Department of Writing

Faculty of Fine Arts

Undergraduate Courses

NOTE: In summer, students who do not have the required prerequisites for WRIT 320 should contact the department for permission.

WRIT 302   Units: 1.5   Schedule

Special Study in Craft

A workshop/seminar in which students will focus on particular elements of writing applicable to more than one genre.

Note: May be repeated once in different topics.

Prerequisites: Second-year standing.

WRIT 314   Units: 1.5   Schedule

Changing Perspectives

A lecture course surveying the different ways in which writers have tackled similar subject matter, taking its material from film scripts and/or English literature and other literature in translation.

Note: Credit will be granted for only one of 314, CW 314. May be repeated once in different content.

Prerequisites: Second-year standing.

WRIT 410   Units: 1.5   Schedule

Special Genres Lecture

An examination of craft in a particular genre, such as nature writing, travel narrative, the prose poem or children’s literature.

Note: May be repeated once in different topics.

Prerequisites: Second-year standing.

WRIT 412   Units: 1.5   Schedule

Recurrent Themes in Film

A lecture/seminar teaching the craft of writing about film through study of selected directors, film trends, and national cinemas.

Note: May be repeated once in different topics.

Prerequisites: Second-year standing.

Graduate Courses

WRIT 598   Units: 9.0   Schedule

Major Writing Portfolio

The creation of an original creative writing portfolio in one of the following genres: poetry (30-50 pages), creative nonfiction (60-120 pages), fiction (60-120 pages), a stage play (60-100 pages), a film script (60-90 pages) or a production project with script/manuscript in one of the above genres.

Grading: INP, COM, N, F.