ENG 303 - Advanced Creative Nonfiction Workshop

Course unit(s): 1
Meets GAR (students beginning prior to Fall 2024): Meets general academic requirement AR.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 205, 206 Introduction to Creative Nonfiction Writing , ENG 210 Introduction to Narrative Journalism , ENG 221 - Introduction to Poetry Writing , ENG 227 - Introduction to Fiction Writing , or ENG 293 Living Writers
An intensive course in creative nonfiction. This upper level workshop will focus on the personal essay, such as memoir, travel writing, and portrait, and students will read examples. Writers will comment on each other’s work in a workshop setting. Issues of linguistic theory, the form of the essay, and other conventions of nonfiction will be discussed. It will culminate in a portfolio, final project, and/or student reading. Satisfies departmental Prose requirement.