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Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing
Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing

Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing

  • ID:WiU10018
  • Level:4-Year Bachelor's Degree
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Admission Requirements

Entry requirements

  • Complete your free online application
  • Your official transcripts

English requirements

  • TOEFL - Paper-Based Test: 550
  • TOEFL - Internet-Based Test: 80 minimum
    • Speaking Proficiency Sections: 19 minimum
    • All Other Sections: 17 minimum
  • IELTS: 6.5
  • Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE): 58
  • Duolingo English Test (DET): 105
  • GTEC CBT: 1200
  • MELAB: 77

Course Information

Gain practical writing skills and the confidence to engage your wildest imagination when you major in creative writing. Encouraged by your professors and peers in small classes, you'll create original works of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama.

Your creative writing education begins by reading the best of classic and contemporary literature. As you discuss readings in class, you'll learn fundamental writing techniques that will form the basis of all you create. You'll receive constant feedback in peer-review sessions and support from one-on-one conferences with professors, not to mention workshops with distinguished visiting writers like George Saunders and Kim Addonizio.

Apply what you've learned in the classroom to meaningful projects by completing a praxis course working with local publishers or facilitating a community writing workshop. No matter what you want to create, a creative writing degree will help you make it.

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General Education Requirements (47 Credits)

  • ASC 400 - Values Seminar 3 Credit(s)
  • ENGL 101 - Reading, Thinking and Writing 3 Credit(s) and
  • ENGL 102 - Literature and Critical Writing (W) 3 Credit(s)
  • PE 101 and PE 102

Humanities (12 Credits)

  • HIST/AH/MUS 3 Credit(s)
  • AH/MUS/PHIL/ENGL 115+–130+ 6 Credit(s)
  • 300-level humanities 3 Credit(s)

Social Science (12 Credits)

  • Social science courses must be in at least two different areas. One must be 200-level or above 12 Credit(s)

Science (13 Credits)

  • At least one science courses must include a lab. Take MATH 113+ if did not pass math proficiency test 13 Credit(s)

Creative Writing Requirements (54 Credits)

  • CRWR 153 - Introduction to Creative Writing I 3 Credit(s)
  • CRWR 154 - Introduction to Creative Writing II 3 Credit(s)
  • CRWR 305 - Creative Nonfiction 3 Credit(s)
  • CRWR 306 - Advanced Fiction Writing (W) 3 Credit(s)
  • CRWR 307 - Advanced Poetry Writing (W) 3 Credit(s)
  • CRWR 409 - Senior Seminar (For Creative Writing Majors Only) (W) 3 Credit(s)
  • 300-level CRWR electives 12 Credit(s)
  • 300-level ENGL courses (4 period-based courses & 2 electives) 18 Credit(s)

Two Courses from the Following

  • ENGL 131 - Literature of the Western World I 3 Credit(s)
  • ENGL 132 - Literature of the Western World II 3 Credit(s)
  • ENGL 133 - British Literature I 3 Credit(s)
  • ENGL 134 - British Literature II 3 Credit(s)
  • ENGL 135 - American Literature 3 Credit(s)
  • Additional Requirements (6 Credits)
  • 300-level humanities electives 6 Credit(s)
  • Electives (15 Credits)
  • Electives 15 Credit(s)
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Career Opportunity

Career Opportunity

  • Community outreach and nonprofit work
  • Publishing
  • Theatre and the arts
  • Archiving
  • Web production

Ability to settle

Overseas Student Health Cover

Health Insurance - USD $1999 per year

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