Concentration in Creative Writing
Creative writing is dependent on communities of support and learning. The English major with concentration in Creative Writing allows students to engage with a community of learning through defined courses focused on the activity of creative writing. The concentration represents a full spectrum of courses from beginning to advanced. Small classes and workshops ensure close collaboration between the faculty and the student. Workshops are taught by the graduate creative writing faculty, all published, award-winning writers.
REQUIREMENTS (Click here to download the PDF)
Requirements for the concentration in creative writing are as follows:
L202: Literary Interpretation. Required for both the minor and the major, L202 ensures that majors in the writing track are conversant in basic issues of literary interpretation. Prerequisite: English W131 or other successful fulfillment of first-year composition requirement. (3 hours)
L371: Critical Practices. Required for the major, L371’s aim of granting "study . . . and practice in using contemporary critical methodologies" enhances student skill and sophistication in the analysis and appreciation of language. Prerequisite: English W131 or other successful fulfillment of first-year composition requirement. (3 hours)
Historical-Distribution Requirement:
- Beginnings through the Sixteenth Century (3 hours)
- Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (3 hours)
- The Nineteenth Century (3 hours)
- 1900 to the Present (3 hours)
12 hours, of which at least 6 must be at the 300-level or above, chosen from the following list. At least one course must be either W381 or W383.
- W203: Creative Writing
- W301: Writing Fiction
- W303: Writing Poetry
- W311: Writing Creative Nonfiction
- W401: Advanced Fiction Writing
- W403: Advanced Poetry Writing
- W381: The Craft of Fiction
- W383: The Craft of Poetry
COURSES SATISFYING HISTORICAL-DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT
Beginnings through the Sixteenth Century:
- E301: Literatures in English to 1600
- L305: Chaucer
- L306: Middle English Literature
- L307: Medieval and Tudor Drama
Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries:
- E302: Literatures in English, 1600-1800
- L308: Elizabethan Drama and Its Background
- L309: Elizabethan Poetry
- L313: Early Plays of Shakespeare
- L314: Late Plays of Shakespeare
- L317: English Poetry of the Early Seventeenth Century
- L318: Milton
- L320: Restoration and Early Eighteenth- Century Literature
- L327: Later Eighteenth-Century Literature
- L328: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama
- L347: British Fiction to 1800
- L350: Early American Writing and Culture to 1800
The Nineteenth Century:
- E303: Literatures in English, 1800-1900
- L332: Romantic Literature
- L335: Victorian Literature
- L348: Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
- L351: American Literature 1800-1865
- L352: American Literature 1865-1914
- L355: American Fiction to 1900
- L356: American Poetry to 1900
1900 to the Present:
- E304: Literatures in English, 1900-Present
- L345: Twentieth-Century British Poetry
- L346: Twentieth-Century British Fiction
- L354: American Literature since 1914
- L357: Twentieth-Century American Poetry
- L358: American Literature, 1914-1960
- L359: American Literature, 1960-present
- L366: Modern Drama: English, Irish, American, and Post-Colonial
- L380: Literary Modernism
- L381: Recent Writing
- L383: Studies in British and Commonwealth Culture (when subject is 20th Century)
