Intermediate Nonfiction Workshop
ENGL 325
Fall 2025
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| This course may be repeated for credit. |
This workshop offers students with prior experience writing prose a chance to develop new nonfiction work and analyze a range of published texts. We will study memoir, criticism, reportage, and interviews, and we will complete a unit on autofiction. Students will submit two formal pieces to the workshop, complete frequent short writing assignments, and complete a final project. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: ENGL224 OR ENGL228 OR ENGL278 OR ENGL292 OR ENGL326 OR ENGL266 |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (English) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 75% - 89% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
We will read work by Jamaica Kincaid, Arundhati Roy, Ryzard Kapuscinski, Paul Auster, James Baldwin, Pankaj Mishra, Joan Didion, Caryl Phillips, and Sigrid Nunez.
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Examinations and Assignments:
Frequent short assignments. Craft presentation. Two workshop submissions. Final Project. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Please submit a prerequisite override request describing your qualifications if you feel you qualify for the course but have not taken the prerequisites.
Contributes to fulfillment of ENGL major requirements: CW requirement, CW 300-level course, CW upper-level CW workshop, elective. The English department highly recommends that students be enrolled in only one Creative Writing course in a semester. If you are admitted to more than one Creative Writing course, the department requests that you choose one and let the instructors know during Adjustment Period. By doing so you will be considerate of instructors and other students. |
| Instructor(s): Sawhney,Hirsh Times: ....R.. 01:20PM-04:10PM; Location: TBA |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 12 | | SR major: 4 | JR major: 5 | | |
| Seats Available: 12 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 1 | JR non-major: 1 | SO: 1 | FR: 0 |
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