Interdisciplinary Arts 0164 - The Field & its Mist: Creative Writing Creative Field Trips

The writer must explore the world to write about the world accurately and honestly. This course is designed to incorporate creative writing field trips around campus and the areas immediately outside of campus. These explorative trips will provide writers with creatively immersive experiences designed to help writers generate new material for prose, CNF, and/or poetry. Activities may include hiking, journaling, image gathering, sensory scrutiny, collaborative notekeeping, plein-air drafting, field guide development, and improvisational readings. Additionally, we will read work by writers who privilege the natural world in their writing. Through focused examination of these works, we will uncover strategies for privileging the natural world in our writing projects. Writers we may consider include: Sjon, Cormac McCarthy, Ernest Hemingway, Claire Vaye Watkins, Melinda Moustakis, Henry David Thoreau, and John Muir. Keywords:Field trips, Excursion, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry

Environments and Change Students should expect to spend 8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time