BA Creative Writing

The Creative Writing: English major challenges students to simultaneously study literature and participate in its artistic production.Students in the major learn, in both creative writing and literature courses, to interrogate the complexities of language, culture, aesthetics, identities, communities, and themselves. Students take creative writing classes in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry (with options to also work in screenwriting and playwrighting) at every level of the major and have numerous opportunities to interact with nationally and internationally renowned writers, as well as with their peers and professors.