Spring 2007 Courses

ENGL 281-01: Crafts of Writing: Fiction (Bauer)

M 7:00-10:00pm, Old Main 002
Prerequisite: English 120 (Introduction to Creative Writing) taken at Macalester.

This course will focus in a variety of ways on the development of skills for writing fiction, building on the work done in English 120. Depending on the instructor, it may approach the creative process through, for example, writing from models of the short story (both classic and contemporary), working with the technical components of fiction (e.g., plot, setting, structure, characterization), or developing linked stories or longer fictions (or other methodology selected by the instructor). It will involve extensive readings and discussion of fiction in addition to regular fiction writing assignments. The course may be conducted to some extent in workshop format; the emphasis will be on continuing to develop writing skills.

Spring 2007 Course Listings