Spring 2015

Non-Fiction Writing

Listed in: English, as ENGL-225

Formerly listed as: ENGL-25

Faculty

Kim Townsend (Section 01)

Description

We will study writers’ renderings of their own experiences (memoirs) and their analyses of society and its institutions (cultural criticism). Workshop format, with discussion of texts and of students’ experiments in the genre. Students must submit examples of their writing to the English office. Three class hours per week.

Limited to 12 students. Please consult the Creative Writing Center website for information on admission to this course.  Spring semester.  Professor Emeritus Townsend.

If Overenrolled: Keep registration open, and the instructor will choose from among the registrants on the basis of a writing sample. The instructor will choose students with a lively engagement with literary language and a wide variety of life experience.

Offerings

2022-23: Offered in Fall 2022
Other years: Offered in Spring 2008, Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2015, Fall 2022