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Courses

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Course # (Section) Title Day/Times Instructor Location Term Additional Details
AS.061.205 (01) Introduction to Screenwriting T 11:00AM - 1:30PM Rodgers, Adam F The Centre 206 Spring 2026
  • Description: In this course we will explore the basic principles of visual storytelling in narrative film as they apply to the design, creation, and revision of the screenplay. Specifically, we will focus on learning the craft of screenwriting - strategies, processes, and philosophies that writers can develop, practice, and rely upon as they progress through a series of screenwriting exercises and write two short screenplays, which will be critiqued in-class during weekly table reads and with the Instructor (one-on-one) during office hours. Select professional screenplays will be read and analyzed — and clips from select films viewed — to further explore what works well on the page, and how it translates to working well onscreen. Final Draft screenwriting software is required; a FREE 18-week trial will be made available for all students who don’t already have Final Draft.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 0/10
  • Tags: FILM-SCRWRT
AS.061.260 (01) What the World Is Made Of T 3:00PM - 5:30PM Bucknell, Lucy Gilman 35 Spring 2026
  • Description: How do images and writing evoke sensory experience?  How can storytelling explore culture, social codes, the inner lives of characters?  Students in this course will consider a range of material including poetry, prose, and film.  They'll respond with brief written analyses; creative writing, including brief dramatic scenes; and both still and moving smartphone images.  Throughout they'll practice the close observation necessary to locate telling details in their own worlds, and create textured, immersive work.  An introductory film studies or film production course is recommended, but not required.  Non-majors welcome!
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 1/9
  • Tags: FILM-CRITST
AS.220.105 (01) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I MWF 8:00AM - 8:50AM Lucero, Alejandro Thomas Gilman 381 Spring 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 8/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (02) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM Lucero, Alejandro Thomas Gilman 381 Spring 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 8/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (03) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM Santi, Antonio Vincenzo Gilman 138D Spring 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Canceled
  • Seats Available: 15/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (04) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Santi, Antonio Vincenzo Gilman 381 Spring 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 1/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (05) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM, MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM McAllister, Kyra UG Teaching Lab (UTL) G89; Krieger 302 Spring 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 2/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (06) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Silbaugh, Lucy Gilman 400 Spring 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 1/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (07) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Abatangelo, Conal Francis Haruki Gilman 413 Spring 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 1/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (08) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Geselowitz, Rye Welz Gilman 313 Spring 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 2/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (09) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Fall, Sofia Gilman 400 Spring 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (10) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM Berry, Natalia I Gilman 138D Spring 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (11) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM Sykes, Matilda Silver Gilman 413 Spring 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Canceled
  • Seats Available: 15/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (12) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM Blokh, Daniel Gilman 138D Spring 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Canceled
  • Seats Available: 15/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (13) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM Sykes, Matilda Silver Shaffer 301 Spring 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 1/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (14) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM Fletcher, Zachary S. Shaffer 301 Spring 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 0/17
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (15) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM Pham, Alexander Quyen Smokler Center 213 Spring 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (16) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM Blokh, Daniel Gilman 381 Spring 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 2/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (17) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM Fletcher, Zachary S. Shaffer 301 Spring 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 1/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (18) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM Pham, Alexander Quyen Smokler Center 301 Spring 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 1/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (19) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM Singh, Vanessa Krieger 300 Spring 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (20) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM Singh, Vanessa Gilman 381 Spring 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 1/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (21) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM Pham, Alexander Quyen Smokler Center Library Spring 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 8/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (22) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I M 6:00PM - 8:30PM Lewty, Jane Gilman 277 Spring 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 1/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (23) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I T 6:00PM - 8:30PM Danklin, Deirdre M Gilman 217 Spring 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 3/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.106 (01) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry II MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM Guru, Yastika Gilman 219 Spring 2026
  • Description: The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 1/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.106 (02) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry II MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Scott, Kat Leonia Shaffer 301 Spring 2026
  • Description: The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.106 (03) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry II MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Witherspoon, Sebastian Krieger 300 Spring 2026
  • Description: The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 2/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.106 (04) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry II MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Scott, Kat Leonia Shaffer 301 Spring 2026
  • Description: The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.106 (05) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry II MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Piña, Ingrid San Martin Center 115/117 Spring 2026
  • Description: The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.106 (06) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry II MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM Scott, Kat Leonia Shaffer 301 Spring 2026
  • Description: The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 3/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.106 (07) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry II TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM Suazo, Ivan Krieger Laverty Spring 2026
  • Description: The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 2/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.106 (08) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry II TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM Garced-Rosa, Giovannai Gilman 79 Spring 2026
  • Description: The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.106 (09) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry II TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM Kim, Jane S. Gilman 55 Spring 2026
  • Description: The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.106 (10) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry II TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM Garced-Rosa, Giovannai Gilman 79 Spring 2026
  • Description: The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.106 (11) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry II TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM Kim, Jane S. Gilman 377 Spring 2026
  • Description: The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.106 (12) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry II TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM Garced-Rosa, Giovannai Shriver Hall 104 Spring 2026
