INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING

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This course offers an introduction to the fundamentals of writing short stories, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Not only will students read 20th and 21st Century practitioners of these forms, they will also learn, among other things, scene-writing, plot development, characterization, and theme (in the case of fiction and nonfiction) and image, form, voice, and cadence (in the case of poetry). Upon completing the course, students will be equipped to pursue upper-division creative writing courses in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and screenwriting. (HA, HA-A) PREREQ: ENGLISH 100 OR ENGLISH 101 OR ENGLISH 105