Recent ProfessorsNot yet assignedRecent SemestersNo scheduled sections on recordClass SizeNot publishedCredits3PrerequisiteEligibility for ENGL C1000 (formerly ENGL 1) and ENGL 71. Transfers ToCSUDescriptionThis course introduces the craft and practice of creative nonfiction, which employs many of the literary strategies and techniques of fiction writing to the telling of true stories. Students will explore CNF subgenres such as memoir, flash and micro-memoir, researched nonfiction, hermit crabs and other borrowed forms, lyric, braided, and other types of personal essays, cultural criticism, travel narratives and even hybrid subgenres. Students will expand and sharpen storytelling skills and gain a deeper understanding of the properties of creative nonfiction through writing, revision, reading, discussion, and critique. By reading and analyzing a range of nonfiction works, students will broaden their understanding of the narrative designs, literary techniques, and opportunities for expression available in creative nonfiction. 