Major: Creative Writing, B.F.A. (1507), 45 Credits
The Creative Writing Program presents students with the opportunity to pursue the study and practice of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction in a comprehensive fashion. Building on the foundations of English and World Literature, students are given an expansive awareness of the different critical traditions that shape literary history and learn how to analyze the written criticism of contemporary writers in order to discuss their favored methods. Students in the Creative Writing Program utilize their capacity to analyze and examine their own writing as a self-reflective matter while learning the importance of redrafting and revision. They immerse themselves in the creation of an undergraduate literary magazine from first receiving submissions to editing, layout, and distribution. Through these processes, students learn to work with and in relation to others, and how to evaluate the poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction of classmates and articulate that appraisal through the workshop model. This Program is devoted to invigorating the imagining and developing the creative process of each student.
General Education: 42 Credits; Major: 45 Credits; Elective Credits: 36 Credits
Observable learning goals of program:
The Creative Writing major provides a platform on which students will:
- Practice the fundamentals of writing poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction
- Produce creative work that develops these foundational skills through advanced level study of fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction
- Use these skills in analysis and revision of their own work
- Apply these skills in working with other students through the workshop model
- Create an undergraduate literary magazine from first receiving submissions to editing, layout and distribution
- Express their own tradecraft while examining the many contrasting views
- Students must maintain an overall GPA in all their classes of 2.5 to remain in the Creative Writing program
Required courses: (42 credits)
| EWL 112 | World Literature: contexts | 3 |
| EWL 120 | World Literature: themes | 3 |
| EWL 207 | Introduction to Theory | 3 |
| EWL 210 | History of the English Language | 3 |
| CRW 201 | Introduction to Creative Writing I | 3 |
| CRW 205 | Introduction to Creative Writing II | 3 |
| CRW 310 | Literary Magazine Publishing | 3 |
| CRW 346 | Intermediate Creative Writing | 3 |
| CRW 391 | Special Topics in Creative Writing | 3 |
| CRW 391 | Special Topics in Creative Writing | 3 |
| CRW 441 | Workshop in Writing Poetry | 3 |
| CRW 442 | Workshop in Writing Fiction | 3 |
| CRW 443 | Workshop in Writing Creative Nonfiction | 3 |
| CRW 490 | Senior Seminar in Creative Writing | 3 |
Note: Take
CRW 391 twice with different topics - 3 credits each
Choose 1 Elective Course From List Below (3 credits)
Students must maintain a 2.8 cumulative grade-point average in all courses, and a 3.0 grade-point average in their major.