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ENG 602B - Advanced Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction

(3 units)
Advanced workshop in creative nonfiction. Students will write in various nonfiction forms, including personal narrative, literary profile, memoir, research-based first-person essays and lyric essays. Students will study individual works by established writers, considering questions of style, form, exploring ethical and aesthetic questions particular to creative nonfiction. Students will be expected to produce essays of high quality, demonstrating evidence of significant revision.

Maximum units a student may earn: 6

Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Spring

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. demonstrate skill in manipulation of elements of nonfiction craft and technique, both in composition and revision.
2. analyze and describe their own and others’ nonfiction, via written and oral discussion, within the context of historical trends/movements and genres in fiction.
3. demonstrate the ability to write successfully using one or more commonly-used forms of CNF: the memoir, the researched narrative essay, the lyric essay, and so on.
4. apply their knowledge of creative nonfiction to their area of specialization.


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