Summer Session

CWL 305: Forms of Fiction

Undergraduate 3 credits

Prerequisite: CWL 202

DEC: G SBC: HFA+; WRTD

Study of the genre through readings, discussion and regular submission of original work. Course explores methods for expressing the human condition made available through fiction, with examples from the tradition that illustrate point of view, character development, dialogue, plot, setting, theme, motif, and other elements. Areas of study include Short Story, Novella, The Popular Novel, Graphic Novels and Writing Funny. Course may be repeated as the topic changes.

CWL 335: Topics in American Literature

Undergraduate 3 credits

Prerequisite: one D.E.C. B or HUM course Advisory Prerequisite: CWL 190

DEC: K SBC: HFA+; USA

A seminar for writers concentrating on one area of American literature, to be announced in the course schedule. The course may examine a contemporary or historical trend in American literature, the rise of a specific genre, a social issue expressed in literature, an issue in literary theory, or any other exploration of American pluralism as, for example, Ethics and the Crime Novel; Varieties of American Humor; Southern Renaissance; and Contemporary Poetry Wars. The emphasis will be on scholarly analysis, but with engagement of student writers. Students may repeat this course as the topic changes.

CWL 575: Writers Conference

Graduate 1-6 credits

Must submit application and writing sample, permission of conference admissions committee and/or pro gram director

The Southampton Writers Conference is an intensive program of workshops in contemporary writing that includes lectures, readings, workshops, and panels featuring nationally distinguished authors who join the department's summer faculty. Graduate students in the program will assist in planning and running the Conference, and will have the option of taking a Conference workshop for credit. The Writers Conference will also encourage participation by visiting students, new writers, established writers, teachers of writing and editors, who will be admitted by application and may receive academic credit upon request.