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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Creative Writing, B.A.


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About the Major


The English Department’s Major in Creative Writing combines a classic literary curriculum with a tiered system of practical workshops in fiction, poetry and non-fiction writing. After a required foundation course in writing fiction and poetry, you choose intermediate workshops in fiction or poetry writing.  Then, starting in your junior year, you choose from among advanced specialized courses based on your interests: Writing for Children, Young Adult Writing, Memoir Writing, Fiction Writing, Poetry Writing, and Script and Playwriting, in which you’ll work one-one-one with faculty members who are professional, published writers.

200-Level Required Courses (20 Credits)


  • One 200-Level Course in “Topics in African Diasporic Literature”
  • One 200-Level Course in “Topics in Identity and Social Justice”
  • EN 212 Writing Poetry and Fiction  
  • First 200-Level Creative Writing Workshop Course
  • Second 200-Level Creative Writing Workshop Course

300-Level Required Courses (20 Credits)


  • First 300-Level Course in “Topics in European Literature” OR “Topics in U.S. Literature” OR “Topics in Global Literature”
  • Second 300-Level Course in “Topics in European Literature” OR “Topics in U.S. Literature” OR “Topics in Global Literature” 
  • One 300-Level Literature Elective OR EN 399 Senior Literature Seminar  
  • First 300-Level Creative Writing Workshop Course
  • Second 300-Level Creative Writing Workshop Course

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