Creative Writing Major
Major Requirements:
- Satisfactorily completing the first year of foreign language study at the college level (or passing a first-year equivalency test)*
- One ENG-299T course
- Nine credits in literature seminar courses at the 300-level
- Two writing workshops (only one of which may be Journalism) from:
- Two subsequent writing workshops from:
- ENG-280 Theory & Methods of the Study of Literature (3 cr)
- ENG-496 Creative Writing Capstone Seminar (3 cr)
*If available, students may study Latin or Greek. Equivalency tests must be agreed upon by both the Modern Foreign Language and English departments.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Analytical Reasoning
- Communicate clearly, persuasively and confidently in writing
- Critically interpret literature
- Understand and interpret literature as a form of human imagination and expression
- Understand how the literary tradition has helped shape the world
- Critical Thinking