English 233-152
Introduction to Creative Writing
Instr: Firer, Susan
Office: CRT 576; 229-6993
e-mail: sfirer@uwm.edu
Office hours: TBA
Course Information: MW; 6:00-8:40pm; Whitefish Bay High School, Rm 253 (6/25-8/18)
Course Description
This course is set up as an introduction to writing fiction and poetry. We will look at the vocabulary, techniques, and some strategies in each genre. We will experiment with various writing assignments suggested by the texts and look at/workshop the writings of both established authors and students.
This course is divided into two sections: fiction and poetry. In each of these sections, we workshop a piece of writing (either a story or a poem) by each student. One of the many aims for this session is that the daily workshopping process will begin to be internalized by each student, and when the student is alone revising a piece of writing, he or she will have the resources learned in daily workshopping to apply them independently. We will use the course texts to supplement our workshopping process. Responding to students' needs, I will assign pieces of writing (stories or poems) and short assignments from the course texts.
