Fall 2013
ATL 496/CWR 496Princeton Atelier: Stories to Stage, Words and Song: A Study in Adaptation(LA)This class will be an exploration of the transformation of existing texts into performance. Students will work with their own creative writing, musical composition, scene work, and character development, as well as assigned pieces of literature in order to develop scenes, songs and monologues. Simultaneously, Wolitzer/Roche will be exploring with the class scene and song work from Wolitzer's in-progress Young Adult novel, Belzhar, which itself owes a debt to a pre-exisiting work, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar.Staff
CWR 201Creative Writing (Poetry)(LA)Practice in the original composition of poetry supplemented by the reading and analysis of standard works. Criticism by practicing writers and talented peers encourages the student's growth as both creator and reader of literature. This class is open to beginning and intermediate students by application.Paul B. MuldoonSusan WheelerJames RichardsonMichael C. Dickman
CWR 203Creative Writing (Fiction)(LA)The curriculum allows the student to develop writing skills, provides an introduction to the possibilities of contemporary literature and offers a perspective on the place of literature among the liberal arts. Criticism by practicing writers and talented peers encourages the student's growth as both creator and reader of literature.Joyce Carol OatesSusan M. ChoiA.M. HomesChang-rae LeeJeffrey K. Eugenides
CWR 205Creative Writing (Literary Translation)(LA)Practice in the translation of literary works from another language into English supplemented by the reading and analysis of standard works. Criticism by professionals and talented peers encourages the student's growth as both creator and reader of literature. Students MUST be fluent in their chosen language.Paul B. Muldoon
CWR 301Advanced Creative Writing (Poetry)(LA)Advanced practice in the original composition of poetry for discussion in regularly scheduled workshop meetings. The curriculum allows the student to develop writing skills, provides an introduction to the possibilities of contemporary literature and offers perspective on the places of literature among the liberal arts.Staff
CWR 303Advanced Creative Writing (Fiction)(LA)Advanced practice in the original composition of fiction for discussion in regularly scheduled workshop meetings. The curriculum allows the student to develop writing skills, provides an introduction to the possibilities of contemporary literature and offers perspective on the place of literature among the liberal arts. Criticism by practicing writers and talented peers encourages the student's growth as both creator and reader of literature.Joyce Carol OatesA.M. HomesJennifer W. Gilmore
CWR 305/COM 355Advanced Creative Writing (Literary Translation)(LA)Advanced practice in the translation of literary works from another language into English supplemented by the reading and analysis of standard works. Criticism by professionals and talented peers encourages the student's growth as both creator and reader of literature. Students MUST be fluent in their chosen language.Paul B. Muldoon
CWR 345Special Topics in Creative Writing: Poetry in/on/and/by Art: Expanded Ekphrasis(LA)Poetry about the other arts, especially the visual arts (traditional ekphrasis), has a long and robust tradition, and we will use some of that tradition in this class. We will also use expanded notions of ekphrasis, focusing on music, dance, fiction and film, for example, in addition to visual art and architecture; and borrowing elements from the original work such as space, rhythm, scale and surface in addition to subject and iconography. Each class will include experience writing engaged with a work of art. This class can be a first workshop and is open to all levels by application.Susan Wheeler
CWR 348/VIS 348Screenwriting I: Screenwriting as a Visual Medium(LA)The course will introduce students to basic screenwriting principals and techniques, using cross-cultural and cross-temporal examples. Course will examine the visual power of storytelling in film and other relative media, concentrating on the strategic use of visual elements to create a unified viewing experience and the use of visual moments/behavior in creating memorable characters. Students will complete the course with a strong working sense of the core elements used in visual storytelling as applied in film, tv, or new media. Final portfolio will include one silent short film and two narrative shorts.Christina Lazaridi
CWR 448/VIS 448Screenwriting II: Adaptation(LA)This course will introduce students to Screenwriting Adaptation techniques, focusing primarily on the challenges of adapting "true stories" pulled from various non-fiction sources. The class will address the ethics of adaptation, questions and techniques surrounding the need to fictionalize truth for dramatic purposes, as well as touching on the differences between fictional and nonfictional original materials. Students will be exposed to various contemporary non-fiction adaptations, and will write a short film (under 15 pages) and one longer project (30 pages).Christina Lazaridi
VIS 215/ARC 215/CWR 215Graphic Design(LA)This studio course introduces students to graphic design with a particular emphasis on typography. Students engage typographic history through readings highlighting major shifts in print technologies. The readings provide the substance of studio assignments: students begin in the typography studio with letterpress printing and metal type, proceed to photo-typsetting and mechanical paste-up, finish in the computer lab using industry-standard typesetting and page-layout softwares. This course develops a synthesis of hands-on graphic design skills with a vocabulary and critical framework for speaking about them.David W. Reinfurt
