SRJC Course Outlines

3/29/2024 6:30:48 AMENGL 4C Course Outline as of Spring 2008

Changed Course
CATALOG INFORMATION

Discipline and Nbr:  ENGL 4CTitle:  ADV CREATIVE WRIT  
Full Title:  Advanced Creative Writing
Last Reviewed:2/6/2023

UnitsCourse Hours per Week Nbr of WeeksCourse Hours Total
Maximum3.00Lecture Scheduled3.0017.5 max.Lecture Scheduled52.50
Minimum3.00Lab Scheduled06 min.Lab Scheduled0
 Contact DHR0 Contact DHR0
 Contact Total3.00 Contact Total52.50
 
 Non-contact DHR0 Non-contact DHR Total0

 Total Out of Class Hours:  105.00Total 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:
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Advanced study and writing of fiction and poetry; drama and/or creative non-fiction.

Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Course Completion of ENGL 4B


Recommended Preparation:

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
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Advanced study and writing of fiction and poetry; drama and/or creative non-fiction.
(Grade or P/NP)

Prerequisites:Course Completion of ENGL 4B
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:TransferableEffective:Fall 1981Inactive:
 
UC Transfer:TransferableEffective:Fall 1981Inactive:
 
C-ID:

Certificate/Major Applicable: Major Applicable Course



COURSE CONTENT

Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
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Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:
I.  READING:
   A.  Identify and anaylze major elements of narrative introduced in
       ENGL 4A and ENGL 4B, including character, setting, plot/conflict,
       point of view, tone, structure, and dialogue in published and
       peer-written narratives with increasing precision.
   B.  Identify and analyze additional elements of narrative, including
       theme and motifs, stories told from multiple points of view,
       stories told by "unreliable" narrators, and narratives that
       experiment with structural devices and time elements.
   C.  Identify and analyze major elements of poetry introduced in
       ENGL 4A and ENGL 4B, including sound, rhythm, figurative language,
       the poetic line, rhyme schemes, figures of speech, symbols, and
       line breaks with increasing precision.
   D.  Identify and analyze additional elements of poetry, including
       various traditional, contemporary, and experimental poetic forms,
       metrics, poetic voice and structural motifs/strategies.
   E.  Analyze technical and stylistic elements in contemporary writing
       to understand trends in published works.
   F.  Adopt leadership in critiquing and analyzing student writing
       during workshops.
   G.  Identify and analyze stylistic elements in dramatic literature.
II. WRITING:
   A.  Apply creative writing skills through frequent writings in
       selected genres.
   B.  Employ basic narrative elements introduced in ENGL 4A and ENGL 4B,
       including character, setting, plot/conflict, and figurative
       language, point of view, tone, structure, and dialogue with
       increasing precision.
   C.  Use additional elements of narrative, including theme and motifs,
       stories told from multiple points of view, stories told by
       "unreliable" narrators, and narratives that experiment with
       structural devices and time elements.
   D.  Employ basic poetic elements introduced in ENGL 4A and ENGL 4B,
       including sound, rhythm, figurative language, the poetic line,
       rhyme schemes, figures of speech, symbols, and line breaks with
       increasing precision.
   E.  Use additional poetic elements, including various traditional,
       contemporary, and experimental poetic forms, metrics, poetic
       voice and structural motifs/strategies.
   F.  Within scenes and acts, employ a full range of dramatic elements
       and a more focused application of the conventions of particular
       sub-genres.

