ENG 200 3 Fiction I

This course is an introduction to the various elements of fiction: character, setting, plot, theme, conflict, and point of view. This is a workshop, similar to the studio experience in Fine Arts or the lab experience in the sciences. Accordingly, students will learn the methods and routines of this charmed space: experimentation, exploration, interrogation, and chance. As writers, they will receive serious responses to their work. As critics, they will learn what to talk about, from words and sentences to class, gender, race, and identity. They will also learn how to talk about each other’s work in ways sincere, honest, insightful, and constructive. Students will confront concepts such as originality, the new, and the authentic. They will begin to write work that is their own and of more than ordinary significance.

OWU Units: 1.00. Crosslisting(s): None. Prerequisite(s): None. Corequisite(s): None. Antirequisite(s): None. Fee: None. Core Competency: Think Aesthetically. Offered: TBD.