This class is designed for serious novelists. No, we don't have to write the entire thing, just about fifty pages and a synopsis. This is to be a new story, one that we feel we can allow to change and be ripped apart by our classmates. The readers are not to be cruel, but honest about when they're confused or bored.
Orson Scott Card is a good teacher. He said that writers must know everything about everything, so the best major would be history. Then he taught us about third-person limited viewpoint, the ideal viewpoint for a novel. Most of what he said I already knew, but I hadn't put it into those words. He then gave us an assignment to practice this viewpoint. I wrote it after dinner.
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