Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING: PERSONAL ESSAY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: According to one book reviewer, nonfiction in the personal essay, the memoir and autobiography--is the reigning genre of our time. This turn of events has been applauded as well as lamented, according to the taste of the writer/ critic/reviewer/person. Nonfiction readers and writers are proliferating. In this course we will join in this lively conversation by reading the works of published and prize-winning essayists and memoirists.