Co-Major in Creative Writing

Department of Language and Literature

Objective: The co-major in Creative Writing provides students with opportunities to practice writing in multiple genres, to read and discuss models of great literature, and to understand the style and function of the English language.

Administrator: Chair, Department of Language and Literature

Requirements: 31 credits of which 19 shall be numbered above 2999, completion of a major or second co-major from a different discipline.

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Core Creative Writing Courses: 31 credits

Item #
Title
Credits
ENGL2050
Beginning Creative Writing
3
ENGL3040W
Creative Writing: Prose
3
ENGL3050
Creative Writing: Poetry
3
ENGL3060W
Creative Writing: Nonfiction
3
ENGL3120
Linguistics: Structure and History of Language
3
ENGL3510
Contemporary Poetry
3
ENGL4980
Senior Seminar
1

Writing Elective:

Item #
Title
Credits
Additional ENGL3000W course
3

Three courses selected from:

Item #
Title
Credits
ENGL2220
American Literature: Civil War to the Present
3
ENGL2320
British Literature: The Romantic Age to the Present
3
ENGL2410
Major Literature of the Western World
3
ENGL3320W
Shakespeare
3
ENGL3410
Greek and Roman Classics
3
ENGL3520
Contemporary Drama
3
ENGL4270W
Minority Voices in American Literature
3