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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course provides students with the opportunity to complete full-length original novellas begun in Young Adult Fiction (55-4301). Emphasis is on deepening understanding of scene, transition, character, and plot development. Rigorous rewriting and revision are key in working toward publishable quality. Students discuss the latest in young adult literature and current trends in publishing. 1-4 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 55-4301 YOUNG ADULT FICTION
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4.00 Credits
Story Workshop concepts, philosophy, and teaching techniques are utilized to train and provide tutors who, concurrent with their training semester, staff the Fiction Writing Department tutoring program. Tutors assist Fiction Writing students who need help with reading and writing skills. Students are paid for work done in the tutoring program. 4 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 55-4102 FICTION WRITING I AND PERMISSION OF DEPARTMENT CHAIR OR DESIGNATE
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4.00 Credits
An intensive course in Story Workshop theory and practice. 4 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 55-4331 PRACTICE TEACHING: TUTOR TRAINING
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4.00 Credits
This course will build upon skills for community-based outreach programs acquired in Practice Teaching: Tutor Training through classroom study specific to teaching in campus and civic programs through the student's own experience or providing tutorial support to youth participants. The classroom activities and tutorials will be extended through the use of online chatrooms where advanced tutors-in-training can exchange ideas, explore problem-solving techniques, and post questions about the theory and practices of outreach teaching. In addition, tutors and tutees can further cyber-chat about works in progress in order to maximize the benefits of the intensive study period. 4 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 55-4331 PRACTICE TEACHING: TUTOR TRAINING
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4.00 Credits
Students will develop a full-length script through a series of writing explorations that aim to develop the material from different points of view. Students will explore the material through prose, parody, character-development exercises, point-of-view, genre, and collaborative exercises that deepen the students' understanding of story and situation. Students will also read and discuss plays from a variety of styles and genres to increase their understanding of the range of approaches to writing for performance. 4 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 55-4310 PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP II OR 31-3800 PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP II CONCURRENT: 55-4109 NEW PLAYS WORKSHOP
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4.00 Credits
Kafka, Goya, Faulkner, and others have been inspired by word and image; their journals and sketchbooks show exploration in text, image, and their intersections. Open to those interested in writing and/or visual art, the course will be team-taught by a writer and a visual artist, using interdisciplinary approaches in order to help students better "see" their narrative work.Students will consider their written and visual work fully through personal observation, seeing and responding simultaneously, and seeing-in-the-mind through imagination and memory. 4 CREDITS COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Directed Studies are learning activities involving student independence within the context of regular guidance and direction from a faculty advisor. Directed Studies are appropriate for students who wish to explore a subject beyond what is possible in regular courses or for students who wish to engage in a subject or activity not otherwise offered that semester by the College. Directed Studies involve close collaboration with a faculty advisor who will assist in development and design of the project, oversee its progress, evaluate the final results, and submit a grade. 1-4 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: PERMISSION OF DEPARTMENT CHAIR OR DESIGNATE
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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 OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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4.00 Credits
Playwriting practice for writers interested in working at the intersection of individual expression and community arts. Students will develop original work by combining community arts techniques and their personal writing processes. Community arts approaches will be learned through the revision of scripts developed through service learning projects. Students will read, discuss, and revise to explore the processes through which the scripts were originally created, and the audiences for whom performances are intended. Writing will be both individual and collaborative. 4 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 55-4323 PLAYWRITING I COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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4.00 Credits
Page to Stage gives playwriting students first-hand experience with the process of bringing a play script through the production process to performance. Students will read scripts of plays currently in production at Columbia and in the Chicago area, then attend rehearsals and productions of these plays. Students will explore the process of getting the dramatic text of a play from the page onto the stage through meetings and discussions with actors, directors, and designers, and in class work. Students will analyze and evaluate production values and respond to texts through journal entries, an oral report, and a final creative nonfiction essay. 4 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I, 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I, 55-4323 PLAYWRITING I
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