Creative Writing in Spanish

Catalog description

This course seeks to engage students in a creative writing process that aims to include students' interests and concerns, whether they have experience in the field or not. Students' creativity will be facilitated by exposure to a number of artistic works, mainly literary but also belonging to other fields (music, painting, videos, cinema,...). Likewise, with the help of numerous writing dynamics in class (which may include going out of the classroom) we will avoid creative blocking, and week by week we will be adding varied texts to the individual portfolio. Students work continuously on a writing notebook, which will be submitted (with feedback) twice along the semester. The practice of creative writing in Spanish leads to an improvement in fluency and communication skills in Spanish, a deeper knowledge of the self, and a development of creative and critical abilities for each person involved in this adventure.