Creating Fictional Worlds ((4 Credits))

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Creating Fictional Worlds explores the ways that writers create vivid and immersive settings for their stories, whether they are realistic, make-believe, or as deeply imagined and researched as Tomi Adeyemi's Legacy of Orisha trilogy. Students will learn theoretical and practical aspects of worldbuilding and create a world of their own. They will research sources and materials appropriate to discovering and refining the world of their stories, including library and online research in matters of culture, history, geography, ecology, ethnicities, socioeconomics, and more. They will analyze several well-known books to understand what gives them their fascinating power, and write one or more stories/chapters/acts/poems set in the world they have created.