ENGL 201 - Introduction to Creative Writing

Credits: 3
This course examines the process and product of creative writing. Topics include stages of creative writing from invention and imagination to description and dramatization. Attention focuses on the elements of fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction and their forms, their differences and the reasons for distinguishing among them; and the ways in which they have contributed to one another as boundaries between them have blurred. Students will practice writing in the various genres. Assignments also address issues such as the relations of authors’ autobiographies to their art, and the need to craft concrete metaphors to represent abstract ideas.

General Education: May be used to fulfill the Humanities: Fine and Performing Arts component of the General Education Requirements.