The concentration in Creative Writing is open to all NYUAD students, offering them an opportunity to hone their skills in self-expression while exploring a full range of literary genres, including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, dramatic writing, and screenwriting.
All courses a student wishes to count towards the concentration in Creative Writing, including those taken at another NYU global site, must be approved in advance by the student's mentor. Only one course may double-count for the concentration in Creative Writing and another major or concentration.
Requirements
Four courses, distributed as follows:
- 1 Introduction to Creative Writing
- 3 Creative Writing Electives
Creative Writing Courses
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LITCW-AD 110 Introduction to Creative Writing
This workshop introduces the basic elements of poetry, fiction, and personal narrative with in-class writing, take-home reading and writing assignments, and substantive discussions of craft. The course is structured as a workshop, which means that students receive feedback from their instructor and their fellow writers in a roundtable setting, and they should be prepared to offer their classmates responses to their work.
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Spring 2013;
14 Weeks
Jennifer Acker - TR, 2:35-3:50
Taught in Abu Dhabi -
Fall 2013;
14 Weeks
Jim Savio - M, 1:10-3:50 pm
Taught in Abu Dhabi
This course appears in...
- Concentrations > Disciplinary Concentrations > Creative Writing
- Majors > Literature and Creative Writing > Creative Writing
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course.
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Spring 2013;
14 Weeks
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LITCW-AD 128 Advanced Creative Writing: Spectrum of Essays
This advanced nonfiction writing course explores the creative possibilities of both the persuasive and familiar essay forms. With the Art of Memory as the organizing principle, our material will include works by Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, Joseph Conrad, John Fowles, John Berger, Margaret Atwood and Andre Aciman as well as films directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski and Pedro Almodovar. The course combines discussion seminars and writing workshops with one-on-one conferences with the professor. Students work on honing their own narrative voices and aim to produce honors level work by the end of the semester.
This course appears in...
- Concentrations > Disciplinary Concentrations > Creative Writing
- Majors > Literature and Creative Writing > Creative Writing
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course.
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LITCW-AD 130J Fiction Writing: Craft Workshop
Our class will be a writing workshop that emphasizes shoptalk: how to begin a story, say; how to introduce a character; how to avoid the bumpy ending. We'll read student submissions and also works of published fiction, both good and bad. (Stories that make mistakes are a great learning tool.) In the course of our course, we'll take up such impossible questions as, “What is the relationship of plot to sub-plot? How does one hold the reader's attention?” Now, in Art, rules must be flexible—but I ask my students to think of writing in strategic terms; each story-telling decision needs to make tactical sense. With that in mind, we'll examine—with so much esprit de corps as to arouse envy—the tenets of the craft of fiction.
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January 2013
Darin Strauss - T, be arranged
Taught in Abu Dhabi
This course appears in...
- Concentrations > Disciplinary Concentrations > Creative Writing
- Majors > Literature and Creative Writing > Creative Writing
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course.
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January 2013