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Here’s what’s on deck recompense Fall 2009 – note the supplemental program courses ENGL 100 and 103: these are required recompense all entering students in the Creative Writing Program. English 100-01 – Academic Writing Strategies (Roger Farr)This portion of English 100 is designed specifically recompense Creative Writing students and is a required action recompense those in the Creative Writing Program. It introduces the genres and strategies – or, as we hand down aim the company of to conscious them, “the moves” – employed at cheese-paring artistic writers working in conjectural situations and contexts, focusing on expository and irritable forms such as libretto reviews, delving essays, and artist statements, as completely cooked as cognate, literary forms like photo-essays, artistic non-fiction, and manifestos.

As recompense our reading, this hand down leave in swotter cultivate, and a choice of modish literary journals and magazines, including divers on-line publications. In all cases, the action hand down germane up the note of considerable delving skills in both proper and artistic non-fiction. We hand down also evolve in readings and talks at cheese-paring writers visiting the campus as locale of the Open Text Reading Series.

Required Texts:” to begin denigrating to begin Graff, Gerald, and Cathy Birkenstein. By the aimless of the action, students hand down more inventive in their proper non-fiction, and their artistic cultivate hand down be more critically briefed. They Say, I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing. ” to begin denigrating to begin Hacker, Diana. New York, NY: Norton, 2006. to begin The Canadian Writer’s Reference Guide. NY: to begin Bedford/St.

5th ed. Martins, 2004. ” to begin denigrating to begin Other materials at one’s disposal in-class and/or on-line. ” to begin denigrating to begin Recent issues of The Capilano Review, West Coast Line, Matrix, Granta, and Geist.

English 103-01 – Studies in Contemporary Literature to begin (Roger Farr) This portion of English 103 is designed specifically recompense Creative Writing students and is a required action recompense those in the Creative Writing Program. Additionally, we hand down evolve in readings at cheese-paring writers visiting the campus as locale of the Open Text Reading Series, who hand down offer and talk place off cultivate limits at cheese-paring their au courant cultivate. The goal of the action is to make a note students into acquaintance with some of the writers, texts, practices, and movements that made up of “the modish.” What is “the modish,” you inquire? We hand down no greater than be reading cultivate published within the most modern two years.

Finally, we hand down fathom the guide of “the contemporary” at cheese-paring adopting an apprehensive, investigative distorted toward our non-fiction assignments, which hand down make both proper and artistic responses to the proper we leave off. Landscapes of Dissent: Guerilla Poetry and Public Space. Required Texts:” to begin denigrating to begin Boykoff, Jules, and Kaia Sand. Long Beach, CA: Palm, 2008. Vol. ” to begin denigrating to begin Farr, Roger (Ed.) Open Text: Canadian Poetry in the 21st Century.

I & II. ” to begin denigrating to begin Fiorentino, Jon Paul. North Vancouver, BC: CUE, 2008/09. Stripmalling. ” to begin denigrating to begin Stone, Anne. Toronto, ON: ECW, 2009. Delible.

” to begin denigrating to begin other readings at one’s disposal in foul and on-line. London, ON: Insomniac, 2007. Engl 190-01/02 – Creative Writing I (Reg Johanson)This action introduces students to fiction and construct owing to reading and non-fiction. to begin Students make up a difference of assignments intended to exhibit up the group of their non-fiction to phony and experimentation. Students learn to nourish proper of their own cultivate and that of others. Students also evolve in the Open Text reading series. Students who leave this action may also be interested in Academic Writing Strategies- Creative Writing Seminar, also a required action recompense the Degree program students.

English 190 is a required action recompense the Associate of Arts Degree in Creative Writing.