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    May 02, 2024  
2011-2012 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2011-2012 Undergraduate Bulletin [Archived Bulletin]

WRIT 3230 - Elements of the Craft: Creative Nonfiction



Goals: In this course students explore the fundamental elements of creative nonfiction, including showing and telling, character and portraiture, figurative language, point of view and narrative distance, setting and place, and variations in literary structure.

Content: Students develop their ability to create portraits of actual people, recreate themselves as characters on the page, manage time and event, construct narrative or lyric structures, and identify deep subject. The course combines lecture, discussion, reading, writing exercises and experiments, and other assignments. 

Taught: Annually

Prerequisite: WRIT 3000 or WRIT 3130 or or consent of the instructor.

Credits: 4 credits