Creative Writing Concentration
Beginning in Fall 2009, the English Department has initiated a new Area of Study in Creative Writing. Students who fulfill the following 6 courses will receive a certificate from the English Department at graduation.
Students must take the prerequisite ENG 207 (Intro to Poetry and Prose) followed by 5 upper level courses: 3 workshops, 1 literature course, and a capstone course.
*Three of these courses must be poetry or fiction workshops (390, 391, 434, 435) where the student must take 2 courses in one genre and one in the other (for example, 2 fiction workshops and 1 poetry workshop or 2 poetry workshops and 1 fiction workshop) and where one of the workshops is at the 400 level.
*392: Literature, Writing, Practice, or a similar literature course with a writing or author focus, such as 339: American Poetry or 353: Experimental Fiction (or another course approved by the Creative Writing Advisor).
*The capstone course 480: Cross Genre Literature and Writing
PLEASE NOTE:
For 2009-2010, students interested in the Creative Writing Concentration may postpone taking the prerequisite ENG 207 and sign up for the advanced 300 and 400 level poetry and fiction workshops. Moreover, students who have in the past taken ENG 206 (Introduction to Prose) may consider it a prerequisite for the advanced level courses. Finally, students who do postpone taking 207 must take it at a later date in order to complete the Creative Writing track.
Beginning 2010-2011, the ENG 207 prerequisite will be enforced
CREATIVE WRITING CONCENTRATION
1. One course (3 credits) in ENG 207 - Intro to Writing Poetry/Fiction.
2. Two 300-level workshops, requiring the 200-level course as a prerequisite (6 credits).
3. One 400-level workshop (3 credits), requiring the 300-level workshop in the same genre (e.g., fiction at 300 level as a prerequisite for the Advanced Fiction workshop).
4. One course (3 credits) in a literary genre - for example, Experimental Fiction, Hawthorne, Postmodern Fiction, Joyce, Whitman/Dickinson, or any course that focuses on the close reading of a single genre (not a survey course).
5. One 400/500-level Cross-genre and Hybrid Literature and Theory course, offered once a year and open to graduate students (3 credits). The undergraduate prerequisite is a 400-level workshop.
