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