Topics and Scope
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I.  READING:
   A.  Examination of published work in a range of fiction, poetry,
       and/or creative non-fiction that illustrates technical and
       stylistic elements such as character, setting, plot/conflict,
       sound, rhythm, the poetic line, point of view, tone, structure,
       dialogue, rhyme schemes, figures of speech, symbols, and line
       breaks.
   B.  Examination of published work in a range of fiction, poetry,
       and/or creative non-fiction that illustrates theme and motifs,
       stories told from multiple points of view, stories told by
       "unreliable" narrators, narratives that experiment with structural
       devices and time elements, and various traditional, contemporary,
       and experimental poetic forms, metrics, poetic voice and
       structural motifs/strategies.
    C.  Examination of published work in dramatic literature and critique
        of at least three works from various time periods.
II.  WRITING:
    A.  Creative writing elements for fiction, poetry, and/or creative
        non-fiction illustrating technical and stylistic elements such
        as character, setting, plot/conflict, sound, rhythm, the poetic
        line, point of view, tone, structure, dialogue, rhyme schemes,
        figures of speech, symbols, and line breaks.
    B.  Creative writing elements and techniques, introducing theme and
        motifs, stories told from multiple points of view, stories told
        by "unreliable" narrators, narratives that experiment with
        structural devices and time elements, and various traditional,
        contemporary, and experimental poetic forms, metrics, poetic
        voice, and structural motifs/strategies.
    C.  Creative writing elements and techniques including experiment
        with various traditional, contemporary and experimental dramatic
        forms.
    D.  Requirements and possibilities for publication and performance.
III. PEER RESPONSE AND WORKSHOP:
    A.  Advanced techniques for reading peers' work in progress in a
        workshop setting.
    B.  Advanced strategies for providing constructive critical responses
        to peers' work in a workshop setting.
    C.  Advanced strategies for evaluating and using peer response to
        improve one's writing.

Assignments:
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I.  READING:
   A.  Read 30 to 50 pages each week of published works in the different
       genres and/or craft manuals.
   B.  Select and closely analyze short fiction, poetry, and/or creative
       non-fiction by four or more contemporary writers employing
       experimental techniques such as stories told from multiple points
       of view, stories told by "unreliable" narrators, or narratives
       that experiment with structural devices and time sequences.
   C.  Read Writer's Market or other publications that analyze trends
       in publishing and/or show how to prepare and present manuscripts.
   D.  Read three works that illustrate experimental techniques in
       fiction, poetry, and/or creative non-fiction.
   E.  Read in several craft books about types of point of view and
       "unreliable" narration.
   F.  Present a 7- to 10-minute oral critique of a work of experimental
       fiction by a professional writer, focusing on experimental
       elements such as multiple points of view, non-linear structure,
       altered time sequences, or structural devices.
   G.  Read a selection of influential dramatic critics.
II. WRITING:
   A.  Write a minimum of four hours weekly, focusing on maintaining a
       regular writing schedule.
   B.  Collect a portfolio of revised work totaling at least 10,000
       words of extensively revised and edited fiction and/or creative
       non-fiction, 250 lines of extensively revised and edited poetry,
       or a proportional equivalence of several genres. This work should
       demonstrate advanced writing skills.
   C.  Write a 1,000- to 3,000-word short story that experiments with
       multiple points of view, an "unreliable" narrator, structural
       devices, or time sequences.
   D.  Write a sequence of three poems, focusing on the same experience
       or subject.
   E.  Write a Shakespearean sonnet: revise it into a Petrarchan sonnet.
   F.  Revise previously written scenes according to the fundamentals of
       the structure of the play, with special attention to audience.

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
80 - 90%
Written homework
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
5 - 10%
Class performances
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
5 - 10%
Attendance, class participation


Representative Textbooks and Materials:
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PRIMARY TEXT:
Burroway, Janet. WRITING FICTION: GUIDE TO NARRATIVE CRAFT. Harcourt,
    2007.
SUPPLEMENTAL TEXTS:
Root, Robert L. and Michael J. Steinberg. THE FOURTH GENRE: CONTEMPORARY
    WRITERS OF/ON CREATIVE NON-FICTION, 4TH ED. LONGMAN, 2006.
Oliver, Mary. A POETRY HANDBOOK. Harcourt, 1994.
STORY MATTERS. Margaret Dieman and Barbara Schoop, eds. Houghton Mifflin,
    2006.
Examples of established writers may include but are not limited to the
following:
Fiction:
Allende, Isabelle
Atwood, Margaret
Barth, John
Diaz, Junot
Foer, Jonathon Safran
Handler, Daniel
Reed, Ishmael
Vonnegut, Kurt
Poets:
Ashberry, John
Bishop, Elizabeth
Carson, Anne
Hall, Donald
McKay, Claude
Oliver, Mary
Rushdie, Salman
Stein, Gertrude
Stevens, Wallace
Creative non-fiction
Benjamin, Walter
McCall, Nathan
Sontag, Susan
Staples, Brent

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