Creative, Lyric, and Expository Writing

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On this course, students will explore creativity within essayistic form, considering its origins with Montaigne, exploring essays with expository roots, including texts by Virginia Woolf, Henry David Thoreau and James Baldwin alongside lyric essay and poetics forms from writers such as Jorge Borges, Ishion Hutchinson and Bhanu Kapil. Student writers will produce a portfolio of essays and a brief poetics of their developing essayistic style. Taken with the instructor’s permission, and with the letter grade option, this course satisfies First-Year Writing Seminar requirements for sophomores, juniors, and seniors. If counted toward the First-Year Writing Seminar requirement, the course will not count toward ALC-AS.