Minor: Creative Writing
Student Learning Outcomes
Students graduating from this program will:
- Produce creative works that are structurally sound, polished, and complete.
- Demonstrate a strong, deliberate command of style, grammar, and mechanics.
- Summarize literary history, especially the literary traditions of their chosen genre.
- Analyze texts critically, recognizing how a text displays a writer's artistic decisions.
- Judge the technical and aesthetic aspects of their craft using the appropriate vocabulary.
Program Requirements
The Minor in Creative Writing is designed for students who are eager to give focused attention to developing their talents in poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction writing.
To graduate with a Minor in Creative Writing, students must achieve a grade-point average of at least 2.0 in the 21-hour program described below, but no credit will be given for courses in which the grade is below C-. No course may fulfill more than one requirement.
Program of Study
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Introductory Literature Course | 3 | |
| Myth and Literature | ||
| Foundations Of Ancient World Literature I | ||
| Introduction to Journalism | ||
| Literary Monstrosities | ||
| Popular Literature | ||
| World Literature in English | ||
| Introduction To Fiction | ||
| Introduction To Poetry | ||
| The Craft of Creative Writing | ||
| Women Writing/Women Reading | ||
| Science Fiction | ||
| Asian American Literature | ||
| Writing Courses | ||
| 300-level Writing Courses | 3 | |
| Creative Writing I Fiction | ||
| Creative Writing Poetry | ||
| Literary Nonfiction | ||
| Introduction to Screenwriting | ||
| 400-level Writing Courses | 6 | |
| External Internship | ||
| Publication Practicum | ||
| Publication Practicum | ||
| Publication Practicum | ||
| Fiction Workshop | ||
| Poetry Workshop | ||
| Nonfiction Workshop | ||
| Multigenre Workshop | ||
| Senior Tutorial | ||
| Additional writing courses from the 300- or 400-level courses listed above | 3 | |
| With approval from an advisor and the director of creative writing, the following may also qualify as writing courses: | ||
| Playwriting I | ||
| Playwriting II | ||
| Advanced Screenwriting | ||
| Language, Literature, Rhetoric | 6 | |
| Ancient World in Cinema | ||
| Classical Literature In Translation | ||
| Professional and Technical Writing | ||
| Theory And Practice Of Composition | ||
| Language, Literacy, Power | ||
| Rhetorics of New Media | ||
| Rhetorics of Public Memory | ||
| Introduction To Linguistics/Language Science | ||
| American Literature I | ||
| British Literature I | ||
| Bible As Literature | ||
| Structure Of English | ||
| American Literature II | ||
| Shakespeare | ||
| Arthurian Legends | ||
| Modern Irish Literature | ||
| British Literature II | ||
| History Of The English Language | ||
| African American Literature I | ||
| Race and Literature | ||
| African American Literature II | ||
| Introduction to American Studies | ||
| Women And Rhetoric | ||
| Women & Literary Culture: Genre Focus | ||
| Women And Literary Culture: Historical Focus | ||
| Special Readings | ||
| The Novel Before 1900 | ||
| Studies in Poetry | ||
| The Modern Novel | ||
| The Novel After 1900 | ||
| Multimodal Writing and Rhetoric | ||
| Composing Digital Environments | ||
| Old English | ||
| Histories Of Writing, Reading, And Publishing | ||
| Girls, Literacies, and Print Culture | ||
| Theory and Criticism in English Studies | ||
| Special Readings | ||
| Classical Studies | ||
| Studies in Digital Humanities | ||
| Medieval Studies | ||
| Early Modern Studies | ||
| 18th-Century Studies | ||
| 19th-Century Studies | ||
| 20th- and 21st-Century Studies | ||
| Studies in Rhetoric and Composition | ||
| Studies in Authorship | ||
| Studies in Genre | ||
| Concepts of the Hero in Ancient Literature and World Cinema | ||
| Total Credits | 21 | |