and in the Hartford area by offering two poetry readings each spring, one on the Storrs campus, the other in the city of Hartford, by a poet of national or international reputation. Writing Across the Disciplines A collaborative team of English and Animal Science professors have created this homepage to help improve writing instruction in every discipline across the University of Connecticut's broad and diverse curriculum. This group hopes to offer the help necessary to teach students to write with ease, effectiveness, and efficiency, in and out of class. The University of Connecticut Writing Center exists to provide a free service to writers from all academic disciplines at all levels of proficiency. The center is committed to helping students achieve their full potential by looking beyond each paper to the long-term development of the writer. The center strives to be adaptable and suit each session to fit the writer's individual needs.
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