Course schedule for the Publishing and Professional Development in Writing Graduate Certificate Program, Northwestern University School of Professional Studies - Northwestern School of Professional Studies

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 Writing Workshop

Description

Though the four most essential features of fiction: character, subtext, point of view, and language—sentence-by-sentence and word-by-word—will be the principal subjects of study in this course, we will shine a spotlight on one additional element of fiction each week. We’ll be thinking, writing, and talking about how these elements of craft are at play in the weekly reading assignments. Writers will produce two original short stories to be workshopped by the class, and one substantive revision. Students will also write three annotations—explorations of craft aligned with their own fictive interests. Throughout the course, great emphasis will be placed on the importance of putting precise and efficient language to how we think and feel about the work produced by pros and peers. Reading assignments will include short stories, three novellas, and a novel in vignettes that you may have read in high school, but not the way you’ll read it here.