ENCW-100TR Creative Writing Elective (1-5 Credits)
ENCW-199 Directed Study (1-2 Credits)
Opportunity for students to study a particular subject under a faculty member\'s direction. Prerequisite: consent of department chair and instructor.
ENCW-201 Writing Poetry (4 Credits)
(PA) Practice in writing poetry with an introduction to poetic form, voice and techniques. Emphasis will be on generating, critiquing and revising student work, but students will also study the work of published poets.
ENCW-202 Writing Fiction (4 Credits)
(PA) Practice in writing with introduction to the basic techniques of fiction writing, emphasizing the conventions of the modern short story and the revision process.
ENCW-203 Writing Creative Nonfiction (4 Credits)
(PA) Practice in writing with an introduction to the various forms the genre assumes (memoir, profile, literary journalism, nature writing, spiritual autobiography) and emphasis on techniques writers use to translate personal and researched experience into artful nonfiction. The class stresses drafting, workshopping, and revising.
ENCW-204 Screenwriting (4 Credits)
(PA) Practice in writing screenplays with an introduction to narrative structure. Emphasis will be on generating, critiquing and revising student work, but students will also study contemporary scripts and films.
ENCW-299 Directed Study (1-2 Credits)
Opportunity for students to study a particular subject under a faculty member\'s direction. Prerequisite: consent of department chair and instructor.
ENCW-300 Literary Residency (4 Credits)
This intensive course replicates the experience of serving an art residency, adapted to the special circumstances of a college curriculum. Students will spend several hours per day writing under the supervision of an instructor. Course ends with a community project, either teaching a course, giving a reading, or some other useful way to share students\' work and knowledge.
ENCW-301 Poetry Workshop (4 Credits)
Advanced poetry writing techniques in workshop tutorial format. Prerequisite: ENCW-201 or consent of instructor
ENCW-302 Fiction Workshop (4 Credits)
Advanced fiction writing techniques in workshop tutorial format. Prerequisite: ENCW-202, ENCW-203, or consent of instructor
ENCW-303 Creative Nonfiction Workshop (4 Credits)
Advanced theory and practice in creative nonfiction in workshop tutorial format. Prerequisite: ENCW-202, ENCW-203 or consent of instructor
ENCW-304 Screenwriting Workshop (4 Credits)
Advanced theory and practice in screenwriting in workshop tutorial format.
ENCW-310 Special Top: Global Creative Nonfiction (4 Credits)
(PH,G) Taught in Norway, this immersive J-term class acquaints students with key aspects of modern Norway--especially its cradle-to-grave social welfare system-along with key figures contemporary Norwegians tend to celebrate, such as playwright Henrik Ibsen, artists Edvard Munch and Gustav Vigeland, and resistance fighters who fought against Hitler\'s occupation of the country. We will pay special attention to health care and education in the Norwegian welfare state, and students will choose between a visit to a university hospital in Bergen or a neighborhood school. For this reason, the Norway J-term is especially beneficial to prospective medical professionals and teachers. But anyone interested in Scandinavia will enjoy the course and the trip. After a few days of intensive cultural instruction on campus, we will travel to Norway for ten days, spending about three days each in Oslo, Tromsø, and Bergen. Apart from discussing health care and education, we will learn about the Sami people of the Arctic, try dog-sledding, sail down a fjord, journey into the countryside to see the Northern Lights, visit museums dedicated to Ibsen and the resistance fighters of WWII, see Munch\'s famous The Scream in the National Gallery, climb to the top of a ski jump in Oslo, see actual restored Viking ships, visit the Northern most brewery and university in the world, and more.
ENCW-330 Forms of Poetry (4 Credits)
Theory and practice of poetic forms (sonnet, sestina, villanelle, and others) as well as meter, stanza, and figures of speech. Considers goals of various genres and the merits and challenges of found, occasional, concrete and performance poetry. Prerequisite: ENCW-201 or permission of the instructor.
ENCW-350 Digital Travel Writing (4 Credits)
(PA, G) Taught as part of a study away program, this course immerses students in an "away" environment, either domestic or foreign, while practicing the art and craft of travel writing in various digital forms. This course will only be taught during J-term or summer sessions that take place off campus.
ENCW-393 International Study Colloquium (3-4 Credits)
ENCW-399 Directed Study (1-2 Credits)
Opportunity for students to study a particular subject under a faculty member\'s direction. Prerequisite: consent of department chair and instructor.
ENCW-400 Independent Study (1-2 Credits)
Advanced critical study or research on a specific topic for seniors majoring in English. Prerequisite: consent of English faculty based on submission of proposal.
ENCW-490 Creative Writing Senior Inquiry (2 Credits)
Practicum in revising and publishing. Students will work on individual projects, focused on the practical application of their writing to date. This may include sending work out for publication in literary journals, contacting literary agents with query letters, gathering and revising a portfolio to apply for graduate school, or for grants, conferences, employment, residencies, and so on. To be taken senior year.
ENCW-499 Directed Study (1-2 Credits)
Opportunity for students to study a particular subject under a faculty member\'s direction. Prerequisite: consent of department chair and instructor.