37 courses with the subject ENCW, 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.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Introduction to creative writing through the reading and writing of poetry and prose (fiction or creative nonfiction). Prerequisite: seniors by permission of the instructor.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3In this introduction to writing fiction workshop, students will read and discuss contemporary and classic texts with a writer’s eye. Completing fiction exercises and revisions as well as responding to one another’s work, they will use the techniques and habits of successful writers to enhance their own writing and creativity.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3In this introduction to creative nonfiction, students will read and discuss nonfiction essays in a variety of subgenres—memoir, art and culture, nature, science, travel, personal reflection, opinion. The course pursues the goals of enhanced creativity while learning the adaptable resources of the creative nonfiction essay. Seniors by permission of instructor.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3In this introductory course in writing poetry, students will read and discuss poems with a writer’s eye. Completing poetry exercises and revisions as well as responding to one another’s work, they will build their own skills and expand their ideas of what poems can do. Seniors by permission of instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3In this introductory creative writing course, students will read and discuss short fiction by Black women writers. They will be exposed to a range of genres and learn to read like writers. They will also complete fiction exercises and respond to one another’s work.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3; RepeatablePrinciples of writing fiction, with constant practice. Designed for students planning to concentrate or minor in creative writing. Preference given to juniors, sophomores, and first-year students. Prerequisite: seniors by permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableTheory and practice of creative nonfiction, including travel writing, memoir, and other forms. Designed for students planning to concentrate or minor in creative writing. Preference given to juniors, sophomores, and first-year students. Prerequisite: seniors by permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3; RepeatablePrinciples of writing poetry, with constant practice. Designed for students planning to concentrate or minor in creative writing. Preference given to juniors, sophomores, and first-year students. Prerequisite: seniors by permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Students will conceive an original television series and draft the pilot episode. Additionally, students will read and critique successful pilot scripts for produced shows. This course acts as an introduction to the fundamentals of screenwriting conventions and techniques. Not open to students with credit for ENFS 205. Crosslisted as ENFS 205.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Students will learn the fundamentals of screenwriting conventions and technique as they draft short film screenplays. Attention will be given to visual writing, dramatic structure and writing with a production budget in mind. Crosslisted as ENFS 206.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableStudies in such topics as prosody, stylistics, characterization, or narrative theory. Course emphasizes formal or structural elements within particular genres and an appreciation of craft from a writer's perspective. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Occasionally,Topics course; Lecture hours:3This course in the reading and writing of personal narrative and lyric essays about foreign places is designed for students interested in writing out of experiences of travel and/or other kinds of cultural displacement. Each student will define "foreign" in relation to him or herself.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Focused on literary arts administration and editing, this course is particularly useful for students interested in careers in the world of arts administration and/or publishing. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3Students will explore satire and humor in fiction through the work of comic writers, including Kurt Vonnegut, George Saunders, and Donald Barthelme. The focus will be on analyzing craft (i.e. hyperbole, understatement, the surreal) and on employing these elements in exercises, stories, and class workshops.
Offered Occasionally,Topics course; Lecture hours:3Developing a sense of the foundational elements of short form fiction through reading and discussion of a variety of American and international writers, students will challenge conventions as they draft their own short form fiction and respond to one another’s work.
