14 courses with the subject CRWR, 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.
CRWR 200Independent Study in Creative Writing1-4
Hour(s) Independent study under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Open to students with a 2.0 cumulative average and permission of the chair of the department. Independent study may take the form of readings and/or research, and will include a substantial written project. Independent study may be taken for a total of twelve semester hours but no more than six in any term.
Hour(s) This service-learning course introduces students to the ethical work of being a literary artist. Students will learn what it means to be a literary arts citizen as well as discover how the arts inform the interior experience of healthcare by examining the human as a whole. We will explore how knowing our stories helps us to understand and empathize with the stories of others. Service-learning opportunities will focus on building communication, empathy, and mindfulness in community settings and organizations.
Hour(s) This workshop course emphasizes the craft of writing prose and how that craft contributes to conveying the human experience. Students will focus on narrative as a means not only to communicate but also to develop empathy and cultural competency-skills integral to futures in humanities and in health-related fields. Students will study both short stories and creative nonfiction to learn craft and technique as well as how to write about their experiences and those of others with ethical self-awareness. Ultimately, students will utilize those skills to produce their own original prose for workshop. Workshop sessions will assist students in acquiring the skills necessary to evaluate other student writing critically and creatively as well as reflect on their own.
Hour(s) This workshop course emphasizes the craft of writing poetry and how that craft contributes to conveying the human experience. Students will study selected poets, including those who reflect on experiences of healing and health, as well as discover how poetry relates to healing and self-care. As students produce original work, workshop sessions will assist them in acquiring the skills necessary to evaluate other student writing critically and creatively as well as reflect on their own.
Hour(s) Intensive investigation of a genre, topic or craft issue. The subject matter of the course will be announced prior to the beginning of the course.
Hour(s) This exploratory course will address current trends in creative writing, including but not limited to collaborations with other disciplines, genre literature, translations, and digital archive & research. The course will be reading and writing intensive. Students may take the course a maximum of two (2) times as part of their course of study at Salem College.
Hour(s) The opportunity to use the knowledge and skills that the creative writing major/minor has learned through coursework in a professional setting. The apprenticeship aspect of the internship implies that the student will increase her knowledge and skills by direct contact with an experienced mentor. Open to sophomores, juniors and seniors with at least a 2.0 cumulative average; no more than one internship can count toward major; admission only by application.
CRWR 290Honors Independent Study Creative Writing3-4
Hour(s) Advanced independent study under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Open to juniors and seniors with a 3.5 G.P.A. in creative writing, subject to the approval of the chair of the department. Honors Independent Study may be taken for a maximum of two courses.
Hour(s) This workshop course in fiction writing builds upon the skills developed in CRWR 217 and addresses the essential strategies for writing and evaluating fiction. Students read, discuss and analyze contemporary fiction and original fiction written for the class. Writing will focus on short fiction. Substantial original writing and outside reading required.
Hour(s) This course will nurture skills of observation, analysis, and self-reflection. Students will be challenged to revise and reflect on their work critically and creatively to better express their own experience and connect to the human element, integral to the humanities and health-related fields. The ultimate goal of this course is to synthesize how creative writing can function as communication, healing, prevention of burnout, and as medicine itself through focused revision and reflection.
Hour(s) This workshop course in poetry builds upon the skills developed in CRWR 218 and addresses the essential strategies for writing and evaluating poetry. Students read, discuss and analyze contemporary poetry and original poetry written for the class. Writing will focus on various forms of poetry. Substantial original writing and outside reading required.
Hour(s) This advanced workshop course will put emphasis on a sustained creative writing project. Students will focus on manuscript preparation and should anticipate individual conferences with the professor. Topic will vary each semester and could include advanced poetry, fiction or creative non-fiction. Additional possible topics might include novel writing, screenwriting or writing for children. Students may take the course for credit more than once if the genre/topic differs or with approval from the professor.
Hour(s) This is a two-prong course: (1) Students will serve as preliminary screeners for the International Literary Awards, which is offered annually in fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction. Students will use editorial criteria to read, evaluate, and discuss entries, and students will be responsible for the preliminary selection process. They will help with the tasks of managing the entries, creating databases for the entries, communicating with entrants, promotion and marketing of the award, and will assist in the announcement of winners. (2) Students will submit creative work in their primary and secondary genre, to be read, evaluated, critiqued, and edited by members of the class. We will pay particular attention to the editorial side of these submissions instead of the drafting and revision side, so students will be expected to enter the course with polished work, ready for submission. We will identify, through research, several literary journals, contests, writing retreats/colonies, and grants that are open to emerging writers; students will select journals and contests to submit to and grants and retreats to potentially apply for. Each student will submit a proposal that includes a list of journals, contests, retreats, etc. that they will send their work, along with a timeline to do so. Students will, finally, learn to draft cover letters, grant proposals, and statements of purpose. May be repeated twice for credit toward the major/minor.
Subject
CRWR
Credits (min)
4
Credits (max)
4
Credit unit
Hour(s)
Type
course
Repeatable
May be repeated twice for credit toward the major/minor.
Hour(s) This capstone workshop course is open only to seniors or students who have completed all but one creative writing class and one literature course required for the creative writing major. The course involves intensive writing in the students’ genre of emphasis and will culminate in a substantial portfolio of original work: poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction or an appropriate genre as determined by the professor. Students will complete the course with a portfolio of writing that might be used as preparation for graduate study or a career in a related field. The course will conclude with a teaching demonstration.
