Undergraduate certificate Creative Writing

Bachelor's degree

In Princeton (USA)

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Princeton (USA)

The Program in Creative Writing
(link is external)
, part of the Lewis Center for the Arts,
(link is external)
allows undergraduates to work with practicing writers while pursuing a regular liberal arts course of study. Students develop their writing skills; learn the possibilities of modern poetry, fiction, nonfiction, screenwriting, and translation; and gain a special access to the critical understanding of literature through their involvement in the creative process.

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Princeton (USA)
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Subjects

  • Poetry
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Screenwriting
  • Composition
  • English
  • Creative Writing
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  • Translation

Course programme

CWR 201 Creative Writing (Poetry) Fall LA Practice in the original composition of poetry supplemented by the reading and analysis of standard works. Each student is expected to prepare a manuscript each week. There will be a weekly workshop meeting and occasional individual conferences. Prerequisite: by application. Staff

CWR 202 Creative Writing (Poetry) Spring LA Practice in the original composition of poetry supplemented by the reading and analysis of standard works. Each student is expected to prepare a manuscript each week. There will be a weekly workshop meeting and occasional individual conferences. Prerequisite: by application. Staff

CWR 203 Creative Writing (Fiction) Fall LA Practice in the original composition of fiction supplemented by the reading and analysis of standard works. Each student is expected to prepare a manuscript at least every other week. There will be a weekly workshop meeting and occasional individual conferences. Prerequisite: by application. Staff

CWR 204 Creative Writing (Fiction) Spring LA Practice in the original composition of fiction supplemented by the reading and analysis of standard works. Each student is expected to prepare a manuscript at least every other week. There will be a weekly workshop meeting and occasional individual conferences. Prerequisite: by application. Staff

CWR 205 Creative Writing (Literary Translation) (also

TRA 204

) Fall LA
Practice in the translation of literary works from another language into English supplemented by the reading and analysis of standard works. Each student is expected to prepare a manuscript each week. There will be a weekly workshop meeting and occasional individual conferences. Prerequisite: fluency in a language other than English and by application. P. Muldoon

CWR 206 Creative Writing (Literary Translation) (also

TRA 206

/

COM 215

) Spring LA
Practice in the translation of literary works from another language into English supplemented by the reading and analysis of standard works. Each student is expected to prepare a manuscript each week. There will be a weekly workshop meeting and occasional individual conferences. Prerequisite: fluency in a language other than English and by application. Staff

CWR 211 How to Write A Song (also

MUS 212

) Spring LA
An introduction to the art of writing words for music, an art at the core of almost every literary tradition from Homer through Beowulf to W.B Yeats and beyond. Composers and writers will have the opportunity to work in small songwriting teams to respond to such emotionally charged themes as Contempt, Gratitude, Revenge, Desire, Disgust, Joyousness, Remorse, Loneliness, Despair and Defiance. Assignments are based on study of a range of works in the popular song tradition. The final exercise will be a public showcase of work from the semester. P. Muldoon

CWR 214 Graphic Design (See VIS 214)

CWR 215 Graphic Design: Typography (See VIS 215)

CWR 223 360 Degrees With 7 Storytellers (See VIS 223)

CWR 240 Creative Non-Fiction (See JRN 240)

CWR 301 Advanced Creative Writing (Poetry) Fall LA Advanced practice in the original composition of poetry for discussion in regularly scheduled workshop meetings. Prerequisites: 201 or 202 and by application. Staff

CWR 302 Advanced Creative Writing (Poetry) Spring LA Advanced practice in the original composition of poetry for discussion in regularly scheduled workshop meetings. Prerequisites: 201 or 202 and by application. Staff

CWR 303 Advanced Creative Writing (Fiction) Fall LA Advanced practice in the original composition of fiction for discussion in regularly scheduled workshop meetings. Prerequisites: 203 or 204 and by application. Staff

CWR 304 Advanced Creative Writing (Fiction) Spring LA Advanced practice in the original composition of fiction for discussion in regularly scheduled workshop meetings. Prerequisites: 203 or 204 and by application. Staff

CWR 305 Advanced Creative Writing (Literary Translation) (also

COM 355

/

TRA 305

) Fall LA
Advanced practice in the translation of literary works from another language into English supplemented by the reading and analysis of standard works. Prerequisites: 205 or 206 and by application. P. Muldoon

CWR 306 Advanced Creative Writing (Literary Translation) (also

COM 356

) Spring LA
Advanced practice in the translation of literary works from another language into English supplemented by the reading and analysis of standard works. Prerequisites: 205 or 206 and by application. Staff