  • Description: The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 3/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.106 (13) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry II TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM Kim, Jane S. Gilman 313 Spring 2026
  • Description: The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.106 (14) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry II M 6:00PM - 8:30PM Passantino, Paige Gilman 186 Spring 2026
  • Description: The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 5/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.106 (15) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry II T 6:00PM - 8:30PM Green, Regan E Gilman 134 Spring 2026
  • Description: The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.200 (01) The Craft of Fiction TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM Moulton, Katie J Gilman 119 Spring 2026
  • Description: Study in the reading and writing of short fiction with focus on basic technique: subject, narrative voice, character, sense of an ending, etc. The analysis and discussion of published stories, both classic and modern, will be paired with weekly fiction exercises. In the second half of the semester, students will write and workshop one finished story.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 1/15
  • Tags: WRIT-FICT
AS.220.200 (02) The Craft of Fiction TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM Moulton, Katie J Gilman 75 Spring 2026
  • Description: Study in the reading and writing of short fiction with focus on basic technique: subject, narrative voice, character, sense of an ending, etc. The analysis and discussion of published stories, both classic and modern, will be paired with weekly fiction exercises. In the second half of the semester, students will write and workshop one finished story.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 2/15
  • Tags: WRIT-FICT
AS.220.200 (03) The Craft of Fiction T 5:30PM - 8:00PM Fee, Gabriella Krieger 306 Spring 2026
  • Description: Study in the reading and writing of short fiction with focus on basic technique: subject, narrative voice, character, sense of an ending, etc. The analysis and discussion of published stories, both classic and modern, will be paired with weekly fiction exercises. In the second half of the semester, students will write and workshop one finished story.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 3/15
  • Tags: WRIT-FICT
AS.220.200 (04) The Craft of Fiction Th 5:30PM - 8:00PM Fee, Gabriella Gilman 400 Spring 2026
  • Description: Study in the reading and writing of short fiction with focus on basic technique: subject, narrative voice, character, sense of an ending, etc. The analysis and discussion of published stories, both classic and modern, will be paired with weekly fiction exercises. In the second half of the semester, students will write and workshop one finished story.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 4/15
  • Tags: WRIT-FICT
AS.220.201 (01) The Craft of Poetry T 1:30PM - 4:00PM Motion, Andrew P Jenkins 107 Spring 2026
  • Description: A study of the fundamentals and strategies of poetry writing. This course combines analysis and discussion of traditional models of poetry with workshop critiques of student poems and student conferences with the instructor.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 2/15
  • Tags: WRIT-POET
AS.220.201 (02) The Craft of Poetry W 1:30PM - 4:00PM Williamson, Greg W Hodson 305 Spring 2026
  • Description: A study of the fundamentals and strategies of poetry writing. This course combines analysis and discussion of traditional models of poetry with workshop critiques of student poems and student conferences with the instructor.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: WRIT-POET
AS.220.201 (03) The Craft of Poetry: Structure and Surpise Th 3:00PM - 5:30PM Snider, Bruce H Gilman 79 Spring 2026
  • Description: In this course, we’ll examine a variety of structures found in contemporary poetry, framing structure as strategy, a primary means by which a poet’s vision is expressed. We’ll review a range of structures including narrative, rhetorical, meditative, digressive structures, and more. We’ll also consider structure’s relationship to both prescribed and discovered forms, discussing the possible temperamental differences between closed and open form poets, what Denise Levertov calls, “people who need a tight schedule to get anything done, and people who need to have a free hand.” We’ll analyze the effects of line and stanza, and experiment with the techniques of juxtaposition, fragment, and collage. We’ll also consider the challenges of managing poetic turns, beginnings and endings, as well as structure’s relationship to broader aesthetic issues such as poetic process, readership, and accessibility/difficulty.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: WRIT-POET
AS.220.210 (01) Introduction to Literary Translation: Theory and Practice TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM Kim, Kyeong-Soo Hackerman 111 Spring 2026
  • Description: Introduction to Literary Translation explores various approaches to translating literature, ranging from Cicero to Lawrence Venuti via John Dryden and Friedrich Schleiermacher. Along with this survey of translation theories relevant to literary study, the course offers readings of extant literary translations from different languages into English, in order to examine issues in translation-methodologies. Students will have opportunities to work on their own translation projects with commentary.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 10/15
  • Tags: WRIT-FICT
AS.220.213 (01) Community-Based Learning: Incarceration, Reentry, and Personal Storytelling M 1:30PM - 4:00PM Robinson, Shannon L Gilman 138D Spring 2026
  • Description: The United States incarcerates more people than any other democratic country in the world; Baltimore City has the highest incarceration rate in Maryland, with 1 in every 100 residents locked up in a state prison. In this publicly-engaged course, students will learn about mass incarceration in the United States—its history, its dysfunction, and its current impact on the Baltimore community. In addition to reading and reflecting on personal narratives from the American Prison Writing Archive (housed at the JHU Sheridan Libraries), we will interact with organizers, activists, educators, and writers working with and on behalf of currently and formerly incarcerated people. In partnership with a Baltimore reentry program serving formerly incarcerated women, students will perform interviews and assist individual memoir projects.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 0/12
  • Tags: CSC-CE, CDS-EWC, AGRI-ELECT
AS.220.219 (01) Advanced Podcasting: Telling Complex Stories in Sound Th 5:30PM - 8:00PM Henkin, Aaron Gilman 186 Spring 2026
  • Description: This course builds on introductory podcasting skills and challenges students to create ambitious, professional-quality audio work. Students will experiment with advanced sound design, multi-voice narrative structure, and serialized formats. The class emphasizes collaboration, ethical storytelling, and preparing projects for public audiences. By semester’s end, students will produce a portfolio-ready longform podcast or pilot mini-series.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 6/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.220 (01) Reading Korean Literature in Translation: A Survey Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM Kim, Kyeong-Soo Mergenthaler 431 Spring 2026
  • Description: An introduction for students unfamiliar with the Korean language but interested in Korean culture / literature. Students will read a variety of translated texts, especially of works written in the 20th and early 21st centuries by authors including Kim Tong-in, Hwang Sun-wŏn, Pak Wansŏ, Hwang Sŏk-yŏng and Han Kang; there will also be classes on traditional sijo poetry. Students will become familiar with Korean literary genres and formal features, and develop a broad understanding of the historical and sociocultural context of Korean literature.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Canceled
  • Seats Available: 15/15
  • Tags: WRIT-FICT, WRIT-READ, CDS-MB
AS.220.231 (01) Art of the Personal Essay M 5:30PM - 8:00PM Moulton, Katie J Gilman 313 Spring 2026
  • Description: This course explores the art and craft of the personal essay. Deriving from the French essayer, to attempt, students bring a sense of investigation to the characteristics, presence, and quality of ideas, cultural zeitgeist, and the human experience. Through personal narrative exploration, essayists write toward universal themes (family, loss, belonging, social justice) and experiment with modes and forms of creative nonfiction. Students will employ research, explore personal experience, and develop their own voice, style, and storytelling craft. Students will interrogate the self and the self in the world, shaping the “I” on the page. The course builds on material covered in Introduction to Fiction & Poetry and/or Introduction to Fiction & Nonfiction and will prepare students for advanced study. This readings-based course is also writing-intensive, including in-class exercises, brief creative posts, essay drafts, revisions, and workshop. Readings/models for the course include authors Seneca, Sei Shonagon, Michel de Montaigne, James Baldwin, Melissa Febos, Vivian Gornick, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, JoAnn Beard, Zadie Smith, Jia Tolentino, Mark Twain, and more.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 1/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.302 (01) Intermediate Fiction: Adventures in Form T 5:30PM - 8:00PM Keleher, Kate Lauren Gilman 400 Spring 2026
