PRWR 6450 - The Genres of Creative Writing

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the MAPW program or permission of the graduate program director.
The Genres of Creative Writing introduces students to teh basic principles and building blocks of creative writing. As such, it is required of all students whose concentration or whose support area is creative writing, making it a prerequisite to all creative writing courses offered in the MAPW program. This course will be especially valuable to students whose concentration is not creative writing but who have selected it as their support area. Students with appropriate expertise in creative writing may petition the director of the MAPW program for a waiver of this course and enroll in the next one. The course focuses on the theory behind creative writing as well as the practice of it, making it a combination of seminar and workshop. Students must pass it with at least a “B” in order to enrollin PRWR 6460: Fiction Writing, PRWR 6470: Poetry Writing, PRWR 6480: Play Writing, PRWR, 6490: Screen and Television Writing, and PRWR 6520: Creative Nonfiction.