FR 1022 - CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Long Description In this workshop, you will create your own texts in French. We will work on the prose poem, the short story, the fairy tale, and creative nonfiction, while exploring the boundaries between these different genres and the stakes of reading and creating literature in today's digital world. The workshop format includes presentation of your work and guided peer critique in a collaborative and supportive environment, as well as discussions of textual "intermediality" and of literary models as inspiration for your own work. This course will focus on guided production of written work in French and on the language choices that writers make within the conventions of certain literary genres. You will organize and host a "book club" in French on a recently published novel from the French-speaking world. A public reading of a selection of your work, followed by a Q&A session with the audience, will be organized at the end of the semester. No previous experience in creative writing is required or expected. Taught entirely in French. Prerequisite: at least one of the following: FR20, FR21, FR27, FR55, FR56, or permission of the instructor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Creative Work General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.

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