Course details

Name: HONP - 201

Title: SEMINAR IN CREATIVE PROCESS

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2012

Credits: 3

Description:
What is the difference between craft and art, where do authors get their ideas, and how do professional writers maintain a steady output based on something so tenuous as inspiration? This seminar explores the process of creativity, mainly in the field of fiction-writing. The course material comprises a variety of secondary material on the creative process: psychological studies, such as Freud’s “Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming,” Edmund Wilson’s “Philoctetes: The Wound and the Bow,” and Rollo May’s The Courage to Create; memoirs and primers, such as Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life and Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird; and interviews with writers. The primary texts are fiction and will include work by the professor of the course, a well-published writer who’s agreed somewhat reluctantly to serve as a sort of template. Requirements include two short papers, some creative-critical exercises, a midterm, and a final exam.

Last updated on By Galef David (galefd)

Schedule: Tuesday,Thursday From 10:00 am To 11:15 am

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Fiction)

Teaching Faculty: Galef David (galefd)

Is course canceled: No