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Home My WebLink AboutENG-205Bergen Community College Division of Humanities English Department Course Syllabus ENG 205: Creative Writing Workshop -Fiction Semester and Year: Meeting: Days/Times/Locations Instructor Name Office Location and Phone Email Address WebEx Link Course Description This course is a workshop-style course that allows students to experience the creative process, and provides them with the knowledge of creative and narrative techniques to produce quality short fiction. Credits: 3; Lecture 3 Prerequisite: ENG-101 Composition I Corequisite: None Student Learning Objectives As a result of meeting the requirements in this course, you will be able to: 1. Identify the special genre demands of the art and craft of fiction writing by reading and analyzing the creative work of professional writers 2. Use the elements of craft in the fiction genre. 3. Develop a greater appreciation for the creative process 4. Incorporate critical approaches and develop aesthetic sensibilities through immersion in the creative process 5. Understand the conventions and apply standards of professional manuscript preparation. Means of Assessment 1. Produce at least three (3) works of short fiction. (SLO 1-5) 2. Revise at least two (2) of those three above works of short fiction. (SLO 2, 5) 3. Submit at least one (1) of those two works of short fiction for publication. (SLO 2, 3, 5) 4. Complete weekly writing for workshop and provide weekly constructive criticism on fellow students writing in the workshop. (SLO 1, 3, 4) 5. Read and discuss weekly assigned readings of published authors. (SLO 3, 4) 6. Compose a journal of weekly writing. (SLO 3, 4) Attendance Policy BCC Attendance Policy: “All students are expected to attend punctually every scheduled meeting of each course in which they are registered. Attendance and lateness policies and sanctions are to be determined by the instructor for each section of each course. These will be established in writing on the individual course outline. Attendance will be kept by the instructor for administrative and counseling purposes.” Instructor’s specific attendance policy must be included in the syllabus distributed to students. Course Texts and Other Required Materials Specific required textbook(s) will be included in each instructor’s syllabus. Example: Burroway, Jane. Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition: A Guide to Narrative Craft. 10th ed. Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing, 2019. BCC Statement on Academic integrity (2022-23 Catalog): Bergen Community College is committed to academic integrity – the honest, fair, and continuing pursuit of knowledge, free from fraud or deception. Students are responsible for their own work. Faculty and academic support services staff will take appropriate measures to discourage academic dishonesty. The College recognizes the following general categories of violations of academic integrity. Academic integrity is violated whenever a student does one or more of the following: 1. Uses unauthorized assistance in any academic work. ● copies from another student’s exam ● uses notes, books, electronic devices or other aids of any kind during an exam, when doing so is prohibited ● steals an exam or possesses a stolen copy of any exam 2. Gives unauthorized assistance to another student ● completes a graded academic activity or takes an exam for someone else ● gives answers to or shares answers with another student before or during an exam or other graded academic activity ● shares answers during an exam by using a system of signals 3. Fabricates data in support of an academic assignment ● cites sources that do not exist ● cites sources that were not used ● submits any academic assignment which contains falsified or fabricated data or results 4. Inappropriately or unethically uses technological means to gain academic advantage ● inappropriately or unethically acquires material via the Internet or by any other means ● uses any devices (electronic or hidden) for communication or unauthorized retrieval of information during an exam Accessibility Statement Bergen Community College is committed to ensuring the full participation of all students in its programs. If you have a documented disability (or think you may have a disability) and, as a result, need a reasonable accommodation to participate in this class, complete course requirements, or benefit from the College’s programs or services, contact the Office of Special Services (OSS) as soon as possible at 201-612-5270 or www.bergen.edu/oss. To receive any academic accommodation, you must be appropriately registered with OSS. The OSS works with students confidentially and does not disclose any disability-related information without their permission. The OSS serves as a clearinghouse on disability issues and works in partnership with faculty and all other student service offices. Support Services Distance Learning Office Room C 334 201-612-5581 psimms@bergen.edu English Language Resource Center Room E- 156 201-612-5292 http://www.bergen.edu/pages/2182.asp