Intro Creative Nonfiction Writ

Catalog description

This course offers an in-depth exploration of a unique and broadly-defined creative writing genre. By reading published works and writing original essays and memoir-style pieces, students will learn to employ literary techniques often ascribed to poetry and fiction in works of nonfiction. This course gives students experience with various sub-genres of creative nonfiction (narrative nonfiction, researched journalism, memoir) and also addresses the creative challenges unique to a genre whose name implies inventive truth-telling. Students will address the puzzling question of how to add vibrancy to true stories without changing their essential truths. Through the reading and writing this course requires, students will develop their voices, deepen intercultural competencies, and create a series of polished nonfiction works. This course meets the General Education requirement for Creative Work.