  • Description: This intermediate workshop will explore questions of form in fiction. Students will read classically structured stories, as well as stories that are written as inventories, how-to manuals, and excruciatingly personal resumés. Readings from writers including Kathleen Collins, Annie Ernaux, Gwen Kirby, Deesha Philyaw, and Weike Wang will inform our discussions of form and inspire writing exercises in and out of class. Students will write, workshop, and revise stories of their own. This course builds upon the ideas and themes covered in Introduction to Fiction and Poetry I, IFP II, and Craft of Fiction, and will prepare students for advanced fiction courses.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 10/15
  • Tags: WRIT-FICT
AS.220.302 (02) Intermediate Fiction: Adventures in Form Th 5:30PM - 8:00PM Keleher, Kate Lauren Krieger 307 Spring 2026
  • Description: This intermediate workshop will explore questions of form in fiction. Students will read classically structured stories, as well as stories that are written as inventories, how-to manuals, and excruciatingly personal resumés. Readings from writers including Kathleen Collins, Annie Ernaux, Gwen Kirby, Deesha Philyaw, and Weike Wang will inform our discussions of form and inspire writing exercises in and out of class. Students will write, workshop, and revise stories of their own. This course builds upon the ideas and themes covered in Introduction to Fiction and Poetry I, IFP II, and Craft of Fiction, and will prepare students for advanced fiction courses.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 3/15
  • Tags: WRIT-FICT
AS.220.378 (01) Contemporary Poetic Forms T 3:00PM - 5:30PM Williamson, Greg W Gilman 79 Spring 2026
  • Description: In Contemporary Poetic Forms, we will look at exciting, mostly younger poets writing in a wide array of metrical forms. From Anthony Hecht to Erica Dawson, you will read a book a week and write eleven poems, and the assignments will be keyed but not beholden to those challenging authors.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: WRIT-POET
AS.220.396 (01) Readings in Fiction: The Immigrant Story F 1:30PM - 4:00PM Tenorio, Lysley A Gilman 217 Spring 2026
  • Description: The writer Bharati Mukherjee once said, "My literary agenda begins by acknowledging that America has transformed me. It does not end until I show that I (along with the hundreds of thousands of immigrants like me) am minute by minute transforming America."  Transformation is inherent to the immigrant narrative, a source of both drama and tension.  In this class, we'll read fiction focusing on the immigrant experience in America and examine how different writers approach the idea of transformation.  Students will write both critical and creative pieces in response to these works.  Texts might include work by Colm Toibin, Chang-rae Lee, Jhumpa Lahiri, NoViolet Bulawayo, and others.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 1/15
  • Tags: WRIT-READ, WRIT-FICT
AS.220.400 (01) Advanced Poetry Workshop: Reading and Writing Elegiac Poetry W 1:30PM - 4:00PM Motion, Andrew P Gilman 79 Spring 2026
  • Description: The capstone course in poetry writing. Consideration of various poetic models in discussion, some assigned writing, primarily workshop of student poems. Students will usually complete a "collection" poems.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 1/15
  • Tags: WRIT-POET
AS.220.401 (01) Advanced Fiction Workshop: Write Here, Write Now Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM Tenorio, Lysley A Shriver Hall Board Room Spring 2026
  • Description: In this course, we'll read first-time publications from new writers and discuss why, of the thousands and thousands of short stories submitted to magazines each year, these particular stories were selected for publication.  What do these stories--and these new writers--demonstrate in terms of subject matter, craft, and technique?  What themes ​do they explore and what questions do they ask?  And what do these stories say about the world we live in now?  Inspired by our readings, students will submit 2-3 short stories to be discussed and critiqued by the workshop.  Course texts will consist of short stories by new writers who haven't yet published a book.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: WRIT-FICT
AS.220.416 (01) Community-Based Learning: Undergraduate Teaching Fellowship T 4:30PM - 7:00PM Noel, Katharine Gilman 77 Spring 2026
  • Description: Students who have completed the fall class "Teaching Creative Writing in Baltimore Schools" are eligible for this class in the spring semester. As Teaching Fellows, students continue to work alongside writing teachers from the non-profit organization Writers in Baltimore Schools (WBS) to plan and lead creative writing workshops in local public elementary and middle schools. Class discussions will move into deeper explorations of topics like student-centered pedagogy, community building, and educational equity. Teaching Fellows will have opportunities for greater leadership at their worksites and will create resources for benefit of their students and future generations of Teaching Fellows.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 2/12
  • Tags: CSC-CE
AS.220.424 (01) Science and Storytelling: The Narrative of Nature, the Nature of Narrative T 1:30PM - 4:00PM Panek, Richard Dunning Hall 121 Spring 2026
  • Description: This course is half reading seminar, half writing workshop. The two halves build on one underlying principle: Both the scientific method and the traditional literary narrative follow the same storytelling structure: What do you know? What do you want to know? What do you learn? Now what do you know? Etc. In the seminar half of the class, we read and discuss samples of the writings of scientists throughout history—focusing especially on what those works would have meant to the authors and to their readers. Primary sources include Plato, Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Heisenberg, plus many more. In the workshop half of the class, students will write—in a step-by-step, week-by-week process, in close collaboration with their peers—a midterm paper and a final paper on any science topic and in any form of their choosing, while applying storytelling lessons from the seminar half of the course.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: MSCH-HUM, ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR
AS.220.437 (01) Creating the Poetry Chapbook F 1:30PM - 4:00PM Arthur, James P Greenhouse 113 Spring 2026
  • Description: Students will build on previous work in the major by completing a project of sustained length, depth, and cohesion (15 - 25 pages). This capstone course is open by application.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 1/8
  • Tags: WRIT-POET
AS.220.454 (01) Community-Based Learning: Poetry and Social Engagement M 4:30PM - 7:00PM Fee, Gabriella Gilman 138D Spring 2026
  • Description: In this Community-Based Learning course, students will explore poetry of social and political concern in partnership with high-school age writers from Baltimore public schools. Students will put learning into practice by engaging in community conversation and collaboration. Participation in some events outside of class time will be required.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 5/15
  • Tags: CSC-CE
AS.220.456 (01) The Long Work M 1:30PM - 4:00PM Noel, Katharine Shaffer 302 Spring 2026
  • Description: A course in the composition of a novella, short-story collection, or section of a novel. Students will build on previous work in the major by writing and revising a project of 50 to 60 pages of fiction. This capstone course is open by application.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 0/8
  • Tags: WRIT-FICT
AS.220.461 (01) Readings in Poetry: Hybrid Forms T 5:30PM - 8:00PM Russell, Lauren M Krieger Laverty Spring 2026
  • Description: In this class, we will experiment in genre bending, reading and writing hybrid works that thoughtfully push past the boundaries of genre toward new ways of writing, thinking, knowing, and creating. Not strictly limited to poetry, readings may include Michael Ondaatje’s The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red, Jean Toomer’s Cane, and Justin Torres’s Blackouts, among others, and will consider influences reaching as far back as Matsuo Bashō’s 17th-century Narrow Road to the Deep North. We will nurture verse that appears amidst prose; prose that arrives as poetry; fiction that incorporates images, documents, and poetic interventions; and writing that shapeshifts across genres and sometimes mediums, defying easy classification. As writers and as readers, we will bring our training within genres to work across, between, and beyond genres.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 6/15
  • Tags: WRIT-POET, WRIT-READ
AS.220.501 (01) Independent Study Celenza, Anna H Online Spring 2026
  • Description: Individual, guided study under the direction of a faculty member in the department. Undergraduates only. Ordinarily no more than one independent study course may be counted among the eight Writing Seminars courses presented for graduation.
  • Credits: 1.00 - 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 2/3
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.501 (02) Independent Study Moulton, Katie J Online Spring 2026
  • Description: Individual, guided study under the direction of a faculty member in the department. Undergraduates only. Ordinarily no more than one independent study course may be counted among the eight Writing Seminars courses presented for graduation.
