13 courses with the subject WRI, 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.
/year: Students may repeat this course for additional credit, up to 3 credits Help showcase the creativity of the University community and gain hands-on publication experience by joining the literary magazine. Magazine staff will solicit contributions of original short stories, poetry, and artwork from fellow students, and organize and prepare those works for publication. Staff will also help determine the unique design of each year’s publication. Offered spring.
meets the Peace Core Fine Arts requirement U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove has said, “poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” This foundational course will combine analysis and interpretation of poetry with the composition of original poems suitable for potential publication. Promoting creative skills, the class will focus on the components of rhythm, structure, imagery, and context. Suitable for beginners who want to explore poetic techniques and practice writing for an audience.
meets the Peace Core Fine Arts requirement This introduction to short fiction asks students to analyze famous short stories and then write their own narrative fiction with an eye toward eventual publication in the university literary magazine. The class focuses on such creative skills as inventing well- rounded characters, understanding plot structure, experimenting with point of view, and working with imagery. Suitable for beginners who want to explore fiction techniques and practice writing for an audience.
meets the Peace Core Fine Arts requirement This course provides an introduction to the art of watching movies. It covers basic vocabulary and film history and asks students to more precisely describe what we as a culture are really looking at up on the screen. Students are expected to watch many movies on their own throughout the semester, and the class will end the semester by screening and analyzing at least one full-length film classic together as a group. 210 | 2026-27 William Peace University Academic Catalog
A course whose content may vary from term to term according to the needs of the academic department, student demand, or the interest of the faculty member.
This course examines the fundamental elements of classic narrative, such as plot, character, and point of view, and asks students to apply the logic of their traditional use to the quickly evolving world of video games. Is Halo’s Master Chief a character or an empty type? How much of the kingdom of Hyrule do you need to explore to understand the plot of Breath of the Wild? In this class, we look at stories, movies, and other artifacts of popular culture and ask whether video games are rewriting our sense of story or just applying old patterns to new consoles.
This course focuses on advanced strategies for writing poetry, with particular emphasis on structured lyrical poems. Students will gain dexterity with rhythm and phrasing, while also experimenting with rhetorical techniques and point of view. Analysis of historical and contemporary poetry will complement students’ creative writing. At the end of the course, students will compose, revise, and submit at least one poem for publication.
Successful completion of WRI 217 or permission of instructor
WRI 318Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction4
This course focuses on advanced strategies for writing fiction, particularly short stories and flash fiction. Students will analyze famous examples of short fiction—both respected and notorious—and practice their own experimentation with such narrative elements as structure, point of view, tone, and dialogue. At the end of the course students will write and revise a substantial piece of writing that they will submit for publication in an online magazine. 211 | 2026-27 William Peace University Academic Catalog
Gain hands-on publication experience and take a leadership role on the Prism staff. Editors will be responsible for establishing staff workflow and submissions standards, finalizing the design and overseeing the layout of each year’s magazine, and copyediting the final product. Offered spring.
