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4.00 Credits
Students explore possibilities for adapting prose fiction to drama. Course includes readings, discussions, and videotapes of plays based upon fictional works such as The Glass Menagerie, Native Son, Spunk, and Of Mice and Men. Students experiment, creating their own adaptations from selected prose fiction of published authors as well as from their own work. Course is ideal for students wishing to work in script forms for stage, film, radio, TV, or other media. 4 CREDITS PREREQUISITES:55-4323 PLAYWRITING I COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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Students work with a well-known playwright to develop dramatic sense for scene and overall movement of stage plays, the most important and basic form of script literature. Students read examples of plays and write in class. If possible, plays students write may be given staged readings by accomplished actors. Course focuses on major aspects of starting the play: scene and character development, dialogue, theme and narrative development, shaping of acts, and sounding the play in the voices of peer writers and actors. 4 CREDITS PREREQUISITES:55-4323 PLAYWRITING I COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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Fresh approach to conception and writing of science fiction offers a current overview of the state of the field and techniques. Students develop original material and present their manuscripts to instructor for careful examination, possible class reading, and critique. 4 CREDITS COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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Writing books for children--from lap-sitter to young adult--covers fiction, creative nonfiction, and plays, with emphasis on characterization, theme, plot, setting, dialogue, and conflict. Professional tips on subject matter of interest to children, preparation of manuscripts for publication, and possible markets will also be studied. 4 CREDITS COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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Writing complex and physically believable characters begins with an understanding of the writer's own body. Students use mind/body techniques such as yoga and meditation to cultivate a keener awareness of how the body works and its role in the creative process. Readings are used to analyze and serve as models of how writers and other artists translate physical experiences into art. Each class blends rigorous and relaxing mind/body practice with journals, creative exercises, and a variety of writing forms to challenge students to trust their body as a source of their creativity. 4 CREDITS COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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Students' personal journals and journals and notebooks of authors such as Melville, Kafka, Nin, and Büll are studied as devices for exploration of the imagination, recording of the living image, and development of various kinds of writing. 4 CREDITS COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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4.00 Credits
Course covers the how-to, economic, copyright, technical, and mailing regulation considerations of founding a press or magazine and examines the current, important phenomenon of the developing small-press movement in the American literary scene. Course includes an electronic publication component. 4 CREDITS COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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4.00 Credits
Students act as editors and production assistants for the Fiction Writing Department's award-winning annual publication Hair Trigger. Reading of submitted manuscripts and participating fully in the process of deciding what to publish and how to arrange selections, the students will work closely with the teacher of the course, who will also be faculty advisor for that year's magazine. The student editors will also be involved in production and marketing procedures. Editors of Hair Trigger have found the experience to be very useful on their resumes and in preparation for entry-level publishing positions. 4 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: PERMISSION OF DEPARTMENT CHAIR OR DESIGNATE
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4.00 Credits
Researched fiction, commercial and literary, is increasingly in demand. Course helps fiction writers learn how to research many popular genres of fiction and creative nonfiction on any subject area students may want to explore. Subjects for research might include historical, legal, scientific, military, archaeological, or classical studies. Fiction writers learn to use multiple facilities of the modern library and other research sources including computers. Students undertake a researched fiction or creative nonfiction project. 4 CREDITS COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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4.00 Credits
Course concentrates on application of fictional and storywriting techniques to nonfiction writing in the nonfiction novel, story, and memoir, as well as in travel, scientific, and anthropological writing. Books such as Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night, Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, and Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi are studied. Students with a body of nonfiction material who wish to experiment with its nonfiction novelistic development find the course particularly useful. 4 CREDITS COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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