The Creative Writing Program offers students experience in interdisciplinary and innovative approaches to writing. The curriculum emphasizes both creative process and critical reading practices, preparing writers to participate in contemporary writing culture and for a range of language and media-centered careers.
The Creative Writing Major (30 hours) emphasize experimentation and interdisciplinarity through exploration of poetry, fiction, hybrid...
DEPARTMENT OBJECTIVES 1. To enable students to think, write, and speak critically, clearly, and effectively.
2. To enable students to read with appreciation and discrimination.
3. To provide a broad acquaintance with the master works of literature as a basis for further reading.
4. To contribute to the total educational process of the student by considering the aesthetic, social, historical, philosophical, and religious values and levels of meaning...
Welcome to the home page of the English/Writing program at Eastern Oregon University! We offer a Bachelor of Arts degree with three possible concentrations: Literature/Film, Discourse Studies, or Writing. Minors are also available in each concentration with an additional minor in Interdisciplinary Writing and Rhetoric. The Literature/Film minor and concentration of the major and the Interdisciplinary Writing and Rhetoric minor are available at a distance....
Creative Writing is a studio program designed to help students publish their artistic work. It is not intended to prepare a student for a specific career; however, our creative writing graduates, while publishing artistic work, have found diversified careers in editing, publishing, grant writing, teaching, professional schools and many fields less directly related to their writing abilities. Courses in technical communications are complementary to...
The Writing Workshop develops serious writers ” students who think of themselves primarily as writers and students for whom writing will be an important avocation. Workshop students learn the crafts of journalism, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, the play and the screenplay, and develop individual voices. They also learn to articulate and defend reasoned critical opinions. Course work must include six courses in literature and four workshops ” fiction,...
Curriculum Requirements: I. General Education [48 semester hours]
II. Major Requirements [39 semester hours]
A. Literature Survey Courses [12 semester hours]
Choose four from:
ENGL 201 American Literature Survey I (1620-1914) (3)
ENGL 202 American Literature Survey II (1914-Present) (3)
ENGL 241 English Literature from Chaucer to Milton (3)
ENGL 242 English Literature from Swift to the Moderns (3)
ENGL 260...
Elmhurst‘s writing concentration is designed for students preparing for careers in publication, journalism, advertising, and other fields. Courses in this track include fiction and nonfiction writing, poetry, and more specialized courses in journalism and business writing.
Writing courses are taught in computerized classrooms with state-of-the-art software. In addition, students have plenty of opportunities to practice their art by writing for our...
The writing and literature program is based on the principle that the study of literature is essential for students who seek careers in either publishing or journalism or who hope to pursue a Master of Fine Arts in writing. The program blends the study of literature with intensive coursework in writing and offers students the opportunity to focus, at an advanced level, on a particular genre (i.e. literary non-fiction, fiction, poetry, journalism)....
The undergraduate Creative Writing Program at Emory celebrates its 18th birthday this year. In this program, students can approach the study of literature in a creative way - through their own writing - as well as by the more traditional method of critical analysis and reading. Students may also pursue their personal interests and investigate specific genres, including poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, playwriting and screenwriting. ...
The creative writing sequence is designed for you if you are seriously committed to becoming a fiction writer, poet, or non-fiction writer, or if you want to pursue a career in the field of publishing or editing. Recent Fairfield students have had their work published in such national literary magazines as Quarterly West, Indiana Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, and Writer's Forum. Students have interned at magazines such as The New Yorker and...
The Creative Writing major provides students the opportunity to learn the art and technique of writing in a variety of forms and styles. With a skilled and widely published faculty, the department offers beginning and advanced courses in fiction and poetry, along with courses in a range of other writing disciplines, such as creative non-fiction, article writing, critical writing and reviewing, and persuasive writing.
Worthy arguments are made for applying "creative" to many genres of writing. The creative writing courses in the English Department concentrate on short fiction and on poetry. A playwriting course is also offered. These courses are useful to any persons interested in improving their communication skills. Business classes teach one how to spend money; writing courses teach one how to spend words”both skills are needed for success in the 21st century....
Students should take ENG 126 Introduction to Literature or equivalent before enrolling in other courses. The department recommends that students complete the core courses prior to upper-level courses. The Department of English offers a balanced program of courses in writing, language, and literature leading to the BA degree. This program emphasizes literature, especially American and British literature-its historical and cultural contexts, its literary...
Students in The Writing Concentration experience and develop the writing process through the reading of great literary models, through collaboration with real audiences, and through editing and incorporating writing techniques and strategies into their own styles. Students learn to appreciate not only content but also style. A variety of written discourses is presented for students to emulate and to analyze as they experience their own voice through...
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