Overview
Students studying Creative Writing engage closely with their professors and collaboratively with each other in our limited-enrollment, workshop-style courses, receiving detailed feedback on their original stories, poems, and essays.
Students also read a diverse array of contemporary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, and are encouraged to explore multilingual writing in our courses, whether by incorporating languages other than English into their work or by deploying dialects and vernaculars from communities and geographic regions across the English-speaking world.
Curriculum Requirements
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
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| ENG 209 | Creative Writing | 3 |
| After taking ENG 209, complete TWO of the following courses | 6 | |
| Beginning Fiction Workshop | ||
| Beginning Poetry Workshop | ||
| Intermediate Fiction Workshop | ||
| Intermediate Poetry Workshop | ||
| Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) Only with instructor permission | ||
| Creative Writing (Poetry) Only with instructor permission | ||
| Creative Writing Special Topics | ||
| Writing Autobiography | ||
| Select one LITERATURE course at the 200-level | 3 | |
| World Literary Masterpieces I | ||
| World Literary Masterpieces II | ||
| Jewish Literature | ||
| Literary Themes and Topics | ||
| English Literature I | ||
| English Literature II | ||
| American Literature I | ||
| American Literature II | ||
| English and American Literature by Women | ||
| Introduction to Poetry | ||
| Introduction to Fiction | ||
| Literature and Medicine | ||
| Art of the Con: Con Artists, Tricksters, and Card Sharks in U.S. Literature and Culture | ||
| Literature and Law | ||
| Contemporary American Migrations | ||
| Contemporary Disaster Fiction | ||
| The Circle of Knowledge: Science and the Humanities | ||
| The Harlem Renaissance and Its Afterparties | ||
| Afrofuturism | ||
| Curiosity: Vice and Virtue in Science and Literature | ||
| Literature and the Environment | ||
| African-American Literature | ||
| Literature of the Americas | ||
| Select one LITERATURE course at the 300-level or 400-level (i.e., any ENG course at these levels EXCEPT ENG 390, ENG 391, ENG 392, ENG 404, ENG 406, ENG 407, or ENG 408). | 3 | |
| Total Credit Hours | 15 | |
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Students may declare a Minor in Creative Writing through their school or college. Submitting materials to the Creative Writing Program is not required for the minor.
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The student completes at least 15 credit hours at the 200-level or above beyond the credits earned for first-year writing.
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A minimum grade of C- or better is required in each course and with an overall GPA in the minor of 2.0 or better.
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Students pursuing both a major and a minor (or two majors) offered by the Department of English and Creative Writing may double-count a maximum of two English courses toward the fulfillment of their degree requirements. They must also have an additional major or minor in a department other than English and Creative Writing.
