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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: 63

Average GPA: 3.61 (A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 62.44%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.45%

Robin M Allnutt202060.7%27.7%4.7%1.3%5.0%0.7%3.3616
Khadijah Queen2022100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%4.001
Jeffrey A Mann202379.4%17.6%1.6%0.5%0.3%0.5%3.7417
Bures Simone T Poirier200657.7%36.0%1.0%0.0%5.4%0.0%3.355
Nathan D Dragon202375.0%25.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.791
James M Vollmer202387.7%8.3%2.8%0.0%0.0%1.2%3.844
Lucinda H Roy202168.4%31.6%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.647
Gyorgyi Voros2012100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%4.001
Michael S Smith201889.5%0.0%5.3%0.0%0.0%5.3%3.891
Kathleen S Fallon200980.8%12.3%6.1%0.0%0.8%0.0%3.696
Joseph T Truscello202495.2%4.8%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.932
Tiffany L Trent200761.4%31.8%4.5%2.3%0.0%0.0%3.502

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