Course Descriptions

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Creative Writing Discipline Courses

Course ID Title Latest Offering
C W 101 Introduction to Creative Writing (3) Fall 2009
C W 301 Fundamentals of Creative Writing (3) Fall 2009
C W 302 Fundamentals of Creative Reading (3) Fall 2009
C W 321 Feature Writing (3) Effective Spring 2007
C W 403 Short Story Writing One (3) Spring 2008
C W 404 Poetry Writing One (3) Fall 2007
C W 426 Kazantzakis (3) Fall 2007
C W 465 Modern Greek Poetry in Comparative Perspective (3) Fall 2009
C W 497 Modern Greek Literature (3) Fall 2008
C W 506 The Business of Creative Writing (3) Fall 2009
C W 507 Writing on the Body (3) Fall 2007
C W 510 The Creative Process (3) Effective Spring 1986
CW 510 Variable topics:
  C W 510 American Poetics (3) Fall 2009
  C W 510 Beat Poets in the American Poetry Archive (3) Spring 2009
  C W 510 Characterization (3) Spring 2009
  C W 510 Craft of Poetry (3) Fall 1992
  C W 510 Introduction to Narrative (3) Fall 2009
  C W 510 Investigating Voice (3) Effective Spring 2009
  C W 510 Nature Poetry (3) Spring 2008
  C W 510 Personal Narrative (3) Spring 2006
  C W 510 Plays: Reading/Viewing (3) Spring 2004
  C W 510 Rhythms of Poetry (3) Spring 1992
  C W 510 Style in Fiction (3) Spring 2007
  C W 510 The Letter as Literary Form (3) Spring 2008
  C W 510 The Poetics of Place (3) Effective Spring 2009
  C W 510 The Short-Short Story (3) Spring 2009
C W 511 Craft of Poetry (3) Fall 2009
C W 512 Craft of Fiction (3) Fall 2009
C W 513 Craft of Playwriting (3) Fall 2009
C W 514 Contemporary World Poetry (3) Fall 2008
C W 520 Writers on Writing (3) Fall 2009
C W 550 Poetry Center Workshop (3) Fall 2009
C W 600 Special Topics in Writing (3) Effective Spring 2002
CW 600 Variable topics:
  C W 600 Journal Writing as a Source for Creative Writing (3) Spring 1998
  C W 600 The Uses of Personal Experience (3) Fall 2008
  C W 600 Women's Workshop (3) Spring 2009
  C W 600 Writing for Children (3) Spring 1990
C W 601 Work in Progress (3) Fall 2009
C W 602 Playwriting (3) Fall 2009
C W 603 Short Story Writing (3) Fall 2009
C W 604 Poetry Writing (3) Fall 2009
C W 605 Writing and Performing Monologues (3) Spring 2009
C W 609 Directed Writing for B.A. Students (3) Fall 2009
C W 640 Transfer Literary Magazine (3) Fall 2009
C W 675 Community Projects in Literature (3) Fall 2009
C W 685 Projects in the Teaching of Creative Writing (3) Fall 2009
C W 699 Independent Study (1-3) Effective Spring 2006
CW 699 Variable topics:
  C W 699 Independent Study (1) Fall 2009
  C W 699 Independent Study (2) Fall 2009
  C W 699 Independent Study (3) Fall 2009
C W 785 Graduate Projects in the Teaching of Creative Writing (3) Fall 2009
C W 803 Advanced Short Story Writing (3) Fall 2009
C W 804 Advanced Poetry Writing (3) Fall 2009
C W 806 The Business of Creative Writing (3) Fall 2009
C W 807 Developing the Novel (3) Fall 2009
C W 808 Novel Writing (3) Spring 2009
C W 809 Directed Writing for Graduate Students (3) Fall 2009
C W 810 Seminar in the Creative Process (3-6) Effective Fall 1993
CW 810 Variable topics:
  C W 810 Art of Narrative (3) Fall 2009
  C W 810 Building Characters (3) Spring 2007
  C W 810 Centering on Language (3) Spring 2009
  C W 810 Contemporary Non-fiction (3) Spring 2009
  C W 810 Craft of Poetry (3) Fall 2008
  C W 810 Documentary Poetics (3) Effective Summer 2009
  C W 810 Experimental Fiction (3) Spring 2009
