This is a course dedicated to the practice of journalistic writing. Students will learn about a range of journalistic genres, which may include interviews, profiles, reportage, features, storytelling, and criticism, as well as a range of journalistic writing tools, which may include exposition, quotation, research methodology, and fact-checking.
Creative writing courses allow students to:
- Create original works in fiction, poetry, screenwriting, etc.
- Develop a consistent writing practice
- Practice effective revision techniques
- Become a more perceptive and insightful reader
Optional live session times will be announced.
The workshop course is limited to 17 students.
*Academic credit is defined by the University of Pennsylvania as a course unit (c.u.). A course unit (c.u.) is a general measure of academic work over a period of time, typically a term (semester or summer). A c.u. (or a fraction of a c.u.) represents different types of academic work across different types of academic programs and is the basic unit of progress toward a degree. One c.u. is usually converted to a four-semester-hour course.
Instructors
- 2017-2018 Digital Studies Fellow at Rutgers University-Camden
J †Johnson (they/them) is the author of Janky Materiality: Artifice & Interface (punctum books, 2025), The Book / Or / The Woods (punctum books, 2021), and Trouble Songs: A Musicological Poetics (punctum books, 2018).… Read more
- Povich Writer-in-Residence at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing (CPCW)
Dick Polman is the Maury Povich Writer-in-Residence, a member of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing (CPCW) faculty, and writer of a newsletter each week at dickpolman.substack.com. His previous work, as a political columnist, is archived at dickpolman.net. Dick was a 22-year staff… Read more
