COURSE SYLLABUS: CREATIVE WRITING

Location: Oaxaca City, Mexico

Partner Institution: Universidad Autónoma de Benito Juárez de Oaxaca (UABJO)

Course Title: Creative Writing

Course Title (Spanish): Escritura creativa

Sessions offered: summer, winter, semester, spring break, intensive sessions

Instructional language: Spanish

Classroom Contact Hours: 45 contact hours

College Credit (Semester Credit Hours): 3 credit hours

College Credit (Quarter Units): 4 quarter units

Pre-requisites: Advanced I Spanish

Local Department: Español para Extranjeros

Course Code: SP-W 260

Course Description

The creative writing class focuses on the elaboration of creative texts. In other words, texts where imagination is found, that possess the game of language, of fantasy, aesthetics, and suggestions. This class offers motives, topics, and strategies that encourage writing.

Course Objectives

In this workshop-class students are taught literary techniques that are then used to write short stories and poetry as part of the class assignments.

• The student will learn about the different writing genres
• The student will apply new strategies in their writing
• The student will create texts from the readings, music, photography, and other arts

Program

• Short story writing
• Writing of poems
• Writing hybrid texts

Methodology

Using course lectures, contemplative exercises, and music, the student will write creative texts. The professor will bring examples that exemplify the diverse types of genres. The students will experiment with the diverse ways of manifesting ideas, emotions, and desires.

Course Evaluation

• Attendance: 10%
• Participation: 10%
• Assigned homework: 30%
• Creation of a short story manuscript: 50%

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