May 22, 2024

2012-2013 Course Catalog

2012-2013 Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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Fiction Writing
	55-5106PR Fiction Writing: Advanced This course uses Story Workshop approaches to develop the many facets of writing short fiction and novels. 3 Credits Requisites PREREQUISITES: 55-5102 Fiction Writing II and 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II and 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-4102 Fiction Writing II and 55-4104 Prose Forms or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II and 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II and 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-4102 Fiction Writing II
	55-5108 Fiction Seminar This advanced class in fiction writing will begin with technical or craft matters, then proceed to the more artistic aspects of composing fiction of any length. The craft sessions will address the general nature of communication, involving creating characters (including both their physical and psychological description), dialogue, interior monologue and stream of consciousness, action, pace, point of view, plot, setting, and style. Substantial writing projects will be undertaken by the students and submitted for class analysis and discussion. There will also be extensive use of one-to-one writing conferences between the teacher and the students. Fiction seminar is taught by discussion and critique, rather than the Story Workshop approach. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-4102 Fiction Writing II
	55-5108LDM Fiction Seminar This workshop will mix Story Workshop approaches to develop the many facets of writing short fiction, novel, and essay material with intensive journal and CRW oral report approaches. Students will intensively explore new ficitonal and creative nonfiction possibilities, as well as have the option of continuing to develop strong writing material from previous classes. The seminar will draw upon literary, historical, and cultural aspects of Florence and Italy. 3 Credits
	55-5109 New Plays Workshop Playwriting students will work collaboratively with actors, designers and directors to bring their ten-minute and short one-act plays to the stage. Drafts of short plays, written and developed in Playwriting I and II will be read, workshopped, and developed, in a process modeled on professional play development, with professional directors from the Chicago community, advanced student directors, and advanced student actors. Students will experience how collaboration directly informs the writing and rewriting process. The semester will culminate in staged readings of the rewritten short plays presented in one of the Studio Theatres during Performance Week. 3 Credits Requisites PREREQUISITES: 55-5323 Playwriting I or Equivalent Course 55-5323 Playwriting I CONCURRENT: 55-5333 Playwriting: Advanced
	55-5112 Novel Writing Emphasis is on readings, analysis, and criticism of students’ writing in Story Workshop setting. Class is devoted to reading of students’ writings and discussion of extensive assinged readings directed toward enhancement of students’ understanding of literary techniques, process, and values. 3 Credits Requisites PREREQUISITES: 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or Equivalent Course 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced
	55-5201 CRW: Autobiographical Fiction Students read fiction known to be autobiographical in nature, and respond with journal entries and classroom discussion. Each student chooses an author to research, studies the process by which a work by that writer came into being, gives an oral report on this research in class, and writes a final essay. Students also read aloud journal responses to reading and write their own autobiographical fiction, some of which will be read aloud and discussed in the class. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5202 CRW: First Novels This course will expose student writers to the creative and intellectual processes of published writers early in their careers. It will show students that a) writing is an ongoing process of writing and rewriting; b) the creative process is both unique and universal to each writer; and c) published writers faced the same bogeys at the beginning of their careers that student writers face. Through contrast and comparisons (in the journals and class discussions) students will examine and comment on the prose forms, character developments, and story structures first-time novelists have effectively used, along with the writing processes the authors employed to get their first novels finished. Through journal entries and essays, students will examine what all this tells them about how they might go about solving the questions of structure and process presented to them by their own writing. Students will be required to read three novels and conduct research by reading writers’ diaries, notebooks, letters, and autobiographies. There will be discussion of the assigned texts and journal readings every week. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5203 CRW:Fiction Writers & Censorship In this course, students read the fiction of successful authors who have been forced to confront one or more forms of censorship and marginalization. Students will respond to these works as writers in journal entries, research and discuss the writers’ creative process in writing the novel, give an oral report on an author of choice, and write an essay. In addition, students undertake creative writing assignments that will encourage them to reflect upon the social context in which writers work and that will help them examine their own processes of writing. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5204 CRW: Drama and Story No description available. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5205 CRW: Gender and Difference This course examines the ways in which gay, lesbian, and straight writers contend with issues of culture, gender, and difference. The course focuses upon such questions as the following: How do straight male and female writers deal with the serious issues and challenges of writing from the point of view of gay and lesbian characters? How do gay and lesbian writers deal with the same issues in writing about straight characters? The course also examines the particular challenges of writing gender opposites (whatever the sexual orientation of those characters might be). Through the students’ reading of assigned stories and novels, through their written responses as writers to their reading, through creative fiction and nonfiction writing assignments, and through individual and small-group research activities, the course will approach broad and specific issues of gender and difference from early writing to the present day. