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CURRENT AND UPCOMING COURSE INFORMATION

The CWA writing courses are open to any undergraduate at Northwestern who has met the prerequisite of having already taken one writing-intensive course at Northwestern.

Fall Quarter 2008
-Sefi Atta, The Art of Fiction

Winter Quarter 2009
-Alex Kotlowitz, The Art of Non-Fiction: Telling Stories


PAST COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

Winter Quarter 2008
- Alex Kotlowtiz, The Art of Non-Fiction: Telling Stories

Fall Quarter 2007
- Ed Roberson, The Art of Poetry:

Winter Quarter 2007
- Alex Kotlowtiz, The Art of Non-Fiction: Telling Stories
- Modes of Writing: Time and Chance

Fall Quarter 2006
- Landon Y. Jones, The Art of Non-Fiction: Find Your Own Voice

Spring Quarter 2006
- Arthur Golden, The Art of Fiction: Weaving Together the Elements of a Story
- Modes of Writing: Time and Chance

Winter Quarter 2006
- Alex Kotlowitz, The Art of Narrative Nonfiction: Telling Stories
- Modes of Writing: Time and Chance

Fall Quarter 2005
-William T. Jeanes, The Art of Non-Fiction

Spring Quarter 2005
- Peter Ho Davies: The Art of Fiction:Vision and Revision
- Modes of Writing: Time and Chance

Winter Quarter 2005
- Modes of Writing: Time and Chance
- Alex Kotlowitz: The Art of Expository Prose

Winter Quarter 2004
- Modes of Writing: The Bible and Its Transformations
- Alex Kotlowitz: The Art of Expository Prose: Telling Stories: The Art of Narrative Nonfiction

Fall Quarter 2003
- W. S. Di Piero: The Art of Poetry: American Imaginations
- Alexander Stille: The Art of Expository Prose: Narrative Nonfiction

Winter Quarter 2003
- Alex Kotlowitz: The Art of Expository Prose: Telling Stories: The Art of Narrative Nonfiction
- Modes of Writing: Time and Chance

Fall Quarter 2002
- Eleanor Wilner: The Art of Poetry: Playing the Changes

Spring Quarter 2002
- Stuart Dybek: The Art of Poetry: Image in Poetry and Fiction: A Mixed Genre Workshop
- Richard Powers: The Art of Fiction: Techniques in Fiction: Narratology
- Modes of Writing: The Bible and Its Transformations

Winter Quarter 2002
- Alex Kotlowitz: The Art of Expository Prose: Narrative Nonfiction
- Modes of Writing: The Bible and Its Transformations

Spring Quarter 2001
- Stuart Dybek: The Art of Fiction: The Magic of Craft
- Modes of Writing: Time and Chance

Winter Quarter 2001
- Alex Kotlowitz: The Art of Expository Prose: Narrative Nonfiction
- Modes of Writing: Time and Chance

Fall Quarter 2000
- W. S. Di Piero: The Art of Poetry: American Imaginations

Spring Quarter 2000
- Carl Phillips: The Art of Poetry: Makers and Making
- Modes of Writing: The Bible and Its Transformations

Winter Quarter 2000
- Rosellen Brown: The Art of Fiction: Hearing Voices: Point of View in Fiction
- Alex Kotlowitz: The Art of Expository Prose: Narrative Nonfiction
- Modes of Writing: The Bible and Its Transformations

Spring Quarter 1999
- Modes of Writing: Time and Chance

Winter Quarter 1999
- Richard Ford: The Art of Fiction: Making (not telling) Stories
- Scott Turow: The Art of Fiction: Strategies in Narration
- Modes of Writing: Language and Social Policy
- Modes of Writing: Time and Chance

Fall Quarter 1998
- Sara Paretsky: The Art of Fiction: Moving to the Page
- Modes of Writing: Language and Social Policy

Winter Quarter 1998
- Modes of Writing: Language and Social Policy

Fall Quarter 1997
- Alex Kotlowitz: The Art of Expository Prose: Narrative Nonfiction
- Eleanor Wilner: The Art of Poetry: Changing the Past: The Practice of Poetry and the Uses of Imagination
- Modes of Writing: Language and Social Policy

Spring Quarter 1997
- Robert Pinsky: The Art of Poetry: Learning from the Past: Reading and Writing Poetry

Winter Quarter 1997
- Richard Ford: The Art of Fiction: Making (not telling) Stories
- Modes of Writing: Self-Sacrifice: The Martyr in History and Fiction

Fall Quarter 1996
- Modes of Writing: Self-Sacrifice: The Martyr in History and Fiction

Spring Quarter 1996
- Jules Feiffer: The Art of Fiction: Humor and Truth
- Larry Heinemann: The Art of Fiction: A Writer's Workshop
- Modes of Writing: Social Order and the Right to Dissent

Winter Quarter 1996
- Modes of Writing: Social Order & the Right to Dissent

Spring Quarter 1995
- Tracy Kidder: The Art of Expository Prose (Course Description not available)

Winter Quarter 1995
- Ward Just: The Art of Fiction

Fall Quarter 1994
- Ann Beattie: The Art of Fiction (Course Description not available)