MULTIGENRE WRITING WORKSHOP - SCIENCE IN THE LITERARY ARTS

Course Description

The meeting of the arts and science is often framed as STEAM, an acronym that adds the “A” for “arts” to the more common STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. However, in such contexts, the arts are often put in a service position, as a fun way to ultimately still teach science, with little benefit to the arts themselves. In this class, we will seek to flip this paradigm on its head, asking instead how the sciences might serve the literary arts, for the benefit of the literary arts. In this class, students will develop poems and prose from scientific concepts, focusing on the unique language, metaphors, and images that science offers. Students should expect to write in preparation for every class meeting and share their work with their peers.