ENGL-2341 Forms of Literature for Creative Writers

Elisha Ryder

Credit Fall 2024

Section(s)

ENGL-2341-006 (11638)
LEC DIL ONL DIL

Course Requirements

Required Course Materials

  • Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, edt. Ellen Datlow. ISBN 978-1534413474 (Paperback).

Technological Requirements

  • Regular and reliable access to the internet, our Blackboard course site, and your ACC email account
  • You MUST be able to access your email, Blackboard, and our course materials daily in order to be successful in the course.

Readings

Week - Session Date

Instructional Unit

Assignments

Week 1

1 - Sep 9
  • Course Orientation 
  • What Makes a Story a Ghost Story?
  • Course Orientation
    • Introductory Discussion Post Due September 11
  • Read: ECHOES Introduction, Ellen Datlow
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving
    • Discussion Board Initial Posts Due September 15

Week 2

2 - Sep 16
  • What Makes a Story a Ghost Story?
  • Read:
    • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bierce
    • “Ice Cold Lemonade, 25c Haunted House Tour, 1 Per Person,” Paul Tremblay, p1
      • Discussion Board  Responses due September 22

Week 3

3 - Sep 23
  • What Makes a Story a Ghost Story?
  • What Makes a Ghost Story a Ghost Story Critical Assignment Due September 29

Week 4

4 - Sep 30 
  • What Makes a Story a Ghost Story?
  • Creative Project Workshop 1
    • Project Submission due October 2
    • Workshop Responses due October 6

Week 5

5 - Oct 7
  • Why Do We Tell Ghost Stories?

Week 6

6 - Oct 14
  • Why Do We Tell Ghost Stories?

Week 7

7 - Oct 21
  • Why Do We Tell Ghost Stories?

Week 8

8 - Oct 28
  • Why Do We Tell Ghost Stories?
  • Creative Project Workshop 2
    • Project Submission due October 30
    • Workshop Responses due November 3

Week 9

9 - Nov 4
  • What Makes a Ghost Story Work?

Week 10

10 - Nov 11 
  • What Makes a Ghost Story Work?
  • The Craft of Writing Horror Stories, NPR Interview with Stephen King
  • “The Loneliness of Not Being Haunted,” Bracken MacLeod, p505
    • What Makes a Ghost Story Work? Responses due November 17

Week 11

11 - Nov 18
  • What Makes a Ghost Story Work?
  • What Makes a Ghost Story Work? Assignment due November 24

Week 12

12 - Nov 25 (Thanksgiving Week)
  • What Makes a Ghost Story Work?
  • Thanksgiving Break

Week 13

13 - Dec 2
  • What Makes a Ghost Story Work?
  • Creative Project Workshop 3
    • Project Submission due December 4
    • Workshop Responses due December 8

Week 14

14 - Dec 9
  • What’s Next?


 

Course Subjects

ENGL 2341 Forms of Literature for Creative Writers: Ghost Stories examines the supernatural in various expressions of literary writing, identifying the reasons we tell ghost stories, the elements of storytelling that create ghost stories, and the craft and criticism focused on ghost stories. We’ll read spooky stories, talk about why we like to be scared, and explore how ghost stories help us understand and interact with the world. Finally, we’ll create our own spine-tingling stories and find homes they can forever haunt.

Student Learning Outcomes/Learning Objectives

  • Identify key ideas, representative authors and works, significant modes and forms of expression, and characteristic perspectives or attitudes expressed in one or more creative genres or forms of literature.
  • Analyze literary works in one or more literary genres  as expressions of genre, form, audience expectation, and social context.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the structure, tropes, themes, writing processes, and other elements of one or more genres or forms of literature.
  • Articulate the aesthetic principles that guide the scope and variety of works in the arts and humanities.
  • Write research-based critical papers and creative projects in response to assigned readings, using various approaches to critical and creative writing.

Office Hours

T Th 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Virtual (Physical Office Space In-Transit)

NOTE I will happily provide a link to a virtual meeting on request, and should you need to meet outside my posted hours just let me know and we can schedule something together.

M W 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM Virtual (Physical Office Space In-Transit)

NOTE I will happily provide a link to a virtual meeting on request, and should you need to meet outside my posted hours just let me know and we can schedule something together.

Office Hours

T Th 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Virtual (Physical Office Space In-Transit)

NOTE I will happily provide a link to a virtual meeting on request, and should you need to meet outside my posted hours just let me know and we can schedule something together.

M W 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM Virtual (Physical Office Space In-Transit)

NOTE I will happily provide a link to a virtual meeting on request, and should you need to meet outside my posted hours just let me know and we can schedule something together.

Published: 09/04/2024 12:42:18