There is one English major with three different paths a student can choose one to complete. Below are the requirements for the Creative Writing path. Click the following links to view the requirements for the program and the program.

Requirements for the Major (44 credits)

All English majors must complete the required courses listed below and select one emphasis for their major: Literature, Creative Writing, or Writing and Communications.

I. Required Courses (16 credits)

Complete one of the following:

course - Western Literature II
course - Gender and Literature
course - African American Literature
course - Literary Analysis

Complete both of the following:

course - Writing in the Discipline of English
course - Senior Capstone

And one Seminar chosen from the following*:

course - Advanced Pre-1900 Literary Studies: Seminar
course - Major Pre-1900 Author: Seminar
course - Advanced Literary Studies, Post-1900: Seminar
course - Major Author, Post-1900: Seminar

II. Creative Writing Emphasis

A. Literature Electives (3 courses)*

Complete 12 credits; at least 4 credits must be at the upper-level.

course - Western Literature I
course - Western Literature II
course - Gender and Literature
course - Literature of Disability
course - African American Literature
course - Indigenous Environments: Literature and Film
course - US Multi-Ethnic Literature
course - Topics in Literary Studies
course - Introduction to Film Analysis
course - Intermediate Selected Topics in Literature
course - American Prose
course - Environmental Writing and Eco-Criticism
course - Nature Writing
course - Literature of the Holocaust
course - Graphic Lit and Environment
course - Genre Fiction
course - Contemporary Transnational Cinema
course - Film History and Theory
course - Literary Translation
course - History and Structure of the English Language
course - History of Rhetoric
course - The Medieval Period: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition
course - The Renaissance: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition
course- 19th-Century British Literature: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition
course - 20th-Century British Literature: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition
course - American Literature Pre-1900: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition
course - American Literature Post-1900: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition
course - Anglophone Literature Post-1900: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition
course - Shakespeare
course - Independent Study in English
course - Advanced Topics in Literary Study
course - Gender and American Literature
course - Gender and Contemporary Anglophone Literature
course - Sexuality and Gender in 19th-Century Literature and Culture
course - Advanced Studies in Ethnic American Literature
course - Writers on Writing
course - Essays, Letters, Memoirs, and Meditations: Reading Nonfiction Prose
course - Food, Justice, and U.S. Literature
course - Environmental Justice Literature
course - The Global City in Modern and Contemporary Fiction
course - Human Rights in Literature and Film
course - Old English
course - Thinking about Genre through Film
course - Cinema and Social Justice
course - Filming American Feminisms
course - Gender and Film
course - Cinema and the Critique of Capitalism
course - Queer Cinema
course - Theories of Authorship
course - Medieval or Renaissance Literature: Advanced Studies
course - British Literature of the 18th and 19th Centuries: Advanced Studies
course - British Literature Post-1900: Advanced studies
course - American Literature Pre-1900: Advanced Studies
course - American Literature Post-1900: Advanced Studies
course - Transatlantic Literature: Advanced Studies
course - Anglophone Literature Post-1900: Advanced Studies
course - The Novel in the 20th Century/Modernism and Postmodernism
course - Topics in Literary and Critical Theory
course - Marx, Nietzsche, Freud
course - Intensive Reading of a Single Text Pre-1900
course - Intensive Reading of a Single Text Post 1900
course - British Political Drama
course - Studies in British Literature: London Literature
course - Immersive Research in English
course - Introduction to Media Studies

B. Writing Workshops (4 courses)

Complete 16 credits of upper-level writing workshops.

course - Creative Nonfiction Workshop
course - Nonfiction Writing Workshop: Articles
course - Short Fiction Workshop
course - Poetry Workshop
course - Advanced Fiction Workshop
course - Advanced Poetry Workshop
course - Theories of Authorship

*Pre-1900

At least one course in the major (seminar or elective) must include consideration of texts written before 1900.

course - Western Literature I
course - History and Structure of the English Language
course - History of Rhetoric
course - The Medieval Period: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition
course - The Renaissance: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition
course - 19th-Century British Literature: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition
course- 20th-Century British Literature: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition
course - American Literature Pre-1900: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition
course - Shakespeare
course - Sexuality and Gender in 19th-Century Literature and Culture
course - Old English
course - Community Literacy and Public Rhetoric in the Archives
course - Medieval or Renaissance Literature: Advanced Studies
course - British Literature of the 18th and 19th Centuries: Advanced Studies
course - American Literature Pre-1900: Advanced Studies
course - Marx, Nietzsche, Freud
course - Intensive Reading of a Single Text Pre-1900
course - Advanced Pre-1900 Literary Studies: Seminar
course - Major Pre-1900 Author: Seminar

ENCW - English Major: Creative Writing Emphasis

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