Victory University 2012-2013 Academic Catalog

Creation of original short stories or short-short stories with strong emphasis on fuller, more
developed stories, building a body of stories together, with a minimum of 3-4 stories
amounting to a minimum of 35-50 typed, double-spaced completed pages for the semester.
EN-4302 ADVANCED FICTION WORKSHOP: NOVEL OR NOVELLA (3 SEMESTER HOURS)
Creation of an original novella and/or developed chapters of a sustained longer work of fiction,
such as the beginning of a novel, with a minimum of 50-70 typed, double-spaced pages for
semester; readings in the form of the novella, both contemporary and classic examples, will be
expected. Prerequisite: EN-1102, EN-1202, EN-2501, one humanities course, and/or permission
by the instructor.
EN-4311 ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP NONFICTION (3 SEMESTER HOURS)
This course serves as an extension to increase one’s ability to read, evaluate, and produce
quality literary work through one’s exploration of one’s life’s journeys. It is an advanced
workshop course that emphasizes innovations in structure, language, and style. This course will
combine reading and analysis of creative nonfiction with a workshop of students’ writing.
Prerequisite: EN-2502. May be repeated for credit.
EN-4400 FORMS IN FICTION II (3 SEMESTER HOURS)
As in Forms of Fiction I, this course explores further readings and analysis of various forms,
genres, and methods of fictional approaches to material, such as the use of landscape and/or
nature in fiction, language, syntax, naturalism, magical realism, modernism and postmodernism,
and the various ways different writers structure their novels and stories; usually up
to four novels read in class as well as short stories, from 17 th to 21 st century writers.
Prerequisite: EN-1102, EN-1202, and one humanities course or concurrent with a humanities
course.
EN-4500 STUDIES IN THE WRITING LIFE (3 SEMESTER HOURS)
Either a focus on one writer or several; concentration on a poet, fiction writer, creative
nonfiction writer or combination of any of the three; readings of biographies of writers, essays
by writers, or writers on writing, such as The Writing Life, by Annie Dillard; One Writer’s
Beginnings, by Eudora Welty; Death in the Afternoon, by Ernest Hemingway; On Writing,
Stephen King; How I Grew Up South, by Ernest Gaines; How Bigger Thomas Was Born, by
Richard Wright, among others. Prerequisite: EN-1102, EN-1202, and one humanities course or
concurrent with a humanities course.
EN-4600 SENIOR THESIS IN CREATIVE WRITING (3 SEMESTER HOURS)
This course is designed to serve as a student’s capstone project for the BFA. The course allows
the student to work one-on-one with a thesis advisor in order to produce a text worthy of
publication in a literary journal. The course integrates the student’s entire undergraduate
experience.
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