ENG2260 CREATIVE WRITING
3 Credit Hours
Student Level:
This course is open to students on the college level in either the Freshman or Sophomore year and to area high school students.
Catalog Description:
ENG2260 - Creative Writing (3 hrs.)
[KRSN ENG2030]
A course designed to analyze writing and encourage creative expressive writing. Emphasis is on identifying and analyzing writing elements and techniques, generating ideas, modeling professional creative works, and critiquing and revising one’s own writing and the works of others. Students will be exposed to varied genres and professional works, write creatively expressive works, and critique each other’s work.
Course Classification:
Lecture
Prerequisites:
Completion of ENG2211 Composition I with a grade of C or above or instructor approval. Creative Writing freshmen majors may take course concurrent with Composition I.
Controlling Purpose:
This course is designed to allow students to analyze a variety of works and to produce original compositions in various genres: poetry, short stories, non-fiction features, children’s literature, dramas, and character sketches. Some students may even investigate potential publication of their best work in literary venues. Writing is a means of self-expression and a means of communicating emotions, ideas, history, and perception of the world and the human condition. Therefore, by studying literature by professional writers, the student becomes aware of how writing may become more effective.
Core Outcomes:
The learning outcomes and competencies detailed in this course meet, or exceed the learning outcomes and competencies specified by the Kansas Core Outcomes Project for this course, as sanctioned by the Kansas Board of Regents.
Learner Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course students will understand literary elements and techniques and be able to generate expressive, creative works, then assess and revise their works.
Unit Outcomes for Criterion Based Evaluation:
The following outline defines the minimum core content not including the final examination period. Instructors may add other material as time allows.
Unit 1: Identifying Elements and Techniques
Outcomes: Student will be able to identify creative writing elements and techniques.
- Identify a variety of writing elements and techniques in published literary works.
- Collect expressive ideas, responses and reflections in a journal.
Unit 2: Analyze Elements of Craft in Published Works
Outcomes: Student will be able to analyze elements of creative writing in published works and apply these to their own writing.
- Analyze published literary works to determine elements utilized.
- Pattern compositions after professional models of writing.
Unit 3: Compose in Diverse Creative Writing Genres
Outcomes: Student will be able to assess ideas and write a complete draft.
- Generate ideas through a variety of prewriting techniques and exercises.
- Select prewriting ideas most likely to convey creative expression effectively.
- Focus on a style consistent with a specific genre of writing.
- Organize writings/ideas consistent with model works.
- Develop complete drafts.
Unit 4: Apply Elements of Craft to Evaluate and Revise One’s Work
Outcomes: Student will strengthen creative works through major revision.
- Critique student’s own draft to determine if intended objective has been achieved.
- Assess effectiveness of draft and validity of instructor and peer feedback.
- Reconstruct compositions in response to comments and comparisons.
- Closely analyze to eliminate extraneous words and sentences, redundancies, and unnecessary sections.
- Assemble grammatically correct structure.
- Maintain consistency in person, subject, voice, tense, and mood.
- Produce text free of incorrect spelling.
Unit 5: Apply Elements of Craft to Critique Peer Work
Outcomes: Student will use standards of creative writing and correctness to critique the work of others.
- Critique drafts of other students to determine if intended objective has been achieved.
- Closely analyze to eliminate extraneous words and sentences, redundancies, and unnecessary sections.
- Provide detailed suggestions regarding grammatically correct structure; consistency in person, subject, voice, tense, and mood; and spelling.
Projects Required:
Completion of a minimum of four major creative works from varied genre as assigned by instructor. Compilation of portfolio.
Textbook:
Contact Bookstore for current textbook.
Attendance Policy:
Students should adhere to the attendance policy outlined by the instructor in the course syllabus.
Grading Policy:
The grading policy will be outlined by the instructor in the course syllabus.
Maximum class size:
24 students
Course Time Frame:
The U.S. Department of Education, Higher Learning Commission and the Kansas Board of Regents define credit hour and have specific regulations that the college must follow when developing, teaching and assessing the educational aspects of the college. A credit hour is an amount of work represented in intended learning outcomes and verified by evidence of student achievement that is an institutionally-established equivalency that reasonably approximates not less than one hour of classroom or direct faculty instruction and a minimum of two hours of out-of-class student work for approximately fifteen weeks for one semester hour of credit or an equivalent amount of work over a different amount of time. The number of semester hours of credit allowed for each distance education or blended hybrid courses shall be assigned by the college based on the amount of time needed to achieve the same course outcomes in a purely face-to-face format.
Refer to the following policies:
402.00 Academic Code of Conduct
263.00 Student Appeal of Course Grades
403.00 Student Code of Conduct
Disability Services Program:
Cowley College, in recognition of state and federal laws, will accommodate a student with a documented disability. If a student has a disability which may impact work in this class which requires accommodations, contact the Disability Services Coordinator.
DISCLAIMER: THIS INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE. FOR THE OFFICIAL COURSE PROCEDURE CONTACT ACADEMIC AFFAIRS.
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