May be repeated for nine credit hours. Students seeking graduate credit will produce a greater quantity and higher quality of original work, will have a separate and more extensive reading list, and will be expected to participate more fully in class activities. Students seeking graduate credit will produce a greater quantity and higher quality of original work, will have a separate and more extensive reading list, and will be expected to participate more fully in class activities. May be repeated for nine credit hours. Theories and practices for teaching secondary school students, college students, and others how to write in genres such as poetry, fiction, and essay or article.
Emphasis is on teaching in classroom and workshop settings.
A writing course which studies literary journals, trade journals, and little magazines, and which looks at tradebook and electronic publication with the intention of preparing students how to write, design, and submit manuscripts, as well as how to prepare professional resumes and letters of application. Course culminates in production of a classroom edition of each student's original writings or art works in an appropriate format devised by the student. An advanced workshop in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Students will study the form and theory of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction from the perspective of practicing writers and will apply these principles to the analysis and criticism of one another's work. Students must declare themselves for fiction, nonfiction, or poetry.