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5206 CRW: The Novel in Stories This course examines the creative and intellectual processes of writers working in nonlinear structure formats. It will try to assess the following: What are the questions writers ask themselves when determining how best to structure a body of work that is more cohesive than a collection of stories, yet not a linear-shaped novel? What (or who) are their influences, their models, for the episodic or modular structure? Does this structure just happen because a writer is unable to force certain material into following a linear trek, or is the decision made early on as a conscious choice in the creative process? Through readings, small group and large group discussions, journal reflections (both students’ and authors’), and research into the authors’ writing processes, students will be able to reflect upon and examine the issues and questions of structure that go into putting together a cohesive body of creative work. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5207 CRW:19th Century Russian Authors Students research the reading and writing processes behind selected novels and short stories by Russian masterpiece authors, and give their own oral and written responses as writers to the material they are reading. Research examines the personal and social contexts in which masterpiece works were written, as well as the ways in which writers read, respond to what they read, and incorporate their reading and responses to reading dynamically to their own fiction writing processes. Drawing upon authors’ journals, notebooks, and letters, as well as upon more public writing and interviews, students explore the writing processes of Russian masterpiece authors and the ways in which students’ own responses may nourish and heighten the development of their fiction. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5208 CRW: Contemporary European Masterpiece Authors This course researches the writing processes of contemporary European writers, including the ways in which their reading and responses to reading play influential roles in the overall fiction-writing process. Journals and other writings by contemporary European authors will be used as examples of how writers develop dimensions of their own fiction and see their work in relation to other writers. Course involves study of the development of diverse techniques and voices of some of the most prominent contemporary European authors, the so-called post-war generation, in such countries as France, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Russia, and others. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5208PR CRW: Continental European Writers In this course students will research the writing processes of the most notorious twentieth century writers of Continental Europe—F. Kafka, G. Myerink, C. Capek, J. Hasek, M. Kundera, and others—whose lives and work were inseparable from Prague. In addition to their novels and stories, journals, diaries and other tools of the craft will be used to gain deeper insights into and understanding of how these writers developed dramatic new dimensions of the art of fiction. The advantage of being on sites where writers lived and worked will be used to full extent. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms
	55-5209 CRW: Contemporary Russian Authors This course requires that students research reading and writing processes behind selected novels and short stories by principal masterpiece authors of the Soviet period from 1920 to present, such as Bulgakov, Babel, Olesha, Erofeev, Platonov, Sokolov, and others. Drawing upon authors’ journals, notebooks, and letters, as well as upon more public writing and interviews, students examine the personal and social contexts in which writers read and respond to what they read. Students give oral and written responses as writers to material. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5210 CRW: Latin-American Writers No description available. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5211 CRW: American Voices This is a course researching the writing processes of African American, Hispanic American, Native American, Asian American, and other ethnic American writers and the ways in which their reading and responses to reading have played influential roles in their fiction writing processes. Particular emphasis will be placed upon taking the point of view of racial and ethnic opposites. Journals and other writings will be used as examples of how writers read (and write about what they read) to develop dimensions of their own fiction and to see their work in relation to that of other writers. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5213 CRW: Fiction Writers as Creative Non-Fiction Writers Explores the ways in which published writers bring their knowledge of fiction writing techniques such as dramatic scene, image, voice, story movement, and point of view to the writing of creative nonfiction. Using primarily journals, letters, and other private writings, students will research the writing processes of established fiction writers who have worked extensively in creative nonfiction moes-writers as diverse as Mark Twain, Isak Dinesen, Virginia Woolf, Zora Neale Hurston, John Edgar Wideman, Gretel Ehrlich, James Alan McPherson, Scott Russell Sanders, Alice Walker, Joyce Carol Oates, David Bradley, and others. In addition to offering insights about widening writing options in a growing nonfiction market for fiction writers, this course will aid in the development of oral, written, and research skills useful for any major and any communications-related career 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5215 CRW: Women Writers This is a course researching the writing processes of women writers, including the ways in which women writers’ reading and responses to reading play an influential role in the overall fiction writing process. Journals and other writings by Zora Neale Hurston, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, and others will be used as examples of how writers read (and write about what they read) to develop dimensions of their own fiction and to see their work in relation to that of other writers. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5216 CRW: Short Story Writers This course encourages development of lively, well-crafted short fiction by examining the reading and writing processes behind some of the best examples of the form. Working individually and in small groups, students select from a wide range of writers, representing many different voices, backgrounds, subjects, and approaches, to research the ways in which writers read, respond to their reading, and use that reading to generate and heighten their short stories. Students write their own responses to reading and discuss the relationship of reading to development of their own fiction. