Course Details

Course offered Autumn 2019

HONORS 345 A: Accidental Poetics: Writing with chance in found situations (C)

HONORS 345 A: Accidental Poetics: Writing with chance in found situations (C)

SLN 16004 (View UW registration info »)

Dan Paz (Comparative History of Ideas)
Email: danpaz@uw.edu

Credits: 5
Limit: 23 students

Honors Credit Type

Freshmen welcome!

Most writing classes and workshops emphasize deliberate strategies of composition. This class explores other methods, instead. What can accident, chance, arbitrary constraints, and stumbled-upon juxtapositions bring to your writing practice? We experiment with methods from Oulipo, Surrealism, Dada, ekphrastic poetry, game theory, science writing, and beyond.