LIBS 134: Nano-fiction

Course Description

Students in this seminar will explore a collection of extremely short stories-weird and wonderful stories that manage to ignite the imagination and evoke complex realities in just a few pages. Discussion of the stories, guided by provocative questions and thought experiments, will help students develop ways to navigate texts, subtexts, and contexts at a college level; to write more critically and analytically; and to read with more confidence and passion. The seminar will incorporate a series of short, focused writing assignments and some creative research projects. The goal is to discover rich worlds in tiny packages….and return safely, if somewhat altered, to the real world.