ENGL 4801C

(3 Credits) 3 Lecture hours This advanced writing seminar integrates theory and practice while encouraging students to develop as imaginative, academic, and/or professional writers. Varying from semester to semester, individual topics for the course may focus on a genre, theme, or approach significant within the realm of creative or critical writing. Note: Consent of the department is based on a sample of the student's original writing (no more than 20 typed, double-spaced pages). Writing samples will be accepted up until one week before the first day of classes for the semester in which the course will be taught, or until the course is full, whichever comes first. Section information text: In this course, students will write a novelette: a piece of fiction that is longer than a short story but shorter than a novel or novella. The course is for students with some experience in creative writing whose short stories are bursting at the seams or who have ideas for tales that are more concise than full-length novels. Designed as a workshop in which students will receive peer critique on their writing, this course will also include the study of historical and contemporary novelettes from a writerly perspective. (Please note this is a topic course. Ensure you have not taken ENGL4801C as a topic course previously.)