ENGLISH 110S.01
INTRO CREATIVE WRITING
Faulkner (Carol) Fox Online
This course encourage students to explore and practice four genres of creative writing: creative nonfiction, fiction, playwriting, and poetry. Part of the class will be devoted to peer critique of student work (“workshopping”), and part to discussions of craft as well as close reading of published essays, stories, and poems; and close watching of scenes from plays. There will be weekly writing assignments, and students will also submit a final portfolio of finished work.
ENGLISH 110S.02
INTRO CREATIVE WRITING
Mesha Maren
Online
Introduction to Creative Writing is a hands-on, interactive exploration of nonfiction, poetry, playwriting, and fiction. Students will read examples from each genre and discuss the craft elements demonstrated in each text. We will then go on to try our own hand at drafting and revising essays, poems, plays, and prose. No previous experience is necessary.
ENGLISH 110S.03
INTRO CREATIVE WRITING
Akhil Sharma Hybrid
Learning to write creatively is like learning to sing, in that the writer is similar to a singer in being her own instrument. The writer's specific sensibility and especial competencies determine the range of excellence that the writer can comfortably operate in.
This course will focus on three genres: poetry, creative non-fiction, and fiction. More particularly, the course will focus on the sonnet, the profile, and the short story. Each section will feed into the next: the stanza preparing us for the paragraph, and the interview leading into third person point-of-view.
Because learning to write creatively involves developing a form of muscle memory, there will be almost daily writing exercises. There will also be, and equally importantly, a daily writer's diary of the experience of performing the exercise.
The end goal of the course is to develop both a suppleness with language and an awareness as to our particular responses to specific subjects and technical challenges.
Requirements: Almost daily writing exercises. Grades: Writing assignments 50%; Participation 50%.
English Department