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5217 CRW: Novelists This course examines the ways in which novelists read, respond to what they read, and incorporate their reading dynamically into their own fiction writing processes. In addition to their own written responses to reading, students work individually and in small groups researching the reading and writing processes behind selected novels (mainstream and non-mainstream), ranging from the beginnings of the form to the present day. Drawing upon authors’ journals, notebooks, and letters as well as upon more public writings, students explore the connection between these processes and the ways in which their own responses to reading may nourish and heighten and development of their fiction. The course will survey many of the principal novelists and novels and the development of the genre from its roots to contemporary fiction. Students should be writing fiction, but novel-length material is not required. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5219 CRW: American Latino Writers This course is a research, writing, and discussion workshop devoted to examining the development of story ideas by selected American Latino writers, including these writers’ responses to reading, stages of manuscript development, approaches to rewriting, dealings with editors and publishers, and other aspects of the fiction writer’s process. Throughout the course, students read private writings (journals, notebooks, letters) as well as more public statements by published writers such as Julia Alvarez, Isabel Allende, Junot Diaz, and Rudolfo Anaya, with an eye toward their own reading and writing processes. In particular, students reflect upon the way in which the writers’ often very personal response to texts differs from that of the traditional literary critic’s approach of focusing on the end product. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5220 CRW: Experimental Theatre This course explores dramatic work outside the traditional linear narrative of the Western canon, including Avante-Garde, Dada, Surrealism, Existentialism and Absurdism. Students journal and research authors such as Jarry, Artaud, Genet, Stein, Beckett, and will give oral presentations on a writer’s process with a creative essay, as well as completing writing assignments that incorporate non-linear techniques into their own dramatic work. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5221 CRW: Crime and Story Dickens, Atwood, and Wright are among many writers who use elements of the mystery and crime story to explore the psychological effects of crime in fiction. By analyzing the writing techniques and processes of established writers, students examine how crime and mystery have been transformed beyong genre to create dramatic literary fiction. By reading published public work, as well as private journals and letters of established writers, students will explore how they may use these techniques to create compelling fiction. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5300 Story in Graphic Forms This course covers writing for comics and graphic novels: Forms and formats similar to but unique from those of narrative prose, screenwriting, and storyboarding. The full script and plot outline styles of major publishers are explored and practiced. Business aspects such as submissions, working within publishing cooperatives, and self-publishing are presented. There’s also an emphasis on research to enable the writer to translate the envisioned image and stories from other classes into words for artist anad audience. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5301 Young Adult Fiction This course analyzes a selection of published young adult novels, with emphasis on the development of student works, including exploration of ideas and issues that sustain novel length. Also studied are plot construction, writing of scene and transition, and the weaving of theme into the whole. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5302 Story and Script: Fiction Techniques for the Media The main emphasis of this course is upon the adaptation of prose fiction to script form-film, play, radio, or television. The course attends to the rich variety of ways in which imaginative prose fiction techniques- image, scene, dialogue, summary narrative, point of view, sense of address, movement, plot, and structure-and fiction material are used in the arts and communication fields such as advertising, scriptwriting for film, television, video, radio, and other visual and sound media. The class discusses connections and contrasts of prose fiction versions and film versions of classic and contemporary works. Students may also write stories in prose fiction form and then in script or other media forms. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5303 Dreams and Fiction Writing This course helps writers relate the rich, various, and powerful world of dreams to the needs and delights of imaginative prose fiction. Students deep journals of their dreams, read and write dream stories, and study how dreams relate to their fiction writing, including researching the ways in which dreams have influenced the work of well-known writers. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5303PR Dreams and Fiction Writing This course helps writers relate the rich, various, and powerful world of dreams to the needs and delights of imaginative prose fiction. Students deep journals of their dreams, read and write dream stories, and study how dreams relate to their fiction writing, including researching the ways in which dreams have influenced the work of well-known writers. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced
	55-5304 Dialects and Fiction Writing Dialect speech and dialect writing have richly contributed to the breadth, variety, and authenticity of American and English literature. This course provides students with informed training in listening with a good ear and distinguishing between eye dialect and dialect is both accurately and artistically rendered, within an understanding of the tradition of dialect writing in fiction. Students keep a journal and research the ways in which writers employ dialect in their fiction as well as what they have to say about such uses, while also developing a facility with dialect in their own fiction writing. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5305 Suspense Thriller Fiction Writing Suspense, legal, and medical thrillers, crime novels and horror-various forms of the suspense thriller make the bestseller lists. Students read and analyze contemporary examples of the genre. In consultation with the instructor, students plan and begin writing their own suspense thrillers. Will be taught by Patricia Pinianski, writer of suspense thriller fiction. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5306 Writing Popular Fiction Course investigates a variety of fiction forms written for the popular market, including mysteries, romantic women’s fiction, and dark fantasy novels. Emphasis is on analysis of given genres and characteristics of form and general technique. Students become aware of characteristics that define a popular genre novel and how to apply those defining techniques in their works. Because most popular fiction is market-driven, course includes some discussion of marketing. