Creative Writing

You definitely get out what you put into this course. Spring is awesome and a super genuine person. The workshop is awesome if you have people in your class who are putting effort and care into it. Overall, it's a great easy workshop.

This class is absolutely one where you get back what you put into it. If you want the easy literature credit, then this is definitely a class you could use for that, but going into it with that mindset won't produce a lot of learning from this class. Spring is a great person, and has an interesting class structuring style. The highlight of the class was our peer review sessions, where over the course of 3 classes, we dedicate 15-20 minutes for discussing works submitted by members of the class. We were originally supposed to do this twice, we wound up doing it a third time because we enjoyed this aspect of the class so much. Other than producing our own writing, the other major component of the class was reading recently published non-fiction books, that even Spring hadn't read before. While most of the books were absolutely not my style, and oftentimes actively bothered me, it was interesting to realize that a lot of the class agreed in disliking them. This taught me the value in learning about a viewpoint that goes against your own, as I learned to justify how I felt about them. Overall this class can really help you grow as both a reader and a writer if that's actually something you want to do.

This class is absolutely one where you get back what you put into it. If you want the easy literature credit, then this is definitely a class you could use for that, but going into it with that mindset won't produce a lot of learning from this class. Spring is a great person, and has an interesting class structuring style. The highli …Read more

I really liked the way that this class was organized. Every week, three people wrote stories that we would then read and discuss as a class. I thought it was super fun to read other peoples' writing and see how each person expressed themselves. It was especially cool to see what different people had in common through different aspects of their writing. It was always pretty intimidating for me to share my pieces, but I felt that getting other peoples' opinions both made me feels better about what I'd written and gave me lots of ways in which to improve it. This class definitely gave me inspiration to write more. Professor Cohen assigned interesting short stories to us every week and the annotations let us think about what stylistic things we wanted to implement into our own writings. His feedback about our writing was particularly helpful and I'd definitely take another class with him.

I really liked the way that this class was organized. Every week, three people wrote stories that we would then read and discuss as a class. I thought it was super fun to read other peoples' writing and see how each person expressed themselves. It was especially cool to see what different people had in common through different aspect …Read more