  • Credits: 1.00 - 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 2/2
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.501 (03) Independent Study Williamson, Greg W Online Spring 2026
  • Description: Individual, guided study under the direction of a faculty member in the department. Undergraduates only. Ordinarily no more than one independent study course may be counted among the eight Writing Seminars courses presented for graduation.
  • Credits: 1.00 - 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 1/2
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.501 (04) Independent Study Motion, Andrew P Online Spring 2026
  • Description: Individual, guided study under the direction of a faculty member in the department. Undergraduates only. Ordinarily no more than one independent study course may be counted among the eight Writing Seminars courses presented for graduation.
  • Credits: 1.00 - 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 2/2
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.509 (01) Professional Internship Noel, Katharine Online Spring 2026
  • Description: The Professional Internship is a one-credit independent course created to document internships in journalism, publishing, the arts, or other writing-related fields. Internships require a minimum of 120 work hours and a short final paper. Permission required. Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory only.
  • Credits: 1.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 2/2
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.509 (02) Professional Internship Malech, Dora Online Spring 2026
  • Description: The Professional Internship is a one-credit independent course created to document internships in journalism, publishing, the arts, or other writing-related fields. Internships require a minimum of 120 work hours and a short final paper. Permission required. Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory only.
  • Credits: 1.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 2/3
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.513 (01) Teaching Writing Noel, Katharine Online Spring 2026
  • Description: Permission Required.
  • Credits: 1.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 12/12
  • Tags: n/a
AS.225.324 (01) Adaptation for the Stage F 1:30PM - 4:00PM Wilder, Joshua E Merrick 105 Spring 2026
  • Description: For aspiring playwrights, dramaturgs, and literary translators, this course is a workshop opportunity in learning to adapt both dramatic and non-dramatic works into fresh versions for the stage. Students with ability in foreign languages and literatures are encouraged to explore translation of drama as well as adaptation of foreign language fiction in English. Fiction, classical dramas, folk and fairy tales, independent interviews, or versions of plays from foreign languages are covered.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 5/8
  • Tags: n/a
AS.061.265 (86) Comedic Storytelling for Page and Screen MTW 5:30PM - 8:00PM Bucknell, Lucy Online Summer 2026
  • Description: A workshop devoted to the art and science of a funny story well told. Students will analyze comic fiction, film, and classic television, and create their own short, comic works, drawing on personal experience and real-world observation. They'll learn the basics of screenplay format and scene design, and hone close observation and critical thinking skills. This course satisfies the Film and Media Studies screenwriting requirement. 220.105 OR 225.06 recommended but not required. Both majors and non-majors welcome.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 5/9
  • Tags: FILM-CRITST
AS.220.105 (82) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I Fletcher, Zachary S. Online Summer 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 4/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.106 (83) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry II Keleher, Kate Lauren Online Summer 2026
  • Description: The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.138 (41) Creative Writing Apekina, Katya Online Summer 2026
  • Description: Enjoy the opportunity to develop your creative writing skills. You will work in both fiction and poetry. Through a combination of robust discussion, writing exercises, and substantial feedback, you will learn about imagery, voice, narrative structure, and other aspects of the writer’s craft. The reading list will include a diverse range of contemporary authors. There will be a strong emphasis on collaborative workshopping, during which you will discuss one another’s works in progress.
  • Credits: 1.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 35/50
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.138 (51) Creative Writing Brown, Thea Online Summer 2026
  • Description: Enjoy the opportunity to develop your creative writing skills. You will work in both fiction and poetry. Through a combination of robust discussion, writing exercises, and substantial feedback, you will learn about imagery, voice, narrative structure, and other aspects of the writer’s craft. The reading list will include a diverse range of contemporary authors. There will be a strong emphasis on collaborative workshopping, during which you will discuss one another’s works in progress.
  • Credits: 1.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 38/50
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.138 (61) Creative Writing Atherton, Chase Online Summer 2026
  • Description: Enjoy the opportunity to develop your creative writing skills. You will work in both fiction and poetry. Through a combination of robust discussion, writing exercises, and substantial feedback, you will learn about imagery, voice, narrative structure, and other aspects of the writer’s craft. The reading list will include a diverse range of contemporary authors. There will be a strong emphasis on collaborative workshopping, during which you will discuss one another’s works in progress.
  • Credits: 1.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 42/50
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.207 (82) Writing the Unreal Kim, Jane S. Online Summer 2026
  • Description: "We left what we felt at what we saw,” the poet Wallace Stevens once wrote, suggesting writing involves a direct response to our experiences of reality. In this class, we’ll look exclusively at writing which takes on what hasn’t been seen, and hasn’t been felt. Through reading works of science fiction, magical realism, gothic literature, and speculative fiction, students will investigate how the unreal can still speak to our experiences and perceptions of the real. Additionally, students will get the chance to craft their own fantastical worlds through regular writing assignments. Tales of time travelers, haunted houses, unreal languages, and reimagined cities will be covered. Readings will include selections from Paul Beatty, Octavia Butler, Italo Calvino, Ursula K. Le Guin, Yoko Ogawa, and Mary Shelley.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Closed
  • Seats Available: 0/16
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.307 (30) Exploring Rome as a Writer Fee, Gabriella Summer 2026
  • Description: This creative writing workshop offers both new and experienced writers a chance to spend five weeks in Rome, making an artistic exploration of the Eternal City that inspired Keats, Shelley, Goethe, and, more recently, Jhumpa Lahiri. Students are welcome to work in prose, poetry, or both. Though the emphasis of the program will be the creation of new work, students will participate in a multi-genre workshop where they will receive feedback from classmates and the instructor.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Approval Required
  • Seats Available: 5/15
  • Tags: WRIT-POET
AS.220.509 (01) Professional Internship Noel, Katharine Summer 2026
  • Description: The Professional Internship is a one-credit independent course created to document internships in journalism, publishing, the arts, or other writing-related fields. Internships require a minimum of 120 work hours and a short final paper. Permission required. Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory only.
  • Credits: 1.00
  • Status: Approval Required
  • Seats Available: 1/1
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.509 (02) Professional Internship Noel, Katharine Summer 2026
  • Description: The Professional Internship is a one-credit independent course created to document internships in journalism, publishing, the arts, or other writing-related fields. Internships require a minimum of 120 work hours and a short final paper. Permission required. Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory only.
  • Credits: 1.00
  • Status: Approval Required
  • Seats Available: 1/1
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.509 (03) Professional Internship Noel, Katharine Summer 2026
  • Description: The Professional Internship is a one-credit independent course created to document internships in journalism, publishing, the arts, or other writing-related fields. Internships require a minimum of 120 work hours and a short final paper. Permission required. Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory only.
  • Credits: 1.00
  • Status: Approval Required
  • Seats Available: 1/1
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.509 (04) Professional Internship Noel, Katharine Summer 2026
  • Description: The Professional Internship is a one-credit independent course created to document internships in journalism, publishing, the arts, or other writing-related fields. Internships require a minimum of 120 work hours and a short final paper. Permission required. Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory only.
