Creative Writing, Creative Storytelling

Catalog description

This course is a reading and “workshop” introduction to the fundamental working modes (poetry, fiction, drama) of creative writing, based in a broad survey of literary approaches and viewed from the standpoint of the writer. Students will read and analyze a wide range of modern and contemporary literary texts while the principal work of the class will be writing: first, writing to help us see and understand the effective forms and techniques we encounter in our reading and thereafter, writing to deploy or adapt those same forms and techniques in the students’ own creative work. There will be both analytical and creative writing assignments, and the major means of assessment will be a portfolio of written work.