WR 252 Imaginative Writing I (Introduction to Creative Writing)
This course is designed to introduce students to the art and craft of writing as an artistic medium. By studying the basic elements of craft in fiction, reading and analyzing the work of professional writers, and completing your own creative projects, you will explore the fundamentals of creative writing, from character and setting to narrative voice and structure. Prerequisite: WR 121.
Fulfills General Education requirements for Arts & Letters
Addendum: One focus of this course is learning how to read from a writer’s perspective—reading to understand how a writer has structured a story, how she has created tension or evoked emotion, how she makes characters come alive and resonate with complex themes or uses the music of language to evoke a sensory experience. Using professional writers as your models, you will write stories that show an understanding of what choices are available to you as writers and what effect those choices have on a piece of work in process.