GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS (CWL) Fall 2021

original work. Students will examine relevant Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and/or CWL works that illustrate point of view, character departmental consent development, dialogue, plot, setting, and other Offered Fall, Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded Creative Writing and Literature techniques vital to scriptwriting. Specific mode (A, A-, B+, etc.) or topic to be studied will be announced in the May be repeated for credit. CWL 500: Introduction to Graduate course schedule. Writing CWL 560: Topics in Literature for Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and/or Writers A seminar that introduces students to one departmental consent another, the faculty, the program in Writing Offered Fall, Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded A seminar for writers concentrating on the and Literature, and to issues in contemporary (A, A-, B+, etc.) study of one area of literary study, to be writing. Offered in conjunction with the May be repeated for credit. announced in the course schedule. The course Writers Reading Series. Students will attend may examine a contemporary or historical the regular series of readings sponsored by the CWL 535: Writing in Multiple Genres trend in literature, the rise of a specific genre, Writing program and meet at weekly intervals Regular submission, discussion, and analysis a social issue expressed in literature, an under the direction of a faculty advisor to of students' work in two or more genres of issue in literary theory, or any other topic of discuss and write about topics raised in the creative writing. Topics include Truth and relevance and concern to students of writing. lecture series, as well as issues generated from Humor; Three Characters in Search of an The emphasis will be on scholarly analysis. seminar discussions. Author; Imagining What You Know; What Offered Fall, Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded Offered Fall, Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded We Write About When We Write About (A, A-, B+, etc.) (A, A-, B+, etc.) Love; Fiction, Fact and the Heart of the Story; May be repeated for credit. Writing about Place; Writing Everything; and CWL 510: Forms of Fiction Writing on Location. Semesters Offered: Fall CWL 565: Special Topics in Writing Regular submission, discussion, and analysis & Spring Campus: Manhattan & Southampton A seminar concentrating on a specific topic of students' work in one or more of the modes 3-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) or concern in writing. The particular theme of fiction, including the short story, the May be repeated for credit. of the course will be announced in the course novella, and the novel. Writing assignments schedule. Topics may include, among others, may include exercises, imitations, responses, CWL 540: Forms of Creative Nonfiction studies of character development, the uses and original work. Students will examine Regular submission, discussion, and analysis of humor, writing about place, finding one's relevant works that illustrate point of view, of students' work in one or more of the voice, and narrative style. Written work will be character development, dialogue, plot, setting, contemporary fields of non-fiction writing, supported by the reading of related texts. theme, motif, and other aspects of fiction. including biography, autobiography, memoir, Offered Fall, Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded Specific mode or topic to be studied will be expository writing, and social commentary. (A, A-, B+, etc.) announced in the course schedule. Writing assignments may include exercises, May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and/or imitations, responses, and original work. departmental consent Students will examine relevant works that CWL 570: Advanced Writing Workshop Offered Fall, Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded illustrate the methods and techniques available The focus is on work in progress and the (A, A-, B+, etc.) to the non-fiction writer. Specific mode or extension of the manuscript. The workshop May be repeated for credit. topic to be studied will be announced in the is open to students interested in any form course schedule. of writing. Students are encouraged to CWL 520: Forms of Poetry Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and/or pursue their own writing interests while Regular submission, discussion, and analysis departmental consent simultaneously being exposed to the work of of students' work in one or more of the modes Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, others in varying genres. Regular writing is of poetry. Writing assignments may include etc.) required, and vigorous analysis and discussion exercises, imitations, responses, and original May be repeated for credit. are encouraged. Strongly recommended for work. Students will examine relevant works students preparing for the thesis. that illustrate structural principles, metrical and CWL 550: Forms of Professional and Offered Fall, Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded syntactical rhythm, sound and rhyme, formal Scientific Writing (A, A-, B+, etc.) and stanzaic organization, the use of figurative Regular submission, discussion, and analysis May be repeated for credit. language, and other aspects of poetry. of students' work in one or more of the Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and/or contemporary modes of professional writing, CWL 575: Writers Conference Program Director including technological writing, writing The Southampton Writers Conference Offered Fall, Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded about science, and writing for advertising, is an intensive program of workshops in (A, A-, B+, etc.) business, and public relations, as well as for contemporary writing that includes lectures, May be repeated for credit. governmental, educational, and professional readings, workshops, and panels featuring organizations. Writing assignments may nationally distinguished authors who join CWL 530: Forms of Scriptwriting include exercises, imitations, responses, and the department's summer faculty. Graduate Regular submission, discussion, and analysis original work. Students will examine relevant students in the program will assist in planning of students' work in one or more of the works that illustrate the strategies available in and running the Conference, and will have contemporary modes of scriptwriting, modern professional communication. Specific the option of taking a Conference workshop including writing for film, theater, radio, mode or topic to be studied will be announced for credit. The Writers Conference will also and television. Writing assignments may in the course schedule. encourage participation by visiting students include exercises, imitations, responses, and ¿ new writers, established writers, teachers of

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 1 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS (CWL) Fall 2021 writing and editors ¿ who will be admitted by pieces. Its subject matter may be scientific application and may receive academic credit or literary. It may be business-oriented or upon request. academic. The thesis is judged solely on the 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) quality of its intelligence and its writing. Every May be repeated for credit. student will, with the assistance of the program director, choose a thesis supervisor to provide CWL 580: Practicum in Arts guidance and criticism in the completion of Administration the project. At the same time that the thesis Practicum in Arts Administration Under the supervisor is chosen, the program director guidance of a faculty advisor, students will will also guide the student in the selection learn the essentials of Arts administration. of a thesis committee, which will consist This may include assisting in the coordination of the thesis supervisor, one other member of reading and lecture series, conference of the faculty in Writing, and one outside organization, or other writing and arts reader knowledgeable in the student's field of administration activities. 1-4 Credits. May be interest. Progress toward the completion of the repeated for credit Prerequisites: Permission of thesis will be reviewed not only by the thesis instructor and program director SEMESTER: supervisor but also by members of the thesis On Demand committee, at which point student will submit a bound copy of the thesis to the department. 1 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) - 9 Credits. May be repeated for credit. 1-9 credits, S/U grading CWL 581: Practicum in Teaching May be repeated for credit. Writing CWL 600: Post MFA Creative Writing Students take the seminar in conjunction with Fellow teaching a section of first year composition. This course provides hands-on experience and CWL 600 provides students who have instruction in the basics of writing pedagogy, successfully completed the MFA in Creative including designing writing assignments, Writing and Literature degree requirements sequencing assignments, motivating writing, access to an intellectual community of writers. writing skill development and evaluating Participants will be allowed to participate in writing. Students will also be given a one workshop or course per semester on a preliminary overview of the major theories space available basis. The program office will driving composition pedagogy. 3 Credits. communicate with enrollees prior to the start Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and of the semester the workshops and courses program director SEMESTER: On Demand available. 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) S/U grading May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit.

CWL 582: Practicum in Publishing and CWL 800: Summer Research Editing Independent reading, writing, research on Under the guidance of the faculty advisor, topics or problems related to work on the MFA students will be exposed to the hands-on Thesis. process of editing and publishing a literary Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and/or journal. program director Offered Fall, Spring, 1-4 credits, Letter graded Summer, S/U grading (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit.

CWL 588: Independent Study Independent studies in topics chosen by the student are arranged through an individual instructor. 1-6 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit.

CWL 599: Thesis Every student in the M.F.A. program in Writing must complete a thesis that is a publishable, book-length work. It may be fiction, non-fiction, poetry, or a script for the visual media. It may be a collection of short

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