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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 395
Course_Type: New Course
Course_Title: Specialized Studies in Creative Writing: Intermediate

Catalog_Description: 
An intermediate course in specialized creative writing topics (e.g. Graphic Memoir: Intermediate, Television Sit-Com: Intermediate).  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: 
CRW 295 or Permission of the 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 intermediate level will allow permanent faculty to pursue new and diverse interests as demand arises, at an advanced pedagogical level, and will allow visiting and temporary faculty to contribute their singular expertise to the curriculum at the upper division level. Although these courses may at first be taught as specialized topics through CRW 395, growing student demand and a burgeoning national market may result in a particular specialized topic becoming a regularly offered course at the intermediate level, with its own upper division designation.
Target student population for these specialized topics courses includes majors and non-majors, and the course may be pursued as an upper division elective by both groups.

Justification for Permission of the Instructor: Transfer students have often taken specialized topics courses at other institutions; sometimes they have taken professional seminars (for no credit) in a special topic.  Permission of the Instructor would allow instructors to gauge the abilities of these students, and would allow instructors to accept such students into an intermediate course without the student having taken CRW 295.  In all of these cases students would be required to submit, for review of the instructor, written work at an intermediate-ready level before being allowed into the course.

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 expected to have prior practice in the writing of a given specialized topic.  Students must have completed CRW 295, or, in the judgment of the instructor, have work that is clearly at the intermediate level.  See “Objectives” for what constitutes intermediate level work.

Course_Objectives: 
Particular course objectives will change with each iteration of the course.  However, all Creative Writing Intermediate courses share certain common objectives, among them:
∑ To move students’ knowledge of elements, traditions and techniques of a particular genre to an advanced professional level ∑ To give students fluency in  the best work of contemporary and historical practitioners of the genre, both American and international ∑ To provide opportunities for students to move original work in the genre to a publishable level; to provide avenues for student publication in the genre ∑ To enhance student critical skills and aesthetic within a particular genre, to the level of a professional in the field

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 for these courses.

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

Other_Comments: 
CRW 395 will provide a platform for including new and changing topics at the intermediate, upper division level into the Creative Writing elective curriculum, serving the most current interests of our majors, the general student populace, and the faculty.

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