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WRLIT-2040-4: W: Lit Forms: Genre Fiction

Spring 2020

Subject: Writing and Literature
Type: Workshop
Delivery Mode: In-Person
Level: Undergraduate

Campus: Oakland
Course Dates: January 21, 2020 — May 08, 2020
Meetings: Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Oakland - Ralls - 202
Instructor: Hugh Behm-Steinberg

Units: 3.0
Enrolled: 6/6 Closed

Description:

LITPA 200 courses introduce students to the study of literature or the performing arts, emphasizing analysis of both particular works and of the range of genres, periods and traditions. Frequent reading and writing assignments will be made.Section Description: Genre fiction can transport readers to a past that never was, complete with zeppelins, magic and dinosaurs, or a future where aliens brush shoulders with our cyborg children, or a now concealing unspeakable horrors we cannot imagine without shuddering. In this class, we’ll learn how to write science fiction, fantasy and horror, as well as great prose, characters we care about, worlds we want to get lost in, and plots that grip and don’t let go. We’ll explore the history and critical languages of genre fiction, do all sorts of generative writing and revision exercises, and become better readers, writers and critics of each other’s work.

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