WRIT 1500 - Introduction to Creative Writing

Goals: This course is open to all students interested in creative writing. Students are introduced to the practice of writing and reading as creative writers in three genres: poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. They also begin to develop a writing practice.

Content: Students engage critically and creatively with assigned texts as writers and readers, participate in class discussions, and begin to develop a writing practice. The course combines lecture, discussion, readings in and across genres, writing exercises, and other assignments.

Taught: Fall and Spring

Prerequisite: FYW 1120 or its equivalent

Credits: 4