  • Credits: 1.00
  • Status: Approval Required
  • Seats Available: 1/1
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.509 (05) Professional Internship Noel, Katharine Summer 2026
  • Description: The Professional Internship is a one-credit independent course created to document internships in journalism, publishing, the arts, or other writing-related fields. Internships require a minimum of 120 work hours and a short final paper. Permission required. Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory only.
  • Credits: 1.00
  • Status: Approval Required
  • Seats Available: 1/1
  • Tags: n/a
AS.001.216 (01) FYS: The Literature of Food T 3:00PM - 5:30PM Snider, Bruce H Gilman 79 Fall 2026
  • Description: Using literature as our primary lens, in this First-Year Seminar we will explore our complex relationships with food, considering it as both material fact and literary symbol. We will read prose and poetry by writers such as Chang Rae Lee, Kevin Young, Mary Oliver, Naomi Shihab Nye, Gary Soto, and Joy Harjo, engaging issues of food and community, food labor and production, climate change, and more. As part of our explorations, we’ll spotlight aspects of Baltimore food culture and history, and students will be asked to examine and share their own personal and cultural relationships with food. Assignments will include creative writing exercises that draw on both research and personal experience.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 12/12
  • Tags: n/a
AS.001.227 (01) FYS: Writing with Pictures - An Introduction to Writing Picture Books and Graphic Novels M 3:00PM - 5:30PM Celenza, Anna H Gilman 79 Fall 2026
  • Description: A picture is worth 1000 words, or so goes the old saying. This First-Year Seminar is a hands-on writing workshop and explores the often-overlooked importance of TEXT in award-winning graphic novels and children's picture books. Over the course of the semester, we will delve into a wide range of topics, from understanding the relationship between image and text and thinking cinematically, to effective techniques for storyboarding and creating forceful dialogue. And like all good writers, we will work on developing the kind of rich characters, strong dialogue, and compelling themes that captivate readers. To enrich our writing efforts, we will embark on various outings during the semester. These will include visits to an illustrator's studio and an independent bookstore specializing in graphic novels. We will also interact with an array of professional writers and editors both in class and at extra-curricular events. The central goal of this course is to build a community through writing. No prior experience in creative writing or visual art is necessary. All that is required is enthusiasm for the topic and a willingness to share your work with others.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 12/12
  • Tags: n/a
AS.061.205 (01) Introduction to Screenwriting T 11:00AM - 2:00PM Rodgers, Adam F The Centre 206 Fall 2026
  • Description: In this course we will explore the principles of visual storytelling in narrative film as they apply to the design, creation, and revision of the short-form screenplay. Specifically, we will focus on learning the craft of screenwriting — strategies, processes, and philosophies that writers can develop, practice, and rely upon as they progress through a series of screenwriting exercises and write a 12-page screenplay, which will be critiqued in-class during weekly table reads and with the Instructor (one-on-one) during office hours. Select produced feature screenplays will be read and analyzed — and clips from select films viewed — to further explore what works well on the page, and how it translates to working well onscreen. (Scripts and clips often selected from American films from the '70s, '80s, and '90s.) A free 18-week trial of Final Draft software will be made available for all students who don’t wish to purchase it outright for $99.)
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Approval Required
  • Seats Available: 2/12
  • Tags: FILM-SCRWRT
AS.061.373 (01) Intermediate Screenwriting: Adaptation and I.P. M 11:00AM - 2:00PM Rodgers, Adam F The Centre 206 Fall 2026
  • Description: Have you ever read a book or a news story, watched a play, or even heard a song, and thought to yourself, "This would make a GREAT movie!"? This course turns that impulse into action, revealing the strategy and process needed for developing a short screenplay from pre-existing "I.P." (intellectual property). By exploring several case studies — films and tv series and the source material that inspired them — students will identify the practical strategies employed by professional screenwriters with the goal of employing them with their own screenplay adaptations. The bulk of the class will focus on designing, writing, and rewriting a 20 to 30-page screenplay, and sharing multiple drafts with the class (and with the professor one-on-one) for critique over the course of the semester. Discussions from time to time will also touch on the business of screenwriting. Students are expected to have previously completed AS.061.205 or another lower-level screenwriting class, and to be using Final Draft software (free 18-week trial available, as well as a full license for $99).
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Approval Required
  • Seats Available: 1/7
  • Tags: FILM-SCRWRT
AS.211.441 (01) Literary Translation Workshop Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM Jewiss, Virginia C Mergenthaler 431 Fall 2026
  • Description: This course is grounded in the double conviction that translation is the most intimate form of reading and that literary translation is a form of literary writing. The goals of this course are to better understand the potential and challenge of translation as we learn to practice it ourselves. We will study what translators say about their craft and work closely with a wide range of translations. There will be two parts to each seminar: --discussion of assigned readings and analysis of published translations --workshopping of our translations. Students are free to translate from any language into English. Reading knowledge of a language other than English is required.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 4/12
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (01) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I MWF 8:00AM - 8:50AM Blokh, Daniel Gilman 134 Fall 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 4/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (02) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM Lee, Iris Yejin Gilman 381 Fall 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 3/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (03) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM Staff Gilman 119 Fall 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Canceled
  • Seats Available: 15/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (04) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Lee, Iris Yejin Shriver Hall 104 Fall 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (05) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Piña, Ingrid Gilman 55 Fall 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (06) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Guru, Yastika Gilman 377 Fall 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (07) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Lee, Iris Yejin Gilman 413 Fall 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 1/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (08) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Piña, Ingrid Gilman 277 Fall 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (09) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Guru, Yastika Gilman 377 Fall 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (10) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Staff Gilman 219 Fall 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 3/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (11) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM Abatangelo, Conal Francis Haruki Gilman 219 Fall 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 3/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (12) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM Piña, Ingrid Gilman 400 Fall 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 8/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (13) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM Guru, Yastika Hodson 303 Fall 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 3/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (14) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM Staff Hodson 315 Fall 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Canceled
  • Seats Available: 15/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (15) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM Geselowitz, Rye Welz Shaffer 304 Fall 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 6/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (16) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM Staff Krieger 309 Fall 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Canceled
