Minor in Creative Writing
The minor in Creative Writing provides students with a chance to pursue their passion for creative writing while engaging with a wide range of texts, ideas, and cultural works. In Creative Writing classes, students work with an active, publishing faculty. They learn by vigorous practice; by focused studies of craft; and by extensive reading, analysis and discussion of their work, as well as that of published authors.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Creative Work: Students will produce a written creative work demonstrating growth as writers.
- Literature: Students will read, discuss, and analyze the work of a broad range of writers from diverse racial and cultural backgrounds and explain how literature in general, and their own genre in particular, relates to the larger human experience.
- Craft Elements: Students will write and revise creative nonfiction, fiction, plays, and/or poetry using the elements of craft to embody their individual and universal visions as well as analyze and discuss craft elements in their peers’ work.
Minor in Creative Writing - 18 units
A minimum of 6 upper-division units are required to complete the minor.
All coursework used to satisfy the requirements of the minor must be completed with a minimum grade point average of 2.0.
Fundamentals (3 units)
Select One:
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| C W 301 | Fundamentals of Creative Writing | 3 |
| C W 302 | Fundamentals of Creative Reading | 3 |
Craft (3 units)
Select One:
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| C W 511GW | Craft of Poetry - GWAR | 3 |
| C W 512GW | Craft of Fiction - GWAR | 3 |
| C W 513GW | Craft of Playwriting - GWAR | 3 |
Minor Electives (12 units)
Select Four:
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| C W 506 | The Business of Creative Writing | 3 |
| C W 507 | Writing on the Body | 3 |
| C W 508 | 3 | |
| C W 510 | The Creative Process | 3 |
| C W 514 | Contemporary World Poetry | 3 |
| C W 520 | Writers on Writing | 3 |
| C W 550 | Poetry Center Workshop | 3 |
| C W 600 | Special Topics in Writing | 3 |
| C W 602 | Playwriting | 3 |
| C W 603 | Short Story Writing | 3 |
| C W 604 | Poetry Writing | 3 |
| C W 605 | Writing and Performing Monologues | 3 |
| C W 606 | Art of Revision: from Draft to Manuscript | 3 |
| C W 609 | Directed Writing for B.A. Students | 3 |
| C W 640 | Transfer Literary Magazine | 3 |