Faculty First Year Seminars 197EDUC5 - Ready, Set, Write: Fiction Wri

Are you interested in fiction writing but don?t know where to start? In this course, students will participate in a professional-grade writer?s workshop geared for beginners. With the guidance of the instructor, an award-winning graphic novelist and ethnographic writer, they will read seminal short fiction and instructive texts and participate in group and individual writing exercises. Students will learn to talk about and analyze short fiction and will develop their own pieces through formal workshopping with peers and consultation with the instructor. The course goal is for each student to 1) develop writerly habits, 2) workshop and produce one polished, edited short piece (8-10 pages) by the end of the semester and 3) write short self-assessment about the piece, the writing process and the writer?s life.

Freshmen Only