CW 463

Spring 2016 Part of Term B

Part of Term B
Mar 14-May 4

Adv Topics in Creative Writing

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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Advanced topics course in Creative Writing. Students study selected topic through a workshop model, pursuing advanced development in one or more approaches to writing in a specialized field or genre.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated, if topics vary. Prerequisite: Junior standing required.

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CW 463 class schedule data for spring 2016
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	63371	Lecture-Discussion	1U	3:30PM -5:20PM	TR	English Building	Graham, P	Part of Term: B Date Range: 03/14/16-05/04/16 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Sci Fiction's Diverse Voices Section Info: Topic Section U2: Whose Future? Science Fiction's Diverse Voices What will the future be like? No one knows, but everyone imagines, and science fiction is the literary genre where that imagining can be most profound. And science fiction isn’t a literary genre confined to the U.S. Great sci-fi writers can be found around the world, such as Stanislaw Lem (Poland), the Strugatsky brothers, Anatoly and Boris, of the former Soviet Union, Nalo Hopkinson (Jamaica), the Nigerian-American writer Nnedi Okorafor, Hannu Rajaniemi of Finland, and many, many more. This course will feature contemporary science fiction writing that offers visions of the future outside of the “mainstream.” A Planet for Rent (considered a classic of contemporary Cuban literature), by Yoss (José Miguel Sánchez Gómez), imagines an earth that has been colonized by a consortium of alien planets, turning the earth into a pleasure paradise for the aliens, and a hell for the humans who have to serve them. Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice (winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards) imagines a future galactic empire where the standard label of gender identity for everyone is “she,” not “he,” and personal identity can be shared by hundreds of others. Octavia E. Butler (the African-American writer who was the first science fiction author to win a MacArthur “genius” grant) imagines, in her novel Dawn, the genetic symbiosis of the human race with a (perhaps benevolent) race of aliens. And finally, we’ll read The Three-Body Problem (the first novel in translation ever to win the Nebula award), by the Chinese writer Cixin Liu, which sees a connection between the horrors of China’s Cultural Revolution and the initiation of contact with an alien civilization. This class will combine reading and writing. There will be four short writing assignments: two critical essays (3-4 pages) in response to your choice of two of the texts for the class, and two creative responses (5-6 pages) of your choice of the other two texts. All creative responses will be workshopped in class. This is an eight-week class, meeting twice a week (from March 14 to May 4), Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30 to 4:50. Restriction(s): Restricted to English or Rhetoric or Creative Writing major(s) or minor(s). Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
	63372	Lecture-Discussion	G2	3:30PM -5:20PM	TR	English Building	Graham, P	Part of Term: B Date Range: 03/14/16-05/04/16 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Sci Fiction's Diverse Voices Section Info: Topic Section G2: Whose Future? Science Fiction's Diverse Voices What will the future be like? No one knows, but everyone imagines, and science fiction is the literary genre where that imagining can be most profound. And science fiction isn’t a literary genre confined to the U.S. Great sci-fi writers can be found around the world, such as Stanislaw Lem (Poland), the Strugatsky brothers, Anatoly and Boris, of the former Soviet Union, Nalo Hopkinson (Jamaica), the Nigerian-American writer Nnedi Okorafor, Hannu Rajaniemi of Finland, and many, many more. This course will feature contemporary science fiction writing that offers visions of the future outside of the “mainstream.” A Planet for Rent (considered a classic of contemporary Cuban literature), by Yoss (José Miguel Sánchez Gómez), imagines an earth that has been colonized by a consortium of alien planets, turning the earth into a pleasure paradise for the aliens, and a hell for the humans who have to serve them. Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice (winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards) imagines a future galactic empire where the standard label of gender identity for everyone is “she,” not “he,” and personal identity can be shared by hundreds of others. Octavia E. Butler (the African-American writer who was the first science fiction author to win a MacArthur “genius” grant) imagines, in her novel Dawn, the genetic symbiosis of the human race with a (perhaps benevolent) race of aliens. And finally, we’ll read The Three-Body Problem (the first novel in translation ever to win the Nebula award), by the Chinese writer Cixin Liu, which sees a connection between the horrors of China’s Cultural Revolution and the initiation of contact with an alien civilization. This class will combine reading and writing. There will be four short writing assignments: two critical essays (3-4 pages) in response to your choice of two of the texts for the class, and two creative responses (5-6 pages) of your choice of the other two texts. All creative responses will be workshopped in class. This is an eight-week class, meeting twice a week (from March 14 to May 4), Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30 to 4:50. Restriction(s): Restricted to Creative Writing major(s) or minor(s). Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.