Course Descriptions and Schedule
Publishing and Professional Development in Writing Certificate Requirements
• Three Publishing and Professional Development courses
May include MCW 575 The Publishing Industry: Literary Presses and Journals, MCW 579 Practicum in Teaching Creative Writing, MCW 580 Practicum in Publishing or any other related courses identified by the SPS Graduate Office.
• One writing workshop or one graduate-level course elective
May include independent study (not to exceed one), any Publishing and Professional Development course, any graduate literature course, or any MCW 490 elective course.
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MCW 413-0 : Fiction Workshop
Description
Students will write and submit for workshop discussion original stories or novel excerpts, write analytical responses, and participate in Socratic inquiry-based craft discussions on multiplicity, non-traditional narrative structures, genre, the manipulation of time, POV and narrative distance, among others. In addition to craft, we will also center and explore the importance of the nearly improvisational moment-by-moment nature of writing. Through selected readings, we will examine various literary histories and traditions from around the world with a particular focus on narratives of unreality and decolonial narratives including Latinx, Latin American, and Afro-Caribbean works.