Courses & Requirements
A Bachelor of Arts degree (120 credits) consists of Core Curriculum (24 credits) and at least one major (36–60 credits), as well as minors and/or elective courses of the student’s choosing.
Creative Writing & Literature Major Requirements
Required Courses
Gateway
- WRI210 Experimental and Activist Literatures (3)
Milestone
300-level and 400-level Writing Workshops: Choose 12 Credits
Writing workshops train in various genres and include poetry, fiction, and cross-genre. Workshops require the regular submission of original work for critique, oral presentation, and editing.
WRI312 Poetry and Poetics (3)
WRI318 Writing Workshop: Long Poem (3)
WRI329 Writing Workshop: Contemplative Poetics (3)
WRI331 Writing Workshop: Creative Nonfiction (3)
WRI339 Writing Workshop: Flash Fiction (3)
WRI351–3 Summer Writing Program (2–6)
WRI362 Writing Workshop: Fiction (3)
WRI369 Writing Workshop: Narrative Forms (3)
WRI380 Writing Workshop: Eco-Poetics (3)
WRI394W Writing Workshop: Writers Practicum with Anne Waldman (1)
WRI395W Writing Workshop: Writers Practicum with Allen Ginsberg Visiting Fellow (1)
WRI415 Writing Workshop: Innovative Poetry (3)
WRI428 Writing Workshop: Innovative Fiction (3)
WRI440 Writing Workshop: Extended Narratives (3)
WRI449 Writing Workshop: Embodied Poetics (3)
WRI451–3 Summer Writing Program (2–6)
WRI456 Writing Workshop: Poetry in Theory (3)
WRI460 Writing Workshop: Ekphrastic Writing (3)
WRI490 Special Topics: Writing Workshop (3)
300-level and 400-level Literature Seminars: Choose 9 Credits
Literature seminars examine selected writers’ works, topics, or periods in literary history and require critical papers in standard academic format.
WRI349 Literature Seminar: Modernism and Postmodernism(3)
WRI355 Literature Seminar: World Traditions and Letters(3)
WRI441 Literature Seminar: Women Writers (3)
WRI448 Literature Seminar: Diaspora, Migration, and Borderlands (3)
WRI455 Literature Seminar: Literary Theory (3)
WRI457 Literature Seminar: Major Authors (3)
WRI491 Special Topics: Literature Seminar (3)
Writers in Community
- WRI417 Writing Workshop: Writers in Community (3)
Electives: Choose 6 Credits
Electives can be any 300-level or 400-level course; professional development, literature seminars, or workshops/Summer Writing Program.
Capstone
- COR440 Capstone II (3)