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5307 Researching and Writing Historical Fiction The always popular genre of historical fiction is the focus of this course, which combines study of research techniques with the fictional techniques necessary to produce marketable prose. This course fulfills the Bibliography and Research requirement of the Fiction Writing major. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5308 Freelance Applications of Fiction Writing Training The application of the broad repertoire of fiction writing techniques and approaches to creative nonfiction and freelance tasks found in a variety of businesses and services, including the creative nonfiction that appears in a variety of publications and media. The student develops writing projects suitable for inclusion in a job placement portfolio. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5309 Story to Stage: Adaptation for the Stage Students will explore the specific possibilities and techniques for adapting prose fiction to dramatic form. Readings and discussions, as well as videotapes or actual plays based upon fictional works (such as, for example, The Glass Menagerie, Native Son, Spunk, Of Mice and Men), will lead directly to students’ own creative experiments in adapting selected prose fiction of published authors as well as of their own. Students will also gain experience in adapting dramatic work to prose in order to heighten the development of their own fiction. Whenever possible, students from the Theatre Department will present staged readings of students work-in-progress. This course in excellent for students wishing to work both genres as well as and student interested in script forms for stage, film, radio, TV or other media. Previous playwriting experience is helpful but not required. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5310 Playwriting Workshop II Course covers continued development of plays initiated in 55-4323 Playwriting Workshop I or transformation of other written forms (poems, fiction, or film) into dramatic events for stage. Students must complete one act of a play. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5311 Science Fiction Writing Taught by practicing science fiction writer Phyllis Eisenstein, this fresh approach to the conception and writing of science fiction offers an overview of the current state of the field and techniques useful to generate publishable stories. Students develop original material and present their manuscripts to the instructor for examination and class reading. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5312 Writing for Children Writing books for children- from lap-sitter to young adult- covers fiction, creative non-fiction, and plays, with emphasis on characterization, theme, plot, setting, dialogue, and conflict. Professional tips on subject matter of interest to children, preparation of manuscripts for publication and possible markets will also be studied. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5313 The Writing Body Writing complex and physically believable characters begins with an understanding of the writer’s own body. Students use mind/body techniques such as yoga and meditation to cultivate a keener awareness of how the body works and its role in their creative process. Readings are used to analyze and serve as models of how writers and other artists translate physical experiences into art. Each class blends rigorous and relaxing mind/body practice with journals, creative exercises, and a variety of writing forms to challenge students to trust their body as the source of their creativity. 3 Credits
	55-5315 Story and Journal The students’ personal journals and the journals and notebooks of authors such as Melville, Kafka, Nin, and Boll are used and studied as devices for the exploration of the imagination, and recording of the living image, and the development of various kinds of writing. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5316 Small Press Publishing This course covers the how-to, economic, copyright, technical, and mailing regulation considerations of founding a press or magazine and examines the current, important phenomenon of the developing small-press movement in the American literary scene. Course includes an electronic publication component. 3 Credits
	55-5317 College Literary Magazine Publishing Students act as editors and production assistants for the Fiction Writing Department’s award-winning annual publication Hair Trigger. Reading of submitted manuscripts and participating fully in the process of deciding what to publish and how to arrange selections, the students will work closely with the teacher of the course, who will also be faculty advisor for that year’s Hair Trigger. The student editors will also be involved in production and marketing procedures. Editors of Hair Trigger have found the experience to be very useful on their resumes and in preparing them for entry-level publishing positions. 3 Credits Requirements Department Permission
	55-5318 Bibliography and Research for Fiction Writers 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5319 Creative Nonfiction No description available. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5320 Fiction Writers and Publishing This course is designed to give developing fiction writers and understanding of the relationships among fiction writers, literary agents, magazine and book editors and the field of publishing, with particular concentration on recently published fiction and creative nonfiction stories and books. Guest literary agents, editors, publishers, booksellers, and writers enhance the semester’s presentation. Attention is given to history of fiction publishing in the United States and to recent and ongoing changes in fiction publishing. The ways in which publishing interests shape literary output are viewed historically. Attention is given to small press publishing in the United States. Students send their manuscripts out for publication as a requirement of the course. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5321 Advanced Science Fiction Writing Workshop Students have an opportunity in this course to pick up and extend the work they began in Science Fiction Writing, pushing to develop publishable manuscripts. In tandem with Science Fiction Writing, this course gives the Fiction Writing Department the only sequenced science fiction component in the Midwest, and one of the very few in the country. 3 Credits Requisites PREREQUISITES: 55-5311 Science Fiction Writing or 55-4311 Science Fiction Writing COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or Equivalent Course 55-5101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5322 Fantasy Writing Workshop In this class, students will explore the many facets of fantasy fiction, from heroic fantasy, to contemporary fantasy, to horror. Students will read classic short stories of the genre, with class discussion focusing on structure, content, the use of imagination combined with plausibility, and how these qualities apply to the student’s own writing. