May 18, 2025  
Fall 2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
Fall 2025 Graduate Catalog

CWL 510 - Forms of Fiction


Regular submission, discussion, and analysis of students’ work in one or more of the modes of fiction, including the short story, the novella, and the novel. Writing assignments may include exercises, imitations, responses, and original work. Students will examine relevant works that illustrate point of view, character development, dialogue, plot, setting, theme, motif, and other aspects of fiction. Specific mode or topic to be studied will be announced in the course schedule.

3-4 credits

Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and/or departmental consent

Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

Offered Fall, Spring

Repeatable May be repeated for credit. ​