Creative Writing Theory and Practice

Catalog description

This course is designed to prepare MA and PhD candidates in English to teach ENGL 203 (Introduction to Creative Writing). It is a required course for any graduate student seeking a concentration in creative writing. The course will operate as a hybrid seminar/workshop. Students will examine and discuss traditional creative writing and teaching practices while producing their own works of creative writing for exchange and critique. Recommended Preparation: a creative writing workshop at the undergraduate or graduate level or permission of the instructor. While the overriding objective of this course is to prepare graduate students to teach ENGL 203 , the multiple objectives coordinated toward that outcome are as follows: -- to exercise and refine creative writing practices of participants -- to share resources for professional development in creative writing (e.g. publication opportunities, conferences, etc.) -- to provide critical/historical view of creative writing's relationship with the academy -- to examine and debate received creative writing pedagogies -- to position creative writing pedagogy in resistance to hegemony and monoculture -- to develop genre-specific, and genre-adaptable creative writing pedagogies -- to consider intersections of digital media and creative writing