Theories & Methods of Writing about Creative Practice

Prerequisites: No Prerequisites.

Description: This course enables students to explore the theories and methods of writing about creative practice, an area of study that reveals surprising insights into the possibilities that creative practitioners have for communicating about their work in a larger discourse. It encourages students to find their own voice as they practice sharing discoveries about their context and methods through both traditional and alternative writing approaches, such as poetic inquiry, auto-theory, creative nonfiction, conceptual writing, or forms that they invent based on the needs of their individual creative work. Through course readings, flexible assignments, regular reflection, writing workshops, and a self-designed final project, students learn a variety of approaches for explicitly examining their creative practice and sharing this writing with a wider audience. Students who are working on a thesis or a portfolio can deepen their engagement with these documents in this course as well.

Frequency: This course is offered occasionally in the winter term.