CRWT 140 The Writing Life

College of Critical & Professional Studies

3 credits 45.0 hours
100 level undergraduate course

What does it mean to be a writer? How does a writer define community? What is a writer’s responsibility? These are some of the questions that will be posed in this course for first-year Creative Writing students, which serves as an introduction to the major and the practices and principles that are central to the writing life. Through both personal and critical writing, students will reflect on the creative processes that are unique (or not unique) to writers by reading and responding to a variety of texts–writers’ memoirs, craft handbooks–and ideas about writing creatively. The course will also require engagement with literary events and organizations, both on campus and in downtown Philadelphia, helping students forge connections with the broader writing community.

Open to Creative Writing majors only.
This course is not repeatable for credit.