WRIT 315 : Introduction to Creative Writing

This course will explore topics in the field of creative writing, focusing specifically on the genres of fiction, literary nonfiction, and poetry. In this course, students will be asked to think of writing as a process. They will attend to and observe the world around them, invent new work, elaborate on and revise that work, and then reflect back on their own writerly development. Moreover, students will study the work of contemporary writers from a craft and technique perspective, learning how these writers manipulate narrative, subtext, point-of-view, description, metaphor, lineation, and syntax in their work. Finally, students will have their own texts evaluated during in-class workshops, and they will compile their work toward an end-of-semester portfolio.