This primer to screenwriting will emphasize the power of the image to deliver character, situation, and theme, and to advance even complex plots.  Students will analyze narrative films, compose their own still and moving images with cellphone cameras, and write several short dramatic pieces to be read and workshopped by the group.  They'll learn the basics of scene design and of screenplay format. For FMS majors in the screenwriting track, this course fulfills the Media and Narrative requirement . $50 lab fee.

• Days/Times: MTTh 5:30PM - 8:00PM
• Instructor: Bucknell, Lucy
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/9
• PosTag(s): n/a

A workshop devoted to creating compelling short scripts and stories based on personal experience. Analysis of films, memoir, and short fiction, along with collaborative development of student work, will emphasize how unique worlds and world views can reflect a larger shared humanity. All writers welcome. Tell your story!

• Days/Times: MTTh 5:30PM - 8:00PM
• Instructor: Bucknell, Lucy
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/9
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Garced-Rosa, Giovannai
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Keleher, Kate Lauren
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Green, Regan E
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 42/50
• PosTag(s): n/a

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.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Brown, Thea
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 44/50
• PosTag(s): n/a

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.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Atherton, Chase
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 45/50
• PosTag(s): n/a

"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.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Niven, Sam
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Arthur, James P
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 4/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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.)

• Days/Times: T 11:00AM - 2:00PM
• Instructor: Rodgers, Adam F
• Room: The Centre 206
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/12
• PosTag(s): FILM-SCRWRT

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.

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Jewiss, Virginia C
• Room: Mergenthaler 431
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

• Days/Times: MWF 8:00AM - 8:50AM
• Instructor: Piña, Ingrid
• Room: Gilman 138D
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

• Days/Times: MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Scott, Kat Leonia
• Room: Gilman 138D
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

• Days/Times: MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Gilman 217
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

• Days/Times: MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Scott, Kat Leonia
• Room: Gilman 138D
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

• Days/Times: MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Garced-Rosa, Giovannai
• Room: Bloomberg 172
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

• Days/Times: MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Lucero, Alejandro Thomas
• Room: Gilman 381
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

• Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Scott, Kat Leonia
• Room: Gilman 138D
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

• Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Garced-Rosa, Giovannai
• Room: Bloomberg 172
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

• Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Lucero, Alejandro Thomas
• Room: Gilman 381
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

• Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Shriver Hall 001
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

• Days/Times: MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM
• Instructor: Tsuno, Nicole Yoshiko
• Room: Krieger 307
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

• Days/Times: MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM
• Instructor: Garced-Rosa, Giovannai
• Room: Bloomberg 172
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

• Days/Times: MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM
• Instructor: Lucero, Alejandro Thomas
• Room: Gilman 381
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

• Days/Times: TTh 8:00AM - 9:15AM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Gilman 79
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

• Days/Times: TTh 8:00AM - 9:15AM
• Instructor: Witherspoon, Sebastian
• Room: Gilman 138D
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Pham, Alexander Quyen
• Room: Gilman 381
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Suazo, Ivan
• Room: Maryland 109
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 14/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Kim, Jane S.
• Room: Gilman 313
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Pham, Alexander Quyen
• Room: Gilman 381
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Passantino, Paige
• Room: Dunning Hall 121
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Kim, Jane S.
• Room: Gilman 313
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Gilman 377
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 13/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Pham, Alexander Quyen
• Room: Gilman 381
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Guru, Yastika
• Room: Maryland 309
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Kim, Jane S.
• Room: Gilman 313
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Maryland 114
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

• Days/Times: M 6:00PM - 8:30PM
• Instructor: Danklin, Deirdre M
• Room: Gilman 381
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

• Days/Times: M 6:00PM - 8:30PM
• Instructor: Tsuno, Nicole Yoshiko
• Room: Gilman 217
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

• Days/Times: T 6:00PM - 8:30PM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Gilman 217
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

• Days/Times: W 6:00PM - 8:30PM
• Instructor: Danklin, Deirdre M
• Room: Gilman 217
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

• Days/Times: Th 6:00PM - 8:30PM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Gilman 217
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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.

