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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
An independent project is designed by the student, with approval of a supervising faculty member, to study an area that is not presently available in the curriculum. Prior to registration, the student must submit a written proposal that outlines the project. Course is intended generally for upperlevel students. 1-4 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I AND PERMISSION OF DEPARTMENT CHAIR OR DESIGNATE
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4.00 Credits
In this course students develop and build a writing portfolio that showcases strong examples of their writing done in Fiction Writing Department classes and elsewhere to present for possible employment or application to graduate school. Students will learn about professional portfolio presentation and the role portfolios play in persuading employers and graduate-admission committees in the fields of writing. Students will rewrite pieces of their own writing, including a range of various writing forms that are key to a successful portfolio and that they wish to include in their final portfolio project. Examples could include cover letters, letters of inquiry, research on publishing markets, stories, and essays. Additional forms may include resumes, clips of feature writing, writing for media, advertising, scripts, business, and other forms of writing that show the student's writing strengths. It is open to all students and is a capstone course for the BFA in Fiction Writing degree. 4 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I, 55-4102 FICTION WRITING II, 55-4104 PROSE FORMS, 55-4106 FICTION WRITING: ADVANCED
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4.00 Credits
Writers Reading the Tradition is a lecture and discussion class devoted to reading the historic overview of fiction writing and fiction writers reflecting on the novels and short stories of other writers. Students will come to understand the times and storytelling traditions that influenced such writers as Miguel de Cervantes (Don Quixote), Henry Fielding (Tom Jones), Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice), Gustave Flaubert (Madame Bovary), and Charles Dickens (Great Expectations), as well as writers reflecting upon other writers such as Jonathan Swift, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence, James Baldwin, and Dorothy Van Ghent. In particular, students will reflect on the writing canon to understand that they are writing out of a strong historical tradition of story development. 4 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I, 55-4102 FICTION WRITING II COREQUISITES: 55-4104 PROSE FORMS
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4.00 Credits
Fiction I is the first course in the core sequence. Emphasizing the dynamic relationship between individual students, the workshop director, and the class, the Story Workshop method is employed to allow students to move at their own pace in developing perceptual, technical, and imaginative abilities in fiction writing. No prerequisites, though either Introduction to Fiction Writing or English Composition are helpful. 4 CREDITS
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4.00 Credits
Fiction Writing II is the second course in the core curriculum for the Fiction Writing major. This course continues the development of perceptual and technical abilities begun in Fiction Writing I, concentrating on point of view, structure, and parody of form. Fiction II is organized along principles of parodying structure and style of literary models while encouraging students to develop their own material, both in major parody assignments and in other writings. 4 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I or 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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4.00 Credits
Prose Forms is the third course in the core sequence. Aimed toward producing publishable works, this practical exploration uses Story Workshopapproaches to creative nonfiction, technical, expository, and persuasive writing, thereby exposing students to the kinds of writing generally useful in finding employment in arts and media fields where writing skills are essential to advancement. Course is also designed to heighten students' sense of forms and structure in preparation for Fiction Writing: Advanced. Strong emphasis is placed on using the identified basic forms in fiction writing and in exposition. 4 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 55-4102 FICTION WRITING II
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4.00 Credits
Sophisticated Story Workshoptechniques are used to advance students' development of prose forms and publishable creative nonfiction. 4 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 55-4104 PROSE FORMS
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4.00 Credits
Fiction Writing: Advanced is the fourth course in the core sequence. It uses the Story Workshopfacets of writing short fiction and novels. Students intensively explore new fictional possibilities as well as have the option of continuing to develop strong writing material from previous classes. Workshop may have an emphasis on point of view and/or rewriting. This course is repeatable. 4 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 55-4102 FICTION WRITING II, 55-4104 PROSE FORMS
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4.00 Credits
Advanced class in fiction writing begins with technical or craft matters, then proceeds to more artistic aspects of composing fiction of any length. Craft sessions address general nature of communication involving character creation, including both physical and psychological descriptions, dialogue, interior monologue and stream of consciousness, action, pace, point of view, plot, setting, and style. Substantial writing projects are undertaken by students and submitted for class analysis and discussion. 4 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 55-4104 PROSE FORMS
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3.00 Credits
Paired student directors and playwrights develop a playwright's script. Students begin collaboration by discussing plays in terms of the proposed production. The director subjects the script to a reading series, which results in rewrites by the playwright. The director presents a first-draft production analysis of the play. The semester culminates in a stage reading of the final draft and a final presentation of the director's production analysis. 3 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 55-4323 PLAYWRITING I OR 31-2800 PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP I CONCURRENT: 55-4333 PLAYWRITING: ADVANCED OR 31-3801 PLAYWRITING: ADVANCED
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