Writing Green: Poetry, Fiction, and Our Place in the World

Catalog description

This introductory creative writing workshop encourages students majoring in any discipline to explore the physical world in which we live and the current environmental crisis through their own poetry and fiction, as well as through study of works by diverse modern and contemporary environmental writers. The course subtitle includes the phrase "our place in the world," referring to the study of "place" or the physical environments where humans live, as well as our "place" in the sense of the role humans play, or might play, in shaping the world in which we live. No previous creative writing experience necessary. This course can substitute for CRW 385 or CRW 386 as a prerequisite for upper level creative writing courses. Because of the emphasis on creative responses to physical environments, the course can include field trips and could be taught in a study abroad setting. Prerequisite(s): WRT 101 or equivalent.