Creative Writing and the WRITE Program
This department has a long tradition of creative writing, beginning with its first creative writing class offering in 1939 by pioneer Professor F.M. Salter. The Write Program includes courses in traditional as well as emerging genres, and offers the opportunity to take a combined degree in creative writing and another subject, or to minor in Writing.
WRITE courses allow students to dwell in the English language in the intense, focused and disciplined way only working writers experience. While skilled writers are valued in the workplace and in graduate schools, participants in WRITE courses in nonfiction, fiction, poetry, as well as other new genres, discover much more than a marketable expertise at their craft - they discover new ways of seeing and revealing the world, of reflecting on the writing process, of extending and deepening their thinking, of understanding how the language in which we think, feel, speak and write writes us.
WRITE courses are open to students in all faculties who meet the prerequisites. Students may either take a single course or follow a structured route through the program.
For full program information, consult §44.6 of the University Calendar.
Combined B.A. Honors Degree in Creative Writing
The General B.A. degree allows a maximum of 15 credits in WRITE courses for an English major, 9 for a minor. Those whose commitment to writing is strong may wish to consider Creative Writing as one of two subjects in a Combined B.A. Honors degree program. Students in this program are required to complete 36 credits in each of the two subjects. Students may also fulfill part of their requirements by taking DRAMA courses in playwriting at the 300-level or above or an Honors Tutorial, WRITE 532 (*3 or *6), or any one of the approved cross-listed courses..
B.A. Degree with a Minor Concentration in Creative Writing
Students wishing to declare a Minor in Creative Writing require *6 of Junior English plus 12 credits of WRITE courses or DRAMA courses in playwriting. English Majors who declare a Creative Writing Minor will NOT be able to count WRITE courses toward their English Major.