AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Your autobiography, your life story, is yours to create. Take this opportunity to leave a legacy of your life for your family, reflect on your key life experiences or explore your family history. Students will be provided a chance to read autobiographies and discuss the art of writing about oneself. Everyone will write a personal narrative, and research about some aspect of your family history is encouraged: country of origin, a cultural practice, a common career held by family members through generations, the impact a significant family member has had on your life. This course will provide students time to read, write, reflect and retreat from the busyness of life to explore and tell a story.

WRITE A WINNING SCREENPLAY REGISTRATION CLOSED
Everyone has had an idea and thought “Hey, that will make a great movie!” During these seven weeks, you will make that a reality by turning one of your ideas into a screenplay. Learn how to make your idea marketable, develop captivating characters, write a compelling plot and market your screenplay so you can get it on the silver screen!

WRITING FICTION REGISTRATION CLOSED
Have a great story, memoir or novel idea? Not sure where or how to begin? Or worse, suffering from the dreaded writer's block? This workshop will help you turn these great ideas into reality and give you the motivation you need to get them down on paper through in-class and take-home exercises, facilitated peer critique, idea sessions, discussion of the elements of fiction and creative nonfiction and a look into the publication process. Students will work on their own pieces every week, experimenting with various creative exercises and bouncing ideas off each other in a supportive and nurturing environment.