CRW 3110 - Summer 2025 - Alexander

This course is designed for upper-level undergraduate students interested in understanding, assembling, and creating fiction. We will read craft essays and short stories to study many of the core elements of fiction, including characterization, narration, point of view, setting, dialogue, and conflict, in order to see how and why the “rules” of fiction work. (As a writer, you likely have an inherent instinct to break the rules –great– but first you need to be knowledgeable of what they are). Through active discussions, assignments, and readings, you will learn to identify and analyze the elements of fiction, thereby gaining the necessary tools to tell an effective story, and applying this knowledge as you write and revise your own works over the course of the semester.