Undergraduate Courses
E311 A,B,C Intermediate Creative Writing
Prerequisite:- For A and/or B: E210 with a grade of "B" or better
- For C: C0-150 and either E210 (min. "B") or JT-210
A. Fiction
This course is designed to provide the intermediate student with the basic tools of the craft of fiction and a technical vocabulary with which to discuss short fiction. A short story anthology and/or a creative writing text will be used, and during the beginning of the semester the major emphasis of the course is on consolidating the lessons of E210 and practicing the usage of craft. Reading fiction from a writer's point of view is also emphasized. During the semester the student will write various assignments--descriptive prose, scenes, character sketches--and three short stories of at least twenty-five hundred words and a rewrite of one of them. Tests may cover knowledge of the short stories discussed in class, technical vocabulary, and technical analysis of short fiction.
B . Poetry
This course is designed to provide the intermediate student with the basic tools of the craft of poetry and a technical vocabulary with which to discuss poetry. A text will introduce the student to a wide range of traditional and contemporary poetry and class discussion will cover such subjects as prosody, imagery, voice, poetic genres, etc. Assignments will allow the student a chance to apply what he or she has learned to his writing and revision of poems. A supplemental text may be a collections of poems by a poet scheduled to read on campus or in the community the semester of the course.
C. Creative Nonfiction
This course is designed to provide students who have some creative writing or journalism background with the basic tools of the craft of creative nonfiction and a technical vocabulary and theoretical basis with which to discuss it. Selected readings and an anthology such as Norman Sims' The Literary Journalists or Best American Essays will be used to discuss the researching, interviewing, and writing skills demanded by this genre. Special attention will be paid to the ethics and responsibilities of applying the strategies of the essayist and the fiction-writer to real people and events. Students will write various assignments that highlight the difference between "journalism” and “the literature of fact” and they will hand in three or four stories of their own choice and re-write at least one of them.
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