2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

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2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

ENG 5301-5304 - Foundations in Creative Nonfiction

3 credit hours

Prerequisites: CRW 5011 - 5012 and 5013 - Theory and Practice of Creative Writing
Corequisites: CRW 5301-5304 - Workshop in Creative Nonfiction
This survey of both canonical and contemporary texts offers a focused study of creative nonfiction designed to reinforce the relationship between close reading and the production of new work. Students examine the emergence of the genre in a historical context from Montaigne's essays to contemporary texts. Students read from an individual reading list developed in consultation with the faculty mentor. The course will include intensive reading, response essays, and short critical analyses. Students will complete a longer critical paper on a specific topic that emerges from their reading experience. The reading list will include, but not be limited to, works based on the optional thematic strand of war literature.

Courses may be repeated with course numbers ENG-5302, ENG-5303, ENG-5304