FICT 137 W — Reality Bites: Sci-Fi and Fantasy Workshop
Quarter: Winter
Instructor(s): Lauren Kate
Date(s): Jan 7—Mar 11
Class Recording Available: Yes
Class Meeting Day: Thursdays
Class Meeting Time: 12:00—1:00 pm (PT)
Tuition: $1040
Refund Deadline: Jan 9
Unit(s): 2
Enrollment Limit: 18
Status: Registration opens Nov 30, 8:30 am (PT)
Quarter: Winter
Day: Thursdays
Duration: 10 weeks
Time: 12:00—1:00 pm (PT)
Date(s): Jan 7—Mar 11
Unit(s): 2
Tuition: $1040
Refund Deadline: Jan 9
Instructor(s): Lauren Kate
Enrollment Limit: 18
Recording Available: Yes
Status: Registration opens Nov 30, 8:30 am (PT)
Fantasy and science fiction may promise escape, but great works in these genres use imagined worlds to illuminate the reader’s lived experience. Authors of sci-fi and fantasy must balance the real world we're escaping from with the fictional world we're connecting to, through character development, plot construction, point of view, pacing, tone, and suspense. For the first three weeks of this course, students will complete writing exercises, approximately 750 words per week, to develop the rules of their worlds. We’ll read from The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales, examining the imagined worlds of fantasy writers such as Catherynne M. Valente, Naomi Novik, and Garth Nix. By the end of the course, you will have written and workshopped a short story or a portion of a novel (up to 5,000 words) and determined a clear plan for revision.
LAUREN KATE
Author
Lauren Kate is a New York Times best-selling author whose novels include the White Lights series and the Fallen series, which was made into a major motion picture and an International Emmy Award–winning TV series. Her books have been featured on Jeopardy!, parodied on The Simpsons, translated into more than 30 languages, and sold over 11 million copies. She received an MA in creative writing from UC Davis and is a former acquiring editor at HarperCollins. Textbooks for this course:
(Required) Dominick Parisien(Ed.) & Navah Wolfe(Ed.), The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales (ISBN 978-1481456135)
(Required) Ursula LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness (ISBN 978-1473221628)
(Required) Ursula LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness (ISBN 978-1473221628)