This class exists in these courses :
• Faculté de Gestion, Economie & Sciences - Licences & Prépas - Licence 2 Internationale d'Economie et de Gestion - S3 - 2 ECTS
  USCHOOL - Licence 2 Pluridisciplinaire Projet Personnel - S3 - 2 ECTS

Prerequisites

N.B: For international exchange students only, this course = 2 ECTS

L1 IE World of Work

L1 IE Debating

C1 English Level

Learning outcomes

N.B: For international exchange students only, this course = 2 ECTS

• Introduce students to the English language as a creative and literary medium using the workshop method.
• Provide linguistic tools for writing and performing both poems and short essays.
• Establish a foundation and framework of vocabulary for providing critical feedback on creative work.

Produce an individual final portfolio of work from which students will take part in a final group reading.

Course description

N.B: For international exchange students only, this course = 2 ECTS

Words make worlds. At all levels of our society, the words we and others use inform how we inhabit our lives. In a performance-driven society, most identities—from job to gender to race to citizenship—are performed. How well we perform in our assigned roles reflects how we have absorbed and interpreted the language that builds the social frameworks in which we function. And while identities may feel fixed, they are just as fluid as the language that made them. Individually and collectively, we can repurpose language to reshape our identities and thus remake the spheres we embody. With an emphasis on reading and podcast interviews, this workshop introduces you to poetry, short essays, and performance (spoken word) through creative writing exercises or “games”. We will use these exercises as a point of departure to first examine our worlds through the words that construct them, and then we will use language to imagine how to remake our worlds with words. Your final grade will be based on a written portfolio of 4-5 finalized short texts and a reading of your work.

Class type

Class structure

N.B: For international exchange students only, this course = 2 ECTS

• In-class Lectures and Multi-Media approaches

• In-class guided writing exercises and collaboration

• At-home listening and reading + thinking and writing

Creative Writing Workshop Format Assigned Readings

Group DiscussionS

Writing exercises based on prompts connected to readings

Group/Individual feedback on writing

Teaching methods

Assessment

Contrôle continu : coeff. 1

Internet resources

• We will look at selections from the following texts. All selections will be found online or in a course packet distributed at the beginning of or throughout the semester:

  Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude. (2015, University of Pittsburgh Press)

  Ross Gay, “Tending Joy and Practicing Delight with Ross Gay”, an On Being Interview with Krista Tippett. 25 July 2019, https://onbeing.org/programs/ross-gay-tending-joy-and-practicing-delight/.

  Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays. (2019, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

  Robin Kimmerer, “Speaking of Nature”, Orion Magazine. March/April 2017: https://orionmagazine.org/article/speaking-of-nature/.

  Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric. (2014, Gray Wolf Press)

  Claudia Rankine, “How Can I Say This So We Can Stay in This Car Together?”, an On Being Interview with Krista Tippett. 10 January 2019, https://onbeing.org/programs/claudia-rankine-how-can-i-say-this-so-we-can-stay-in-this-car-together-jan2019/.

  Olga Tokarczuk, Flights. tr. Jennifer Croft (2017, Riverhead Books).

  Ocean Voung, “A Life Worthy of Our Breath”, an On Being Interview with Krista Tippett. 20 April 2020, https://onbeing.org/programs/ocean-vuong-a-life-worthy-of-our-breath/.

  Ocean Voung, Night Sky with Exit Wounds. (2016, Copper Canyon Press)

  Ocean Voung, On Earth We are Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel. (2019, Vintage)