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5323 Playwriting I This course is an introduction to the basic techniques of structure and dialogue in playwriting. Written exercises must be submitted and discussed to identify dramatic events. Students will initiate the development of a one-act play or the first act of a three-act play. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5324 Interactive Storytelling No description available. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5325 Screenwriting Workshop: Coverage of Adapted Screenplay in LA This course requires that students read and analyze a variety of novels that have been adapted into films. They will also read the scripts based on these works of prose and learn how to do coverage, a standard practice used throughout the studio system. They will also view the films based on these published works. Students will then participate in weekly Q & A sessions with the screenwriters who originally adapted the above material, gaining first-hand knowledge and insight into the adaptation process. Prose and script coverage will be used to analyze different adaptation approaches and will serve as practice for entry-level positions in story editing or development offices in L.A. 2 Credits
	55-5326 Topics in Fiction: Techniques and Business of Adaption in LA This course consists of a lecture series, which will include authors, screenwriters, and producers who have either sold their published works to Hollywood or who have adapted published works for Hollywood. Other guest speakers will include entertainment attorneys and agents who will discuss the legalities of optioning and adapting pre-existing material. There will be almost 40 guest speakers in all.No description available. 3 Credits
	55-5327 Adaptation in LA This course requires that students develop a completed work of prose (novel, short story, magazine article, etc.) into an expanded outline, then into a detailed treatment for the screen. The outlining process will involve breaking down the prose, streamlining it into visual and essential pieces of dialog, then registering the outline at the WGA (which will be a stop on one of our tours). A professional story editor/development executive will then collect an outline from each student, do coverage, then have an individual meeting with each student to discuss vital story points. Based on feedback from the story editor, each student will revise his/her outline, then develop it into a full-length treatment (10-20 pages). Each student will pitch his/her treatments to development executives/producers at the end of the five-week program. 2 Credits
	55-5328 Acquiring Intellectual Property for Adaptation in LA This course is designed to help students better understand the process of optioning copyrighted work by published authors. 2 Credits
	55-5329 Practice Teaching: Outreach No description available. 3 Credits
	55-5330 Advanced Young Adult Fiction This course provides students with the opportunity to complete full-length original novellas begun in Young Adult Fiction (55-4301-01). Emphasis is on deepening understanding of scene, transition, character, and plot development. Rigorous rewriting and revision are key in working toward publishable quality. Students discuss the latest in young adult literature and current trends in publishing. 3 Credits WI Requisites PREREQUISITES: 55-5301 Young Adult Fiction or 55-4301 Young Adult Fiction
	55-5331 Practice Teaching:Tutor Training Story Workshop concepts, philosophy, and teaching techniques are utilized to train and provide tutors who, concurrent with their training semester, staff the Fiction Writing Department Tutoring Program. Tutors assist Fiction Writing students who need help with reading and writing skills. Students are paid for work done in the Tutoring Program. 3 Credits Requisites PREREQUISITES: 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II COREQUISITES: 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development Requirements Department Permission
	55-5332 Practice Teaching: Classroom An intensive course in Story Workshop theory and practice. 3 Credits Requisites PREREQUISITES: 55-5331 Practice Teaching:Tutor Training COREQUISITES: 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development Requirements Permission of Instructor
	55-5332J Practice Teaching: Advanced Tutor Training - Outreach 4 Credits
	55-5333 Playwriting: Advanced Students will develop a full-length script through a series of writing explorations that aim to develop the material from different points of view. Students will explore the material through prose, parody, character development exercises, point-of-view, genre and collaborative exercises that deepen the students’ understanding of story and situation. Students will also read and discuss plays from a variety of styles and genres to increase their understanding of the range of approaches to writing for performance. 3 Credits Requisites PREREQUISITES: 55-5310 Playwriting Workshop II or 55-4310 Playwriting Workshop II or 31-3800 Playwriting Workshop II
	55-5335 Journal and Sketchbook Ways of Seeing Kafka, Goya, Faulkner and others have been inspired by word and image; their journals and sketchbooks show exploration in text, image, and their intersections. Open to those interested in writing and/or visual art, the course will be team-taught by a writer and a visual artist, using interdisciplinary approaches in order to help students better see their narrative work. Students will consider their written and visual work fully through personal observation, seeing and responding simultaneously, and seeing-in-the-mind through imagination and memory. 3 Credits
	55-5335LDM Journal & Sketchbook: Ways of Seeing Kafka, Goya, Faulkner, and others have been inspired by word and image; their journals and sketchbooks show exploration in text, image, and their intersections. Open to those interested in writing and/or visual art, the course will be team-taught by a writer and a visual artist, using interdisciplinary approaches in order to help students better “see” their narrative and narrative-informed work. Students will consider their written and visual work fully through personal observation, seeing and responding simultaneously, and seeing-in-the-mind through imagination and memory. This course will draw upon literary, historical, and cultural aspects of Florence and Italy, including visiting major sites and museums in one of the world’s most impressive art cities. 3 Credits
	55-5400 Fiction Writing-Directed Study: 1-6 Credits
