Bachelor of Arts in English and World Literature:Creative Writing
Course descriptionWe believe that student work has meaningful literary and intellectual value, and we foster a supportive community of writers among our students. Through writing exercises, workshops, and intensive reading, students begin to take creative risks in
their own writing. The aim of the writer is not to make a precise replica of experience, not to degrade the world in such a way, nor its ever-changing nature, but to build a door. If we are lucky, our readers walks through that door, arriving at a
room we could never have predicted alone.
Requirements for the Creative Writing Major
• Engl 1. Introduction to Literary Theory
• Engl 30. Introduction to Creative Writing
• One course in Twentieth Century and/or World Literature
• Three creative writing courses, at least one of which should be in a genre
• outside the student’s primary focus
• One course in British Literature
• One course in American Literature
• On elective course in literature or another discipline that influences the
• student’s creative work
• Engl 130. Advanced Creative Writing