Future Course Offerings - 2025/2026

 Course

Fall 2025

CRWR 1100 - Introduction to Creative Writing I*

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CRWR 1200 - Introduction to Craft and Process in Creative Writing*

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CRWR 1240 - New Forms and Media: Networked Narratives

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CRWR 2140 -Writing and Creativity on the Web

CRWR 2300 -Fiction and Poetry

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CRWR 2900 - Special Topics 

Summer 2026: Writing Funny is a special topics course in which we will explore the many ways writers craft humour in their creative works. This course will examine humour from many eras, though it will focus on contemporary humour writing across various forms, styles and genres, including the following: stand-up and sketch comedy; comic prose and verse; television; film; stage; new media and spoken word.
Students will learn to develop critical skills and the ability to identify comedic structures. Comedy has the ability to bring levity to the difficult things in life. Other times it’s just funny. Most of our classes will consist of four components: writing exercises (based on generative material), a short lecture, a seminar-style discussion of the week’s readings, and then group work or a roundtable on the ideas raised in class or in the creative work students have in progress. The remaining classes will be workshops.

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CRWR 3100 - Techniques in Short Fiction

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CRWR 3110 -Techniques in Poetry

CRWR 3120 - Screenwriting and Drama: Character and Dialogue

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CRWR 3130 - Creative Nonfiction: Writing from the Self

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CRWR 3140 - New Forms and Media: Sites and Platforms

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CRWR 3200 - Short Fiction

CRWR 3210 - Poetic Forms

CRWR 3220 - Screenwriting and Drama: Structure and Plot

CRWR 3230 -Creative Nonfiction: Writing Beyond the Self

CRWR 3240 - New Forms and Media: Web Series

CRWR 3301 - Mythological Narratives

CRWR 3302 - Themes in Literary Writing

CRWR 3400 - Advanced Special Topics 

Spring 2026: Part of the writing/publishing relationship involves finding the best venues for your creative work. In CRWR 3400 The Art of Freelancing students will write, revise and polish pieces of work and then develop and put into practice strategies for finding places to publish them. This course will cover the basics of the creation/ pitch / submission/and acceptance or rejection process across a variety of mediums and genres, while also focusing on the nuts and bolts of freelancing as a business practice and income generator, alongside the fine art of staying inspired and managing self-care.

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