English 290 - CRAFTING CREATIVE NONFICTION
Fall
2014
02
4.00
Dava Sobel
T 01:00-02:50
Smith College
19347-F14
SEELYE 310
dsobel@smith.edu
A writer?s workshop designed to explore the complexities and delights of creative nonfiction. Constant reading, writing and critiquing. Admission by permission of the instructor. This course invites students with an interest in science to learn skills for creatively communicating science news, concepts and history. Class time is devoted to discussions (call them dissections) of assigned readings, including books, articles, plays, poems and blogs that treat scientific themes. We compare and contrast the writing of practicing scientists with that of science writers, in the hope of appropriating the best elements of both. Class sessions later in the term provide time and space for work-shopping and peer-editing. Writing assignments include a profile (or obituary) of a scientist, and a final project concerning research in a field of personal interest.
Topic: Writing About Science. Writing Sample Required.