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2024-2025 Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Catalog

English: Concentration in Creative Writing


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The concentration in Creative Writing offers students the opportunity and incentive to develop their writing in a workshop setting and to support their writing with a strong background in literary studies. The goal of the program is to foster confident undergraduate writers who work with a sound knowledge of their own literary tradition. Students in the program will learn to write in multiple genres: fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Scaffolded workshops at the 200, 300, and 400 levels will help them hone their craft throughout their undergraduate experience.

II. Required courses outside major—None


 

III. Other departmental requirements:


Major competency is demonstrated by successful completion of two courses from the following: LANG 460, 487, or 494. Students seeking K-6 teaching licensure can use EDUC 327, 338, and 342 for competency in lieu of one of the required 400-level courses.

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