COMM 3001

Hybrid Narratives: A Creative Writing Experience

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2026-2027 Catalog.

Explores the dynamic and generative relationship between words and images. Emphasizes curiosity, experimentation, and creative play as necessary components to self-expression. Using photographs, paintings, illustrations, and other visual materials as starting points for inspiration, students will develop writing projects that grow out of looking closely, noticing details, and following the creative impulse wherever it might lead. Rather than focusing on getting everything “right,” we will explore short writing exercises, creative detours, and collaborative prompts that help writers generate ideas and discover new directions for their work. create poems, short prose pieces, and hybrid works that combine visual and textual elements in new and unexpected ways.

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Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate audience awareness by making purposeful rhetorical choices across written and multimodal compositions.
• Analyze how structure, medium, and form shape meaning in multimodal compositions.
• Practice communicating clearly and effectively through the integration of text and image.
• Create original work in a range of genres and formats that respond to different prompts.
• Reflect on their writing and composing processes, evaluating how experimentation, feedback, and revision contribute to their development as writers.

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