Appendix A - Courses
Creative Writing
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CRWR*6000 Plenary Course: Writers on Writing F [0.50]
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| All students in the program are required to take the plenary course. Students will engage with theories of creative writing proposed by such writers as Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Anton Chekhov, Milan Kunder, Octavio Paz, John Gardner, Nicole Brossard, and a great many others, including contemporary writers from Canada and abroad who will partiicate in the course as visitors. This course will examine how writers understand and describe their own creative processes and aims and how they create or respond to the theories of their time. |
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Restricted to MFA.CW Students |
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CRWR*6100 Poetry Workshop F-W [0.50]
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| The Poetry Workshop engages students in a reading and writing intensive program of work. The workshops will be strongly focused on writing and on responding to the work of students in the course with productive, constructive criticism. Students will have the opporutnity to work closely with a nationally recognized poet to develop their own skills as poets and editors. Students are expected to read widely and to develop their understanding of the technical aspects of their craft. |
| Prerequisite(s): |
Restricted to MFA.CW Students |
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CRWR*6200 Fiction Workshop F-W [0.50]
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| The Fiction Workshop engages students in a reading and writing intensive program of work. The workshops will be strongly focused on writing and on responding to the work of students in the course with productive, constructive criticism. Students will have the opporutnity to work closely with a nationally recognized author to develop their skills as writers and editors. Students are expected to read widely and to develop their understanding of the technical aspects of their craft. |
| Prerequisite(s): |
Restricted to MFA.CW Students |
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CRWR*6300 Drama Workshop U [0.50]
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| The Drama workshop is writing- and reading-intensive. Students will produce a substantial amount of dramatic writing and will also provide constructive criticism of the work of other workshop participants. Required reading will cover a wide range of dramatic literature and the study of dramatic forms and techniques. |
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Restricted to MFA.CW Students |
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CRWR*6500 Non-Fiction Workshop U [0.50]
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| The Non-Fiction Workshop engages students in a reading- and writing-intensive program of creative non-fiction. The workshops will be strongly focused on writing and will involve the creation and revision of a substantial body of new work in the genre, as well as critiquing the work of other students in the course. The reading component will focus on texts from a varied social and cultural range (e.g. family memoir, travel narrative, cultural memoir, themed mediation). |
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