2010-11 Catalog

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Offering Description

Scenes, Summary and Reflection: Your Life as Story

Summer quarter

Faculty: Eddy Brown creative writing, literature

Fields of Study: cultural studies, literature and writing

Summer: CRN (Credit) Level 40115 (8) First Session  

Credits: 8(Su)

Class Standing: Freshmen - Senior

Offered During: Day

Description

Students will be guided toward improving their writing skills and gaining a deeper understanding of short fiction and narrative nonfiction. Through writing exercises, reader responses to published narrative literature, peer reviews, individual field trips, lectures, workshops, and seminars on selected readings, participants will develop practical, transferable knowledge of genres, writing as a craft and process, and literary critique. Overall, they will be directed toward becoming more capable and confident readers and writers and more self-aware individuals. Students' major project will be a narrative memoir or short story.

Maximum Enrollment: 20

Advertised Schedule: 10a-4p Mon/Wed/Thu (Jun. 20 - Jul. 21)

Preparatory for studies or careers in: teaching, literature, and writing

Campus Location: Olympia

Online Learning: No Required Online Learning

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