*******************WRITING WORKSHOPS************************

CRN

90027

Distribution

F

Course No.

LIT 121

Title

First-year Fiction Workshop

Professor

Robert Kelly

Schedule

Mon Wed 3:00 pm - 4:20 pm OLIN 101

This course is for students who propose a commitment to writing and have already written stories or worked toward narrative text of any length. It is designed to develop skills as well as to encourage new ways of telling, teaching how to transform language into experience, how to compose paragraphs using both narrative logic and musical measure, how to edit one's work, and how to read manuscripts of others with sympathy and critical alertness. Some reading and analysis of rhetorical strategies of several contemporary writers. Candidates must submit samples of their work (1 or 2 short pieces of fiction) before registration with optional cover letter via campus mail to Prof. Kelly by 12:00 noon, Friday, August 24th.

CRN

90028

Distribution

B/F

Course No.

LIT 123 A

Title

First Poetry Workshop

Professor

Robert Kelly

Schedule

Mon Wed 11:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 101

This workshop is for students who strongly desire to experiment with making their own writing a means of learning, both about literature and poetry, and about the discipline of making works of art. Stress is on growth: in the student's own work, and in the individual's awareness of what sorts of activities, rhythms, and tellings are possible in poetry, and how poets go about learning from their own work. The central work of the course is the student's own writing, along with the articulation, both private and shared, of response to it. Readings will be undertaken in contemporary and traditional poets, according to the needs of the group, toward the development of familiarity with poetic form, poetic movement, and poetic energy. Attendance at various evening poetry readings and lectures is required. Candidates must submit samples of their work (2 or 3 poems) before registration with optional cover letter via campus mail to Prof. Kelly by 12:00 noon, Tuesday, August 21st.

CRN

90434

Distribution

B/F

Course No.

LIT 123 B

Title

First Poetry Workshop

Professor

Leonard Schwartz

Schedule

Mon Thurs 11:30 am - 12:50 pm

Candidates must submit samples of their work (2 or 3 poems) before registration with optional cover letter via campus mail to Prof. Kelly by 12:00 noon, Friday, August 24th.

CRN

90074

Distribution

B/F

Course No.

LIT 221

Title

Writers Workshop:Prose Fiction

Professor

Peter Sourian

Schedule

Tu 10:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 303

Practice in imaginative writing. Students will present their own work for group response, analysis, and evaluation. Also reading of selected writers. Permission of the instructor is required. This course was filled by portfolio submission in May.

CRN

90433

Distribution

F

Course No.

LIT 324

Title

Advanced Fiction Workshop

Professor

TBA

Schedule

Fri 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm OLIN 201

A workshop on the composition of short stories, for experienced writers. Students will be expected to read extensively and to devote significant time, daily, to the composition and revision of their own stories. Some time outside of class, for guest readings, may also be required This course was filled by portfolio submission in May.

CRN

90072

Distribution

F

Course No.

LIT 3224

Title

Advanced Poetry Workshop: Investigative Poetics

Professor

Joan Retallack

Schedule

Mon 3:00 pm - 5:20 pm OLIN 201

Cross-listed: Integrated Arts

Among the many poetic practices identified by schools and genres is one that I like to call "Investigative." This is a poetry of extended projects and procedures designed to explore a range of forms, media, questions, logics, constraints....as well as experiences of our situation in today's world. Underlying assumptions are a) there are things one can know only in the form of poetry, b) a complex world must be engaged-at least some of the time-with complex forms of art. Though some of the projects for this course can involve visual and electronic media, as well as performance dimensions, the emphasis throughout will be on working with language. To bring students into a high level of consciousness about the forms and questions we're addressing, there will be weekly (brief but incisive) writing assignments in relation to our reading/viewing and in-class discussions. You will complete four extended poetic projects, each accompanied by a 3-5 page essay discussing your points of departure, your thinking along the way as you composed the piece, it's relation to the investigations of the class, the material processes you engaged in. There will be a number of poet visitors in conjunction with reading assignments. In addition, you will be required to attend poetry readings and other events over the course of the semester. This course was filled by portfolio submission in May.