ENG 307 - Forms of Fiction: Writers versus Genre

This writing course will include and analyze literary fiction and genre work in hopes of interrogating both categories. Students will read literary criticism, published short fiction of all stripes, “hybrid” material, and a few narratives that may just make one question the mental fitness of the writer. Students should note that “Forms of Fiction” is neither a pure lecture course nor a true creative writing workshop in any sense of the term, but rather a course that promotes reading, writing, and thinking as essential and necessary creative acts.

Overall, “Forms of Fiction” will require students to engage in three different types of writing (scholarly analysis, literary criticism, and fiction) while assuming no particular or significant expertise in any of them. Instead, emphasis will be given over to creative and intellectual risk-taking, analytical exploration, and the expansion of how one reads, creates, and thinks about literature and literary works. 

Satisfies the Innovation requirement for the English major.
Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Global Literary Theory.
Satisfies the Literary Thought, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement