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Degree Requirements

English Creative Writing Minor

33 Credits Minimum, Including 15 Upper Division (UD)

Core Requirements*

ENG 2215 Imaginative Writing

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3

Section Credits Required

3

Minor Core Requirements

ENG 3150 The Sentence (3)
ENG 3180 Advanced Grammar (3)
ENG 4601 History of English (3)

UD, W
UD
UD

6

Section Credits Required

6

Genre Studies Requirement (ENG 4824 may substitute for 4822)

ENG 3310 Elements of Prosody (3)
ENG 3316 Workshop in Writing Poetry (3)
ENG 4316 Advanced Poetry Writing (3)
ENG 4823 The Poem (5)

UD
UD
UD
UD, W

14

- OR -

ENG 3311 Elements of Narrative (3)
ENG 3317 Workshop in Writing Fiction (3)
ENG 4317 Advanced Fiction Writing (3)
ENG 4822 The Novel (5)

UD
UD
UD
UD, W

14

- OR -

ENG 3311 Elements of Narrative (3)
ENG 3318 Creative Nonfiction (3)
ENG 4318 Advanced Creative Nonfiction (3)
ENG 4825 The Essay (5)

UD
UD, W
UD
UD, W

14

Section Credits Required

14

Advanced Literary Studies**

ENG 3003 Literature and Medicine (5)
ENG 3004 Literature, Gender & Sexuality (5)
ENG 3325 Film and Story (5)
ENG 3332 African-American Literature (5)
ENG 3334 US Multi-Ethnic Literature (5)
ENG 3335 Celtic Literature and Culture (5)
ENG 3339 U.S. Latinx Literature (5)
ENG 3345 Medieval English Literature (5)
ENG 3346 English Renaissance Literature (5)
ENG 3347 Lit: Enlightenment&Revolution (5)
ENG 3348 Romantic Poetry and Fiction (5)
ENG 3351 Victorian Literature (5)
ENG 3380 African Literature (5)
ENG 3381 Middle Eastern Literature (5)
ENG 3382 South Africa (5)
SJC 3382 South Africa (5)
ENG 3383 Arab Spring (5)
SJC 3383 Arab Spring (5)
ENG 3384 US Imperialism in Asia (5)
ENG 3386 The Eternal City (5)
ENG 3710 19th Century American Lit (5)
ENG 3715 20th Century American Lit (5)
ENG 3840 Lewis and Tolkien (5)
ENG 4152 Modernist Literature (5)
ENG 4162 Postmodern Literature (5)
ENG 4440 Geoffrey Chaucer (5)
ENG 4442 John Milton (5)
ENG 4449 Jane Austen (5)
ENG 4450 Emily Dickinson (5)
ENG 4451 Toni Morrison (5)
ENG 4950 Special Topics (1-5)

10

Section Credits Required

10

Minimum Total Credits Required

33

Additional Requirements and Information

*ENG 3302 OK for ENG 2215 OR as a Genre Writing course
**ENG 2221/2223/2234/2248 OK for Adv Lit Studies (1 Only)

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