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JOHN CABOT UNIVERSITY
COURSE CODE: "CW 350"
COURSE NAME: "Creative Writing Workshop: Fiction"
SEMESTER & YEAR:
Summer Session I 2019
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SYLLABUS
INSTRUCTOR:
George Minot
EMAIL: [email protected]
HOURS:
MTWTH 9:00-10:50 AM
TOTAL NO. OF CONTACT HOURS:
45
CREDITS:
3
PREREQUISITES:
Prerequisite: EN 103 or 105 with grade of C or above
OFFICE HOURS:
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COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The course aims to develop the creative, editorial, and reading habits needed for the production of literary fiction; to develop self-editing skills; and to foster an aesthetic sensibility for use in writing literary fiction. Students will read both contemporary literary fiction and materials related to analyzing and editing literary fiction and participate in a traditional creative writing workshop through in-class writing exercises, reading classmates' fiction, and producing and workshopping their own fiction. Students will compile a portfolio of the work they produce during the term. Students completing this workshop course will be familiar with the skills needed to produce literary fiction, to self-edit work in progress, and to discern the characteristics that make quality literary fiction.
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SUMMARY OF COURSE CONTENT:
The course aims to develop the creative, editorial, and reading habits needed for the production of literary fiction; to develop self-editing skills; and to foster an aesthetic sensibility for use in writing literary fiction. Students will read both contemporary literary fiction and materials related to analyzing and editing literary fiction and participate in a traditional creative writing workshop through in-class writing exercises, reading classmates' fiction, and producing and workshopping their own fiction. Students will compile a portfolio of the work they produce during the term. Students completing this workshop course will be familiar with the skills needed to produce literary fiction, to self-edit work in progress, and to discern the characteristics that make quality literary fiction.
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LEARNING OUTCOMES:
The course aims to develop the creative, editorial, and reading habits needed for the production of literary fiction; to develop self-editing skills; and to foster an aesthetic sensibility for use in writing literary fiction. Students will read both contemporary literary fiction and materials related to analyzing and editing literary fiction and participate in a traditional creative writing workshop through in-class writing exercises, reading classmates' fiction, and producing and workshopping their own fiction. Students will compile a portfolio of the work they produce during the term. Students completing this workshop course will be familiar with the skills needed to produce literary fiction, to self-edit work in progress, and to discern the characteristics that make quality literary fiction.
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TEXTBOOK:
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REQUIRED RESERVED READING:
RECOMMENDED RESERVED READING:
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GRADING POLICY
-ASSESSMENT METHODS:
| Assignment | Guidelines | Weight |
| Daily fiction assignments given in class, revised, will comprise the midterm and final portfolios. | Assignments, goals and expectations explained in full, repeatedly, throughout semester, in class.
In addition to completing all assignments, each student writer earns a grade according to improvement along lines clearly worked out in class and in individual portfolio conferences with professor. | 80% |
-ASSESSMENT CRITERIA:
AExcellent
BGood
COk
DBarely satsfactory
FPoor - fail
-ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS:
The course aims to develop the creative, editorial, and reading habits needed for the production of literary fiction; to develop self-editing skills; and to foster an aesthetic sensibility for use in writing literary fiction. Students will read both contemporary literary fiction and materials related to analyzing and editing literary fiction and participate in a traditional creative writing workshop through in-class writing exercises, reading classmates' fiction, and producing and workshopping their own fiction. Students will compile a portfolio of the work they produce during the term. Students completing this workshop course will be familiar with the skills needed to produce literary fiction, to self-edit work in progress, and to discern the characteristics that make quality literary fiction.
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ACADEMIC HONESTY
As stated in the university catalog, any student who commits an act of academic
dishonesty will receive a failing grade on the work in which the dishonesty occurred.
In addition, acts of academic dishonesty, irrespective of the weight of the assignment,
may result in the student receiving a failing grade in the course. Instances of
academic dishonesty will be reported to the Dean of Academic Affairs. A student
who is reported twice for academic dishonesty is subject to summary dismissal from
the University. In such a case, the Academic Council will then make a recommendation
to the President, who will make the final decision.
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STUDENTS WITH LEARNING OR OTHER DISABILITIES
John Cabot University does not discriminate on the basis of disability or handicap.
Students with approved accommodations must inform their professors at the beginning
of the term. Please see the website for the complete policy.
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SCHEDULE
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Explained in class.
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| Session | Session Focus | Reading Assignment | Other Assignment | Meeting Place/Exam Dates |
| Lecture 1 | Introduction to architecture and the ‘Myth of Rome’
Meeting place: JCU | (Grundmann) pp. 19-27 | | |
| Lecture 2 | The Ancient City I: the Ancient Triumphus
Meeting place: Fountain in front of church S. Maria in Cosmedin | (Grundmann) pp. 67-72 | | |
| Lecture 3 | The Ancient City II: Campus Martius
Meeting place: S. Rocco church near Mausoleum of Augustus
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| Lecture 4 | The Medieval City: the Via Peregrinorum-Mercatoria
Meeting place: In front of church S. Bartolomeo, Pzza S. Bartolomeo (Tiber Island)
| C. Stinger, The Renaissance in Rome (Bloomington, IN:
Indiana University Press, 1998), 46 –59.
Read the section 'Liturgy and Ceremony' discussing the Possesso
celebration and procession carefully (pp 53ff)
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| Lecture 5 | Urbanism & Processions: the papal Possesso and the Via Papalis
Meeting place: Ponte S. Angelo (In front of Castel Sant'Angelo) | (Grundmann) pp. 98-100; 115-118
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| Lecture 6 | *QUIZ*
The Renaissance City I. Leonardo Bufalini
Meeting place: S. Rocco church near Mausoleum of Augustus | none | | |
| | *Midterm Exam*
Meeting place: JCU | (Grundmann) pp. 119-120 | | |
| Lecture 7 | *PHASE ONE PROPOSALS/BIBLIO DUE*
The Renaissance City II: Palaces and Piazzas
Meeting Place: Ponte Sisto
| (Grundmann) pp. 162-164 | | |
| Lecture 8 | The Campidoglio
Meeting place: In front the Gesù church
| Grundmann) pp. 164-172
P. Zucker, ‘Space and Movement in High Baroque City Planning’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 14.1 (1955), 8-13
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| Lecture 9 | Baroque Palaces and Piazzas
Meeting place: Piazza Navona Fontana del Moro (small fountain at south end of piazza in front of Palazzo Pamphili)
| (Grundmann) pp. 278-281 | | |
| Lecture 10 | Roma Capitale, 1871: The Unification of Italy
Meeting place: S. Maria degli Angeli (Piazza della Repubblica)
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| Lecture 11 | Public Housing. The Garbatella
Meeting place: Metro Station Garbatella (Line B)
| (Grundmann) pp. 297-299
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| Lecture 12 | Fascist Rome: EUR
Meeting place: Metro Station EUR Magliana (Line B)
| (Grundmann) pp. 8-18 | | |
| Lecture 13 | *RESEARCH PAPERS DUE*
Review class
Meeting place: JCU
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