Year One
Autumn
BCWRIT 500 Writing Workshop: Between Prose and Poetry
Focuses on the cross over between prose and poetry in multiple genres. Considers the prevalence of narrative and alternatives to narrative.
BCWRIT 510 Poetics Seminar: Cultural Change and Writing
Engages the subject of poetics as writing theory and practice. Focuses on cultural, social, and technological change as these create new challenges and possibilities for creative writing.
Winter
BCWRIT 501 Writing Workshop: Between Fact and Imagination
Examines the relationships between fact and imagination in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry writing.
BCWRIT 511 Poetics Seminar: Writers' Research
Addresses how writers utilize research in their writing and inquires into different kind of research that can be pursued: textual, ethnographic, and performance-based.
Spring
BCWRIT 502 Writing Workshop: Processes of Thinking and Memory
Engages the primary processes of thinking and memory as they are affected by diverse writing practices and media applications.
BCWRIT 512 Poetics Seminar: Art, Technology, Practice
Explores relationships among art, technology, and creative practice. Examines connections among diverse art forms, inquiring into their social, philosophical, and aesthetic dimensions.
Year Two
Autumn
BCWRIT 700 Creative Writing Thesis
Includes completion of creative thesis in one of the following areas: poetry, fiction, non-fiction, or cross genre as well as a poetics essay or artist’s statement. Students may elect to engage multiple media or performance venues in partial completion of their thesis.
Elective Course
Winter
BCWRIT 700 Creative Writing Thesis
Includes completion of creative thesis in one of the following areas: poetry, fiction, non-fiction, or cross genre as well as a poetics essay or artist’s statement. Students may elect to engage multiple media or performance venues in partial completion of their thesis.
Elective Course
Spring
BCWRIT 700 Creative Writing Thesis
Includes completion of creative thesis in one of the following areas: poetry, fiction, non-fiction, or cross genre as well as a poetics essay or artist’s statement. Students may elect to engage multiple media or performance venues in partial completion of their thesis.
Elective Course
Elective Courses
Students in their second year will take 5 thesis credits along with 5 elective credits each quarter. Elective credits may come from a variety of courses including, but not limited to, the following. (Note: each of these courses require a petition or form for approval).
BCWRIT 517 Teaching Practicum
A practicum in which students gain theoretical and practical experience in teaching within community groups and organizations, in elementary and secondary schools, or in community colleges and universities.*
BCWRIT 520 Internship
Students conduct an internship within an organization in order to develop and extend their writing expertise. Topics and sites vary with student interest.*
BCWRIT 530 Community-Based Practicum
Students initiate, plan, carry through, and evaluate a literary or arts event or series of events for a specific community or arts venue. Topics and sites vary with student interest.*
BCWRIT 597 Directed Reading
Intensive reading in literature, literary and art criticism, critical theory, and poetics.
BCWRIT 598 Directed Research
Focused inquiry into specific research ideas, issues, or topics and selected analytical and creative methods for pursuing these.
*Please contact the IAS Graduate Office at kosmond@uwb.edu regarding registering for this course.
Add codes are required to register for all BCWRIT elective courses.