For students interested in language, the arts, and pop culture, the Writing Program offers courses on a wide range of art forms, from poetry to video games.
Topics offered in this area include:
- America’s True Crime Obsession
- American Manifesto
- American Short Stories
- Art and Social Change
- Boston Films Now
- Boston Jazz Now
- Business in US Culture
- Conformity and Rebellion
- Contemporary Art in Boston
- Ecology of Global Englishes
- Family Snaps and Stories
- Flash of Light: Flash Fiction
- Food and Cultural Identity
- Future of Video Game Studies
- Ghosts and the Undead
- Global Literature
- Global Tragic Drama
- Hollywood Contradicts Itself
- Hollywood Contradicts Itself
- Improvisation Now
- Italian Americans
- Literary Gender & Sexuality
- Medieval/Renaissance Monsters
- Philosophy & Science Fiction
- Postapocalyptic Fiction and Film
- Public Art
- Race, Identity, Short Story
- Reimagining Fairy Tales
- The Addict in American Culture
- The Graphic Memoir
- The Journey: Our World in Film
- These Films Are So Gay
- Transformative Visual Media
- Translation and Adaptation
- Twenty First Century Terrors
- Who Owns the Past Now?
- Women Poets Now
- Writing about Music
- Writing Race & the Environment
- Reimagining Fairy Tales
- Analog Adolescence
- Boston Theatre/Community Now
- Debating Hollywood
- Family Snaps and Stories
- Literature of the Occult
- Migration Culture
- Queer Little Love: Gay Stories
- The Ethical Imagination
- Writing with a Sense of Taste