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BA Creative Writing
BA Creative Writing

BA Creative Writing

  • ID:FDU10005
  • Level:4-Year Bachelor's Degree
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Admission Requirements

Entry Requirements

An undergraduate freshman student is a student who has completed high school and is studying his/her first degree

English Requirements

  • TOEFLIBT: 70

  • TOEFLPBT (old):550

  • TOEFLPBT (revised):59

  • IELTS:6.0

  • ITEP:3.7

  • Pearson's PTE-A:    53

  • GTEC:1150

Other                    

  • SAT EBRW: 480

  • ACT English: 22

  • ELS EAP level 112

Course Information

The BA in creative writing offers wonderful opportunities for emerging writers as they prepare for careers in a variety of fields.

Students have the chance to study with nationally celebrated professional authors and editors and to play a valued role in a vital community of writers and readers. The distribution of course requirements provides students with a solid background in literary studies, an introduction to creative writing in a number of genres, an advanced focus in a particular genre and an opportunity to choose from dozens of complementary minors to tailor the major to the student’s particular interests and needs.

The program is devoted to providing students with the best possible foundation for careers both in and out of the creative writing field. The program’s students are editors, lawyers, writers, teachers, professors and advertising and marketing executives – and many choose to go on to graduate school in creative writing or literature. Students will have many opportunities to volunteer in the community and discover just how much their particular talents are valued in the world while making a significant contribution to it.

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Course Descriptions

  • CREW1001   Introduction to Creative Wrtg   3 credits

  • CREW2002   Creative Writing: Fiction   3 credits

  • CREW2003   Creative Writing: Poetry   3 credits

  • CREW2016   CNF: What's Your Real Story   3 credits

  • CREW2255   Playwriting & Dramatic Struc   3 credits

  • CREW3010   Invented Worlds   3 credits

  • CREW3011   Advanced Fiction Writing   3 credits

  • CREW3012   Advanced Poetry Writing   3 credits

  • CREW3013   Advanced Dramatic Writing   3 credits

  • CREW3020   Reading As Writers   3 credits

  • CREW3023   Sp Topics: Tellng the Truth   3 credits

  • CREW4001   Senior Writing Project I   3 credits

  • CREW4002   Senior Writing Project II   3 credits

  • CREW4498   Internship Creating Writing I   3 credits

  • FILM2250   Screenwriting I   3 credits

  • LITS2001   The European Tradition I   3 credits

  • LITS2002   World Lit II : 13th-18th Cent   3 credits

  • LITS2003   Approaches to World Literature   3 credits

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Career Opportunity

Career Opportunity

Students have the chance to work as interns at The Literary Review, one of the most prestigious literary magazines in the country heading into its 61st year of publishing important writers from around the world. FDU’s online student magazine, Sphere, offers students the chance to work in all aspects of publishing as they collaborate to create the world’s first international student literary journal while making friends and contacts here and around the world.

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Overseas Student Health Cover

Health & Major Medical Insurance Per Year, Can be waived for domestic students. Can also be waived in certain circumstances for International Students with documentation of alternative coverage.

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