Topics course. Same as AMS 351. A writing sample and permission of the instructor are required. Enrollment limited to 12: In 1972, the journalist Studs Terkel published Working, a tome of oral histories documenting what people did all day and how they felt about it. The book was, in part, “about a search … for daily meaning as well as daily bread.” This is a writing workshop where students will actively question the way we work and how we define labor, both seen and unseen.
Topics course. Same as ENG 384. A writing sample and permission of the instructor are required. Enrollment limited to 12: In 1972, the journalist Studs Terkel published Working, a tome of oral histories documenting what people did all day and how they felt about it. The book was, in part, “about a search … for daily meaning as well as daily bread.” This is a writing workshop where students will actively question the way we work and how we define labor, both seen and unseen.
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. : Students write true stories about art, music, theater, film and dance that read like a novel.