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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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CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
66357	Laboratory-Discussion	1G	3:30PM -5:50PM	T	G8A Literatures, Cultures, & Ling	Pintar, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: FA25 CW 463 / GSD 409 - Advanced Topics in Creative Writing - Judith A Pintar - Design & Programming of Narrative Games & Simulations "Introduction to the narrative design process for the authoring of text-based digital games and simulations. You will become proficient in Inform 7, a programming language and design system for parser-based interactive fiction (IF). By the end of the semester you will have developed a game or literary work of IF and made a substantive contribution to a collaborative project. No prior programming knowledge is required for students to be successful in the course. Students will be expected to bring a laptop to class. Please note that this course teaches design and programming techniques for "parser-based" interactive fiction, and does not cover Twine, or other hyper-text based interactive narrative systems. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Meets with GSD 409 77656, 77657" Restriction(s): Restricted to Creative Writing or Creative Writing major(s) or minor(s). Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
66356	Laboratory-Discussion	1U	3:30PM -5:50PM	T	G8A Literatures, Cultures, & Ling	Pintar, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: FA25 CW 463 / GSD 409 - Advanced Topics in Creative Writing - Judith A Pintar - Design & Programming of Narrative Games & Simulations "Introduction to the narrative design process for the authoring of text-based digital games and simulations. You will become proficient in Inform 7, a programming language and design system for parser-based interactive fiction (IF). By the end of the semester you will have developed a game or literary work of IF and made a substantive contribution to a collaborative project. No prior programming knowledge is required for students to be successful in the course. Students will be expected to bring a laptop to class. Please note that this course teaches design and programming techniques for "parser-based" interactive fiction, and does not cover Twine, or other hyper-text based interactive narrative systems. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Meets with GSD 409 77656, 77657" Restriction(s): Restricted to students with Sophomore, Junior, or Senior class standing.
78669	Lecture-Discussion	2G	12:30PM -1:45PM	MW	127 English Building	Kempf, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: FA25 CW 463 - Advanced Topics in Creative Writing - Chris Kempf - Place-Writing - In this course we consider how to write meaningfully about the ways in which place, capaciously defined, informs our public and private lives. Which places are most important to us, we will ask, and why? How do we account for the deep mystery in, or resonance of, 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 explore these questions in our own poetry and creative nonfiction, as well as in eclectic reading in a variety of place “modes.” That is, rather than by place, the course is organized by literary modes that students might apply in their own writing—not Hawaii or French Polynesia, but “archipelagic form.” Not Didion’s California, but the myth of homecoming. What modes of writing, we ask, do certain places demand of us? How do we answer those places? In what ways do places place us? Restriction(s): Restricted to Creative Writing major(s) or minor(s). Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
68461	Lecture-Discussion	2U	12:30PM -1:45PM	MW	127 English Building	Kempf, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: FA25 CW 463 - Advanced Topics in Creative Writing - Chris Kempf - Place-Writing - In this course we consider how to write meaningfully about the ways in which place, capaciously defined, informs our public and private lives. Which places are most important to us, we will ask, and why? How do we account for the deep mystery in, or resonance of, 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 explore these questions in our own poetry and creative nonfiction, as well as in eclectic reading in a variety of place “modes.” That is, rather than by place, the course is organized by literary modes that students might apply in their own writing—not Hawaii or French Polynesia, but “archipelagic form.” Not Didion’s California, but the myth of homecoming. What modes of writing, we ask, do certain places demand of us? How do we answer those places? In what ways do places place us? Prerequisites: either CW 100 or 106. Restriction(s): Restricted to Creative Writing or Creative Writing major(s) or minor(s). Not intended for students with Freshman class standing. Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.