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Students will focus on developing a particular story-in-progress, submitting multiple drafts for peer and instructor comments. Students will need to bring a draft of the story they intend to work on, plus a published story they would like to use as a model, to the first class session.

Writers of all genres will benefit from lecture, discussion, brief readings, and in-class prompts as we focus on specific, effective tools to navigate flashbacks, flash forwards, as well as shifts of scene within a linear narrative.

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In this class, we'll first look at some excellent opening chapters and discuss why they work. Then, through experimentation, instructor feedback, and revision, students will produce ten to fifteen pages of their own first novel chapters.

No class on President's Day, Monday, February 15.

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Beethoven's creations during his final years represent most sublime achievement in classical music. The profundity, craft, and emotion of the last quartets, sonatas, symphony, and mass are unequaled in Western music.

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In this four-week class led by author Dipika Mukherjee (Ode to Broken Things; Shambala Junction), you will read short fiction from around the world. Distinguishing Characters will focus on writing characters, including unreliable narrators.

Writers are driven to write for a reason: They believe they have something to say about the human experience, about how we all strive to live in a world that does not conform to our expectations and ideals.

Learn how to write literarily relevant sex scenes to develop character and plot in memoir, novel, or short story. This is not an erotica writing workshop, but rather a class dedicated to a unique and powerful craft tool.

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This course is a special extended edition of the Basic Program methods course offered as part of our celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the program. One of the foundational premises of the Basic Program is that reading is a skill. And that like many skills, one can get better at reading through theoretically-informed practice.