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Memoir Workshop

Course Overview

Date / Time Location Credits Minimium Tuition*
9/3/24 - 12/13/24
We 4p.m. – 6:45p.m.
W06-0094 3 $2557 (guest students)
Date
9/3/24 - 12/13/24
Time
We 4p.m. – 6:45p.m.
Location
W06-0094
Credits
3
Min. Tuition*
$2557 (guest students)

Description

The primary activity of the workshop is discussion of student work in the area of life writing. This course will examine various examples of memoir, as well as address the following questions: What responsibility does the memoirist have to facts? Are facts and truth always synonymous? What is the difference between memoir and autobiography? Why write memoir when you could compose a story or poem? Students will read and discuss classical and contemporary examples of the genre to support their own written work.

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