• Days/Times: MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Singh, Vanessa
• Room: Krieger Laverty
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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.

• Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Singh, Vanessa
• Room: Krieger Laverty
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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.

• Days/Times: MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM
• Instructor: Singh, Vanessa
• Room: Krieger Laverty
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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.

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Fletcher, Zachary S.
• Room: Bloomberg 172
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Fletcher, Zachary S.
• Room: Bloomberg 172
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Silbaugh, Lucy
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Fletcher, Zachary S.
• Room: Bloomberg 172
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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.

• Days/Times: W 5:30PM - 8:00PM
• Instructor: Henkin, Aaron
• Room: Gilman 17
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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.

• Days/Times: M 5:30PM - 8:00PM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Gilman 219
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Gilman 219
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT

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.

• Days/Times: T 5:30PM - 8:00PM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Gilman 134
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT

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.

• Days/Times: Th 5:30PM - 8:00PM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Krieger 300
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT

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.

• Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Gilman 381
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT

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, hybrid 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.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Snider, Bruce H
• Room: Gilman 79
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-POET

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.

• Days/Times: W 5:30PM - 8:00PM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Krieger 302
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-POET

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.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Williamson, Greg W
• Room: Abel Wolman House 100
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-POET

Stories entertain us, but we can also receive guidance from them, and we can tell them to impart guidance to others, to exercise influence, to make a point. This course will explore the ways that stories make their points in the genre sometimes called “fable,” in works by authors ranging from Aesop to George Saunders, from the 4th century to the present.  We’ll debate what fables actually are – Short morality tales about animals?  Portraits of exemplary figures that demonstrate how to live? - in part by reading many examples of the form and some theories of it, in part by writing fables of our own.

• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Cannon, Christopher; Choi, Susan
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT, WRIT-READ

Writing and selling engaging children’s literature is not child’s play. In this intensive writing workshop, students will continue to work on the time-tested principles of storytelling and apply them to the practice of describing the world from a young person’s perspective. Weekly assignments will include the analysis of a wide range of contemporary books, writing exercises in a variety of genres (board books, picture books, early readers, and novels for middle grade students and young adults), and peer-review critique sessions. In the final weeks of class, students will also learn how to pitch their writing to an agent and/or publisher who specializes in Childrens/YA literature.

• Days/Times: M 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Celenza, Anna H
• Room: Gilman 79
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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.

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Kim, Kyeong-Soo
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT, WRIT-READ

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.

• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Moulton, Katie J
• Room: Gilman 313
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

In the 2015 New York Times article “A Language for Grieving,” the literary scholar Sonya Posmentier writes, “By making violence strange and unfamiliar, very different poets like [Gwendolyn] Brooks and [M. NourbeSe] Philip have gone beyond merely repeating its effects, like a viral video of a police shooting, and beyond the realm of the evidentiary to that of the imagination, where we might not only observe violence but mourn and counter it.” In this course, we will explore how 20th- and 21st-century African American and African diasporic poets have moved “beyond the realm of the evidentiary to that of the imagination” to write about, into, and through history. Readings may include work by Robert Hayden, Gwendolyn Brooks, M. NourbeSe Phillip, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Patricia Smith, Tyehimba Jess, Cameron Awkward-Rich, and others, including a multigenerational selection of elegies for Emmett Till. Students should expect to engage with the readings both creatively and analytically and will have the opportunity to write their own historical poetry.

• Days/Times: W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Russell, Lauren M
• Room: Gilman 79
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 14/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-READ, WRIT-POET

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.

• Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Keleher, Kate Lauren
• Room: Gilman 217
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT

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.

