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ENGL 4B17
Advanced Creative Writing
0.50 Credit(s)
Academic Course
Prerequisite: 10 credits, including 1.0 credit of second-year liberal studies (including 0.5 VISC credit) and ENGL 2B01: Introduction to Creative Writing or ENGL 2B05: Introduction to Creative Non-Fiction or permission of instructor.
This seminar course offers students at an advanced level the opportunity to discover and challenge preconceptions about a broad range of styles, genres, traditions and conventions of writing poetry, fiction and non-fiction in the late twentieth century. The focus of the course is on the development of individual style and the production of a body of work. Exposure to a cross-cultural variety of contemporary writing assists students to integrate theoretical and critical perspectives with their developing voices.
Anti-requisite: Students who have taken ACAD 4B17 may not take this course for further credit.
Notes: Revised prerequisites and anti-requisites 2009-10
Course was last updated May 4, 2011 - 4:30 PM