2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Nov 16, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Creative Writing, BFA


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The Creative Writing major allows students to write fiction and poetry in multi-tiered workshops that culminate in a final writing project of publishable quality. The program offers instruction in other genres of writing and in literary editing and publishing, and it includes substantial coursework in literature. The skills students acquire in this program will equip them for all types of careers where keen, lucid writing is expected, whether analytical, editorial, or creative. This program also prepares students for graduate study in both Creative Writing and English.

Traditional Major Program Requirements (51-52 units)


Upper Division Creative Writing Requirements


Complete one (1) of the following sequences:

Christian Literary Studies Requirement


Complete three (3) units from the following:

Optional Concentrations


Students can earn an optional concentration in one of the following areas: Digital Literary Studies; Journalism and New Media; Marketing Communications

*Each optional concentration requires the completion of twelve (12) distinct units beyond the major. 

Digital Literary Studies


Journalism and New Media


Marketing Communications


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