ENGL 249 Creative Writing - Case Studies in Genre (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Formerly ENGL 245
Prerequisite None
Course Description
A creative writing course focused on case studies of dynamic genre formations with an emphasis on how conceptions of literature and writing continually evolve.
Course Content
Structure and content of creative and innovative genre formations (e.g. digital literatures, transdisciplinary literatures, speculative or science fiction) and writing that challenges conventional approaches to genre.
Conventions of genres relevant to the innovative approach under study (i.e. dialect, character development, voice, use of analogy, constraints and affordances of particular media).
Contexts for understanding genres as socially, historically, and culturally recognizable forms.
Strategic deviations from standard usage of mechanics, grammar, syntax, organization specific to genre as deformations of convention that produce new meanings.
Participation in writing communities.
Student Outcomes
1. Create original written works within innovative genres, forms, mediums.
2. Analyze and utilize writing techniques including strategic deviations from standard usage of mechanics, grammar, syntax, organization specific to genre to produce new meanings.
3. Critically read published and peer-written texts in order to identify writing techniques and approaches effective for and relevant to the development of one’s own unique voice and creative style.
4. Deconstruct identity- and positionality-based assumptions and interests in the conventions and expectations of literary genres and their communities in order to reevaluate traditional criteria for literary quality.
5. Reflect on and model processes of participating in writing communities through a range of publication and creative community-building activities.
Degree Outcomes
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.
Humanities: Graduates acquire skills to critically interpret, analyze and evaluate forms of human expression, and create and perform as an expression of the human experience.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
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