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2023-2024 Undergraduate Academic Catalog-June Update 
    
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2023-2024 Undergraduate Academic Catalog-June Update [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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FNA 3001 - Creative Writing

3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
An introduction to creative writing, the course will investigate and instruct students in the process of creating original prose, poetry, and/or dramatic format works. The class will focus on a minimum of two genres and will cover both experimental and traditional forms. Together, the instructor and the students offer support and critical feedback about each student’s work. Weekly class discussions and writing assignments focus on principles of voice, style, plot, tension, character, scene, and dialogue. Attention will be given to these principles and other elements that increase the readability and subsequent reception. This course meets the following Raider Core CLO requirement: Exhibit Curiosity. (prereq: COM 2001 , and junior standing or instructor consent) (quarter system prereq: GS 1002 or GS 1020H or GS 1002E)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Write original works of short fiction and/or creative nonfiction
  • Critique published and peer-written short fiction
  • Revise original stories from feedback from instructor and peers
  • Develop strong characters, settings, plot, and dialog
  • Display the discipline of the daily writing process
  • Describe the difference and overlap between poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama
  • Practice reading, annotating, and discussing the work of their peers
  • Discuss fiction writing using appropriate terminology
Prerequisites by Topic
  • None
Course Topics
  • Introduction to the genres of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and drama
  • Generating ideas
  • The difference between poetry and prose
  • The difference between fiction and nonfiction
  • Writing about what is true
  • Developing a written voice
  • Finding an audience based on voice
  • Learning to write both qualitatively and quantitatively
  • Dealing with obstacles such as writer’s block, writer’s discipline, and writer’s doubt
  • Stretching authorial limits
  • Revising, editing, and proofreading
  • Appling feedback
  • Knowing when it’s finished
Coordinator
Dr. Tammy Rice-Bailey


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