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Course Credit:  3.0

Mark Twain, whose tongue perpetually pushed into his cheek, asked the following: “Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.” This class is about making sense of the process of making sense. By analyzing and implementing the tools of fiction — plot, character, tone, symbol, point of view, setting, theme — this class provides students insight on how storytellers order the chaos to engender meaning.