ENGL& 236 Creative Writing I: Explorations (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Formerly ENGL 231 - CCN
Prerequisite None
Course Description
A creative writing course focused on writing and evaluating works in a variety of genres.
Course Content
A. Structure, form, and content of fiction, poetry, plays, and other creative writing genres
B. Use of syntax and organization particular to genre
C. Use of dialogue, dialect, and other modes of communication specific to genre
D. Character and persona development
E. Use of image, symbolism, and metaphor
F. Creative and authorial voice
G. Cultural Components of Storytelling
H. Writing processes
I. Participation in writing communities
Student Outcomes
1. Write in multiple genres and mediums by employing structure, form, and content as reactions to various narrative, lyric, and dramatic purposes.
2. Analyze how diverse uses of language reflect power dynamics in creative works and in their reception in order to craft project-appropriate language.
3. Use persona, character, and point-of-view, as well as imagery, symbolism, and metaphor, in order to write a range of narrative, lyric, and dramatic texts.
4. Recognize features of diverse genres and mediums in order to develop context and voice in creative writing.
5. Discuss how notions of literary quality are constructed (socially, historically, and culturally) in order to develop one’s own creative voice.
6. Examine reasons, processes, and implications for participating in and contributing to diverse writing communities.
Degree Outcomes
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.
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.
Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
Potential Methods
A. Formal writings: essays, essay exams, research reports, reading responses
B. Projects: group presentations, individual presentations, multimedia productions
C. Informal writings: journals, in-class responses, brainstorming, freewriting, paraphrase and summary
D. Group discussions and classroom activities
E. Exams and quizzes: short answer, matching, multiple choice
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