  • Seats Available: 15/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (17) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM Silbaugh, Lucy Krieger 304 Fall 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 6/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (18) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM Sykes, Matilda Silver Shriver Hall Board Room Fall 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 8/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (19) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM Silbaugh, Lucy Gilman 219 Fall 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (20) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM Witherspoon, Sebastian Ames 234 Fall 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (21) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM McAllister, Kyra Shriver Hall Board Room Fall 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (22) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM Silbaugh, Lucy Shaffer 301 Fall 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 9/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (23) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM Witherspoon, Sebastian Latrobe 107 Fall 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 12/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (24) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I M 6:00PM - 8:30PM Witherspoon, Sebastian Gilman 134 Fall 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 1/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (25) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I M 6:00PM - 8:30PM Staff Shaffer 301 Fall 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 6/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (26) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I T 6:00PM - 8:30PM Staff Gilman 134 Fall 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 5/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (27) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I W 6:00PM - 8:30PM Staff Gilman 134 Fall 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 5/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.105 (28) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry I Th 6:00PM - 8:30PM Staff Gilman 134 Fall 2026
  • Description: An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Baldwin, Joyce, Lahiri, Garcia Marquez, Munro, Woolf, Donne, Bishop, Brooks, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students will learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They’ll also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students will compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses. This course is part one of the year-long Introduction to Fiction and Poetry and must be taken before AS.220.106
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 8/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.106 (01) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry II MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Suazo, Ivan Gilman 381 Fall 2026
  • Description: The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 1/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.106 (02) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry II MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Suazo, Ivan Gilman 119 Fall 2026
  • Description: The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.106 (03) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry II MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM Suazo, Ivan Gilman 377 Fall 2026
  • Description: The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.106 (04) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry II TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM Staff Maryland 114 Fall 2026
  • Description: The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 10/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.106 (05) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry II MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Staff Bloomberg 178 Fall 2026
  • Description: The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 15/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.106 (06) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry II TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM Passantino, Paige Gilman 55 Fall 2026
  • Description: The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.106 (07) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry II TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM Passantino, Paige Hodson 211 Fall 2026
  • Description: The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.106 (08) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry II TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM Passantino, Paige Ames 218 Fall 2026
  • Description: The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.106 (09) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry II TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM Santi, Antonio Vincenzo Krieger 309 Fall 2026
  • Description: The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.106 (10) Introduction to Fiction & Poetry II T 6:00PM - 8:30PM Santi, Antonio Vincenzo Gilman 277 Fall 2026
  • Description: The second half of IFP, this course delves deeper into the finer points of fiction writing, including tone, description, and point of view; students will also enrich their knowledge of poetic forms and devices, such as figurative language, verse rhythm, and the poetic line. Readings include work by Achebe, Atwood, Calvino, Ishiguro, Maria Machado, Zadie Smith, Auden, Keats, Ada Limón, Li-Young Lee, Rankine, and others. Students will write and workshop their own stories and poems, and they will complete a final portfolio. This course is a prerequisite for most upper-level courses.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 15/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.107 (01) Podcasting: Telling Stories in Sound Th 5:30PM - 8:00PM Henkin, Aaron Krieger 306 Fall 2026
  • Description: In this introductory course, students will ultimately create their own short podcasts around stories that are meaningful to them and their intended audiences. Students will enact principles of listener-centered design, they’ll work to find stories worth telling, and they’ll learn to tell those stories powerfully. This course will build competency in recording and editing techniques, interviewing skills, creating story structure, and understanding the potential social impact of documentary work. Students will also study current monetization strategies in the booming podcast market and learn how to find, keep, and grow an audience.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.108 (01) Introduction to Fiction & Nonfiction Th 5:30PM - 8:00PM Moulton, Katie J Gilman 75 Fall 2026
  • Description: This course introduces the foundational strategies for writing literary fiction and nonfiction. Drawing on a diverse selection of literary models, students will engage in “creative experiments,” eventually submitting a short story or literary essay for class discussion and feedback. AS.220.105 can be substituted for AS.220.108.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 7/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.200 (01) The Craft of Fiction TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM Lewty, Jane Gilman 119 Fall 2026
  • Description: Study in the reading and writing of short fiction with focus on basic technique: subject, narrative voice, character, sense of an ending, etc. The analysis and discussion of published stories, both classic and modern, will be paired with weekly fiction exercises. In the second half of the semester, students will write and workshop one finished story.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: WRIT-FICT
AS.220.200 (02) The Craft of Fiction M 5:30PM - 8:00PM Fee, Gabriella Gilman 186 Fall 2026
  • Description: Study in the reading and writing of short fiction with focus on basic technique: subject, narrative voice, character, sense of an ending, etc. The analysis and discussion of published stories, both classic and modern, will be paired with weekly fiction exercises. In the second half of the semester, students will write and workshop one finished story.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 1/15
  • Tags: WRIT-FICT
AS.220.200 (03) The Craft of Fiction Th 5:30PM - 8:00PM Fee, Gabriella Gilman 377 Fall 2026
  • Description: Study in the reading and writing of short fiction with focus on basic technique: subject, narrative voice, character, sense of an ending, etc. The analysis and discussion of published stories, both classic and modern, will be paired with weekly fiction exercises. In the second half of the semester, students will write and workshop one finished story.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 1/15
  • Tags: WRIT-FICT
AS.220.200 (04) The Craft of Fiction T 5:30PM - 8:00PM Staff Krieger 302 Fall 2026
  • Description: Study in the reading and writing of short fiction with focus on basic technique: subject, narrative voice, character, sense of an ending, etc. The analysis and discussion of published stories, both classic and modern, will be paired with weekly fiction exercises. In the second half of the semester, students will write and workshop one finished story.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 8/15
  • Tags: WRIT-FICT
AS.220.201 (01) The Craft of Poetry TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM Lewty, Jane Hodson 303 Fall 2026
