ENGH 608: Craft Seminars

ENGH 608-001: Second Year Salon
(Spring 2019)

07:20 PM to 10:00 PM M

Section Information for Spring 2019

This course is Intended to prepare second-year Prose MFA students for thesis work, which is typically undertaken during the third year. My hope is that it will act as a creative incubator for the most important project of your degree. Whether or not you have already found your subject matter, decided upon a format or begun work on your thesis, you will define your focus, prepare a proposal you can live with and start/continue writing. Discussions will focus on current issues in prose, approaches to narrative and a short reading list that each student will devise according to her/his own interests. In-class writing will be a component of this course but our final weeks will be devoted to workshopping thesis excerpts – whether fully-formed or embryonic – so that you can hit the ground running. Open to both Fiction and Nonfiction students.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Non-MFA students seeking permission must submit manuscript of original written work in appropriate genre. Various sections offer work in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, each focusing in different ways on the practices and the craft development of writers. Numerous writing assignments mixed with reading followed by careful analytical and craft discussions. Notes: Assignments vary with genre and specific topic. May be taken concurrently with ENGH 564, 565, 566. May be repeated within the term for a maximum 15 credits.
Specialized Designation: Topic Varies
Recommended Prerequisite: Admission to MFA program or ENGH 494, ENGH 492, ENGH 486, or permission of instructor. Non-MFA students must submit manuscript for review prior to registration.
Registration Restrictions:

Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate, Junior Plus, Non-Degree or Senior Plus.

Enrollment is limited to Graduate, Non-Degree or Undergraduate level students.

Students in a Non-Degree Undergraduate degree may not enroll.

Schedule Type: Lec/Sem #1, Lec/Sem #2, Lec/Sem #3, Lec/Sem #4, Lec/Sem #5, Lec/Sem #6, Lec/Sem #7, Lec/Sem #8, Lec/Sem #9, Sem/Lec #10, Sem/Lec #11, Sem/Lec #12, Sem/Lec #13, Sem/Lec #14, Sem/Lec #15, Sem/Lec #16, Sem/Lec #17, Sem/Lec #18, Seminar
Grading:
This course is graded on the Graduate Regular scale.

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