Creative Writing Major
As a creative writing major you can expect to receive hands-on experience that will benefit your future as a writer. Faculty will help you improve your craft through writing workshops. This will allow you to focus on creating your content and provide the flexibility to discover your voice through high level analysis and critical thinking.
By The Morning Light
Writing major students were given the opportunity to participate in a new show, "By The Morning Light" that took place on campus and included work of 25 local photographers. Read through the work of our current creative writing students.
Program Details
Program Overview
In the creative writing major, you will work closely with faculty in multiple genres to cultivate the power of individual expression and develop your own voice. Through intensive training in both creative writing and cultural studies, you will build the highly marketable skills of critical thinking, nuanced analysis, creativity, communication and collaboration. Accordingly, creative writing students thrive as copywriters, content designers, marketing and public relations specialists, technical writers, podcasters and best-selling authors.
Program Concentrations
This program is made up of the following concentrations. Learn more about concentrations.Concentration Overview
The practice of writing emphasizes the importance of critical thinking, reading, and expression as a means of understanding the past and present and thinking wisely about the future.
Courses in this Concentration
Concentration Overview
The exploration of cultural studies fosters engagement with literature, film, creative writing, and other art forms. Through this investigation, students learn to think beyond their own experiences and to understand how their ideas and actions shape the world they live in.
Concentrations on this page are required for this program. Additional courses or concentrations may need to be added to meet program or credit requirements.
Program Coursework
- Creative Writing
- Poetry Workshop
- Fiction Workshop
- Write Your World: Creative Nonfiction
- Social Change Through Storytelling
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature
- The Graphic Novel as Literature
- Film Studies
- Digital Witness: Capturing Lives and Telling Stories
- Dialogues on Power, Privilege and Difference
The specific degree requirements on the website are for illustrative purposes and may change at any time. Please contact the Registrar's Office, Academic Advising or refer to the course catalog for detailed program requirements.
Liberal Arts Core
LEADERSHIP: 4 credits
- Freshman Seminar (1 cr.)
- Spiritual & Ethical Literacy (3 cr.)
- Personal Branding Communication (3 cr.)
- Writing for the 21st Century (3 cr.)*
- Quantitative Problem Solving (3 cr.)*
- Language & Culture (3 cr.)
CORE LITERACIES: 15 credits – Choose one (1) course from each broad theme. Course options can be found in the course catalog or on the academic advising page. Broad themes are:
- Narratives of Identity (3 cr.)
- Science, Environment & Culture (3 cr.)
- Social Tensions (3 cr.)
- The American Experience (3 cr.)
- Approving the Better Things (3 cr.)
Professional Core
Culminating Experience
- Pre-Internship
- Internship
- Capstone
Jobs for Creative Writing Majors
You have limitless potential to fit into different areas as a creative writer. The skills you will learn in this program will be transferable into the workplace. You will be able to communicate, think and speak in different areas that will be marketable when looking to enter your next steps as a writer.
What can you do with a creative writing major?
- Content Writer/Author
- Copywriter
- Journalist
- Travel Blogger
- Social Media Specialist
- Email Marketing Specialist
- Editor
Contact admissions or the program faculty with questions about this program.
Laura A. Misco
Faculty - English