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The Creative Writing Major

The creative writing program leads to the Bachelor of Fine Arts. By dedicating their collegiate study to creative writing , students commit to becoming writers; they can expect to be treated as serious writers. As such, they will engage in the formal and rigerous study of craft through reading, revising, and developing the methodical and critical skills that assist in improving their own creative work as well as the work of others. If students apply themselves deliberately to the study of writing in their time at RWU, they can expect to establish solid foundations for these essential practices, common to all writers/artists.

Each year, the creative writing program brings to campus such writers as Rick Moody, Kim Addonizio, Marjorie Agosin, Steve Almond, Ann Waldman, Tom Chandler, Stuart Dischell, Mark Halliday, Stewart O’Nan, Dan Chaon, Tobias Wolff, Jennifer Haigh and C.D. Wright who speak on literature and writing and read from their works.

Degree Requirements
Creative writing majors must satisfy University Core Curriculum requirements and the College speech requirement, COMM 210. In addition, the creative writing major must successfully complete the fourteen (14) courses listed below and sufficient electives to total 120 credits. Majors are encouraged
to apply electives toward a minor or second major.

Foundation Courses
ENG             100               Introduction to Literature
CW              100               Survey of Creative Writing
CW              210               Form in Poetry
CW              220               Narrative in Writing the Short Story

Four (4) courses from the English major

Advanced Bridge Courses (Take two)
CW              350               Writers Reading Poetry Seminar
CW              360               Writers Reading Fiction Seminar
CW              440               Writing Contemporary Poetry
CW              450               The Use of Style in Writing Fiction

Advanced Breadth Courses (Take two)
CW              310               Creative Nonfiction
CW              330               Introduction to Literary Magazine
CW              340               Introduction to Playwriting
CW              430               Special Topics in Creative Writing

Thesis Courses (Take both)
CW              480                Seminar I – Revision
CW              481                Seminar II – The Thesis

The Creative Writing Minor

CW              100                Survey of Creative Writing
CW              210                Form in Poetry
CW              220                Narrative in Writing the Short Story
CW              350                Writers Reading Poetry Seminar
CW              360                Writers Reading Fiction Seminar
and
One advanced breadth course