Creative Writing

Major Requirements

A minimum of 10 courses, and 1 Senior-Year Experience, in English:

• Five courses at the 100 or 200 level, to include English 250, two introductory creative writing courses (201, 241, 242, 243, 244, or 295), and two literature courses.
• Five courses at the 300 or 400 level.  Two courses must be taken under the Studies in Advanced Writing (AW) rubric, but no more than two courses may be taken from any one of the Studies rubrics.
• SYE: one Senior-Year Experience course, which can be taken as a senior seminar (450), an independent study (489 or 490), an honors project (498), the professional semester in education, or an SYE in another major.

Minor Requirements

The English minor in creative writing requires English 250 (Methods of Critical Analysis); two literature courses at the 200 level; three writing courses, one of which must be from the Studies in Advanced Writing (AW) rubric; and one literature course at the 300 or 400 level.