Creative Writing (CRWRI-GA)

CRWRI-GA 1910  Workshop in Poetry I  (4 Credits)  
Typically offered Fall, Spring, and Summer terms  
Discussion of students? own work. Students are expected to bring in a new poem each week. They may be asked to memorize several great poems of their choosing. Regularly scheduled conferences with the instructor.
Grading: GSAS Graded  
Repeatable for additional credit: Yes  
CRWRI-GA 1911  Workshop in Poetry  (4 Credits)  
Typically offered Spring and January terms  
Discussion of students? own work. Students are expected to bring in a new poem each week. They may be asked to memorize several great Discussion of students? own work. Students are expected to bring in a new poem each week. They may be asked to memorize several great poems of their choosing. Regularly scheduled conferences with the instructor.
Grading: GSAS Graded  
Repeatable for additional credit: Yes  
CRWRI-GA 1920  Workshop in Fiction I  (4 Credits)  
Typically offered all terms  
Regular submission and discussion and analysis of student work in one or more fictional modes (short story, short novel, novel), with examination of relevant readings illustrating point of view, plot, setting, characterization, dialogue, and aspects of style. Regularly scheduled conferences with the instructor.
Grading: GSAS Graded  
Repeatable for additional credit: Yes  
CRWRI-GA 1921  Workshop in Fiction I  (4 Credits)  
Typically offered Spring  
Regular submission and discussion and analysis of student work in one or more fictional modes (short story, short novel, novel), with examination of relevant readings illustrating point of view, plot, setting, characterization, dialogue, and aspects of style. Regularly scheduled conferences with the instructor.
Grading: GSAS Graded  
Repeatable for additional credit: Yes  
CRWRI-GA 1930  The Craft of Creative Nonfiction  (4 Credits)  
Typically offered not typically offered  
Creative Nonfiction from the point of view of the writer. Study and analysis of major examples of the essay to disclose the technical choices confronted by their authors. Consideration of subject matter and its formulation; techniques of characterization; point of view; reflexivity and the author’s relation to their material; structure of the narrative; and questions of rhythm, style, tone, and atmosphere. Complemented by the study of critical works.
Grading: GSAS Graded  
Repeatable for additional credit: Yes  
CRWRI-GA 1940  Workshop in Creative Nonfiction  (4 Credits)  
Typically offered occasionally  
Regular submission, discussion, and analysis of student work in one or more nonfictional modes (lyric essay, personal essay, narrative nonfiction, memoir, etc), with examination of relevant readings illustrating point of view, characterization, dialogue, and aspects of style. Regularly scheduled conferences with the instructor.
Grading: GSAS Graded  
Repeatable for additional credit: Yes  
CRWRI-GA 1950  The Craft of Poetry  (4 Credits)  
Typically offered Spring  
Poetry from the point of view of the writer. Discussion of ways of producing rhythm in language; formal and free verse; metaphor; the humanizing conventions; syntax; the line; revision; and so on. Students may be asked to memorize poems.
Grading: GSAS Graded  
Repeatable for additional credit: Yes  
CRWRI-GA 1951  The Craft of Poetry  (4 Credits)  
Typically offered Fall and Spring  
Poetry from the point of view of the writer. Discussion of ways of producing rhythm in language; formal and free verse; metaphor; the humanizing conventions; syntax; the line; revision; and so on. Students may be asked to memorize poems.
Grading: GSAS Graded  
Repeatable for additional credit: Yes  
CRWRI-GA 1960  The Craft of Fiction  (4 Credits)  
Typically offered Fall and Spring  
Study and analysis of major examples of the novel, novella, and short story to disclose the technical choices confronted by their authors. Consideration of theme and its formulation; choice of protagonists and minor characters; techniques of characterization; point of view; reflexivity and the author?s relation to his or her material; structure of the narrative; deployment of symbol and image clusters; and questions of rhythm, style, tone, and atmosphere. Complemented by the study of critical works.
Grading: GSAS Graded  
Repeatable for additional credit: Yes  
CRWRI-GA 3004  Independent Study  (1-4 Credits)  
Typically offered occasionally  
Designed to take the place of a Craft seminar, the independent study allows MFA candidates to work one-on-one with select faculty to address an element of craft that is not addressed in the department's regular course offerings. Enrollment is subject to departmental approval.
Grading: GSAS Graded  
Repeatable for additional credit: Yes