Minor in Creative Writing

Our Mission: 

The Creative Writing minor offers art and design students an opportunity to give voice and shape to their creativity through a variety of written expressive forms. The minor provides guidance and support to students in a structured environment to develop their writing, and an exciting way to explore their personal visions through workshops and lectures.

Program Learning Outcomes:

Students enrolled in the Creative Writing minor will: 

• Identify and employ writing techniques and habits that allow critical thought and expression.
• Develop an understanding of genre and explore writing in multiple forms.
• Demonstrate the habits of revision, workshop, close reading, and submission for publication.
• Recognize the political and social elements of a text and demonstrate multiple critical approaches.
• Experiment with the relationship between text and image and identify intersections between writing and chosen major.
• Demonstrate an understanding of meaning, justice, and community in literature and in personal writing practice.

*A limited choice of Upper Division Liberal Studies elective courses will count as Creative Writing Minor Electives, as determined each semester by the Interdisciplinary Studies Director, LAS Chair, and Creative Writing Minor Head.

** Students who have a dedicated capstone for their major will complete one capstone course that combines both their major and minor