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May 05, 2024
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Catalog 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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ENGL& 236 Creative Writing I5 credits
This course provides students with a multi-genre introduction to the principles and techniques used in creative writing. Students will read contemporary examples of short fiction, poetry, and short plays/screenplays to understand more clearly how different writers employ specific techniques and will write their own original works. Students will “workshop” their stories, poems, and plays to provide regular feedback on their classmates’ work, analyzing and comparing how different literary structures and strategies are used in each genre.
Prerequisites: ENGL 99 (or placement into ENGL& 101 or higher)
Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course students will be able to:
- Explore idea-generating techniques and genre conventions to develop stories, poems, and plays/screenplays.
- Identify and employ writing techniques in fiction, poetry, and plays/screenplays, such as:
- Theme
- Plot, story, and pacing
- Showing rather than telling
- Description, images, and sound
- Developing scenes
- Creating believable characters
- Creating and sustaining tension
- Creating a particular tone, mood, and voice
- Structure and form
- Dialogue and dialect
- Use of persona, character, and point of view
- Integration of symbols
- Figurative language and repetition
- Syntax and diction
- Collaborate to improve writing through the process of constructive criticism, revision, and self-assessment.
- Demonstrate effective writing process/productive and sustainable writing habits
Total Hours: 50 Theory (Lecture) Hours: 50
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