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Academic Year 2000/2001


Advanced Fiction Workshop
ENGL 141 FA

In this intensive workshop aimed at developing craft, voice and vision, students will read and discuss short and long fiction and work produced by class members to explore and appreciate the diverse ways to create narrative.

MAJOR READINGS

DUBLINERS, James Joyce ; A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND & OTHER STORIES, Flannery O'Connor; SULA, Toni Morrison
THE THINGS THEY CARRIED, Tim O'Brien

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Weekly writing and reading assignments. Eighty pages of fiction and analysis.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Leave a typed double spaced fiction writing sample from the beginning of a story or longer piece of fiction (maximum five pages) with the secretary of the English Department by noon on September 7, 1999. Include cover page with name, phone number, year, probable major, and anything else you want the instructor to know about you. Course list will be posted the afternoon of Friday, September 10, 1999, in the English Department office. The first class will meet September 13, 1999.

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ENGL    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-26-2001


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