EN278 Fiction 1. Introduction to the writing of fiction, with emphasis on on student manuscripts. Enrollment limited.
Prerequisite: English 115. Four Credit Hours. A. BLEVINS, BOYLAN, N. HARRIS, SPARK
EN279 Poetry 1. Introduction to the writing of poetry, with emphasis on student manuscripts. Enrollment limited.
Prerequisite: English 115. Four Credit Hours. A. BLEVINS, P. HARRIS
EN378 Fiction 2. Practice in the writing of short stories, with major emphasis on student manuscripts. Enrollment is limited; admission is by manuscript submission only. Consult instructor for deadlines and format for manuscript submission. Manuscripts are used as a basis for determining enrollment.
Prerequisite: English 278. Four Credit Hours. BLEVINS, BOYLAN, N. HARRIS, SPARK
EN379 Poetry 2. Practice in the writing of poetry, with major emphasis on student manuscripts. Enrollment is limited; admission is by manuscript submission only. See instructor for deadlines and format for manuscript submission. Manuscripts are used as a basis for determining enrollment.
Prerequisite: English 279. Four Credit Hours. BLEVINS, P. HARRIS
EN380 Creative Nonfiction. Creative nonfiction includes renderings of personal experience, presentations of opinion and passion, profiles of people, and evocations of time and place. Based upon "fact," it uses elements of fiction. A writing workshop with weekly assignments designed to help students find their best material and their strongest voices. Also, reading and discussion of the work of published essayists. Counts as a Creative Writing "fourth requirement."
Four Credit Hours. A. N. HARRIS
EN382 Environmental Writing: Writing on Place. Practice in the forms of nonfiction that seek to evoke and represent place, and experiences of it. A writing workshop that begins with sample readings, followed by assignments, then consideration of student work. Counts as a Creative Writing "fourth requirement."
Four Credit Hours. A. BURKE.
EN480 Teaching Poetry in the Schools. A civic engagement class in which Colby students teach the writing of poetry in local schools. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Four credit hours. A. P. HARRIS
EN481 Advanced Studies in Poetry and Prose. An advanced "group independent" workshop, providing a capstone experience to creative writing concentrators and minors working in fiction, drama, poetry, or creative nonfiction. Students will execute a semester-long writing project. This may be a series of short stories, a novella, novel chapters, a script, a screenplay, a poetry collection, or some other project to be approved by the instructor. Prerequisite: English 378, or 379, and permission of the instructor. Two to four credit hours. BOYLAN, BLEVINS, P. HARRIS, SPARK
Other courses offered when the schedule allows: Imaginative Writing, Playwriting, Gendered Memoir, Screenwriting, Feature Writing, and Creative Nonfiction 2.
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