11 courses with the subject WRIT, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
WRIT 1200The Creative Process4
Goals: Students will explore the myriad ways that writers, along with makers in other fields, generate ideas, develop an individual process, create, re-envision, and innovate. They will read about, consider, and discuss creativity theories and models across disciplines; demonstrate understanding, and critically reflect, upon the diverse contexts from which writers write, and readers read; experiment with approaches to the creative process through journal exercises; and use this knowledge to reflect upon their own process while creating. Content: Students will read and discuss theories and models for the workings of the creative process across disciplines, looking for patterns, common practices, and collective wisdom. They will meet, or otherwise hear and see through a variety of media, a diverse set of makers with different perspectives and experiences, and through those artists’ testimonies, reach a greater understanding of who makes art, how, and why. Through a variety of short assignments and discussions, students will critically reflect on the histories and identities writers and readers both bring to the page. Students will also complete a creative final project, including a short artist statement reflecting on the processes they used in its making. This course is open to all students who are curious about becoming more creative people; it has no prerequisites. Students should note, however, that while this course focuses on the workings of creativity and writing, it is not a writing course. If you are interested in doing creative writing, consider enrolling in WRIT 1500 - Introduction to Creative Writing.
Goals: This course is open to all students interested in creative writing. Students are introduced to the practice of writing and reading as creative writers in three genres: poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. They also begin to develop a writing practice. Content: Students engage critically and creatively with assigned texts as writers and readers, participate in class discussions, and begin to develop a writing practice. The course combines lecture, discussion, readings in and across genres, writing exercises, and other assignments. Taught: Fall and Spring
Goals: In this course students explore the fundamental elements of the craft of poetry used by published writers of poetry, including image, metaphor, simile, rhythm, thyme, voice, tone, and the syntactical structures of the line, the sentence, and the stanza. They also explore the various forms in poetry used by published poets, including free verse and received forms such as the sonnet, the sestina, the villanelle, etc. They apply insights concerning these elements and forms to their own work and the work of their peers. They also revise original work that has benefited from instructor and/or workshop feedback. Content: Attention is paid to the ways in which poets integrate these elements into the form of the poem. The course combines lecture, discussion, reading, writing exercises and experiments, and other assignments. Taught: Annually
FYW 1120 or its equivalent, and WRIT 1500 or concurrent enrollment in WRIT 1500 Credits: 4
WRIT 3120Forms and Elements of the Craft: Fiction4
Goals: In this course students explore the fundamental elements of the craft of fiction used by published writers of fiction—including characterization, plot, POV, voice, setting, dialogue, structure, detail, theme, tension, and conflict—and apply insights concerning these elements to their own work and the work of their peers. They also revise original work that has benefited from instructor and/or workshop feedback. Content: Students build skills through writing exercises and the study of contemporary and classic fiction. The course combines lecture, discussion, reading, writing exercises and experiments, and other assignments. Taught: Annually
FYW 1120 or its equivalent, and WRIT 1500 or concurrent enrollment in WRIT 1500 Credits: 4
WRIT 3130Forms and Elements of the Craft: Creative Nonfiction4
Goals: In this course students explore the various forms of creative nonfiction used by published writers of creative nonfiction, including memoir, lyric essay, personal essay, literary journalism, experimental/hybrid, and the nonfiction short. They also explore the fundamental elements of the craft of creative nonfiction used by published writers of CNF, including the essayistic question, voice, structure, scene, reflection, and subtext. They apply insights concerning these elements and forms to their own work and the work of their peers. They also revise original work that has benefited from instructor and/or workshop feedback. Content: Students build skills through writing exercises and assignments and the study of contemporary and classic creative nonfiction. The course combines lecture, discussion, reading, writing exercises and experiments, and other assignments. Taught: Annually
FYW 1120 or its equivalent, and WRIT 1500 or concurrent enrollment in WRIT 1500 Credits: 4
WRIT 3140Forms and Elements of the Craft: Digital Storytelling4
Goals: In this course students will explore various forms of digital storytelling that combine established practices of literary arts with digital media tools of video and audio production. Students will study short form video and audio works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry as they seek to discover new and emerging genres. They will also explore fundamental elements of the craft of digital storytelling including screenwriting, cinematography, editing, sound design, and research. Students will apply insights concerning these forms and elements to their own work and the work of their peers. They will also revise original work that has benefitted from instructor and/or workshop feedback. Content: Students build skills through creative and technical exercises and the study of contemporary works of digital storytelling. Students will also study precursors to digital storytelling such as cinema, radio, the graphic novel, and more. The course combines lecture, discussion, readings, screenings, creative exercises and experiments, and other assignments.
DMA 1100 or WRIT 1500, grade of C- or higher Credits: 4
WRIT 3320Fantasy Writing4
Goals: in this course students explore and practice the fictional elements that allow readers to suspend their disbelief and enter a truly immersive fantasy. They learn how to create convincing characters and worlds, consider how structure affects narrative, and practice controlling the reader’s experience through point of view, description, and language. Content: Students read contemporary short stories in the field and build skills by writing short stories in different subgenres of fantasy, culminating in the revision of one of these stories.
Goals: In this course students explore and practice writing for children and young adults. They study different genres—picture book, middle-grade and YA fiction, poetry, and nonfiction—mining the texts for lessons on craft which they apply to their own writing. Content: Students read select texts across the genres and experiment by writing in these genres. They write and revise a final project integrating revision feedback.
WRIT 3450Runestone: Introduction to Literary Publishing4
Goals: In this dynamic, hands-on class, students are immersed in the operations of putting together and promoting an issue of a national undergraduate literary magazine. Content: Students read, analyze, discuss, and select submissions for the next issue of Runestone, Hamline’s award-winning online national undergraduate literary magazine. In addition, they study the history of the mission-driven independent literary journal and its cultural role of discovering new voices; study journals publishing today and craft essays that illuminate the contemporary conversation about their genre; complete short writing exercises; and revise and prepare one manuscript to send to another national undergraduate review. They also explore different ways of promoting the magazine: tweeting, blogging, posting. Taught: Once per year
WRIT 3110, 3120, or 3130, grade of C- or higher, or concurrent enrollment Credits: 4
WRIT 3540Creative Writing Workshop4
Goals: In this course students continue to explore and practice the fundamental forms and elements of the genres: poetry, fiction, CNF, hybrid forms, or a mix of all three genres. Students also study the connecting threads and overlaps between and among genres and may experiment with cross-genre and/or hybrid work. They write and revise original work and provide craft-based written and oral feedback on the works of their peers. Content: Students build skills through writing and revision of their own genre of choice and of other genres through giving, receiving, and acting on craft-based written and oral feedback. The course combines writing, reading student work and some outside work, occasional exercises and experiments, and craft-driven workshop discussion. Taught: Annually
WRIT 1500, and completion of or concurrent enrollment in one of the following: WRIT 3110, 3120, 3130, or 3140 Credits: 4
WRIT 5960Senior Seminar in Creative Writing4
Goals: In this multi-genre class students will expand their knowledge of themselves as writers, of the craft and process of writing, of the role and value of research in creative writing, and of ways of effectively integrating research into the text. Content: Students read and discuss literary texts that incorporate research done by the authors. They conduct research on subjects of their choice and integrate that research into their own creative text(s), which includes the writing and revising of a final project in their chosen genre. They select a research-based text and present lessons learned from that text to the class. The course combines discussion, reading and writing assignments, student presentations, and practice. Taught: Annually
