CNW at University of Iowa

Intro sequences

The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.

• 1. CNW 2680The Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction
• 1. CNW 2700The Art and Craft of Personal Writing
• 1. CNW 2710The Art and Craft of Food Writing
• 1. CNW 2720The Art and Craft of Writing About Culture

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate CNW coursework.

• CNW 2680The Art and Craft of Creative Nonfictionopens 1 course (1 directly)
• CNW 2700The Art and Craft of Personal Writingopens 1 course (1 directly)
• CNW 2710The Art and Craft of Food Writingopens 1 course (1 directly)
• CNW 2720The Art and Craft of Writing About Cultureopens 1 course (1 directly)
• CNW 2730The Art and Craft of Science Writingopens 1 course (1 directly)
• CNW 2740The Art and Craft of Writing about the Environmentopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate CNW work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 24 CNW and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 23 more CNW courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in CNW. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at CNW 2992

  1. CNW 2991Publishing I: Introduction to Literary Publishing
  2. CNW 2992Publishing II: Advanced Literary Publication

• 2 courses deep, ending at CNW 3630

  1. CNW 2680The Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction
  2. CNW 3630Advanced Nonfiction Writing

• 2 courses deep, ending at CNW 6630

  1. CNW 6610Essay Writing Workshop
  2. CNW 6630Graduate Thesis Workshop

• 2 courses deep, ending at CNW 7073

  1. CSED 7338Essentials of Qualitative Inquiry
  2. CNW 7073Ethnographic Methods, Theories, and Texts

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for CNW yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under CNW yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

CNW does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Iowa campus feed.