LIT 711Adv Studies in Literary Craft

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Advanced Studies in Literary Craft (3) Topics vary by section. This course offers craft-focused topics targeted to expand students' understanding of and facility in writing a particular prose or poetry genre and/or specific techniques and capacities within a genre. The course is writing intensive, offering multiple opportunities for practice in targeted exercises and is reading intensive from a craft perspective, requiring students to engage with contemporary and historical practitioners of the genre and inviting them to see their own work within the context of contemporary literary conversations, such as race and gender in point of view in fiction, ethical considerations in the memoir and personal essay, and questions of historical erasure in the persona poem. Repeatable for credit with different topic. Restriction: Creative Writing (MFA).