Spring 2008 Courses

English 120-01: Intro to Creative Writing (James)

M/W/F 2:20-3:20pm, CARN 017

What does it means to write like a storyteller? To read like a writer?

Intro to Creative Writing will be as much about active reading as it will be about actual writing. To become a better writer, you must learn how to objectively analyze and critique a wide range of texts in your genre. How did the author make that text work? What do EM Forster, Jane Austen, Nabokov, Zadie Smith, Elmore Leaonard and Stephen King have to say about it?

But the course is ultimately about your own writing. Intro to Creative Writing will be for many an introduction to the writer inside you, a person that you may be meeting for the first time. It's about the joys and challenges of expression and learning about your abilities and yourself. It's an introduction to the art of fiction, and non-fiction in all their shapes and forms, and the craft of critiquing your work and the work of your peers. The course will be run in both lecture and workshop format; lectures for the basic elements of fiction and non-fiction, and workshops where your own work will be explored and discussed.

Spring 2008 Course Listings