English 135 - INT CREATIV NONFICT: CHINESE T

Students learn to use literary techniques to write factual, engaging narratives that read like fiction. Based on research, interviews and personal experience, creative nonfiction encompasses a wide range of genres, including memoir, travel writing, nature writing, science writing, food writing and biography. Prerequisites: one WI course. Enrollment in each section limited to 16. Course may be repeated once on a different topic. : What makes for good translation? Whether poetry, politics or catchphrases, how does one translate one’s terms into another culture, to others with diverse beliefs, to oneself at new times or in the throes of passion? How does one respect and negotiate cultural differences within shifting contexts? To explore these questions, students read and compose short texts in Chinese, translate them into English, and consider the art of translation and the issues it raises in a variety of public-facing genres (memoir, narrative nonfiction, journalism, social media and multimedia projects). Discussion in Chinese and English. Chinese fluency and permission of instructor required.