Fall 2024 Writing UN2211 section 001

TRADITIONS IN NONFICTION

Call Number 18723
Day & Time
Location
M 4:10pm-6:00pm
608 Lewisohn Hall
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Ade Khan
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Department approval NOT required. The seminar provides exposure to the varieties of nonfiction with readings in its principal genres: reportage, criticism and commentary, biography and history, and memoir and the personal essay. A highly plastic medium, nonfiction allows authors to portray real events and experiences through narrative, analysis, polemic or any combination thereof. Free to invent everything but the facts, great practitioners of nonfiction are faithful to reality while writing with a voice and a vision distinctively their own. To show how nonfiction is conceived and constructed, class discussions will emphasize the relationship of content to form and style, techniques for creating plot and character under the factual constraints imposed by nonfiction, the defining characteristics of each authors voice, the authors subjectivity and presence, the role of imagination and emotion, the uses of humor, and the importance of speculation and attitude. Written assignments will be opportunities to experiment in several nonfiction genres and styles.

Web Site Vergil
Department Writing
Enrollment 12 students (15 max) as of 9:05PM Friday, December 13, 2024
Subject Writing
Number UN2211
Section 001
Division Interfaculty
Open To Schools of the Arts, Barnard College, Columbia College, Engineering:Undergraduate, Global Programs, General Studies, Professional Studies
Fee $15 Creative Writing C
Section key 20243WRIT2211W001