English—Creative Writing, B.A.
Students following the Creative Writing concentration engage at every level of the creative process, from the cultivation and drafting of an idea to its publication and performance. Sharing a core with the other concentrations in which the fundamental skills of critical reading are developed and some of the intellectual and cultural issues in the fields of British, American, and World literature are explored, these students take three creative writing workshops and three craft seminars in which they learn to write in a variety of genres (poetry, memoir, fiction, and creative nonfiction) and to read for craft and technique. In English 412, the Capstone Seminar, students explore the challenges of writing a creative manuscript in a genre of their choice.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Required | ||
| ENGL 213 | Introduction to the Study of Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 219 | Making Literature Matter | 3 |
| ENGL 314 | Topics in American Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 316 | Topics in British Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 321 | Topics in World Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 412 | Capstone Seminar: Current Issues in the Discipline of English | 3 |
| Restricted Creative Writing Electives | ||
| Select three Creative Writing Workshops from the following: | ||
| ENGL 270 | Fiction Workshop | 3 |
| ENGL 301 | Narrative Workshop | 3 |
| ENGL 349 | Special Topics in Creative Writing | 3 |
| ENGL 376 | Poetry Workshop | 3 |
| ENGL 383 | Playwriting Workshop | 3 |
| ENGL 386 | Memoir Workshop | 3 |
| ENGL 395 | Creative Nonfiction Workshop | 3 |
| Select three Creative Writing Craft Courses: | ||
| ENGL 354 | The Craft of Narrative | 3 |
| ENGL 355 | The Craft of Poetry | 3 |
| ENGL 390 | The Craft of Prose | 3 |
| ENGL 392 | The Craft of Memoir | 3 |
| Literature Elective | ||
| Select one literature course from the following: | ||
| ENGL 204 | Modern American Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 205 | Queer Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 209 | Children's & Young Adult Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 214 | Science Fiction | 3 |
| ENGL 215 | Multiethnic US Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 218 | The Short Story | 3 |
| ENGL 219 | Making Literature Matter | 3 |
| ENGL 220 | African American Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 226 | Women in Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 227 | Survey of Dramatic Literature to 1620 | 3 |
| ENGL 228 | Survey of Dramatic Literature from 1620 | 3 |
| ENGL 230 | Classical Drama of Greece & Rome | 3 |
| ENGL 231 | ||
| ENGL 303 | The Novel | 3 |
| ENGL 305 | African American Women Writers | 3 |
| ENGL 306 | Modern Poetry | 3 |
| ENGL 307 | Modern Drama | 3 |
| ENGL 308 | Satire | 3 |
| ENGL 309 | Epic | 3 |
| ENGL 310 | Medieval & Renaissance Drama | 3 |
| ENGL 312 | Colonial American Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 313 | Stories of Teaching & Learning: Narratives of Education | 3 |
| ENGL 318 | Postcolonial Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 322 | Middle Eastern Literature: Writing Beyond Modernity | 3 |
| ENGL 323 | World Poetry of 20th Century | 3 |
| ENGL 324 | Irish Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 326 | Eighteenth-Century British Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 327 | Romanticism in England | 3 |
| ENGL 328 | Literature of the Crusades | 3 |
| ENGL 329 | Contemporary World Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 330 | Elizabethan Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 331 | Shakespeare: Early Works | 3 |
| ENGL 332 | Shakespeare: Later Works | 3 |
| ENGL 340 | Survey of U.S. Writers of Latin-American Descent | 3 |
| ENGL 342 | Asian Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 345 | Literature of Genocide | 3 |
| ENGL 346 | ||
| ENGL 347 | ||
| ENGL 350 | Age of Chaucer | 3 |
| ENGL 351 | African & Caribbean Women Writers | 3 |
| ENGL 352 | Modern and Contemporary African Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 353 | ||
| ENGL 356 | Victorian Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 363 | Single Author Study | 3 |
| ENGL 389 | Literature of the Palestine - Israel Conflict | 3 |
| ENGL 409 | Literary Theory | 3 |
| ENGL 410 | Thematic Studies | 3 |
| ENGL 420 | Major Cultural Conflicts in Literature | 3 |
| Total Credits | 39 | |
Notes and Policies: • The requirement for admission to the English Major is a cumulative grade point average of 2.0.• Only courses in which a grade of C or higher is earned will be applied to the major. • All students must take a total of 13 courses in the major. • English majors in all concentrations must complete ENGL 213 (Introduction to the Study of Literature) within the first nine credits in the major and ENGL 219 (Making Literature Matter) within the first fifteen, and must enroll in ENGL 412 (Senior Capstone Seminar) in their final year of classes.• English 213 is a pre/co-requisite for every 200-level course in the major.• English 219 is a pre/co-requisite for every 300-level literature course in the major.• Students in the Creative Writing concentration may substitute one literature elective for English 219. • English 314, 316, and 321 (Topics courses) are all pre/co-requisites for every 400-level course in the major.• Majors may not take more than six 200-level courses, including English 213 and 219.
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the Creative Writing BA program, students will be able to:
- Summarize texts written in a variety of modes, styles, and discourses.
- Paraphrase texts written in a variety of modes, styles, and discourses.
- Perform close reading of literary works with attention to their formal features.
- Construct explication of texts written in a variety of literary modes.
- Analyze, synthesize, and integrate secondary materials into original analysis, interpretation, or argument.