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Department_Chair:  Bennet Schaber
Department_Chair_Email: schaber@oswego.edu
Additional_Contact: Leigh Wilson, Interim Director, Creative Writing
Additional_Contact_Email: wilson@oswego.edu

Course_Number: CRW 295
Course_Type: New Course
Course_Title: Specialized Studies in Creative Writing: Introduction

Catalog_Description: 
An introductory course in specialized creative writing topics (e.g. Intro to Graphic Memoir, Intro to Writing for Television Sit-Coms).  Course may be offered in more than one section with different content, and may be repeated for credit if content is not the same.

Prerequisites: Eng 102 or permission of instructor
Fl_irregular basis: Yes
Semester_Hours: 3

Justification: 
The creative writing program is committed to addressing the changing writing interests of our majors and the shifting writing interests in the larger student population. The flexibility offered by a changing topics course at the introductory level will allow permanent faculty to pursue new and diverse interests as demand arises, at an introductory pedagogical level, and will allow visiting and temporary faculty to contribute their singular expertise to the curriculum at the lower division level. Although these courses may at first be taught as specialized topics through CRW 295, growing student demand and a burgeoning national market may result in a particular specialized topic becoming a regularly offered course at the introductory level, with its own lower division designation. 

Target audience for these specialized topics courses includes majors and non-majors, and the course may be pursued as a lower division elective by both groups.

Class Size: 22 students.  All writing-intensive courses in Creative Writing have a 22-student limit, focusing intense scrutiny on the students’ own writing.  

Level: Students, majors or non-majors, are not expected to have any especial practice in the writing of a given specialized topic.  It is an introductory course, which justifies the 200-level designation.

Course_Objectives: 
Particular course objectives will change with each iteration of the course.  However, all Creative Writing Introductory courses share certain common objectives, among them:
∑ To familiarize students with the elements, traditions and techniques of a particular genre ∑ To introduce students to the best work of contemporary and historical practitioners of the genre, both American and international ∑ To provide opportunities for students to begin original work in the genre and to complete entire works ∑ To enhance student critical skills and aesthetic within a particular genre

Course_Description: 
Specific Course Descriptions will change with each iteration of the course.  See Catalog Description for overview description of content.

Resources: 
Specific Library and Computer Technology Resource requirements will change with each iteration of the course.  However, it should be noted that existing resources are currently adequate.

Bibliography: 
Each iteration of this course will necessitate a different bibliography.

Other_Comments: 
CRW 295 will provide a platform for including new and changing topics at the introductory level into the Creative Writing elective curriculum, serving interests of our majors, the general student populace, and the faculty.

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