Creative Writing
Department Representative:
Timothy B. Donnelly
415 Dodge Hall
212-854-4391
td28@columbia.edu.
The Undergraduate Creative Writing Program at Columbia offers workshops and craft seminars in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Students in Columbia College and the School of General Studies can apply to the creative writing major, or they can take creative writing courses as electives. We serve an amalgam of students from Columbia College, The School of General Studies, nondegree students from the School of Continuing Education, and students from other undergraduate and graduate divisions of the University. For more information, please see our Web site: www.columbia.edu/cu/writing
OFFICIAL MAKEUP DATES FOR UNIVERSITY HOLIDAYS
May 31, replaces the Memorial Day holiday.
July 5, replaces the Independence Day holiday
NOTE
The University reserves the right to withdraw or modify the courses of instruction or to change the instructors as may become necessary.
Click on course title to see course description and schedule.
Summer 2013
Creative Writing
Fiction Workshops
WRIT S1001D. Fiction
Writing Workshop. 3 pts. Class limited to 15 students.
Runs from the week of May 28 to Jul 05
Runs from the week of May 28 to Jul 05
The Fiction Writing Workshop is designed for students who have little or no
experience writing imaginative prose. Students are introduced to a range of
craft concerns through exercises and discussions, and eventually produce
their own writing for the critical analysis of the class. Outside readings
supplement and inform the exercises and longer written projects.Materials
Fee: $15.00
WRIT S1001Q. Fiction
Writing Workshop. 3 pts. Class limited to 15 students.
Runs from the week of Jul 08 to Aug 16
Runs from the week of Jul 08 to Aug 16
The Fiction Writing Workshop is designed for students who have little or no
experience writing imaginative prose. Students are introduced to a range of
craft concerns through exercises and discussions, and eventually produce
their own writing for the critical analysis of the class. Outside readings
supplement and inform the exercises and longer written projects.Materials
Fee: $15.00
Poetry Workshops
WRIT S1201Q. Poetry
Writing Workshop. 3 pts. Class limited to 15 students.
Runs from the week of Jul 08 to Aug 16
Runs from the week of Jul 08 to Aug 16
The Poetry Writing Workshop is designed for students who have a serious
interest in poetry writing but who lack a significant background in the
rudiments of the craft and/or have had little or no previous poetry
workshop experience. Students will be assigned weekly writing exercises
emphasizing such aspects of verse composition as the poetic line, the
image, rhyme and other sound devices, verse forms, repetition, tone, irony,
and others. Students will also read an extensive variety of exemplary work
in verse, submit brief critical analyses of poems, and critique each
other's original work.Materials Fee: $15.00
Nonfiction Workshops
WRIT S1101D. Nonfiction
Writing Workshop. 3 pts. Class limited to 15 students.
Runs from the week of May 28 to Jul 05
Runs from the week of May 28 to Jul 05
The Nonfiction Writing Workshop is designed for students new to the
practice of such genres as reportage, criticism, biography and memoir.
Various techniques are explored through exercises and other assignments.
Critique of student work is supplemented by outside readings.Materials Fee:
$15.00