Course

LIT 121A   First Fiction Workshop

Professor

Mathew Johnson

CRN

95055

 

Schedule

Wed Fr        10:30 -11:50 am    OLIN 306

Distribution

OLD: B/F

NEW: PART

This course is for students who propose a commitment to writing and have already written stories or worked toward narrative text of any length. Also, reading of selected writers. Group response, analysis, and evaluation. Discussion of general principles. (Candidates must submit samples of their work before registration, with cover letter, to Prof. Johnson via campus mail by 12:00 pm on Monday, August 22, 2005.)

 

Course

LIT 121B   First Fiction Workshop

Professor

Helon Habila

CRN

95824

 

Schedule

Tu Th  9:00 –10:20 a.m.    OLIN 107

Distribution

OLD: B/F

NEW: PART

See description above.

(Candidates must submit samples of their work before registration, with cover letter, to Prof. Mathew Johnson via campus mail by 12:00 pm on Monday, August 22, 2005.)

 

Course

LIT 123   First Poetry Workshop

Professor

Michael Ives

CRN

95258

 

Schedule

Mon Wed     3:00 -4:20 pm       PRE 128

Distribution

OLD: B/F

NEW: PART

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 before registration, with cover letter, to Prof. Ives via campus mail by 12:00 pm on Monday, August 22, 2005.)

 

 

Course

LIT 221   Writers Workshop:Prose Fiction

Professor

Mary Caponegro

CRN

95031

 

Schedule

Tu Th          4:00 -5:20 pm       OLIN 101

Distribution

OLD: B/F

NEW: PART

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. (Registration for this class was taken in May.)

 

Course

LIT 222   Writer's Workshop in Poetry

Professor

Robert Kelly

CRN

95257

 

Schedule

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

Distribution

OLD: B/F

NEW: PART

Students present their own work to the group for analysis and response. Readings in contemporary poets and the problematics of poetics. Intended for students who have completed at least one college-level writing workshop. (Registration for this class was taken in May.)

 

Course

LIT 324   Advanced Fiction Workshop

Professor

Mary Caponegro

CRN

95030

 

Schedule

Wed             1:30 -3:50 pm       OLIN 303

Distribution

OLD: F

NEW: PART

A workshop on the composition of short stories, for experienced writers. Students will also read short fiction by established writers, and devote significant time to the composition and revision of their own stories. (Registration for this class was taken in May.)

 

Course

LIT 3304   Writing as Reading as Writing I I: Late Modern

Professor

Ann Lauterbach

CRN

95061

 

Schedule

Th               1:30 -3:50 pm       ASP 302

Distribution

OLD: B/F

NEW: PART

American poetry at mid-century appears to shift away from certain "high" modernist aspirations to a more local, geographical focus; a retrenchment from formal experimentalism, at least until the publication, in 1960, of Donald Allen's "New American Poetry."  We will read poets ranging from Laura Riding to Louis Zukofsky to Allen Ginsberg, and weekly assignments will be made in relation to them.  These assignments will take the form of a poem.  For example, we might read the poems of Langston Hughes, and the assignment might be to write your own "montage of a dream deferred."  The goal of this class is to help you understand the relation between subject and form—the what and the how—in developing your poetics; to help you find a critical vocabulary; to help you discover ways to generate methods for your own writing practice. Weekly writing assignments. One term project. Text: American Poetry The Twentieth Century,  The New American Poetry, Donald Allen, ed  (Registration for this course was taken in May.)