	55-5401 CRW: Writers Reading the Tradition Writers Reading the Tradition is a lecture and discussion class devoted to reading the historic overview of fiction writing and fiction writers reflecting on the novels and short stories of other writers. Students will come to understand the times and storytelling traditions that influenced such writers as Miguel de Cervantes (Don Quixote), Henry Fielding (Tom Jones), Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice), Gustave Flaubert (Madame Bovary), and Charles Dickens (Great Expectations), as well as writers reflecting upon other writers such as Jonathan Swift, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence, James Baldwin, and Dorothy Van Ghent. In particular, students will reflect on the writing canon to understand that they are writing out of a strong historical tradition of story development. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5402 Playwriting Process: Outreach and Inreach Playwriting practice for writers interested in working at the intersection of individual expression and community arts. Students will develop original work by combining community arts techniques and their personal writing processes. Community arts approaches will be learned through the revision of scripts developed through service learning projects. Students will read, discuss, and revise to explore the processes through which the scripts were originally created, and the audiences for whom performances are intended. Writing will be both individual and collaborative. 3 Credits Requisites PREREQUISITES: 55-5323 Playwriting I
	55-5403 CRW: Page to Stage Students will read scripts of plays currently in production at Columbia and in the Chicago area, then attend rehearsals and productions of these plays. Students will explore the process of getting the dramatic text of a play from the page onto the stage through meetings and discussions with actors, directors, and designers and in class work. Students will analyze and evaluate production values and respond to texts through journal entries, an oral report, and a final creative nonfiction essay. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I and 55-5323 Playwriting I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I and 55-5323 Playwriting I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II and 55-5323 Playwriting I or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II and 55-5323 Playwriting I or 55-5104 Prose Forms and 55-5323 Playwriting I or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms
	55-5404J Manuscript Preparation for Writers In this class students will learn how to prepare manuscripts for submission and publication. Students will learn to give close attention to issues regarding the relationship between story content and the important role of style, punctuation, usage, and the many ways in which the visual appearance and impact of a manuscript’s features (chapters, sections, breaks, etc.) affect not only the way in which the work is received by readers, editors, and publishers, but how layout/setup affects the manipulation of time, movement, and dramatic impact. 2 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5405 CRW: Writers on the Road From the American road story to tales of immigrants and emigrants to adventures abroad - expatriation, political exile, and extended travel - dislocation from the familiar has for centuries played upon the imaginative processes of writers. Students will study a wide and diverse range of fiction and creative nonfiction writers who have explored the way in which prolonged or brief exposure to other countries and/or cultures has opened subject matter, story content, and individual voice. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5406 CRW: American Stage to Screen Students will read modern American plays of playwrights such as David Mamet, Tony Kushner, Tennessee Williams, Thornton Wilder, Lillian Hellman, Anna Deavere Smith, Arthur Miller, Milcha Sanchez Scott, Jose Rivera, and see corresponding film adaptations. Students will analyze and evaluate play texts with attention to characterization, story, plot, narrative movement, and structure that make them viable for the screen. Students will respond to texts and films through journal entries, an oral report, and a final creative nonfiction essay. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I and 55-5323 Playwriting I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I and 55-5323 Playwriting I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II and 55-5323 Playwriting I or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II and 55-5323 Playwriting I or 55-5104 Prose Forms and 55-5323 Playwriting I or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms
	55-5408J Jazz, Blues, Slavery & Voodoo: Reading & Writing New Orleans This course will explore the use of setting as character, expand the knowledge and appreciation of Southern writers, and learn to successfully incorporate issues of race, class, gender, and the distinct social and political views of the region into their writing to create a depth and subtext often missing from contemporary writing. The readings will explore a broad array of Southern authors writing about slavery, the peculiar social status of quadroons and free men of color, the effects past and present of the Civil War, and life tours, and cultural activities unique to New Orleans. Students will have the opportunity to interact directly with writers, musicians, and other practicioners of New Orleans culture. 2 Credits
	55-5410J One-Act Play Festival Student playwrights, dramaturgs, directors, designers, and actors will collaborate on all aspects of curating, rehearsing, and producing Columbia College Chicago’s One-Act Play Festival under faculty mentorship. Students will become familiar and proficient in their field of study while working intensively in collaboration with other theatre artists and students of arts management to produce a festival. A panel of guest professionals and faculty will attend the festival and offer feedback. 2 Credits Repeatable - 2 Requisites PREREQUISITE: 55-5310 Playwriting Workshop II Requirements Permission of Department
	55-5500 Topics in FW:Gators, Bayous, Jambalaya and Fais Do-Dos. Fieldwork Among Louisiana Cajuns 3 Credits
	55-5501 Topics in Critical Reading and Writing: Qualified students study the works of writers’ processes, styles, techniques and choices by reading and researching published novels, short stories, journals, letters, and interviews, as well as author biographies. Students gain in-depth knowledge of the cultural context of authors’ works. Students explore the writing processes of well known authors and the ways in which students’ own responses to the reading can nourish and heighten the development of their own fiction. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-1101 Fiction Writing I or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5501PR Topics in Critical Reading and Writing Qualified students study the works of writers’ processes, styles, techniques and choices by reading and researching published novels, short stories, journals, letters, and interviews, as well as author biographies. Students gain in-depth knowledge of the cultural context of authors’ works. Students explore the writing processes of well known authors and the ways in which students’ own responses to the reading can nourish and heighten the development of their own fiction. