Creative Writing

Bachelor's degree

In Chicago (USA)

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Chicago (USA)

The Program in Creative Writing takes a comprehensive approach to the study of contemporary literature, criticism, and theory from a writer’s perspective, and provides rigorous training in the fundamental practices of creative writing. In our courses, students work with established poets and prose writers towards these pursuits, and both the major and minor in Creative Writing provide ample opportunities for interdisciplinary work across University departments. The program’s commitment to interdisciplinary work and academic rigor, coupled with an emphasis on teaching the elements of creative writing that underlie all genres, accounts for the program's vitality and explains why Creative Writing at Chicago is currently the largest initiative in the humanities for the College. The Program in Creative Writing offers workshops and seminars in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, as well as an increasing number of translation workshops.Students who graduate with the bachelor of arts in Creative Writing will both be skilled in writing in a major literary genre and have a theoretically informed understanding of the aesthetic, historical, social, and political context of a range of contemporary writing. Students who are not English Language and Literature or Creative Writing majors may complete a minor in English and Creative Writing.

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Chicago (USA)
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5801 South Ellis Avenue, 60637

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Subjects

  • Poetry
  • Writing
  • English
  • Creative Writing

Course programme

Thesis/Major Projects: Fiction
Thesis/Major Projects: Poetry
Thesis/Major Projects: Creative Nonfiction
CRWR 17000 to CRWR 17999
Technical Seminars in Fiction: CRWR 20200 to CRWR 20299; Poetry: CRWR 20301 to CRWR 20399; Nonfiction: CRWR 20400 to CRWR 20499
Advanced Workshops in Fiction: CRWR 22100 to CRWR 22299; Poetry: CRWR 23100 to CRWR 23299; Nonfiction: 24001 to CRWR 24199. Beginning Workshops may count as the third workshop if they meet the stipulations listed under the Program Requirements.
Fundamentals in Creative Writing: Literary Empathy
Technical Seminar in Poetry: Units of Composition
Technical Seminar in Poetry: Manifestos, Movements, Modes
Advanced Poetry Workshop: Waste, Surplus, Reuse
Advanced Poetry Workshop
Beginning Poetry Workshop +
Genre Fundamentals: Poetry: Rhythm and Myth
Seventeenth-Century Verse *
Literature of the City: Between Utopia and Dystopia, Design and Occupation **
Contemporary Latina/o Poetry
Cinema in Theory and Practice
Data and Algorithm in Art
Thesis/Major Projects: Poetry
Beginning Workshop is eligible because it met the conditions outlined in the Program Requirements (above).
 Satisfies period requirement (pre-20th century)
 Satisfies theory requirement
At least one must be an Advanced Workshop.
CRWR 29200 Thesis/Major Projects: Fiction, CRWR 29300 Thesis/Major Projects: Poetry, or CRWR 29400 Thesis/Major Projects: Creative Nonfiction.
Beginning Fiction Workshop
Advanced Fiction: Exploring Your Boundaries
Shakespeare I: Histories and Comedies
Introduction to Fiction
Forms of Autobiography in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Thesis/Major Projects: Fiction

Creative Writing

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