Minor
Creative Writing
Degrees and Certificates
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Creative Writing,
Classes
CRTW 6300: Graduate Poetry Workshop
Course will be devoted to the exploration of craft techniques and revision processes of poetry with student drafts as the primary texts and the workshop model of compliment and critique as the mode of education.
CRTW 6301: Graduate Fiction Workshop
Course will be devoted to the exploration of craft techniques and revision processes of fiction with student drafts as the primary texts and the workshop model of compliment and critique as the mode of education.
CRTW 6302: The Craft of Poetry
An introduction to the theory and practice of prosody with particular attention to stanzaic and genre forms. Students will compose poems in the various forms that compose the English Poetic Tradition.
CRTW 6303: Art & Metaphysics of Fiction
Study of the art and philosophy of Fiction and Dramatic Narrative ranging from the concrete and practical to the metaphysical, grounded in such texts as: Aristotle’s Poetics; Flannery O’Connor’s Mystery and Manners; William Lynch’s Christ and Apollo: The Dimensions of the Literary Imagination; Caroline Gordon’s How to Read a Novel; Charles Baxter's The Art of Subtext; Joan Silber's The Art of Time in Fiction; James Wood’s How Fiction Works; Douglas Bauer’s The Stuff of Fiction: Advice on Craft
CRTW 6304: Non-Fiction Writing Workshop
Course will be devoted to the exploration of craft techniques and revision processes of non-fiction with student drafts as the primary texts and the workshop model of compliment and critique as the mode of education.
CRTW 6305: The Philosophy of Art & Beauty
This course grant students a philosophical understanding of the nature of beauty, the nature of art, and the relationship between the two. Possible texts include: Plato’s Symposium; Pseudo-Dionysius; Jacques Maritain’s Art and Scholasticism; Etienne Gilson’s Arts of the Beautiful;
CRTW 6306: The Poetry of Meditation
Students read philosophical theology alongside lyric poets and will write imitations of the authors read as exercises.
CRTW 6307: Residential Seminar in Fiction
At the UST Houston campus, students will take a seminar in fiction.
CRTW 6308: Residential Seminar in Poetry
At the UST Houston campus, students will take a seminar in poetics.
CRTW 6309: European Catholic Literary Revival
Study of major European literary works which embody, in exemplary ways, what makes the Catholic imagination distinctive, expansive, beautiful, and true. Catholic literary tradition. Prospective authors include: Leon Bloy, Georges Bernanos, Paul Claudel, T.S. Eliot, Francois Mauriac, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Muriel Spark, Evelyn Waugh, J.RR. Tolkien, Chesterton, and Sigrid Undset.
CRTW 6310: Catholic Imagination in Modern American Literature
A study of the major American writers of the Catholic Literary Revival and the contemporary authors who succeeded them. Prospective authors include: George Santayana, Allen Tate, Robert Lowell, Caroline Gordon, Flannery O’Connor, Thomas Merton, Walker Percy, J.F. Powers, Helen Pinkerton, John Finlay, Alice McDermott, Christopher Beha, and Dana Gioia.
CRTW 6312: Foundations of the Catholic Literary Tradition
A close reading of foundational and seminal works that form the Catholic West: Virgil, The Aeneid; St. Augustine, Confessions; Dante, Divine Comedy; Manzoni, The Betrothed.
CRTW 6313: Advanced Seminar in Fiction
Students will learn to identify the aspects of craft at work in exemplary fiction.
CRTW 6314: Advanced Seminar in Poetry
Students will learn to identify the aspects of craft at work in exemplary poetry.
CRTW 6393: Special Topic
Selected topics of mutual interest to faculty and students.
CRTW 6398: Directed Thesis in Poetry
Under the direction of a professor, student completes a collection of poetry.
CRTW 6399: Directed Thesis in Fiction
Under the direction of a professor, student completes a short story collection or novel.