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-1101 Fiction Writing I or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5502 Topics in Fiction Writing These courses focus on specific topics, genres, and forms relative to Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Writing (novel, short-story, personal and researched essays, etc.) that might not be included in the current course offerings (eg: Chicago Stories; Gators, Bayous, Jambalaya and Fais Do-Dos:Fieldwork Among Louisiana’s Cajuns). Topics covered may include traditional fiction writing topics, and may also concentrate on experimental forms and trends in contemporary fiction as well as publishing and electronic media. 3 Credits Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-1101 Fiction Writing I or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5502J Topics in Fiction Writing: This J-term course focuses on specific topics, genres, and forms relative to fiction and creative nonfiction writing (novel, short story, personal and researched essays, etc.) that might not be included in current course offerings (e.g.: Chicago Stories; Publishing and Contracts; etc). Topics covered may include traditional fiction writing topics, or may concentrate on experimental forms and trends in contemporary fiction as well as publishing and electronic media. Topics will be of appropriate scope to be covered thoroughly during the J-Term. 2 Credits Repeatable - 2 Requisites PREREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I OR 55-6101 Fiction Writing I
	55-5503 Topics in Playwriting: Students write and develop new plays in response to the specific playwriting topic of the semester. Students will study topics such as modern adaptations of Greek or classic plays, or the body of work of one playwright and/or school of playwrights within their cultural and historical context. The course will explore processes; styles, techniques and theatrical choices by reading published and unpublished plays, and when relevant, prose, journals, letters, reviews, and interviews. Students will attend productions of relevant plays. 3 Credits Repeatable - 2
	55-5509 Study Abroad Prague 0 Credits Requirements Department Permission
	55-5512J Topics in Writing Abroad: Rome This J-Session course offers a ten-day immersion in Rome’s literature, art, history, and culture. Students read fiction and nonfiction by noted authors; visit major sites-the Colosseum, Vatican, Roman Forum, etc.-as well as museums and places associated with noted authors; participate in writing workshops at Lorenzo de’ Medici; and write journal entries and reading responses leading to an extended story, essay, or digital project, which may be done in collaboration with students from the AEMM and Fashion Studies Departments. 3 Credits Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced OR 52-1121 Writing and Rhetoric I for Non-Native Speakers of English OR 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I OR 52-1151HN Writing and Rhetoric I: Honors
	55-6088 Internship: Fiction Writ No description available. 1-6 Credits
	55-6090 Indep Proj:Fiction Writing No description available. 1-6 Credits
	55-6101 Fiction Writing I Emphasizing the dynamic relationship between individual students, the workshop director, and the class, the Story Workshop method is employed to allow students to move at their own pace in developing perceptual, technical, and imaginative abilities in fiction writing. 3 Credits
	55-6102 Fiction Writing II No description available. 3 Credits Requisites PREREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I
	55-6104 Prose Forms No description available. 3 Credits
	55-6106 Fiction Writing: Advanced No description available. 3 Credits
	55-6109 Graduate Thesis Includes one-on-one intensive rewriting manuscript in preparation for candidate’s thesis. 1-6 Credits
	55-6110 Thesis Development This course concentrates on the process and extended development necessary for the completion of a book-length thesis. The course is designed for graduate students who normally have completed at least two semesters of Advanced Fiction Writing (or will be concurrently enrolled in a second Advanced class), who have sixty to seventy manuscript pages of what they have identified to a Workshop teacher as thesis material, and are in the early stages of working with a thesis advisor. The course is not for graduate students well on their way to completing the thesis, but rather for those in the early developmental stages of thesis work. The course will focus on how to put it all together; that is, such matters as novel structure and movement, short-story structure and movement, dimensions of point of view, and the uniqueness of such in the individual writing of the students. Students should not expect a writing workshop format, though from time to time we will devote all or most of a class session to Story Workshop exercises and in-class writing. 3 Credits Requisites PREREQUISITES: 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced or Equivalent Course 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced
	55-6215 CritlRead&Writ:WomenWrters No description available. 3 Credits
	55-6216 CritlRead&Writ:ShrtStryWrtrs No description available. 3 Credits
	55-6217 CritlRead&Writing:Novelists No description available. 3 Credits
	55-6318 Bibl&ResforFictionWriters No description available. 3 Credits
	55-6329 Surv.Res&Meth of Tch Wr An intensive research inquiry into the history, current trends, and identifiable patterns in the teaching of writing. Students will undertake a wide range of provocative comparisons of methods and groupings, or models of methods, currently represented in the field, form orthodox and basically conservative methods, to the most influential of the pioneering, innovative approaches. Usually concurrent enrollment in Practice Teaching is required. 3 Credits Requisites PREREQUISITES: 55-5318 Bibliography and Research for Fiction Writers and 55-5332 Practice Teaching: Classroom or Equivalent Course 55-4318 Bibliography and Research for Fiction Writers and Equivalent Course 55-5332 Practice Teaching: Classroom or 55-5332 Practice Teaching: Classroom and Equivalent Course 55-4318 Bibliography and Research for Fiction Writers or 55-4318 Bibliography and Research for Fiction Writers and Equivalent Course 55-5332 Practice Teaching: Classroom
	55-6407 Publishing the Literary Journal Qualified graduate students work with F Magazine’s faculty editors to learn how to apply fiction writing skills to the task of editing and publishing a nationally distributed literary journal. Through lectures, research, and hands-on classroom experience with a new issue, students will assist in all aspects of the production of a literary journal. The skills students acquire are useful in careers in editing, publishing, marketing, and project management. 3 Credits Requisites PREREQUISITES: 55-4106 Fiction Writing: Advanced and 55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced

