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Creative Writing and Publishing |
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CREAT WRIT/PUB |
| CLASS CODE: |
ENG 418 |
CREDITS:
3
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| DIVISION: |
LANGUAGE & LETTERS |
| DEPARTMENT: |
ENGLISH |
| GENERAL EDUCATION: |
This course does not fulfill a General Education requirement. |
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| DESCRIPTION: |
Focuses on workshops, document production, portfolio preparation, and editing. Prepares students for creative publishing. (Culminating course for English Majors/Creative Writing Emphasis.) |
| TAUGHT: |
Winter only. |
| CONTENT AND TOPICS: |
Standards and methods of creative writing workshops; professional documentation; creative writing publications and markets; editing and production of a literary magazine. |
| GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: |
- Learn about the contemporary creative writing market.
- Create professional quality queries, submission letters, and proposals.
- Submit work to a national publication.
- Explore graduate creative writing education opportunities.
- Facilitate the publication of Outlet: The BYU-Idaho Student Literary Journal.
- Organize and participate in peer writing groups.
<1i>Give public readings of one's best work.
<1i>Refine one's personal aesthetic and the understanding of one's writing temperament.
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| REQUIREMENTS: |
Write and revise poems, stories, essays, and dramatic scenes, workshopping them with peers and the teacher. Create professional documents. Submit an original creative piece to a professional journal or magazine. Produce a portfolio representing a body of creative work produced at BYU-Idaho. Serve on the student editorial board of Outlet. |
| PREREQUISITES: |
English 218 or 318R. |
| OTHER: |
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| EFFECTIVE DATE: |
August 2001 |
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