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With more than 30 writing courses each semester, Gallatin students have the opportunity to engage in diverse genres and writing practices.

First-Year Writing and Research Seminars use writing to explore a particular theme while helping students to develop their critical writing skills. Recent examples include “Aesthetics on Trial,” “The Surreal Thing,” and “Science Fiction: Frankenstein and Revisions.”

After taking the foundation courses, Gallatin students may choose from a rich variety of Advanced Writing Courses including fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, comedy-writing, and documentary-writing, as well inter-genre, theme-based writing courses.


Fall 2017 Advanced Writing Courses
 

Course # Title Instructor
WRTNG-UG1012 Three Modern Essayists: Woolf, Orwell, Baldwin Lisa Goldfarb
WRTNG-UG1026 Lives in Brief Christopher Bram
WRTNG-UG1039 Writing About Popular Music Amanda Petrusich
WRTNG-UG1044 Criticism's Possible Futures Ben Ratliff
WRTNG-UG1080 Writing About Dance: Of Sylphs, Swans and Swimmers Julie Malnig
WRTNG-UG1120 The Southern Table: Place, Politics, Memory, and Mythology in the Foods of the American South Sara Franklin
WRTNG-UG1230 Writing Cross-Culturally Nancy Agabian
WRTNG-UG1295 Creative Nonfiction: From Idea to Essay Kate Bolick
WRTNG-UG1312 The Autobiographical Essay William Corbett
WRTNG-UG1364 The Versatile Storyteller: Writing Young Adult Fiction Molly Horan
WRTNG-UG1460 Literacy in Action Dianne Ramdeholl
WRTNG-UG1506 Writing about Television Drama Saul Austerlitz
WRTNG-UG1508 Writing for Late Night Television: Monologue, Jokes, Bits, and Sketches D.B. Gilles
WRTNG-UG1528 Fiction in Flux: The New Short Story Bret Gladstone
WRTNG-UG1537 Crafting Short Fiction from the Sentence Up Steven Rinehart
WRTNG-UG1540 Reading and Writing the Short Story Carol Zoref
WRTNG-UG1548 Me and You and the World: Writing the Personal and the Political Meera Nair
WRTNG-UG1550 Fiction Writing Chris Spain
WRTNG-UG1560 The Art and Craft of Poetry Scott Hightower
WRTNG-UG1560 The Art and Craft of Poetry Emily Fragos