ENGL2024 — Creative Writing: Fiction
ENGL 2024 - Creative Writing: Fiction ENGL 2024 - Creative Writing: Fiction Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Lab None Course Description: This creative writing class intended for all students focuses on the writing and close reading of fiction. Because creative writing involves both creativity and scholarship, coursework includes critical analysis of student and published writing; forming aesthetic judgments about fiction; writing and revising short fiction; form and technique in fiction; and responding to the creative work of classmates in a writing community. This course does not fulfill the Literature requirement for the Associate of Arts degree at Century College. MnTC Goals 6 Humanities/Fine Arts Basic word processing and computer skills. Major Content Contemporary aesthetics in fiction Published fiction as models for student writing selected readings observation and discussion of writers’ choices written reflection on using learned techniques in original work Forms, styles, and techniques in fiction Overview of and practice with the creative process in fiction discovering and generating material writing drafts of short fiction practice in a variety of contemporary short fiction styles and forms providing written and/or oral feedback in writing groups and a workshop environment revising short fiction Qualities of effective writing communities guidelines for writing groups and/or writing workshops criteria for evaluating original fiction in progress how to accept and offer thoughtfu
Prerequisites: ENGL0950, RDNG0940, RDNG0950, ENGL0090, ESOL0051, ESOL0052