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ENGL-3724: Creative Writing: Creative Non-fiction

Description: This course is designed for students who want to focus in some depth on the writing of creative non-fiction in its various forms, including memoir, personal experience writing, the lyrical essay, travel narratives, and nature writing. Emphasis is on the writing and critiquing of original creative non-fiction in a workshop/studio, environment and the analysis of exemplary texts which serve as models. Students produce a body of original non-fiction in draft and revised forms. May be repeated for a maximum of 9 credit hours.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: ENGL-2744

Required By: ENGL-4204

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: up to 9 credit hours

Sections Taught: 19

Average GPA: 3.82 (rounds to A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 79.19%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.66%

Khadijah Queen2022100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%4.001
Jeffrey A Mann202385.4%10.7%2.3%0.0%0.7%1.0%3.808
Robin M Allnutt202091.7%0.0%0.0%0.0%8.3%0.0%3.671
Nathan D Dragon202375.0%25.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.791
James M Vollmer202492.3%3.9%1.3%0.0%1.3%1.2%3.884
Lucinda H Roy202174.0%26.1%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.712
Joseph T Truscello202495.2%4.8%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.932

Grade Distribution Over Time

1234GPA
Spring 2019Fall 2019Spring 2020Fall 2020Spring 2021Fall 2021Spring 2022Fall 2022Spring 2023Fall 2023Spring 2024Fall 2024Term050% W