Creative Writing Major

HFA PEAK

30 credits (Total does not include First-Year Seminar, ENG-100 or foreign language courses)

Major Requirements

Complete the following:

ENG-280Theory and Methods of the Study of Literature

3 credits

Note: ENG-280 should be taken before enrolling in 300-level literature seminars.

Complete 6 credits from the following:

ENG-
200-Level Introduction to Literary Studies Courses

6 credits

Note: 6 credits of 200-level Introduction to Literary Studies Courses are to be completed by no later than end of sophomore year. Ideally students majoring or minoring in Literature in English or Creative Writing majors will have taken two Introduction to Literary Study courses at the 200-level before enrolling in 300-level literature seminars.

Complete 6 credits of 300-level literature seminars:

ENG-306The Seventeenth Century Lyric

3 credits

ENG-307Origins and Traditions of English Literature

3 credits

ENG-308Rival Playwrights: Marlowe, Shakespeare, Johnson

3 credits

ENG-309The Epic Tradition

3 credits

ENG-310English Renaissance Literature

3 credits

ENG-311Drama of Early Modern Europe

3 credits

ENG-315Ghosties and Ghoulies and Long-Leggedy Beasties: the Supernatural in British Literature

3 credits

ENG-316The Brontes

3 credits

ENG-317Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

3 credits

ENG-318Prize Books

3 credits

ENG-319Nineteenth-Century Literature of the British Isles

3 credits

ENG-320Twentieth-Century Literature of the British Isles

3 credits

ENG-322V. S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie

3 credits

ENG-323Postcolonial Studies

3 credits

ENG-324Narratives Against Oppression

3 credits

ENG-325Constructing World Literatures

3 credits

ENG-329Inventing America

3 credits

ENG-330African American Literature

3 credits

ENG-331Gardens of American Literature

3 credits

ENG-332Adrienne Rich

3 credits

ENG-333Hemingway and Faulkner

3 credits

ENG-334Ecopoetics

3 credits

ENG-335American Renaissance

3 credits

ENG-337American Poetry and Poetics

3 credits

ENG-338Postmodern Literature

3 credits

200-Level Writing Workshops

Complete 6 credits from the following:

ENG-245Poetry Writing Workshop

3 credits

ENG-246Fiction Writing Workshop

3 credits

ENG-247Creat Nonfiction Writ Wkshp

3 credits

JOURN-200Principles and Practices of Journalism: Print

3 credits

Additional Writing and Seminar Requirements

Complete 6 credits from the following:
ENG-345Advanced Poetry Writing Workshop

3 credits

ENG-346Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop

3 credits

ENG-347Advanced Creative Nonfiction Writing Workshop

3 credits

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OR

Complete 3 credits from the following:
ENG-345Advanced Poetry Writing Workshop

3 credits

ENG-346Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop

3 credits

ENG-347Advanced Creative Nonfiction Writing Workshop

3 credits

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AND

Complete the following:
ENG-SEM-
One 300-Level Literature Seminar

3 credits

Capstone

ENG-496Creative Writing Capstone Seminar

3 credits

Foreign Language Courses

Complete 1 first-year sequence from the following languages:

Spanish

SPA-101Spanish Language & Culture I

4 credits

SPA-102Spanish Language & Culture II

4 credits

French

FRE-101French Language and Culture I

4 credits

FRE-102French Language and Culture II

4 credits

Note: If available, students may study Latin or Greek. Equivalency tests must be agreed upon by both the Modern Foreign Language and English Departments.