Students will learn and employ techniques for generating compelling titles, stories, structure, hooks, consistent lyric perspective, and universal, real, urgent emotional truths, found in hit pop songs. Students will also listen, read text related to, analyze the lyric structure of current hit songs. Instructor will provide students with critiques of students’ lyric writing technique assignments.  Course objective is for students to learn and employ techniques and exercises for generating coherent memorable hit song lyrics. (Partial syllabus, here.)