Creative Writing, Minor

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The Minor in Creative Writing offers the opportunity to develop expertise in writing fiction, poetry, stage plays, screenplays, nonfiction and other forms of imaginative literature. This cross-disciplinary minor involves a total of eight courses including at least two at the 3000-level or higher.

Required Courses

One Introduction to Creative Writing course from the list below.
One Writing Foundation course from the list below.
One Approved Option from the list below.
One course at the 1000-level or higher with a CRWT prefix.
Two courses at the 2000-level or higher with a CRWT prefix.
One course at the 3000-level or higher with a CRWT prefix.
One course at the 3000-level or higher with a CRWT prefix or from approved options with an ENGL prefix.

One Introduction to Creative Writing:

One Writing Foundation:

One Approved Option:

ENGL 2205 - Writing about Literature *
ENGL 2207 - Intermediate Writing
ENGL 2263 - Technical Writing
ENGL 3304 - Advanced Writing: Theory, Pedagogy, Practice
ENGL 3266 - Editing: Theory and Practice
INFO 3675 - Memetics: Contemporary Rhetorics of Dissent and Disinformation
JOUR 3717 - Specialized Writing for Journalism
ENGL 4801 - Topics in Writing **
PUBR 1849 - Applied Writing I for Public Relations
*This course requires one or more prerequisites outside of the minor.
**ENGL 4801 may also be used as a CRWT-prefixed course.

Notes:

Students should be aware that registration in senior CRWT and ENGL courses may require successful completion of specific courses at the 1000-, 2000-, and/or 3000-level.
No more than one Directed Readings course in a single discipline can be used for graduation purposes.