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CRWR 450 - Teaching Imaginative Writing


Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 Hours
Attribute: 4 HU
A course for poets and fiction writers who want to learn how to take their art into the elementary and secondary classroom. In the first half of the semester, students will examine issues of poetics (Why do we write? Why does it matter?), community engagement (Why care about the creative life of a community?), and pedagogy (How can one teach in ways that are motivating and meaningful?), and they will workshop their own original lesson plans. In the second half of the semester, they will participate in residencies at Langston Middle School.
Enrollment Limit: 8
Instructor: L. Powell
Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
Prerequisites & Notes
3rd year status; one 300-level workshop

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