Creative Writing Program
2012-13 Course Descriptions
The University of Oregon Course Catalog and the current Class Schedule are both available online. See Course Catalog for prerequisites.
Fall 2012 | Winter 2013 | Spring 2013 | Summer 2013
| FALL 2012 |
CRWR 230: Introduction to Poetry Writing
Instructors: DeVaughn, Dwyer, Muzzi
Introduction to forms and techniques of writing poetry.
CRWR 240: Introduction to Fiction Writing
Instructors: Lacman, McDermit, Walbridge
Introduction to forms and techniques of writing fiction.
CRWR 244: Introduction to Creative Nonfiction
Instructor: Gurman
Introduction to forms and techniques of writing creative nonfiction.
CRWR 330: Intermediate Poetry Writing
Instructor: Penaloza
CRWR 340: Intermediate Fiction Writing
Instructor: Berns, Haight
CRWR 417: Kidd Tutorial I
Instructors: Krauss, Ridgeway, Ringleb, Pirmohamed, Scheuermann
This is Section 1 of a three-part intensive, yearlong study of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. The tutorial sequence includes development, completion, and presentation of an individual line-of-inquiry project. Admission is by application only.
CRWR 445/545: Advanced Fiction Writing
Instructor: Havazelet
Advanced workshop in the writing of fiction. Open to graduate students not admitted to creative writing MFA program.
CRWR 607: Seminar—Poetry
Instructor: Hongo
CRWR 607: Seminar—Fiction
Instructor: Brown
CRWR 635: MFA Poetry Workshop
Instructor: Doran
Concentration on student writing in a workshop setting. Open only to MFA students admitted to the Creative Writing Program in Poetry.
CRWR 645: MFA Fiction Workshop
Instructor: Bradley
Concentration on student writing in a workshop setting. Open only to MFA students admitted to the Creative Writing Program in Fiction.
| WINTER 2013 |
CRWR 230: Introduction to Poetry Writing
Instructors: DeVaughn, Dwyer, Muzzi
Introduction to forms and techniques of writing poetry.
CRWR 240: Introduction to Fiction Writing
Instructors: Berns, Lachman, McDermit, Walbridge
Introduction to forms and techniques of writing fiction.
CRWR 330: Intermediate Poetry Writing
Instructor: TBA
CRWR 336: Intermediate Creative Nonfiction
Instructor: Bradley
CRWR 340: Intermediate Fiction Writing
Instructor: Gurman, Haight
CRWR 407: Advanced Poetry Seminar
Instructor: Hongo
We will look at lyric and narrative as different modes of thought, how lyrical thinking is different from narrative thinking, emphasizing not how they might oppose each other, but instead how they are contrapuntal and complementary. For example, the use of image can create a lyrical flow that, in written exploration, can easily lead into narration--this is one of the most beautiful movements in storytelling art--and how narrative can flow back into lyrical. That is how the classic aesthetic events of epiphany, anagnorisis, and peripeteia work, affecting narrative, sertainly, but not without first causing a deep recognition with the conscious mind of the narrator, character, or poet. Titles under consideration may include The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Basho, The Izu Dancer by Kawabata, The Lover by Duras, Invisible Cities by Calvino, The Way to Rainy Mountain by Momaday, The English Patient by Ondaatje, The Buddha in the Attic by Otsuka, The Yellow Birds by Powers, "The Schooner Flight" by Walcott, "The Venetian Vestpers" by Hecht, and "Native Guard" by Tretheway. Haibun (short lyric prose paragraphs) and a creative term project.
CRWR 418: Kidd Tutorial II
Instructors: Krauss, Ridgeway, Ringleb, Pirmohamed, Scheuermann
Section 2 of a three-part intensive, yearlong study of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. The tutorial sequence includes development, completion, and presentation of an individual line-of-inquiry project.
CRWR 435/535: Advanced Poetry Writing
Instructor: Hongo
Advanced workshop in the writing of poetry. Open to graduate students not admitted to creative writing MFA program.
CRWR 445/545: Advanced Fiction Writing
Instructor: Brown
Advanced workshop in the writing of fiction. Open to graduate students not admitted to creative writing MFA program.
CRWR 635: MFA Poetry Workshop
Instructor: Anderson
Concentration on student writing in a workshop setting. Open only to MFA students admitted to the Creative Writing Program in Poetry.
CRWR 645: MFA Fiction Workshop
Instructor: Havazelet
Concentration on student writing in a workshop setting. Open only to MFA students admitted to the Creative Writing Program in Fiction.
| SPRING 2013 |
CRWR 230: Introduction to Poetry Writing
Instructors: DeVaughn, Dwyer, Muzzi
Introduction to forms and techniques of writing poetry.
CRWR 240: Introduction to Fiction Writing
Instructors: Lachman, McDermit, Walbridge
Introduction to forms and techniques of writing fiction.
CRWR 244: Introduction to Creative Nonfiction
Instructor: Haight
Introduction to forms and techniques of writing creative nonfiction.
CRWR 330: Intermediate Poetry Writing
Instructor: Anderson
CRWR 340: Intermediate Fiction Writing
Instructor: Berns, Gurman
CRWR 419: Kidd Tutorial III
Instructors: Krauss, Ridgeway, Ringleb, Pirmohamed, Scheuermann
Section 3 of a three-part intensive, yearlong study of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. The tutorial sequence includes development, completion, and presentation of an individual line-of-inquiry project.
CRWR 435/535: Advanced Poetry Writing
Instructor: Anderson
Advanced workshop in the writing of poetry. Open to graduate students not admitted to creative writing MFA program.
CRWR 445/545: Advanced Fiction Writing
Instructor: Bradley
Advanced workshop in the writing of fiction. Open to graduate students not admitted to creative writing MFA program.
CRWR 607: Seminar—Poetry
Instructor: Doran
CRWR 607: Seminar—Fiction
Instructor: Bradley
CRWR 635: MFA Poetry Workshop
Instructor: Hongo
Concentration on student writing in a workshop setting. Open only to MFA students admitted to the Creative Writing Program in Poetry.
CRWR 645: MFA Fiction Workshop
Instructor: Brown
Concentration on student writing in a workshop setting. Open only to MFA students admitted to the Creative Writing Program in Fiction.
| SUMMER 2013 |
TBA