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Course Info for ENGL - 491 - 01, Spring 2024
Class number: 3038 Title: CW Thesis Part 1/Colloquium Department: English
Career: Undergraduate Component: Seminar Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: Yes Grading Basis: Graded Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 10 Current enrollment: 7 Available seats: 3
Start date: Monday, January 22, 2024 End date: Friday, May 10, 2024 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: M: 1:30PM-4:10PM, 115V - 106 Instructor(s): Rutherford, Ethan
Prerequisite(s): None
Distribution Requirement: Meets Arts Requirement
Course Description:
This course is designed to teach senior English majors concentrating in Creative Writing the techniques to successfully undertake a semester-long creative project in the genre of their choice. It is intended to help the students develop the habits-of-arts required to write such theses and to provide a forum for feedback during the early stages of composition. In this course we will address issues of drafting and revision, developing a booklist, the use of research in creative work, and, finally, establishing structural and thematic coherence in a novel excerpt, poetry collection, suite of stories, one-act play, and/or screenplay. This course is required of all senior English majors who are planning to write one-semester, creative writing theses.