Focuses on the cross over between prose and poetry in multiple genres. Considers the prevalence of narrative and alternatives to narrative. Offered: AWSp.
Examines the relationships between fact and imagination in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry writing. Offered: AWSp.
Engages the primary processes of thinking and memory as they are affected by divers writing practices and media applications. Offered: AWSp.
Engages the subject of poetics as writing theory and practice. Focuses on cultural, social, and technological change as these create new challenges and possibilities for creative writing. Offered: AWSp.
Addresses how writers utilize research in their writing and inquires into different kind of research that can be pursued: textual, ethnographic, and performance-based. Offered: AWSpS.
Explores relationships among art, technology, and creative practice. Examines connections among diverse art forms, inquiring into their social, philosophical, and aesthetic dimensions. Offered: AWSpS.
Practicum in which students gain theoretical and practical experience in teaching within community groups and organizations, in elementary and secondary schools, or in community colleges and universities.
Students conduct an internship within an organization in order to develop and extend their writing expertise. Topics and sites vary with student interest.
Students initiate, plan, carry through, and evaluate a literary or arts event or series of events for a specific community or arts venue. Topics and sites vary with student interest.
Focuses on one or more art of disciplinary practices and their applications for creative writing.
Intensive reading in literature, literary and art criticism, critical theory, or poetics.
Focused inquiry into specific research ideas, issues, or topics and elected analytical and creative methods for pursuing these.
Includes completion of a creative thesis in one of the following areas: poetry, fiction, non-fiction, or cross genre as well as a poetics essay or artist's statement. Students may elective to engage multiple media or performance venues in partial completion of their thesis. Prerequisite: BCWRIT 500; BCWRIT 501; BCWRIT 502; BCWRIT 510; BCWRIT 511; and BCWRIT 512. Offered: AWSpS.