  C W 810 Family as Fictional Form (3) Spring 2007
  C W 810 Feminist Poetics (3) Fall 1987
  C W 810 Literature of Trauma (3) Fall 2007
  C W 810 New York School Poetry (3) Effective Spring 2009
  C W 810 Non-fiction: Spiritual and Moral Issues (3) Effective Spring 1997
  C W 810 Plays: Reading/Viewing (3) Fall 2009
  C W 810 Plays: Text to Image (3) Spring 1989
  C W 810 Poetry of Trauma (3) Effective Summer 2009
  C W 810 Style in Fiction (3) Fall 2008
  C W 810 Technique of Modern Playwrights (3) Fall 2005
  C W 810 The Mask: Persona Poem (3) Fall 2009
  C W 810 The Poetics of Extremity (3) Effective Summer 2009
  C W 810 The Prose Poem (3) Fall 2009
  C W 810 Uses of Time in Narrative (3) Fall 2007
  C W 810 What the Body Knows (3) Fall 2006
  C W 810 Working Cross-Genre (3) Spring 2008
C W 814 Contemporary World Poetry (3) Fall 2008
C W 820 Writers on Writing (3) Fall 2009
C W 825 Playwright's Theatre Workshop (3) Spring 2009
C W 840 Fourteen Hills Literary Magazine (3) Fall 2009
C W 850 Poetry Center Workshop (3) Fall 2009
C W 853 M.F.A. Workshop in Fiction (3) Fall 2009
C W 854 M.F.A. Workshop in Poetry (3) Fall 2009
C W 855 M.F.A. Workshop in Playwriting (3) Spring 2009
C W 856 M.F.A. Workshop in Short Plays (3) Fall 2009
C W 859 Practicum in Teaching (3) Effective Spring 2009
C W 860 Teaching Creative Writing (3) Fall 2009
C W 866 Craft of Translation (3) Spring 2009
C W 875 Community Projects in Literature (3) Fall 2009
C W 880 M.F.A. Craft and Process Tutorial in Fiction (3) Effective Fall 1991
CW 880 Variable topics:
  C W 880 Creative Nonfiction (3) Effective Spring 2009
  C W 880 Discovery and Development (3) Fall 2009
  C W 880 Individual Vision: Fiction (3) Fall 2009
  C W 880 The Art of Short Fiction (3) Spring 2009
  C W 880 The Displaced Person (3) Fall 2007
  C W 880 The Poetics of Narrative (3) Effective Summer 2009
  C W 880 Writing in its Public Context (3) Fall 2008
  C W 880 Writing into Dailyness (3) Fall 2008
C W 881 M.F.A. Craft and Process Tutorial in Poetry (3) Effective Fall 1991
CW 881 Variable topics:
  C W 881 Contemporary US Poets & History (3) Effective Summer 2009
  C W 881 Imagining the Book (3) Effective Summer 2009
  C W 881 Individual Vision: Poetry (3) Fall 2009
  C W 881 Kinship and Community (3) Spring 2009
  C W 881 Open Work: The Long Poem (3) Spring 2008
  C W 881 Poems From Nature (3) Effective Summer 2009
  C W 881 Poetics of Indeterminacy (3) Spring 2005
  C W 881 Poetics of Listening (3) Effective Summer 2009
  C W 881 Poetry Machines (3) Effective Summer 2009
  C W 881 Poets and Their Thinkers (3) Effective Summer 2009
  C W 881 Translate and Transpose (3) Effective Spring 2009
C W 882 M.F.A. Craft and Process Tutorial in Playwriting (3) Effective Fall 1991
CW 882 Variable topics:
  C W 882 Adapting for the Stage (3) Fall 2009
  C W 882 Architectonics of Plays (3) Fall 2008
  C W 882 Plays and Politics (3) Fall 2006
  C W 882 Playwriting: Queer Perspectives (3) Fall 2004
  C W 882 The Comedic Play (3) Fall 2007
C W 893 Written M.F.A. Creative Work (3-6) Effective Fall 1991
CW 893 Variable topics:
  C W 893 Written M.A. Creative Project (3) Fall 2009
  C W 893 Written M.F.A. Creative Work (6) Fall 2009
C W 899 Special Study (1-3) Effective Spring 2006
CW 899 Variable topics:
  C W 899 Special Study (1) Fall 2009
  C W 899 Special Study (2) Fall 2009
  C W 899 Special Study (3) Fall 2009
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