  • Description: A study of the fundamentals and strategies of poetry writing. This course combines analysis and discussion of traditional models of poetry with workshop critiques of student poems and student conferences with the instructor.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: WRIT-POET
AS.220.201 (02) The Craft of Poetry T 5:30PM - 8:00PM Russell, Lauren M Gilman 377 Fall 2026
  • Description: A study of the fundamentals and strategies of poetry writing. This course combines analysis and discussion of traditional models of poetry with workshop critiques of student poems and student conferences with the instructor.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: WRIT-POET
AS.220.201 (03) The Craft of Poetry: Wit and Delivery W 1:30PM - 4:00PM Williamson, Greg W Shriver Hall 104 Fall 2026
  • Description: In Wit and Delivery, we will look at historical and contemporary poetic models with a particular eye and ear toward what makes really memorable, trenchant lines. You will have eleven assignments with specific examples to work from that get more challenging as the semester progresses.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: WRIT-POET
AS.220.217 (01) Readings in Poetry: Lives of the Poets: Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Anthony Hecht M 1:30PM - 4:00PM Yezzi, David D Smokler Center 301 Fall 2026
  • Description: “The intellect of man is forced to choose / perfection of the life, or of the work,” wrote W. B. Yeats. This course examines important intersections between the lives and works of three major 20th-century American poets. The course will consider how a poet's life story might provide a crucial context for their poems, and what their poems might reveal about their life.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 10/15
  • Tags: WRIT-POET, WRIT-READ
AS.220.220 (01) Reading Korean Literature in Translation: A Survey Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM Kim, Kyeong-Soo Gilman 75 Fall 2026
  • Description: An introduction for students unfamiliar with the Korean language but interested in Korean culture / literature. Students will read a variety of translated texts, especially of works written in the 20th and early 21st centuries by authors including Kim Tong-in, Hwang Sun-wŏn, Pak Wansŏ, Hwang Sŏk-yŏng and Han Kang; there will also be classes on traditional sijo poetry. Students will become familiar with Korean literary genres and formal features, and develop a broad understanding of the historical and sociocultural context of Korean literature.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 4/15
  • Tags: WRIT-FICT, WRIT-READ
AS.220.231 (01) Art of the Personal Essay T 5:30PM - 8:00PM Moulton, Katie J Gilman 75 Fall 2026
  • Description: This course explores the art and craft of the personal essay. Deriving from the French essayer, to attempt, students bring a sense of investigation to the characteristics, presence, and quality of ideas, cultural zeitgeist, and the human experience. Through personal narrative exploration, essayists write toward universal themes (family, loss, belonging, social justice) and experiment with modes and forms of creative nonfiction. Students will employ research, explore personal experience, and develop their own voice, style, and storytelling craft. Students will interrogate the self and the self in the world, shaping the “I” on the page. The course builds on material covered in Introduction to Fiction & Poetry and/or Introduction to Fiction & Nonfiction and will prepare students for advanced study. This readings-based course is also writing-intensive, including in-class exercises, brief creative posts, essay drafts, revisions, and workshop. Readings/models for the course include authors Seneca, Sei Shonagon, Michel de Montaigne, James Baldwin, Melissa Febos, Vivian Gornick, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, JoAnn Beard, Zadie Smith, Jia Tolentino, Mark Twain, and more.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.302 (01) Intermediate Fiction: Adventures in Form F 1:30PM - 4:00PM Keleher, Kate Lauren Gilman 381 Fall 2026
  • Description: This intermediate workshop will explore questions of form in fiction. Students will read classically structured stories, as well as stories that are written as inventories, how-to manuals, and excruciatingly personal resumés. Readings from writers including Kathleen Collins, Annie Ernaux, Gwen Kirby, Deesha Philyaw, and Weike Wang will inform our discussions of form and inspire writing exercises in and out of class. Students will write, workshop, and revise stories of their own. This course builds upon the ideas and themes covered in Introduction to Fiction and Poetry I, IFP II, and Craft of Fiction, and will prepare students for advanced fiction courses.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 8/15
  • Tags: WRIT-FICT
AS.220.302 (02) Intermediate Fiction: Adventures in Form Th 5:30PM - 8:00PM Keleher, Kate Lauren Bloomberg 172 Fall 2026
  • Description: This intermediate workshop will explore questions of form in fiction. Students will read classically structured stories, as well as stories that are written as inventories, how-to manuals, and excruciatingly personal resumés. Readings from writers including Kathleen Collins, Annie Ernaux, Gwen Kirby, Deesha Philyaw, and Weike Wang will inform our discussions of form and inspire writing exercises in and out of class. Students will write, workshop, and revise stories of their own. This course builds upon the ideas and themes covered in Introduction to Fiction and Poetry I, IFP II, and Craft of Fiction, and will prepare students for advanced fiction courses.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 6/15
  • Tags: WRIT-FICT
AS.220.302 (03) Intermediate Fiction: Adventures in Form T 5:30PM - 8:00PM Keleher, Kate Lauren Gilman 55 Fall 2026
  • Description: This intermediate workshop will explore questions of form in fiction. Students will read classically structured stories, as well as stories that are written as inventories, how-to manuals, and excruciatingly personal resumés. Readings from writers including Kathleen Collins, Annie Ernaux, Gwen Kirby, Deesha Philyaw, and Weike Wang will inform our discussions of form and inspire writing exercises in and out of class. Students will write, workshop, and revise stories of their own. This course builds upon the ideas and themes covered in Introduction to Fiction and Poetry I, IFP II, and Craft of Fiction, and will prepare students for advanced fiction courses.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 11/15
  • Tags: WRIT-FICT
AS.220.305 (01) Readings in Fiction: The Novella or The Short Novel F 1:30PM - 4:00PM Puchner, Eric P Gilman 277 Fall 2026
  • Description: First of all, what’s the difference? We’ll begin by discussing these labels and the various works these labels might illuminate. Ian McEwan writes of ‘the novella’: Let’s take, as an arbitrary measure, something that is between twenty and forty thousand words, long enough for a reader to inhabit a world or a consciousness and be kept there, short enough to be read in a sitting or two." McEwan promptly goes on to name “The Dead” – 15,000 words – as “the great novella.” Clearly, rules are made to be broken. In this class we’ll read approximately one novella/short novel per week. Students should expect to write a brief critical response every week, and to give two presentations, one on a selection from the syllabus, and one on a selection of their own choosing that they feel exemplifies the label ‘novella.’
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/15
  • Tags: WRIT-FICT, WRIT-READ
AS.220.377 (01) Intermediate Poetry: Poetic Forms T 1:30PM - 4:00PM Williamson, Greg W Smokler Center 213 Fall 2026
  • Description: Poetic Forms I fulfills one of the Intermediate requirements for The Writing Seminars Major. It deals with rhyme, meter, traditional forms, and ad hoc forms of students' own making. Whether you are a poet, novelist, song writer, science writer, or dramatist, this course will help you master lines and sentences even better.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 3/15
  • Tags: WRIT-POET
AS.220.387 (01) Intermediate Poetry: The Poet as Observer Th 3:00PM - 5:30PM Lewty, Jane Gilman 79 Fall 2026
  • Description: This is a workshop course with readings and writing assignments that emphasize the artistic value of the outward gaze. I will ask you to keep a daily journal of observations, and over the semester you will develop those observations into new poems, which we will discuss in class. We will also study a broad range of published poetry.  Welcome! I look forward to spending time with you and your work.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 7/15
  • Tags: WRIT-POET
AS.220.400 (01) Advanced Poetry Workshop: Poetic Voice and Vision W 1:30PM - 4:00PM Snider, Bruce H Fall 2026
  • Description: In this poetry workshop, students will be required to write poems based on class readings/assignments and submit them for group discussion and critique. While the primary focus of each class will be your own poetry, analysis and discussion of poetry by contemporary poets will serve to establish models of craft as well as guidelines for effective criticism. Special attention will be paid to issues of poetic voice, the at times slippery formal element that binds the reader and the poem’s speaker together. We’ll discuss the cultivation of intimacy (or lack thereof), registers of speech, use of vernacular, foregrounding of person and/or place, and more. Ultimately, we’ll use voice as an essential tool to understand a poet’s aesthetic vision.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 8/15