CWR 308 Autobiography: Writing Our Selves Spring LA What compels us to write about ourselves? And what drives us to read about the lives of others? In this workshop we will examine different approaches to writing about the people, places and events that have made us who and how we are. Through the reading and discussion of a number of autobiographical texts, we will gather a set of writerly tools that will help us in writing about our own life experiences. In other words, we'll pay close attention to the craft-based choices made by writers of memoirs and personal essays, and see what those choices will yield when applied to our own material. Y. Li

CWR 315 Life Is Short, Art is Really Short Spring LA All literature is short - compared to our lives, anyway - but we'll be concentrating on poetry and prose at their very shortest. The reading will include proverbs, aphorisms, greguerias, one-line poems, riddles, jokes, fragments, haiku, epigrams and microlyrics. Imagism, contemporary shortists, prose poems, various longer works assembled from small pieces, and possibly even flash fiction. Students will take away from the thrift and edge of these literary microorganisms a new sense of what can be left out of your work and new ideas about how those nebulae of pre-draft in your notebooks might condense into stars and constellations. J. Richardson

CWR 345 Special Topics in Creative Writing (also

AMS 345

/

GSS 383

) Not offered this year LA
Students gain special access to the critical understanding of literature through their involvement in the creative process. Topics include autobiography, prosody, non-fiction, revision and point of view. Students are expected to prepare a manuscript at least every other week. Specific topics and prerequisites will vary. By application. Staff

CWR 348 Introduction to Screenwriting: Writing the Short Film (also

VIS 348

) Fall LA
This course will introduce students to core screenwriting principles and techniques. Questions of thematic cohesiveness, plot construction, logical cause and effect, character behavior, dialogue, genre consistency and pace will be explored as students gain confidence by completing a number of short screenplays.The course will illustrate and analyze the power of visual storytelling to communicate a story to an audience, and will guide students to create texts that serve as "blueprints" for emotionally powerful and immersive visual experiences. Final portfolio will include one short exercise and two short screenplays. By application. C. Lazaridi

CWR 349 Introduction to Screenwriting: Writing for a Global Audience (also

VIS 349

) Spring LA
How can screenwriters prepare for the evolving challenges of our global media world? What types of content, as well as form, will emerging technologies make possible? Do fields like neuroscience help us understand the universal principals behind screenwriting and do tech advances that alter the distance between audience and creator, man and machine, also influence content of our stories? This class will use fairytales, films, games and new media to illustrate universal script principles while creating a rich interdisciplinary lens to explore the innovative intersection of narrative screenwriting, science and technology. C. Lazaridi

CWR 385 The Art of the Essay (See FRE 385)

CWR 401 Advanced Creative Writing Tutorial Not offered this year LA Tutorials in the original composition of fiction, poetry, or translations, open to those who have demonstrated unusual commitment and talent through four terms of creative writing or who provide equivalent evidence of their capacity for advanced work. Open also to qualified graduate students. Individual conferences to be arranged. Staff

CWR 402 Advanced Creative Writing Tutorial Not offered this year LA Tutorials in the original composition of fiction, poetry, or translations, open to those who have demonstrated unusual commitment and talent through four terms of creative writing or who provide equivalent evidence of their capacity for advanced work. Open also to qualified graduate students. Individual conferences to be arranged. Staff

CWR 403 Special Topics in Screenwriting (also

VIS 406

) Not offered this year LA
This class will familiarize students with the complex use of metaphorical, emotional, and visual threads in long form screenplay writing. Analyzing examples of international, independent, and classical structures, students will be exposed to the rhythms and demands of the process of conceiving and writing a long form narrative film. Prerequisite: Introduction to Screenwriting and by application. Staff

CWR 405 Advanced Screenwriting: Writing for Television (also

VIS 405

) Fall/Spring LA
This advanced screenwriting course will introduce students to the post 1990's "golden age of television" and outline the differences between writing for film and a scripted TV series. Students will be required to watch a television pilot each week and engage in an in-depth discussion about its structure, pacing, character development, etc. Each student will formulate and pitch an original series idea and write their own pilot, (50-60 pages) due by the end of the semester. A. Homes

CWR 448 Introduction to Screenwriting: Adaptation (also

VIS 448

) Fall LA
Introduction to screenwriting adaptation techniques, focusing primarily on the challenges of adapting "true stories" pulled from various non-fiction sources. The class will address the ethics of adaptation, questions and techniques surrounding the need to fictionalize truth for dramatic purposes, as well as touching on the differences between fictional and nonfictional original materials. Students will be exposed to various contemporary non-fiction adaptations, and will write a short film and one longer project. By application. C. Lazaridi

Undergraduate certificate Creative Writing

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