WRIT 3400 - Writing for Kids and Teens

Goals: In this course students explore and practice writing for children and young adults. They study different genres—picture book, middle-grade and YA fiction, poetry, and nonfiction—mining the texts for lessons on craft which they apply to their own writing.

Content: Students read select texts across the genres and experiment by writing in these genres. They write and revise a final project integrating revision feedback.

Prerequisite: FYW 1120 or equivalent

Credits: 4