Craft of Writing

Catalog description

An in-depth study of the creative writing process, either single - or multi - genre. Students may develop a craft workbook that focuses on both traditional and contemporary literary forms and strategies. Students write by assignment and develop techniques of reviewing in order to compare and contrast major authors' aesthetics with their own creative gestures. A final portfolio may consist of approximately thirty pages of revised fiction, nonfiction, or drama, or approximately fifteen pages of revised poetry, or twenty to twenty-five pages, revised, of some combination of genres agreed upon between the student and the professor. The collection should be titled and given a cohesive arrangement. Repeatable once for credit, with departmental permission. Open only to students with a creative writing concentration and minor only.