Writing From Personal Experience

Professor

C. Kelly

Course Number

IA - 0123 - 1 (135747)

Crosslisted With

HACU - 0123 - 1

 Course Description 

This course will involve reading the works of the best contemporary essayists and memoirists and learning from them how to write non-fiction prose based on personal experience. During the first week of the course, the instructor will discuss the various types of memoir and personal essay, and the class will discuss the assigned readings, paying special attention to technique. The second and third weeks of the course will be run as a workshop in which students present their own essays and memoirs for discussion. Students will revise their work according to editorial coments provided by the instructor and class members. All students will submit a final portfolio of writing that will include one personal essay, one memoir, and a third piece that may be either memoir or essay. The readings for the course, which will be multicultural in perspective, will include such works as: A Small Place -- Jamaica Kincaid Black, White, and Jewish -- Rebecca Walker The Discovery of Mexico -- Carlos Fuentes West of Kabul, East of New York -- Tamim Ansary. This course satisfies Division I distribution requirements. REA, WRI, EXP, MCP

 

 Progress 

Completed