The Creative Writing minor hones students' skills in fiction, poetry, literary nonfiction and multimodal storytelling, while placing them in community with other creative practitioners. Through seminars and workshops in the field, students develop a corpus of their own creative work, while deepening their capacity for observation, empathy and imaginative problem-solving—skills that transfer to any area of life, from the personal to the professional.

The creative writing minor consists of six courses (18 credit hours).

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Foundational course		3
ENGL 3000	Introduction to Literary Studies
Introduction to Creative Writing		3
ENGL 3240	Introduction to Creative Writing
Literature Electives - Choose two from the following: 1		6
ENGL 2011	Books that Matter
ENGL 2012	Well Versed
ENGL 2020	Studies in Culture
ENGL 2030	Global Literatures
ENGL 3110	Exploring the English Language
ENGL 3140	Sociolinguistics
ENGL 3301	Here Be Monsters
ENGL 3302	Crossing Over
ENGL 3410	Drama
ENGL 3453	Romanticism and Nature
ENGL 3462	Gothic Fiction
ENGL 3503	British Literature since 1900
ENGL 3513	Modern Irish Literature
ENGL 3514	Contemporary Irish Literature
ENGL 3517	Memory and Forgetting in Contemporary Historical Fiction
ENGL 3611	Jane Austen
ENGL 3617	James Joyce's Ulysses
ENGL 3730	What Is a Book?
ENGL 3734	The Epic
ENGL 3736	Fiction
ENGL 3738	Poetry
ENGL 3786	Women Writers
ENGL 3740	Film Studies
ENGL 3751	The Art of War
ENGL 3761	Medicine and Literature
ENGL 3762	Disability and Literature
ENGL 3775	Literature and Place
ENGL 3765	Material Cultures
ENGL 3766	Environmental Protection
ENGL 3780	Water Is Life: Indigenous Art and Activism in Changing Climates
ENGL 3785	LGBTQ+ Narratives: Literature, Film, Theory
ENGL 3841	Global Hip Hop
ENGL 3860	The Russian Novel and the Search for Meaning
ENGL 4120	Anatomy of English
ENGL 4130	History of the English Language
ENGL 4170	Studies in Language
ENGL 4303	Studies in the Medieval Imagination
ENGL 4311	Themes in Medieval Literature
ENGL 4321	British Literature of the 16th Century
ENGL 4331	Shakespeare
ENGL 4341	British Literature of the 17th Century
ENGL 4351	Milton
ENGL 4361	Literatures of Pre-Colonial and Colonial America
ENGL 4402	The Novel to 1900
ENGL 4412	Transatlantic Literature, 1700-1900
ENGL 4422	British Literature of the Long 18th Century
ENGL 4423	Legal Fictions of the Enlightenment
ENGL 4432	US Literatures of the Revolution and New Republic
ENGL 4442	US Literature from the Constitution to the Civil War
ENGL 4452	British Literature of the Romantic Period, 1790-1837
ENGL 4472	British Literature of the Victorian Period, 1837-1900
ENGL 4482	US Literature from the Civil War to the Early 20th Century
ENGL 4523	Modernism
ENGL 4533	US Literature: 20th-Century Beginnings to World War II
ENGL 4543	British Literature of the Postmodernist Period
ENGL 4553	US Literature after World War II
ENGL 4563	Literatures of the 21st Century
ENGL 4610	Individual Authors
ENGL 4612	J. R. R. Tolkien
ENGL 4615	Text in Context
ENGL 4616	Moby-Dick
ENGL 4631	Toni Morrison
ENGL 4710	Studies in Genre
ENGL 4715	Children's Literature
ENGL 4716	Science Fiction/Fantasy
ENGL 4717	Comics and Graphic Narrative
ENGL 4720	Literary Criticism and Cultural Studies
ENGL 4737	Creative Nonfiction
ENGL 4739	Narrative 4: Storytelling for Others
ENGL 4745	Digital Literacies
ENGL 4746	Game Studies
ENGL 4747	Banned Books
ENGL 4755	Law and Literature
ENGL 4762	Neuroscience and Literature
ENGL 4770	Studies in Literature and Culture
ENGL 4785	Gender, Sexuality, Literature
ENGL 4820	Advanced Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
ENGL 4825	Native American / Indigenous Literatures
ENGL 4826	Global Indigenous Literatures
ENGL 4830	Africana Literatures
ENGL 4840	Postcolonial Literatures
ENGL 4850	Global Literatures
ENGL 4931	Topics in Literature
Creative Writing Electives - Choose two from the following:		6
ENGL 3210	Writing Practices and Processes
ENGL 3241	Crafting the Short Story
ENGL 3242	Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy
ENGL 3249	Creativity and Community
ENGL 3250	Life-Writing, Creativity and Community
ENGL 3261	Poetry and Community
ENGL 3515	Rhetorics of Irish Storytelling
ENGL 4000	The Career Class
ENGL 4250	Creative Writing: Fiction
ENGL 4260	Creative Writing: Poetry
ENGL 4270	Creative Writing: Nonfiction
ENGL 4739	Narrative 4: Storytelling for Others
ENGL 4954	Seminar in Creative Writing
Total Credit Hours:		18

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ENGL 4932 Topics in Writing, ENGL 4986 Writing Internship, ENGL 4995 Independent Study in English, ENGL 4999 Senior Thesis may also be taken when the topic is Creative Writing.

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