[Acmsmajors] Great NEW Creative Writing VLPA course for WIN 2009

[Brooke Miller]

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>

> ENGLISH 285: WRITERS ON WRITING  [5 credits, VLPA]

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> SLN 13082, T & TH, 12:30-1:50

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> and enroll in one WED quiz section:

> SLN 13083: W, 9:30-10:20am

> SLN 13084: W, 12:30-1:20pm

> SLN 13085: W, 12:30-1:20pm

> SLN 13086: W,  1:30-2:20pm

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>

> For the first time in a large-format class, the collective UW Creative

> Writing faculty, along with other visiting artists, will remember in

> public why they do what they do. On ten sequential Tuesdays they will

> speak in depth about what interests them most, including the ways and

> means of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and the joys and vagaries of

> inspiration, education, artistic practice, and the writing life.  

> Thursdays

> will constellate a literary reading series.  Discussion sections  

> will be

> scheduled in between.

>

> Serious curiosity is the only requirement for admission. Students  

> will be

> expected to attend all talks, do the assigned reading, respond to  

> problems

> and exercises posed by the lecturers, and participate vigorously in  

> the

> ongoing conversation. By the end, they will have had a disciplined  

> brush

> with literate passion, practiced imaginative methods at the point of  

> the

> pencil, learned something about books from people who write them, and

> gained a practical sense of the artist's way of knowing the world.

>

> Conceived as a perpetual work-in-progress, according professors full

> freedom in designing their respective contributions, the course will  

> find

> its coherence in the conversation we leap to make of it. Sample  

> topics:

> What Is It? or, Ars Poetica; Forms of Poetry, Forms of Thought;

> Mythos-Minded Thinking: From Proverbs to Parables, Stories as  

> Metaphors in

> Motion; Odd Autobiography; Reading the New; Literary Collage &  

> Blurring

> Boundaries; The Writing Life; The Revision Process; Closing Words.

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> No required text. Readings will be posted online or handed out in  

> class.

> Grading will be based equally on reading  (by quiz and conversation),

> writing (solutions to assigned prompts), and participation  

> (attendance and

> discussion).

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> Repeat: this course is intended to bring infectious literate passion

> within earshot of as many people as possible at the University of

> Washington. No formal prerequisites. Everyone is invited.

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Brooke Miller
Director of Student Services
Department of Mathematics, ACMS Program
Box 354350, C-36 Padelford
(206)543-0388, fax (206) 616-6974
miller at math.washington.edu