Howard Nemerov Seminar I

1.5 units

This seminar is required for and limited to freshmen recipients of the Howard Nemerov Writing Scholarship. Each year the writing and reading for the seminar is organized around a theme. The theme for 2017-18 is Writing as Reaction, Re-creation, and Restraint, and will include sections on writing works that are motivated by social and political issues (reaction); writing modern re-telling's of myths and Bible stories (re-creation); and writing works that are created in response to imposed formal restrictions inspired by the French literary group The Oulipo (restraint). This course is taken for P/F credit and two semesters may be counted as one 200-level elective course toward the writing minor.