2023-2024 Catalog

Major: Creative Writing, B.F.A. (1507), 45 Credits

The Creative Writing Program gives students 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 explore the critical traditions that shape literary history, and learn how to analyze the written criticism of contemporary writers in order to discuss their most favored methods. Students in the Creative Writing Program investigate their own writing in a self-reflective manner while focusing on the importance of redrafting and revision. They immerse themselves in the creation of an undergraduate literary magazine from receiving submissions, to editing, layout, and distribution. Through these processes, students evaluate the poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction of their classmates and articulate that appraisal through the workshop model. Our program is devoted to invigorating the imagination and developing the creative process of each student!

General Education: 30 Credits; Major: 45 Credits; Elective Credits: 45 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 112Literature and Media Seminar

3

EWL 120Themes in World Literature: Literary NYC

3

EWL 207Introduction to Theory

3

CRW 201Introduction to Creative Writing I 

3

CRW 205Introduction to Creative Writing II

3

CRW 210The Structure of English Across Literary Genres

3

CRW 310Literary Magazine Publishing

3

CRW 346Intermediate Creative Writing

3

CRW 391Special Topics in Creative Writing

3

CRW 391Special Topics in Creative Writing

3

CRW 441Workshop in Writing Poetry

3

CRW 442Workshop in Writing Fiction

3

CRW 443Workshop in Writing Creative Nonfiction

3

CRW 490Senior 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)

EWL 302Theory Seminar

3

EWL 303/FREN 303Explication De Textes

3

EWL 305The Spanish Inquisition in Literature and Film

3

EWL 306Literature of the Pacific

3

EWL 307The Visual Memoir

3

EWL 308Trauma in Literature and Film

3

EWL 309Women Write the World

3

EWL 311Reading While Black: Writing, Race, and Resistance

3

EWL 314The Many Lives of King Arthur

3

EWL 316/SPAN 316Latinx Literature

3

EWL 317Modernity & the Rise of Urban Literature

3

EWL 318/RS 318Religion and Literature 

3

EWL 319/ENV 319Narrating Climate Change

3

EWL 322Literature and Human Rights

3

EWL 324World Drama

3

EWL 325Gothic Fiction

3

EWL 327Literature and Film Of The Global Portuguese Empire

3

EWL 329Reading the Contemporary Caribbean

3

EWL 331Literature and Revolution

3

EWL 332Detective Narratives

3

EWL 333Literature and the Visual Arts

3

EWL 334Literary New York

3

EWL 335Slavery in the American Imaginary

3

EWL 337 Philosophies and Poetics of Translation

3

EWL 339Money, Money, Money: Literature and the American Dream

3

EWL 342/RS 342Dante’s Divine Comedy

3

EWL 345/COMM 345Shakespeare and Film

3

EWL 347/SPAN 347Latin American Fiction

3

EWL 359The Empire Writes Back: Contemporary Anticolonial Fiction

3

EWL 360/SPAN 357Hispanic Women Writers

3

EWL 362“Becoming American”: Immigrant Narratives

3

EWL 365/FREN 365Reading Contemporary Africa

3

EWL 370Professional Practices

3

EWL 397Research

1-6

EWL 398Directed Study

1-6

EWL 399Independent Study/Internship

1-6

EWL 410Shakespeare Seminar

3

EWL 412Literature and Feminist Theory

3

EWL 415Chaucer Seminar 

3

EWL 417Austen Seminar

3

EWL 419Hugo Seminar

3

EWL 420Contemporary India Seminar 

3

EWL 422Virginia Woolf Seminar

3