AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Your autobiography, your life story, is yours to create. Take this opportunity to leave a legacy of your life for your family, reflect on your key life experiences or explore your family history. Students will be provided a chance to read autobiographies and discuss the art of writing about oneself. Everyone will write a personal narrative, and research about some aspect of your family history is encouraged: country of origin, a cultural practice, a common career held by family members through generations, the impact a significant family member has had on your life. This course will provide students time to read, write, reflect and retreat from the busyness of life to explore and tell a story.

POETRY
In this introductory course, each student will write six poems on six different topics during the class. The focus will be on free verse poetry with rhythm. Students will also learn how to recite poetry. Through a fast-study of contemporary poets, class members will discover meaning through sensory images and identify poetic techniques that can be used to create their own surprises. By the course's conclusion, each student will have developed his or her own style and be able to recognize poetic techniques in both published and student work.

PUBLIC RELATIONS WRITING
During this three-session class, students will learn how to write effectively in order to attract news editors' attention and to reach a larger audience. Participants will also gain an understanding of media timelines to help plan publicity for events and what research tools are helpful in creating a great angle and developing a compelling "pitch".

SHORT FILMS CANCELED
Many great film makers began their careers with short films. In this class you will learn how to script a short film, plus get experience both in front of and behind the camera as you learn basic lighting, directing and acting techniques. Students should bring their own camcorder (or phone with video capabilities) to class.

WRITE A WINNING SCREENPLAY
Everyone has had an idea and thought “Hey, that will make a great movie!” During these seven weeks, you will make that a reality by turning one of your ideas into a screenplay. Learn how to make your idea marketable, develop captivating characters, write a compelling plot and market your screenplay so you can get it on the silver screen!

WRITING COMPOSITION
Sometimes it feels like it will take forever to craft even simple documents at work – you draft and draft again to produce the desired effect. This six-week course will provide you with strategies for clearly communicating your thoughts and ideas in writing. Discover how to develop a compelling lead or thesis statement. Learn how cohesive sentence structure, paragraph construction and a meaningful conclusion work to get your point across. This class is the solution to your writing woes.

WRITING FICTION
Have a great story, memoir or novel idea? Not sure where or how to begin? Or worse, suffering from the dreaded writer's block? This workshop will help you turn these great ideas into reality and give you the motivation you need to get them down on paper through in-class and take-home exercises, facilitated peer critique, idea sessions, discussion of the elements of fiction and creative nonfiction and a look into the publication process. Students will work on their own pieces every week, experimenting with various creative exercises and bouncing ideas off each other in a supportive and nurturing environment.