Faculty First Year Seminars 191EDUC5 - Ready,Set,Write: Writing/Begin

In this course, students will participate in a professional-grade writer?s workshop geared for beginning writings of fiction or creative nonfiction. Students will read instructive texts and participate in writing and thinking exercises in order to think about the important stories in their lives and how to begin to tell these, and other stories, as an anchor point toward beginning to understand themselves in the changing contexts of their lives as college students. Students will write 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 mini-piece (5-10 pages) by the end of the semester and 3) reflect on the work and mindset of the writer and community member.

First year (Fr or Soph)