Minors
Creative Writing
Undergraduate Program
Requirements: Creative Writing
Strengthen your creative awareness and practical skills within the writing genres of your choice, including screenwriting, fiction, literary translation, and creative nonfiction.
The creative writing courses listed below or any other relevant special topics courses or translation courses with a strong creative emphasis can be applied to a five-course requirement (20 credits) for this minor. No course is a prerequisite.
5 courses (20 credits) from among the following:
Comparative Literature and English
- CL 2090 Literary Translation and Creative Writing
- CL/EN2100 Introduction to Creative Writing: A Cross-Genre Workshop (may be taken twice)
- CL3020 Production, Translation, Creation, Publication
- CL3100 Writing Poetry: An Introduction and Workshop
- CL3200 Fiction Writing Workshop
- CL3300 Creative Nonfiction: Crafting Personal Narrative
- CL/EN4000 Advanced Creative Writing Projects
Comparative Literature Options
- CL3900 INPR Directed Study (may be taken twice)
- CL4095 INPR Senior Project
Outside the Comparative Literature & English Department
Relevant special topics courses, directed studies, or senior projects with a strong creative writing element could serve toward the Creative Writing minor.