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55-5106PR Fiction Writing: Advanced

55-5108 Fiction Seminar

55-5108LDM Fiction Seminar

55-5109 New Plays Workshop

55-5112 Novel Writing

55-5201 CRW: Autobiographical Fiction

55-5202 CRW: First Novels

55-5203 CRW:Fiction Writers & Censorship

55-5204 CRW: Drama and Story

55-5205 CRW: Gender and Difference

55-5206 CRW: The Novel in Stories

55-5207 CRW:19th Century Russian Authors

55-5208 CRW: Contemporary European Masterpiece Authors

55-5208PR CRW: Continental European Writers

55-5209 CRW: Contemporary Russian Authors

55-5210 CRW: Latin-American Writers

55-5211 CRW: American Voices

55-5213 CRW: Fiction Writers as Creative Non-Fiction Writers

55-5215 CRW: Women Writers

55-5216 CRW: Short Story Writers

55-5217 CRW: Novelists

55-5219 CRW: American Latino Writers

55-5220 CRW: Experimental Theatre

55-5221 CRW: Crime and Story

55-5300 Story in Graphic Forms

55-5301 Young Adult Fiction

55-5302 Story and Script: Fiction Techniques for the Media

55-5303 Dreams and Fiction Writing

55-5303PR Dreams and Fiction Writing

55-5304 Dialects and Fiction Writing

55-5305 Suspense Thriller Fiction Writing

55-5306 Writing Popular Fiction

55-5307 Researching and Writing Historical Fiction

55-5308 Freelance Applications of Fiction Writing Training

55-5309 Story to Stage: Adaptation for the Stage

55-5310 Playwriting Workshop II

55-5311 Science Fiction Writing

55-5312 Writing for Children

55-5313 The Writing Body

55-5315 Story and Journal

55-5316 Small Press Publishing

55-5317 College Literary Magazine Publishing

55-5318 Bibliography and Research for Fiction Writers

55-5319 Creative Nonfiction

55-5320 Fiction Writers and Publishing

55-5321 Advanced Science Fiction Writing Workshop

55-5322 Fantasy Writing Workshop

55-5323 Playwriting I

55-5324 Interactive Storytelling

55-5325 Screenwriting Workshop: Coverage of Adapted Screenplay in LA

55-5326 Topics in Fiction: Techniques and Business of Adaption in LA

55-5327 Adaptation in LA

55-5328 Acquiring Intellectual Property for Adaptation in LA

55-5329 Practice Teaching: Outreach

55-5330 Advanced Young Adult Fiction

55-5331 Practice Teaching:Tutor Training

55-5332 Practice Teaching: Classroom

55-5332J Practice Teaching: Advanced Tutor Training - Outreach

55-5333 Playwriting: Advanced

55-5335 Journal and Sketchbook Ways of Seeing

55-5335LDM Journal & Sketchbook: Ways of Seeing

55-5400 Fiction Writing-Directed Study:

55-5401 CRW: Writers Reading the Tradition

55-5402 Playwriting Process: Outreach and Inreach

55-5403 CRW: Page to Stage

55-5404J Manuscript Preparation for Writers

55-5405 CRW: Writers on the Road

55-5406 CRW: American Stage to Screen

55-5408J Jazz, Blues, Slavery & Voodoo: Reading & Writing New Orleans

55-5410J One-Act Play Festival

55-5500 Topics in FW:Gators, Bayous, Jambalaya and Fais Do-Dos. Fieldwork Among Louisiana Cajuns

55-5501 Topics in Critical Reading and Writing:

55-5501PR Topics in Critical Reading and Writing

55-5502 Topics in Fiction Writing

55-5502J Topics in Fiction Writing:

55-5503 Topics in Playwriting:

55-5509 Study Abroad Prague

55-5512J Topics in Writing Abroad: Rome

55-6088 Internship: Fiction Writ