Creative Writing

The Undergraduate Creative Writing Program offers the opportunity for students to take courses in three areas: poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction. The program includes literature courses, forms courses that examine the history of a genre from a writer's perspective, and creative writing workshops in fiction, poetry or creative nonfiction. The degree offered is a BA in English with a Concentration in Creative Writing.

• ENGL 3606 Poetry Writing
• ENGL 3607 Fiction Writing
• ENGL 3608 Creative Nonfiction Writing
• ENGL 4600 Creative Nonfiction Workshop (3608 prerequisite)
• ENGL 4601 Poetry Workshop (3606 prerequisite)
• ENGL 4603 Fiction Workshop (3607 prerequisite)

Recent Course Offerings

• 12 Concentration hours must be composed of the following:

  • 1) 6 hours composed of ENGL 3606 and either 3607 or 3608; and
  • 2) 6 hours of 4000-level workshop courses: 4600, 4601, or 4603.
• Students planning to apply for graduate school in Creative Writing should consult closely with a faculty advisor in Creative Writing and should plan on taking two or more of their 4000-level courses (workshops and forms courses) in a single genre (poetry or fiction).
• In other words, students MUST take 3606 as 3 hours toward the CW concentration total; 3 hrs of either 3607 or 3608; 6 hours of 4000-level workshop courses: 4600, 4601, or 4603.
• 4900, 4996, and 4610 may only be used as English Upper Division electives and cannot be used toward the concentration hours.
• Students must complete English 3606, 3607 and/or 3608 before enrolling in a 4000-level workshop (4600, 4601, 4603).
• Creative Writing workshops (4600, 4601, 4603) may each be taken twice within the concentration.
• See the Undergraduate Catalog - English (B.A.)  for a complete list of all degree requirements.