ENC 3310 Spring 2022 Hossain (2)

ENC 3310 is a course for upper-level undergraduate students interested in writing creative nonfiction. “Creative nonfiction,” a common but sometimes misleading term, exists on a spectrum that stretches between researched, journalistic articles on the one hand, and lyrical personal essays on the other. The genre is “nonfiction,” and so it tries to be true—with the recognition that truth is various and not always objective, and that it exists within a contract established between the writer and the reader. At the same time, the genre is “creative” and uses many of the techniques of fiction, such as scenes, dialogue, characters, setting, sensory detail, narrative, plot, story, point of view, conflict, rising tension, climax, denouement, anecdote, etc. In this course, we will explore and practice many styles within the genre of creative nonfiction, though the subjects we study will be largely of an autobiographical and personal nature.

This course meets the Upper-Division Writing Requirement.