• Days/Times: Th 5:30PM - 8:00PM
• Instructor: Keleher, Kate Lauren
• Room: Krieger 304
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT

This course is primarily a workshop; students will each write and workshop two short stories. Additional shorter writing assignments will focus on the management of time in fiction. We will consider how and when writers make use of time shifts within a story, how choosing the point in time from which a story is being told shapes its tone and structure, and how to move through time frames without creating confusion. We’ll also read and discuss published work that uses time in interesting ways, including writing by Alice Munro, Lauren Groff, Ling Ma, Edward P. Jones, Yiyun Li, David Means, Jamel Brinkley, Alice Sola Kim, Jennine Capó Crucet, and Virginia Woolf.

• Days/Times: M 5:30PM - 8:00PM
• Instructor: Moulton, Katie J
• Room: Gilman 313
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT

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.

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Williamson, Greg W
• Room: Gilman 277
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-POET

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.

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Arthur, James P
• Room: Gilman 277
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-POET

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.

• Days/Times: Th 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Snider, Bruce H
• Room: Gilman 79
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-POET

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? Course readings will be drawn from both classic and contemporary writers.  Students will write and workshop two short stories and one work of flash fiction.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Robinson, Shannon L
• Room: Gilman 38A
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/10
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT

Joy Williams writes that a short story should have “a clean clear surface with much disturbance below.”  In this advanced workshop, we will read and discuss stories that render ambiguity and complexity with precision, including work by Scott Ditzler, ZZ Packer, Shannon Robinson, Rion Amilcar Scott, Izumi Suzuki, Edward St Aubyn, Tony Tulathimutte, and Vauhini Vara. Students will write and workshop two short stories and one flash fiction piece of their own. Completion of Intermediate Fiction is required for admission.

• Days/Times: T 5:30PM - 8:00PM
• Instructor: Keleher, Kate Lauren
• Room: Krieger 304
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT

In this course, students will work alongside writing teachers from the non-profit organization Writers in Baltimore Schools (WBS) to lead creative writing workshops in local public elementary and middle schools. Students and WBS teachers will also meet as a group once a week to plan classes, discuss pedagogy, and share ideas. Students will write weekly responses to reading assignments, write reflections on the volunteer experience, and help to assemble a final project at their worksite. Upon completion of the class, students will have the opportunity to apply to become instructors with Writers in Baltimore Schools. Please note that the weekly writing group you will co-lead will occur outside of class. Groups meet either during the school day or after school. We will work with you to find a group that fits your schedule.

• Days/Times: M 4:30PM - 7:00PM
• Instructor: Noel, Katharine
• Room: Greenhouse 113
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 1/12
• PosTag(s): CSC-CE

Class reads the writings of scientists to explore what their words would have meant to them and their readers. Discussion will focus on the shifting scientific/cultural context throughout history. Authors include Aristotle, Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Darwin, Freud, Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, Crick and Watson.

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Panek, Richard
• Room: Gilman 79
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/15
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM, ENVS-MAJOR

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.

• Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Gilman 10
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/8
• PosTag(s): n/a

William Shakespeare and Henrik Ibsen are the two most frequently performed playwrights in history, and both have been credited with reinventing drama: Shakespeare for the Elizabethan stage and Ibsen for the modern. In this course we will pair plays by each author – those that stand in an explicit relation of influence as well as those that share a significant set of concerns – in order to investigate how each takes up and transform key problems in Updated description: the literary, political, and philosophical tradition for their own historical moment. Plays to be studied by Shakespeare: Hamlet, King Lear, Coriolanus, The Tempest; by Ibsen: Hedda Gabler, The Wild Duck, An Enemy of the People, The Master Builder. As part of the course, we will try to organize at least one excursion to a Shakespeare or Ibsen performance in the Baltimore-D.C. area. This class counts towards the requirement of text-based courses for the minor in comparative thought and literature.

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Lisi, Leonardo
• Room: Gilman 208
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/12
• PosTag(s): n/a