Creative writing courses
Major requirements:
Ten courses, internship and Senior Inquiry project
Writing Gateways: Take two out of three
Writing Poetry ENCW 201
Writing Fiction ENCW 202
Writing Creative Nonfiction ENCW 203 (New Course replacing EN 304)
Literary Gateways: Take all three
English Lit to 1660
English Lit 1660-1900
American Lit 1620-present
300 level writing courses: Take one Forms and two others
Forms in Poetry ENCW 330 (new course)
Forms in Fiction ENCW 331 (new course)
Poetry Workshop ENCW 301
Fiction Workshop ENCW 302
Topics in Creative Nonfiction ENCW 303 (new course)
300 level literature courses: Take two
Any courses from 315-365
Internship: One or more credit (not required)
May be completed by working one year on Saga staff, taking ENGL 403 Book Publishing, or completing a community internship with faculty supervision and creative writing faculty approval.
Senior Inquiry
ENCW 441-442
A four-credit, two-term course, capped at seven students.
Term one: gather and revise a creative writing portfolio in the student's chosen genres. Mix genre projects are possible with prior approval. The portfolio will be modeled after typical MFA program writing sample requirements.
Term two: selected reading assigned by instructor, based on students' work. Ten-page paper on those readings, reflecting on the tradition from which the student is working; alternately, students -- especially those who are not interested in continuing along the academic creative writing path -- may write a ten-page reflective paper on what they wish to do with the skills they've learned from the creative writing major.
Creative Writing Minor
Six courses: Writing and Literary gateways, plus one 300 level writing course
