Writing Offerings - Spring 2012

To register for any of the offerings below, please contact Beth (at 617.349.8833 or echambe5@lesley.edu) or fax a registration form [pdf] and credit card authorization form [pdf] to 617.349.8820.

On-Campus Writing Courses:

Much Poetry Reading, Much Poetry Writing
Graduate Course GCREA 5706 (3 credits)
Suzanne Berger, MFA, M.Ed.
DATE: Tuesdays, February 7 - May 8, 2012 from 10:00am-12:50pm
LOCATION: University Hall, room TBD
COST: non-credit: $525*; 3 graduate credits: Standard Program Tuition* (*plus $30 registration fee) Please call Beth Chambers at 617.349.8833 before registering if taking this class for credit.
NOTE: This course is for intermediate and advanced students. With the exception of students previously enrolled, applicants must submit three original poems and a letter describing their writing experience to Beth Chambers at echambe5@lesley.edu for approval before registering.
DESCRIPTION: This is a poetry writing workshop with strong emphasis on revision--additive and subtractive—as well as deep revision involving the radical reworking of the original poem. Readings include volumes of poems by Tam Lin and David Ferry. Triggered by assignments, new student poems are due weekly, and revisions every third week. In a workshop atmosphere of rigorous give and take, students will also present an original critical examination of a contemporary poem, and, for credit students, a five-page paper on a poet who has read to the class.

Online Writing Courses:

*ONLINE* Writing Fiction: The Art of the Story
Graduate Course GCREA 5714 (3 credits)
Laurie Foos, MFA
DATE: TBD--please contact Beth Chambers at echambe5@lesley.edu if you are interested in this class
LOCATION: (online)
COST: non-credit: $530*; 3 graduate credits: standard program tuition* (*plus $30 registration fee)
DESCRIPTION: This course offers detailed instruction in the craft of fiction in a supportive workshop setting. By analyzing classic and contemporary stories of varying length (from flash fiction to short story to novella), completing in-class exercises, and writing stories, students will enhance their proficiency in all the major elements of fiction, including theme, plot, characterization, point of view, transition, exposition, and description, among others. We will cover issues relevant to the process of writing fiction, including generating ideas, tapping into one's own emotions and experiences, imagining and planning the story, and revising. Students will also practice the skill of learning to read like writers by analyzing their own work, and that of their classmates and published authors.