CRWR 240 — Creative Writing: Nonfiction
This course is designed to introduce the genre of creative nonfiction. Students will learn the conventions and techniques of creative nonfiction through guided writing projects. Students will learn strategies for developing narrative, backstory, pacing, and characterization by reading the work of other students and published authors, whose work will serve as models. The reading assignments will include various modes of the genre, such as autobiography/memoir, personal essay, nature and/or science writing, and literary journalism. Students will produce, workshop, and present their own works of creative nonfiction in class.
Prerequisites: WR 121Z