Creative Writing Minor

The Creative Writing Minor is designed for students who wish to improve their writing skills in fiction, poetry, or non-fiction. It is also intended to help teachers who will have creative writing responsibilities in their class assignments. Note: Students in the Writing Specialization may not enroll in the Creative Writing Minor

Two-year Schedule

Required Course (5 credits)

	2012-2013				2013-2014
+ ENG 302 Offers practice in the interpretive reading of poetry, focusing on the elements of poetry and poetic theory. Poetry and Poetics (5)	Fall	Win.	Spr.		Fall	Win.	Spr.

Select twenty credits of Creative Writing courses (20 credits)

	2012-2013			2013-2014
+ ENG 263 An introduction to the creative writing genres: poetry, fiction, screenwriting, and creative nonfiction. Examines the rhetorical forms and expectations of each in a workshop format. Intro to Creative Writing (5)	Fall	Win.	Spr.	Fall	Win.	Spr.
+ ENG 364 An introduction to the varieties of literary fiction being written today, the techniques and strategies for writing fiction, as well as developing criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of student stories. Prerequisite: ENG 263. Fiction Writing (5)	Fall	Win.		Fall
+ ENG 365 A workshop that introduces the varieties of forms, styles, voices, and strategies for writing poetry. Emphasizes reading professional models and the development and application of criteria for evaluating and revising poems. Prerequisite: ENG 263. Poetry Writing (5)		Win.			Win.
+ ENG 366 A workshop that considers the varieties and forms of the creative essay and its historical evolution. Emphasiszes reading professional models, the uses of research, and the development and application of criteria for evaluating and revising essays. Prerequisite: ENG 263. Creative Nonfiction (5)			Spr.			Spr.
+ ENG 368 This online class will build creative writing skills in fiction writing, poetry writing, and creative nonfiction writing through writing exercises, reading of focused examples of published work, and individual and group workshops using discussion board. Prerequisite: ENG 263. Multi-Genre Writing Workshop (5)
+ ENG 369 A workshop focusing on a specific genre or topic in creative writing. Emphasizes reading professional models and the development and application of criteria for evaluating and revising texts appropriate to the topic. Prerequisite: ENG 263. May be repeated for up to 10 credits under a different subtitle. Variable Topics Writing Workshop (5)
+ ENG 464 Intensive workshop further developing the techniques of writing literary fiction: weaving together character development, plot, dialogue, exposition, setting, and thematic structure. Emphasizes the development of criteria for evaluating and improving literary fiction, as well as reading professional models to learn technique. Prerequisite: ENG 364. Advanced Fiction Writing (5)		Win.			Win.
+ ENG 465 Intensive workshop further examining the genres within poetry, as well as experimenting with forms, discursive structures, and voice; revising for economy and precision; exploring metrical effects. Prerequisite: ENG 365. Advanced Poetry Writing (5)			Spr.			Spr.
+ ENG 466 Intensive workshop further developing the techniques of writing creative nonfiction: researching, editing, assimilating features of fiction and poetry, and experimenting with structure, voice, and style. Reading professional models to learn technique. Prerequisite: ENG 366. Advanced Creative Nonfiction (5)	Fall
+ ENG 468 Genre specific seminar (poetry or fiction) with writing workshop element, featuring a schedule of visiting writers. Students will read work by visiting writers, develop critical thinking about craft, attend readings, explore contemporary publishing issues, and write both analytical papers and creative work. Prerequisites: ENG 364 or ENG 365. May be repeated for credit. Contemporary Writer's Colloquium (5)			Spr.			Spr.
+ ENG 484 Students will select and edit manuscripts for publication in the Manastash Literary Journal. Prerequisites: ENG 301 and ENG 303. May be repeated for credit. Manastash: Literary Editing (3)		Win.			Win.

Select one Literature course at the 300 level or above (5 credits)

	2012-2013			2013-2014
+ ENG 330 Study of literature by African Americans. African American Literature (5)			Spr.
+ ENG 331 Study of literature by Latina/o writers. Latina/o Literature (5)						Spr.
+ ENG 332 Study of literature by American Indians. American Indian Literature (5)					Win.
+ ENG 333 Study of literature by Chinese-, Japanese-, Korean-, Vietnamese-, and other Asian-American writers. Asian American Literature (5)				Fall
+ ENG 334 An examination of American Indian oral and nonfiction literature, including myth, legend, oratory, ritual and ceremony, and forms of autobiography, including coup tales, boarding school narratives, etc. American Indian Oral and Nonfiction Literature (5)		Win.
+ ENG 335 Examines women's literature in light of contemporary feminist literary theories. Prerequisites: ENG 302 and ENG 303 or instructor permission. Women's Literature (5)	Fall
+ ENG 363 Intensive study of selected Shakespeare plays and poetry. May be repeated up to 10 credits under a different subtitle. Prerequisite: ENG 302 and ENG 303. Shakespeare (5)	Fall			Fall		Spr.
+ ENG 371 Historical and critical studies in literature from the classical era through the Renaissance. May be repeated under a different subtitle. Prerequisites: ENG 302 and ENG 303, Literature & History I (5)						Spr.
+ ENG 372 Historical and critical studies in literature from the mid-17th century through the mid-19th century. May be repeated under a different subtitle. Prerequisites: ENG 302 and ENG 303. Literature & History II (5)	Fall				Win.
+ ENG 373 Historical and critical studies in literature from the nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century. May be repeated under a different subtitle. Prerequisites: ENG 302 and ENG 303,. Literature & History III (5)		Win.	Spr.	Fall
+ ENG 374 Historical and critical studies in literature from the 20th century through the present. May be repeated under different subtitle. Prerequisite: ENG 302 and ENG 303. Literature & History IV (5)		Win.
+ ENG/TH 380 Intensive study of representative examples of drama. ENG 380 and TH 380 are cross-listed courses; students may not receive credit for both. Prerequisites: ENG 302 and ENG 303. Studies in Drama (5)					Win.
+ ENG 415 Intensive study of a group of texts focused by theme, author, theoretical approach, or social and historical context.. Prerequisites: ENG 302 and ENG 303. May be repeated for credit under a different subtitle. Critical Studies in American Literature (5)		Win.			Win.
+ ENG 417 Intensive study of a group of texts focused by theme, author, theoretical approach, or social and historical context. Prerequisites & Notes: Prerequisites: ENG 302 and ENG 303. May be repeated for credit under a different subtitle. Critical Studies in World Literature (5)			Spr.			Spr.
+ ENG 419 Intensive study of group texts focused by theme, author, theoretical approach, or social and historical context. Prerequisites: ENG 302 and ENG 303. May be repeated for credit under a different subtitle. Critical Studies in British Literature (5)	Fall			Fall
+ ENG 453 Extensive reading and analysis of prose fiction. May be repeated under a different subtitle. Prerequisites: ENG 302 and ENG 303. Studies in Fiction (5)	Fall		Spr.			Spr.
+ ENG 454 Extensive reading and analysis of literary nonfiction. Prerequisites: ENG 302, ENG 303. May be repeated under a different subtitle. Studies in Nonfiction (5)				Fall
+ ENG 455 Intensive study of representative example of poetry. Prerequisites: ENG 302 and ENG 303. May be repeated for credit under a different subtitle. Studies in Poetry (5)		Win.

Total: 30 credits

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