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Primary focus on giving students a skill set to tap into their own creativity. Opportunities for students to explore their creative strengths, develop a vocabulary with which to discuss their own creativity, and experiment with the craft and adventure of their own writing. Students will come out of the course strengthened in their ability to identify and pursue their own creative interests.

How do we tell stories in the age of the internet, social media, and new technology? How has the art of storytelling evolved over time? In this Creative Writing course we will explore storytelling in the digital age. We will be reading and writing in a variety of genres, workshopping our own personal projects, and considering ways in which storytelling has shifted from oral traditions to modern iterations like podcasts, songwriting, filmmaking, and multimedia. Assignments will range from reading Justin Torres' novel, 'We the Animals,' to watching films like 'Birdman' and 'La Jete.' We will be listening to albums, looking at photo essays, and frequently meeting outdoors to tell stories around a fire. Anyone with a sense of adventure is welcome!

How can your interest in science and the environment be enriched by a regular creative practice? How do you begin to write a poem or essay about the wonders of the natural world or the nuances of climate change? What are the tools and strategies available to creative writers, and how can these techniques be used to communicate complex concepts and research to wide-audiences? We begin to answer these questions by drawing inspiration from the rich tradition of scientists who write and writers who integrate science. Emphasizing writing process over finished product, students maintain journals throughout the quarter, responding to daily prompts that encourage both practice and play. Through open-ended and exploratory writing, along with specific exercises to learn the writer's craft, students develop a sense of their own style and voice.

With recent blockbuster films like Patterson and major prizes being awarded to artists like Bob Dylan and Kendrick Lamar, the borders of what constitutes traditional literature are shifting. In this Creative Writing course we will be looking at literature `off the page,' in songwriting, spoken word, multi-media, and visual art. We will be workshopping our own creative projects and exploring the boundaries of contemporary literature. Artists we'll be looking at include Iron and Wine, Lil Wayne, Allen Ginsberg, Beyonce, David Lynch, Patti Smith, Mark Strand, Anne Carson, Danez Smith, Bon Iver, and Lou Reed.

How can you craft a story from the real? This course will give you the skills, strategies, and support to create your own interview and research-based piece of writing (fiction or nonfiction). Students will hone the practice of listening, recording, asking questions and writing. We'll deep dive on dialogue, structure, and look at different strategies for making art based on interviews. We'll study seminal texts, and over the course, students will create their own crafted narratives based on people's real words. We'll look at graphic novels, verbatim theatre (texts crafted from interviews), poetry, autofiction, photography and film. What might you investigate and create? We'll all work alongside each other, crafting, workshopping, and shaping your own project from the initial idea to the final project. Discover what's possible when you work from the material of real life.

This course considers the role creativity plays in addressing ecological collapse. Through the primary lens of ecopoetry and climate fiction, students explore how cultural works document planetary change and reflect our evolving relationships with animals, natural resources, weather, and the concept of "nature." Can the practice of writing itself change the way we see the world and integrate ideas? Together, we'll survey how creative expression opens pathways and challenges conventional approaches to scientific knowledge and communication. To quote the visionary bell hooks, "The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is - it's to imagine what is possible." We will venture outdoors for inspiration, visit land-based sculptures on campus, and engage with exhibits at the Cantor Arts Center.  Students will gain a foundation in essential writing techniques while exploring diverse aesthetics and experiential perspectives. They will consider not only the stories they choose to tell but also the significance of the forms and materials they use. Journal prompts - including imitations, guided free-writes, and critical responses - encourage students to experiment with new ways of seeing, imagining, and problem-solving. They will develop three pieces of writing over the course of the quarter, refined with the support of workshop feedback. Undergraduate and Co-term students, regardless of major, are encouraged to apply; no prior experience is required.

Online workshop whose primary focus is to give students a skill set to tap into their own creativity. Opportunities for students to explore their creative strengths, develop a vocabulary with which to discuss their own creativity, and experiment with the craft and adventure of their own writing. Students will come out of the course strengthened in their ability to identify and pursue their own creative interests.

This class will explore the interconnectivity of writing and visual art by asking the question, what is possible in the relationship between text and image? We'll look at concrete and graphic poetry, comics and graphic nonfiction; as well as chapbooks, broadsides, erasures, visual alphabets and syllabaries, and even tarot cards. In this process we'll conceive broader questions about language and representation: what can words do that visual images cannot and vice versa; what capacities does each have for conjuring reality; what becomes imaginable only when text and image fuse? Students will have the opportunity to try out a number of small-scale exercises, as well as to craft a sustained word/art project. They will come away with a new understanding of their own relationship(s) to language, and an expanded sense of possibility in their creative practice. No experience with writing or visual art is necessary though students should be prepared to experiment as both writers and visual artists. For undergraduates only.

Everyone knows that scientists do research, but how do you do research in the humanities? This six-day course, taught over spring break, will introduce you to the excitement of humanities research, while preparing you to develop an independent summer project or to work as a research assistant for a Stanford professor. Through hands-on experience with archival materials and museum collections, you will learn how to formulate a solid research question; how to gather the evidence that will help you to answer that question; how to write up research results; how to critique the research of your fellow students; how to deliver your results in a public setting; and how to write an effective grant proposal. Freshmen, sophomores, and qualifying transfer students only. All majors and undeclared students welcome. No prior research experience necessary. Enrollment limited: apply in October at https://humanexperience.stanford.edu/undergraduates/humanities-research-intensive.