ENGL& 237 Creative Writing II: Stories (5 credits)

2.  Analyze how diverse uses of language reflect power dynamics in writing and reception in order to craft project-appropriate language.

3. Use persona, character, and point-of-view, as well as symbolism, imagery, and metaphor, in order to write a range of stories.

4. Identify features of diverse storytelling 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