Course	LIT 121 First Fiction Workshop
Professor	Mathew Johnson
CRN	16143
Schedule	Wed Fr 1:30 -2:50 pm OLIN 306
Distribution	OLD: B/F	NEW: Practicing Arts

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. On-line

(Candidates must submit samples of their work before registration, with cover letter, to Prof. Johnson via campus mail by 12:00 pm on Friday, Nov. 18, 2005.)

Course	LIT 123 First Poetry Workshop
Professor	Michael Ives
CRN	16156
Schedule	Tu Th 2:30 -3:50 pm OLIN 107
Distribution	OLD: B/F	NEW: Practicing Arts

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.

On-line

(Candidates must submit samples of their work before registration, with cover letter, to Prof. Robert Kelly via campus mail by 12:00 pm on Friday, Nov. 18, 2005.)

Course	LIT 2181 Reading and Writing the Personal Essay
Professor	Susan Rogers
CRN	16167
Schedule	Wed 9:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 310
Distribution	OLD: B	NEW: Literature in English

This course will involve equal parts reading and writing and is for students who want to develop their creative writing, and their analytic thinking. Readings will be taken from Philip Lopate’s The Art of the Personal Essay, which traces the long tradition of the personal essay from Seneca, through Montaigne (the father of the personal essay) to contemporary stylists such as Richard Rodriguez and Joan Didion. The personal essay is an informal essay that begins in the details of every day life and expands to a larger idea. Emphasis will be placed on reading closely to discover the craft of the work: how scenes and characters are developed, how dialog can be used, how the form can fracture from linear narrative to the collage. Student’s work--three long essays--will be critiqued in a workshop format. This course is for students with experience in writing workshops, fiction writers and poets who want to explore another genre, and writers who enjoy expressing ideas through the lens of personal experience. Those who bring knowledge from other disciplines are encouraged to apply. Candidates must submit samples of their work via campus mail to Susan Rogers by Friday, November 18^, 2005. On-line

Course	LIT 221 Writers Workshop:Prose Fiction
Professor	Peter Sourian
CRN	16005
Schedule	Tu 10:00 - 12:20 pm ASP 302
Distribution	OLD: B/F	NEW: Practicing Arts

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.

On-line

(Candidates must submit samples of their work before registration, with cover letter, to Prof. Mary Caponegro via campus mail by 12:00 pm on Friday, Nov. 18, 2005.)

Course	LIT 222 Poetry Workshop
Professor	Robert Kelly
CRN	16396
Schedule	Wed Fr 3:00 -4:20 pm OLIN 101
Distribution	OLD: B/F	NEW: Practicing Arts

Students present their own work to the group for analysis and response. Readings in contemporary poets and the problematics of poetics. Attention will be paid to oral presentation of the poem. On-line

(Candidates must submit samples of their work before registration, with cover letter, to Prof. Robert Kelly via campus mail by 12:00 pm on Friday, Nov. 18, 2005.)

Course	LIT 324 Advanced Fiction Writing
Professor	Mona Simpson
CRN	16443
Schedule	Th 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm OLIN 101 Fr 9:30 am – 12:30 pm OLIN 101 **see scheduled dates below
Distribution	OLD: F	NEW: PRACTICING ART

Advanced Fiction Writing this term will entail three sets of back-to-back intensive seminar meetings with Professor Simpson, linked by e-mail, phone, and/or video-conferencing sessions in-between. The dates are as follows:

Thurs. February 2^nd / Friday February 3^rd;

Thurs. March 16^th / Friday March 17^th; and

Thurs. May 11^th / Friday May 12th.

Short writing exercises will be created and shared in class, and each student should begin the term with a longer piece substantially in progress. Each intensive meeting will also entail focus on a particular element of fiction, through exemplification in published short stories. Admission is based on samples of fiction, which must be submitted to Prof. Mary Caponegro by noon on Nov. 18, 2005. The list of admitted students will be available by the morning of registration in December