Howard Nemerov Seminar II

1.5 units

This seminar is open to sophomore, junior, and senior 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-tellings 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 may be taken any number of semesters for general credit. Two semesters may be counted as one 300-level elective course toward the writing minor.