12/26/2024 6:37:15 PM	ENGL 4B Course Outline as of Spring 2000	Changed Course
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  ENGL 4B	Title:  CREATIVE WRIT WKSHP
Full Title:  Creative Writing Workshop
Last Reviewed:2/6/2023

Units		Course Hours per Week			Nbr of Weeks	Course Hours Total
Maximum	3.00	Lecture Scheduled	3.00		17.5 max.	Lecture Scheduled	52.50
Minimum	3.00	Lab Scheduled	0		6 min.	Lab Scheduled	0
		Contact DHR	0			Contact DHR	0
		Contact Total	3.00			Contact Total	52.50
		Non-contact DHR	0			Non-contact DHR Total	0

Total Out of Class Hours:  105.00

Total Student Learning Hours: 157.50

Title 5 Category:  AA Degree Applicable
Grading:  Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:  00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As: 
Formerly: 

Catalog Description:

Continuation of English 4A, work in the writing of fiction, poetry, drama, and/or non-fiction prose.

Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Course Completion of ENGL 4A

Recommended Preparation:

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
Description:

Continuation of English 4A, work in the writing of fiction, poetry, drama, and/or non-fiction prose.

(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:Course Completion of ENGL 4A
Recommended:
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;UC.
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP

ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION

Associate Degree:		Effective:		Inactive:
Area:
CSU GE:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
IGETC:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
CSU Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:
UC Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:
C-ID:

Certificate/Major Applicable: Not Certificate/Major Applicable

COURSE CONTENT

Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

READING: Engl 4B is a creative writing workshop and thus focuses

on the student's writing as texts to be evaluated in classroom

discussions, apropos the class being a workshop. From reading student

work in the genres of fiction, poetry, drama, and/or non-fiction prose,

students will learn to:

1.  Recognize and articulate the craft features of a literary text.

2.  Recognize and articulate the relationship between craft and meaning

   in a literary text.

3.  Identify and articulate alternative craft behaviors available to

   the writer of a piece.

WRITING: Students will write each week in the genres of fiction, poetry,

drama, and/or non-fiction prose.

Topics and Scope

READING: English 4B is a creative writing workshop and thus focuses

on the student's writing as texts to be evaluated in classroom

discussions, apropos the class being a workshop. From reading student

work in the genres of fiction, poetry, drama, and/or non-fiction prose,

students will learn to:

1.  Recognize and articulate the craft features of a literary craft.

2.  Recognize and articulate the relationship between craft and

   meaning in a literary text.

3.  Identify and articulate alternative craft behaviors available to

   the writer of a piece.

WRITING: Students will write each week in the genres of fiction, poetry,

drama, and/or non-fiction prose.

Assignments:

Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.

Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing.		Writing 0 - 0%
None
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills.		Problem Solving 0 - 0%
None
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams.		Skill Demonstrations 0 - 0%
None
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams.		Exams 0 - 0%
None
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories.		Other Category 0 - 0%
None

Representative Textbooks and Materials:

Behn, Robin and Chase Twichell, eds. THE PRACTICE OF POETRY. New York:

    Harper, 1992.

Bernays, Anne and Pamela Painter. WHAT IF?: WRITING EXERCISES FOR

FICTION

    WRITERS. New York: Harper, 1995.

Burke, Carol and Molly Best Tinsley. THE CREATIVE PROCESS. New York:

    St. Martin's, 1993.

DeMaria, Robert. THE COLLEGE HANDBOOK OF CREATIVE WRITING. 3rd ed.

    Ft. Worth: Harcourt, 1998.

Gardner, John. THE ART OF FICTION. New York: Vintage, 1991.

LeGuin, Ursula K. STEERING THE CRAFT. Portland, OR: Eighth Mountain

    Press, 1998.

Lopate, Phillip, ed. THE ART OF THE PERSONAL ESSAY. New York: Anchor/

    Doubleday, 1995.

Minot, Stephen. THREE GENRES: THE WRITING OF POETRY, FICTION, AND

    DRAMA. 6th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice, 1998.

Ueland, Brenda. IF YOU WANT TO WRITE. 2nd ed. St. Paul: Greywolf, 1987.

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