CW 463

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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 2021
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	63372	Online	1G	11:00AM -12:15PM	MW	n.a.	Kempf, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/25/21-05/05/21 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Creative Cartographies Section Info: Creative Cartographies: Place in Poetry and Creative Nonfiction - “A place belongs forever,” Joan Didion says, “to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image.” Didion is writing about Honolulu in the 1970s, but her statement applies equally to those places integral to our own lives, to hometowns, campuses, cultural and geographic landmarks, trade routes, planets, airports, vacation destinations, and—because cyberspace is always with us—Zoom, AIM, and Instagram. In this workshop, we will explore how to write meaningfully about the ways in which place, capaciously defined, informs both our private and public lives. Which places are most important to us, we will ask, and why? How do we account for the deep mystery in what Marcel Proust calls “place names”—Marrakesh, Palm Springs, Ibiza, Ithaca? How does place transform us? And how, in equally profound ways, do we transform the places we live in, move through, and long for? We will examine these questions in both our own poetry and creative nonfiction, as well as in eclectic reading from poets like Daniel Borzutzky, Eduardo Corral, Brenda Hillman, Srikanth Reddy, and Juliana Spahr, and essayists such as Hanif Abdurraqib, Joan Didion, Roxane Gay, Barry Lopez, Rebecca Solnit, and David Foster Wallace, among many others. Course Pre-Requisites: at least one other creative writing workshop or CW 100. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	63371	Online	1U	11:00AM -12:15PM	MW	n.a.	Kempf, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/25/21-05/05/21 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Creative Cartographies Section Info: Creative Cartographies: Place in Poetry and Creative Nonfiction - “A place belongs forever,” Joan Didion says, “to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image.” Didion is writing about Honolulu in the 1970s, but her statement applies equally to those places integral to our own lives, to hometowns, campuses, cultural and geographic landmarks, trade routes, planets, airports, vacation destinations, and—because cyberspace is always with us—Zoom, AIM, and Instagram. In this workshop, we will explore how to write meaningfully about the ways in which place, capaciously defined, informs both our private and public lives. Which places are most important to us, we will ask, and why? How do we account for the deep mystery in what Marcel Proust calls “place names”—Marrakesh, Palm Springs, Ibiza, Ithaca? How does place transform us? And how, in equally profound ways, do we transform the places we live in, move through, and long for? We will examine these questions in both our own poetry and creative nonfiction, as well as in eclectic reading from poets like Daniel Borzutzky, Eduardo Corral, Brenda Hillman, Srikanth Reddy, and Juliana Spahr, and essayists such as Hanif Abdurraqib, Joan Didion, Roxane Gay, Barry Lopez, Rebecca Solnit, and David Foster Wallace, among many others. Course Pre-Requisites: at least one other creative writing workshop or CW 100. Restriction(s): Restricted to students with Sophomore, Junior, or Senior class standing. Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.