Offered Occasionally,Topics course; Lecture hours:3Students will be able to produce fictional work dealing with various aspects of their own culture, and with various aspects of cultures outside of their own, both with an eye to social consequence. Questions that will be considered: What constitutes a culture? What are its different manifestations in life?.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3This nonfiction course explores writing about nature in a wide cultural and historical range of traditions with special attention to the ways in which human ideas about nature are inscribed in language and literary forms. Students will produce a portfolio of their own nature writing.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This is a course in creative nonfiction focused on writing about the environment. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3Literary journalists engage the world via fact-based methods including interview, research, and first-hand observation. Using unique personal perspectives, they write in-depth, non-fiction stories employing both narrative and essayistic techniques. Students should aim to write with immediacy via vivid storytelling, while also placing events and experiences within broader cultural contexts.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3This is a course in creative nonfiction writing devoted to the cultural and environmental significance of the Anthropocene and the contemporary response to sustainability issues raised by human impacts on the global environment.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableWest Branch, Bucknell’s professional, nationally-circulating literary journal, offers this competitive, semester-length internship for qualified Bucknell undergraduates who seek to learn the processes involved in publishing a special feature in a professional literary magazine. Students will gain practical experience and knowledge relevant to publishing creative nonfiction.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:3West Branch, Bucknell’s professional, nationally-circulating literary journal, offers a competitive, semester-length internship for qualified Bucknell undergraduates who seek experience in literary publishing. Students will learn about editing, publishing and the professional world of literary magazines by assuming editorial duties for West Branch. Students must apply; contact West Branch for more information. Not open to students who have taken ENCW 237.
Topics course,Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableIn this course, students will learn a series of approaches to teaching poetry to 1st through 12th graders. In April, they will visit the Lewisburg Area School District and teach generative poetry lessons to local elementary, middle and high school students for National Poetry Month.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:3Utilizing West Branch, Bucknell's professional literary journal, as a primary source, this internship explores the fundamentals of literary book reviewing and interviewing. Goals include developing a confident critical voice, writing strong and articulate persuasive prose, learning the principles of effective interviewing and negotiating the nuances and challenges of literary evaluation. Students must apply; contact West Branch for more information.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3An exploration of poetry as site-specific ecological practice. Intended for students interested in both Creative Writing and Environmental Studies. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as ENST 227.
Offered Occasionally,Topics course; Lecture hours:3In the reading and writing of poetry that observes the natural world explores the relationship between such poetry and the human imagination. The course involves workshops as well as fieldwork, which provides material for poems and increases students' ability to identify local flora and fauna. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3Students will read and discuss a variety of long poems and poetic sequences as a way of exploring various structures and subjects for the two long poems or sequences they will write and workshop over the course of the semester. Some degree of comfort with poetic process is expected.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableStudents will discover and engage with the Creative Writing community at Bucknell (as well as with the greater writing community) through a community- and career-focused sequence of practical assignments, culminating in a group project in which students will identify a local need and design an event to address it.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableAdvanced workshop in the writing of fiction. Prerequisites: Any 200-level Creative Writing (ENCW) course in creative nonfiction or fiction and permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableAdvanced workshop in the writing of creative nonfiction. Prerequisites: Any 200-level Creative Writing (ENCW) course in creative nonfiction or fiction and permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableAdvanced workshop in the writing of poetry. Prerequisites: Any 200-level Creative Writing (ENCW) course in poetry and permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Advanced workshop in the writing of feature-length screenplays. Students will draft a complete feature script (90-120 pages) over the course of the semester. Prerequisites: ENFS 205 or ENCW 205 or ENFS 206 or ENCW 206 or permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as ENFS 307.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3In this advanced workshop, students will read and discuss speculative short stories, novellas, and novels by Black writers. They will practice reading like writers and respond critically to their peers’ work. Students will produce and revise one full-length story, or the first chapter of a novel/novella.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:Varies; RepeatableIndividual special projects supervised by instructor. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableStudents will produce the first draft of a novel or section thereof. The first half of the semester will emphasize composition; the second, revision. Students will read a variety of novels and speak with authors. Prerequisite: any 200-level ENCW course in creative nonfiction or fiction and permission of the instructor.
Topics course,Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:3; RepeatableThe writing of a scholarly or creative departmental senior thesis. Students must confer with and submit a proposal to an adviser prior to registering for the thesis. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:3; RepeatableThe writing of a scholarly or creative honors thesis. Students must confer with and submit a proposal to a departmental adviser and to the University Honors Council for approval. Prerequisites: senior status and permission of the instructor.
Source: Bucknell University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
