Consciousness

About this course:

In this three-hour seminar on point of view, we explore the various choices available regarding point of view. We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of first-person, the various third-person perspectives, as well as some of the less-frequently used angles such as second-person and first-person plural. Students leave this seminar with a new understanding of the choices available to them regarding point of view and how it affects the stories they write and the presentation of characters' interior lives. Students gain the necessary tools to determine which point of view works best for this interior exploration through examination of published stories and through exercises related to their own work.