21W.759 Writing Science Fiction ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Lecture: T EVE (7-10 PM) ( 4-253 ) Students write and read science fiction and analyze and discuss stories written for the class. For the first eight weeks, readings in contemporary science fiction accompany lectures and formal writing assignments intended to illuminate various aspects of writing craft as well as the particular problems of writing science fiction. The rest of the term is given to roundtable workshops on students' stories. J. Haldeman
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21W.762 Poetry Workshop ( , ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Lecture: W EVE (7-10 PM) ( 56-167 ) For students with some previous experience in poetry writing. Frequent assignments stress use of language, diction, word choice, line breaks, imagery, mood, and tone. Considers the functions of memory, imagination, dreams, poetic impulses. Throughout the term, students examine the work of published poets. Revision stressed. Fall: E. Funkhouser Spring: E. Barrett
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21W.763J Transmedia Storytelling: Modern Science Fiction ( ) (Same subject as CMS.309J ) (Subject meets with CMS.809 ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 URL: http://cms.mit.edu/academics/courseInfo.php?courseID=CMS.309 Lecture: M EVE (7-10 PM) ( 2-147 ) Students investigate the genre of science fiction across different media that include the short story, the screenplay, moving image, and games. Students write critical essays and their own works of science fiction, and submit critical analyses of each other's efforts in a roundtable workshop environment. B. Coleman
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21W.766J Contemporary US Women of Color: Writing and Reading Short Stories ( ) (Same subject as SP.574J ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Students read short stories by Native American, Latina, African-American, and Asian-American women writers and write their own stories and descriptive sketches. Writing assignments and discussions focus on these themes: reclaiming, reconstructing, and preserving culture; cultural heritage as a source of power and resistance; storytelling as a means of celebration and survival; shifting, contending, and multiple identities; the costs and advantages of breaking silence; and tensions between assimilation and maintaining cultural practices. H. Lee
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21W.769J Playwrights' Workshop ( ) (Same subject as 21M.785J ) (Subject meets with 21M.789 ) Prereq: 21M.604 , 21W.754 or permission of instructor Units: 3-2-7 Continues work in the development of play scripts for the theater. Writers work on sustained pieces in weekly workshop meetings, individual consultation with the instructor, and in collaboration with student actors, directors, and designers. Fully developed scripts eligible for inclusion in the Playwrights' Workshop production. A. Brody
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21W.770 Advanced Fiction Workshop ( , ) Prereq: Permission of instructor Units: 3-0-9 Lecture: TR1-2.30 ( 24-112 ) For students with some experience in writing fiction. Write longer works of fiction and short stories which are related or interconnected. Read short story collections by individual writers, such as Sandra Cisneros, Raymond Carver, Edward P. Jones, and Tillie Olsen, and discuss them critically and analytically, with attention to the ways in which the writers' choices about component parts contribute to meaning. In-class exercises and weekly workshops of student work focus on sources of story material, characterization, structure, narrative voice, point of view and concrete detail. Concentration on revision. Fall: J. Diaz Spring: H. Lee
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21W.771 Advanced Poetry Workshop ( ) Prereq: Prior manuscript submission required Units: 3-0-9 For students experienced in writing poems. Regular reading of published contemporary poets and weekly submission of manuscripts for class review and criticism. Students expected to do a substantial amount of rewriting and revision. Classwork supplemented with individual conferences. E. Funkhouser
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21W.772 Digital Poetry ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Lecture: T EVE (7-10 PM) ( 5-217 ) Digital forms of poetry, including hypertext poems, Flash-animated poems, poems within short digital videos and interactive forms of poetry and games. Readings in early hypertext theory and creative writing. Experiment with creating poetry for wireless access on hand held devices. Test the assumptions of these early theorists through practice of creating digital poetry. Students discuss online examples of each of these kinds of digital poetry and then compose their own work, to present in class for critique and revision. The final project allows students to build upon their experience throughout the term with these forms. E. Barrett
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21W.773 Writing Longer Fiction ( ) Prereq: A fiction workshop or permission of instructor Units: 3-0-9 Lecture: W EVE (7-10 PM) ( 14E-310 ) Designed for students who have some experience in writing fiction and want to try longer forms like the novella and novel. Students interested in writing a novel are expected to produce at least two chapters and an outline of the complete work. Readings include several novels from Fitzgerald to the present, and novellas from Gogol's The Overcoat to current examples. Students discuss one another's writing in a roundtable workshop, with a strong emphasis on revision. J. Haldeman
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21W.774 Invention and Ingenuity: Writing about Engineers and the Worlds They Make ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Lecture: MW1-2.30 ( 4-146 ) Introduction to science writing for general audiences, with a particular emphasis on engineers and their work. Through structured writing assignments devoted to engineering as practiced today or in the past, students learn to tell nonfiction stories, explore the intellectual and creative puzzles engineers face, comment on engineering's social and cultural impact, and illuminate the human drama in engineering work. Students also read and critically discuss compelling examples of such writing in newspapers, magazines, and popular books. Enrollment limited to 16. R. Kanigel
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21W.775 Writing about Nature and Environmental Issues ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Focuses on traditional nature writing and the environmentalist essay. Students keep a web log as a journal. Writings are drawn from the tradition of nature writing and from contemporary forms of the environmentalist essay. Authors include Henry Thoreau, Loren Eiseley, Annie Dillard, Chet Raymo, Sue Hubbel, Rachel Carson, Bill McKibben, and Terry Tempest Williams. more information ... K. Boiko
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