Writing Center Room L 125 201-447- 7489 http://www.bergen.edu/pages/1795.asp Office of Specialized Services Room L 116 201-612-5270 www.bergen.edu/oss Sidney Silverman Library Room L- 226 201-447-7131 www.bergen.edu/library Sample 15-Week Syllabus Class Period Assignments for next Class Week 1 Introductions and analyses of Syllabus. Establishing a writer’s pattern and commitment. Understanding the workshop process. Writing exercise: Where to start your story? From Moodle: Read: “Fiesta, 1980” Week 2 Weekly in-class writing. Group writing assignment. Details! Filtering! Lecture: on Details with Exercise! The Birth of the Story. Share your Journals. Read: “The JewBird” Workshop 3 or 4 student’s stories. (Students who are presenting their stories for each week must (MUST) have their work in progress story uploaded to Moodle by 8pm every Monday) Any student who fails to do so will get a zero for the assignment and will not be able to submit late – No Exceptions! Week 3 Lecture: Revealing Information – showing not telling. Weekly in-class writing. Creating a backstory for protagonists; motivation of characters; objectives of characters Workshop of Student Stories Discussion of Stories. Read: “Miss Lora” & “Stone Mattress” Workshop 3 or 4 student’s stories. Week 4 Weekly in-class writing. Lecture: Dealing with Time and Place Workshop 3 or 4 student’s stories. Read “A Rose for Emily” and “My Father’s Head” Week 5 Emotional Truth with Exercise Developing Suspense plot AND Emotional Plot. Weekly in-class writing. Listen to a story told to us. Read “Tandolfo the Great” Oral Presentations Week 6 Weekly in-class writing. Dialogue: Major functions of dialogue. Creating distinguishing characters through dialogue. Movie: “Sunset Limited” followed by discussion. Read and “Everything that Rises must Converge” and “The Silver Coast” Workshop 3 or 4 student’s stories. Oral Presentations Week 7 Weekly in-class writing. Lecture: Workshop 3 or 4 student’s stories. Read “The Enormous Radio” Oral Presentations Week 8 Weekly in-class writing. No Class Next Week - Spring Break Read: “The Country Husband” Oral Presentation Week 9 Weekly in-class writing. Point of View: Lecture and Scenarios Narrative types Workshop 3 or 4 student’s stories. Oral Presentations Read: “Where are you going, where have you been” Week 10 Weekly in-class writing. Workshop 3 or 4 student’s stories. “The Walk” and “The Lottery”. Oral Presentations. Week 11 Weekly in-class writing. Revising your story: What do you want to say? Are you saying it? How do you say it? Workshop 3 or 4 student’s stories. Oral Presentations Read: “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” Week 12 Weekly in-class writing. Revision. Editing your story: Checklist Workshop 3 or 4 student’s stories. Oral Presentations Read: “The Lady with the Dog” Week 13 Setting: understanding the era, Minor Characters: Their roles! Weekly in-class writing. Workshop 3 or 4 student’s stories. Oral Presentations Read: “Two Gallants” and “Two More Gallants”. History/ Culture/ Borrowing from others What to do with your finished stories. Week 14 Weekly in-class writing. Workshop 3 or 4 student’s stories. Read “This Blessed House”. Oral Presentations Week 15 Semester Ends Oral Presentations Portfolios due The following is a list of titles and authors for you to choose from. Each student shall read and present to the class at least one from this list. TITLE AUTHOR Dubliners James Joyce (Stories) The Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad Dangling Man Saul Bellow Humboldt’s Gift Saul Bellow The Sun also Rises Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway A Separate Peace John Knowles Netherland Joseph O’Neill Slaughter House Five Kurt Vonnegut The Color Purple Alice Walker Beloved Toni Morrison Sula Toni Morrison Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Disgrace J.M. Coetzee Waiting for the Barbarians J.M. Coetzee This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald The Book of Evidence John Banville The Death of Artemio Cruz Carlos Fuentes Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf Between the Acts Virginia Woolf Absolom, Absolom! William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner Native Son Richard Wright The Invisible Man Ralph Ellison The Fifth Child Doris Lessing Love Medicine Louise Erdrich Tracks Louise Erdrich Love in the Ruins Walker Percy How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Julia Alvarez Love in the time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marques Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck East of Eden John Steinbeck The Dark John McGahern TransAtlantic Colum McCann Dracula Bram Stoker Frankenstein Mary Shelly The Women John McGahern The Time of the Hero Mario Vargas Llosa Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri (Stories) The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon White Noise Don Delillo The Angel Esmeralda Don Delillo (stories) Homesickness Colin Barrett (Stories) Foster Clare Keegan The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen The Memory Police Yoko Ogawa Milkman Anna Burns