  • Tags: WRIT-POET
AS.220.401 (01) Advanced Fiction Workshop: Making Choices M 1:30PM - 4:00PM Noel, Katharine Smokler Center 213 Fall 2026
  • Description: While in real life we want to make smart decisions, character choices that are morally dubious, unwise or misguided can bring energy and meaning to fiction. In this class, we'll look at how a character's choices can raise a story's stakes, complicate interpersonal dynamics, and deepen consequence. We'll look, too, at how the writer's choices affect readers' experience of the work. Students are welcome to turn in stories or novel chapters to this workshop. Readings may include work by Edward P. Jones, Jhumpa Lahiri, Yiyun Li, Carmen Maria Machado, Anton Chekhov, and others, as well as published work chosen by class members.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 1/15
  • Tags: WRIT-FICT
AS.220.401 (02) Advanced Fiction Workshop: Persuasion, Risk, and Design T 1:30PM - 4:00PM Robinson, Shannon L Smokler Center 301 Fall 2026
  • Description: All works of fiction are acts of persuasion. We invest in characters and unfolding events because we find them convincing—which is to say, emotionally authentic ... but also (or alternatively) truly compelling. In this course, we will look at how stories seek to persuade us. What risks does the story take? How are we surprised or challenged? How is the story designed—what are its load-bearing walls, its warp and weft? And how does this all combine to create meaning? This course will build on the experience and skills that you have gained from your previous creative writing courses. At this stage, you are no doubt looking to push yourself to try out new structures, new cadences, new material: I encourage you to be playful, and to make yourself uncomfortable. Our class will include rigorous workshops, and you will have agency in deciding the group discussion approach that most benefits you. Part of your development as a writer involves discovering and exploring influences: to that end, you will each select stories, which will form the core assigned readings for the course. I will provide a list of contemporary short story collections from which to select to give you guidance.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 10/15
  • Tags: WRIT-FICT
AS.220.415 (01) Community-Based Learning: Teaching Creative Writing in Baltimore Schools T 4:30PM - 7:00PM Fee, Gabriella; Noel, Katharine Bloomberg 178 Fall 2026
  • Description: This is the first course for students accepted into the Teaching Fellows Project, a yearlong program that offers twelve undergraduate students the chance to lead writing groups in Baltimore City elementary and middle schools. A collaboration between the JHU Writing Seminars and the nonprofit organization Writers in Baltimore Schools, the Teaching Fellows Project consists of a three-credit class in the fall and another in the spring to study current best-teaching practices as well as historical and sociological context for teaching in Baltimore. Starting in late September or early October, WBS pairs students with local public elementary and middle schools where they co-lead weekly writing groups. Please note that cohort members don’t need to be Writing Seminars students: the program is open to any undergraduate interested in writing, teaching, arts integration, educational equity, or social justice. More information on applying to the Teaching Fellows Project can be found on the Writing Seminars website.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Approval Required
  • Seats Available: 1/15
  • Tags: CSC-CE
AS.220.424 (01) Science and Storytelling: The Narrative of Nature, the Nature of Narrative Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM Panek, Richard Fall 2026
  • Description: This course is half reading seminar, half writing workshop. The two halves build on one underlying principle: Both the scientific method and the traditional literary narrative follow the same storytelling structure: What do you know? What do you want to know? What do you learn? Now what do you know? Etc. In the seminar half of the class, we read and discuss samples of the writings of scientists throughout history—focusing especially on what those works would have meant to the authors and to their readers. Primary sources include Plato, Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Heisenberg, plus many more. In the workshop half of the class, students will write—in a step-by-step, week-by-week process, in close collaboration with their peers—a midterm paper and a final paper on any science topic and in any form of their choosing, while applying storytelling lessons from the seminar half of the course.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 2/15
  • Tags: MSCH-HUM, ENVS-MAJOR
AS.220.501 (01) Independent Study Williamson, Greg W Fall 2026
  • Description: Individual, guided study under the direction of a faculty member in the department. Undergraduates only. Ordinarily no more than one independent study course may be counted among the eight Writing Seminars courses presented for graduation.
  • Credits: 1.00 - 3.00
  • Status: Approval Required
  • Seats Available: 2/2
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.501 (02) Independent Study Motion, Andrew P Fall 2026
  • Description: Individual, guided study under the direction of a faculty member in the department. Undergraduates only. Ordinarily no more than one independent study course may be counted among the eight Writing Seminars courses presented for graduation.
  • Credits: 1.00 - 3.00
  • Status: Approval Required
  • Seats Available: 2/2
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.501 (03) Independent Study Yezzi, David D Fall 2026
  • Description: Individual, guided study under the direction of a faculty member in the department. Undergraduates only. Ordinarily no more than one independent study course may be counted among the eight Writing Seminars courses presented for graduation.
  • Credits: 1.00 - 3.00
  • Status: Approval Required
  • Seats Available: 2/2
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.501 (04) Independent Study Noel, Katharine Fall 2026
  • Description: Individual, guided study under the direction of a faculty member in the department. Undergraduates only. Ordinarily no more than one independent study course may be counted among the eight Writing Seminars courses presented for graduation.
  • Credits: 1.00 - 3.00
  • Status: Approval Required
  • Seats Available: 2/2
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.501 (05) Independent Study Evans, Danielle V Fall 2026
  • Description: Individual, guided study under the direction of a faculty member in the department. Undergraduates only. Ordinarily no more than one independent study course may be counted among the eight Writing Seminars courses presented for graduation.
  • Credits: 1.00 - 3.00
  • Status: Approval Required
  • Seats Available: 2/2
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.501 (06) Independent Study Malech, Dora Fall 2026
  • Description: Individual, guided study under the direction of a faculty member in the department. Undergraduates only. Ordinarily no more than one independent study course may be counted among the eight Writing Seminars courses presented for graduation.
  • Credits: 1.00 - 3.00
  • Status: Approval Required
  • Seats Available: 2/2
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.509 (01) Professional Internship Noel, Katharine Fall 2026
  • Description: The Professional Internship is a one-credit independent course created to document internships in journalism, publishing, the arts, or other writing-related fields. Internships require a minimum of 120 work hours and a short final paper. Permission required. Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory only.
  • Credits: 1.00
  • Status: Approval Required
  • Seats Available: 1/1
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.509 (02) Professional Internship Malech, Dora Fall 2026
  • Description: The Professional Internship is a one-credit independent course created to document internships in journalism, publishing, the arts, or other writing-related fields. Internships require a minimum of 120 work hours and a short final paper. Permission required. Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory only.
  • Credits: 1.00
  • Status: Approval Required
  • Seats Available: 3/3
  • Tags: n/a
AS.220.513 (01) Teaching Writing Noel, Katharine Fall 2026
  • Description: Students who have completed 220.415—or both 220.415 and 220.416—may continue their teaching of creative writing in a local public elementary or middle school with the Teaching Fellows Project and Writers in Baltimore Schools. Interns lead lessons on fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Approval Required
  • Seats Available: 4/4
  • Tags: n/a
AS.225.330 (01) Playwriting Strategies F 1:30PM - 4:00PM Wilder, Joshua E Gilman 10 Fall 2026
  • Description: A workshop in playwriting, designed for both experienced playmakers and those first exploring the art. Students will investigate the creative process, from the initial imaginative impetus, to drafts and revisions, to presentation of the work. The course will explore fundamental playwriting techniques, such as writing effective dialogue, attending to story, and delineating character.
  • Credits: 3.00
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 4/8
  • Tags: n/a