Creative Nonfiction: Advanced ((4 Credits))

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Creative Nonfiction: Advanced focuses on such items as memoirs, personal essays, portraits, essays of place, and/or narrative journalism/personal essays. Students use the tools of storytelling to develop an engaging voice, add personal authority to their expression, and write truthfully about the real world. Students will analyze published works through discussion and literary analysis essays. Students will also create and revise their own writing, participating in peer writing workshops to help move drafts into more final form. Creative Nonfiction is offered at both introductory and advanced levels. Students should take the course just once, either CRWR 1015 Creative Nonfiction: Introductory or CRWR 3015 Creative Nonfiction: Advanced - not both. Prior to taking this course, students should take a course in literature, college writing, or creative writing. This course can fulfill either Humanities OR The Arts general education credit (not both).