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Creative Writing Major

HFA PEAK

33 credits (Total does not include First-Year Seminar, ENG-100)

Major Requirements

Complete the following (3 credits):

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 9 credits of 300-level literature seminars:

ENG-307Origins and Traditions of English Literature

3 credits
ENG-308Rival Playwrights: Marlowe, Shakespeare, Johnson

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-319Nineteenth-Century Literature of the British Isles

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-332Adrienne Rich

3 credits
ENG-333Hemingway and Faulkner

3 credits
ENG-335American Renaissance

3 credits
ENG-337American Poetry and Poetics

3 credits
ENG-338Postmodern Literature

3 credits
ENG-344Author Seminar: Henry David Thoreau

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 (6 credits):

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

3 credits
ENG-346Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop

3 credits
ENG-347Advanced Creative Nonfiction WritingWorkshop

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

3 credits
ENG-346Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop

3 credits
ENG-347Advanced Creative Nonfiction WritingWorkshop

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

3 credits

Capstone (3 credits):

ENG-496Creative Writing Capstone Seminar

3 credits