LLWRC 760 - Get Serious: Creative Nonfiction I

Explore this multi-faceted and popular genre, which ranges in scope from literary journalism to personal narrative and memoir, in this interactive 6-week course. Through sample readings, discussion, and writing assignments we will learn to use the narrative devices-narrator stances, characterization, verb tenses, dialogue, and scene and setting-that make this form of prose especially fascinating and appealing. This class is open to writers of all levels of experience who are confident with basic sentence structure and composition and is designed to be taken as often as you desire.