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concentration in creative writing allows students
to choose 15 credits for the English major from
a sequence of creative writing courses. These
courses, relying heavily on peer evaluations
in a workshop environment as well as extensive
critical analysis, enable students to work closely
with practicing professional novelists, playwrights
and poets. Literary study within these courses
focuses on technical issues: a question of how,
in addition to why and what. Larger issues are
related to current aesthetic theories, the relationship
between art and society, and the balance of research
and creativity that engenders literature.
The 15 credits for the Creative Writing option
should be earned from the following courses:
01:351:211,212 Introduction to Creative
Writing
01:351:306 Creative
Writing - Form and Technique in Poetry
01:351:307
Creative Writing - Form and Technique in Fiction
01:351:308
Creative Writing - Form and Technique Drama
01:351:312 Literature and Technology
01:351:405,406
Advanced Creative Writing Workshop
01:354:308
Screenwriting
Please note: the 300- and 400-level
courses require completion of appropriate lower
level classes as prerequisites, and the 400-level
courses require permission of the instructor
based on a portfolio review. Also, no two creative
writing workshops may be taken within the same
semester. The English Department does not recognize
courses in creative writing as meeting distribution
requirements for Rutgers, Livingston, Douglass,
or Cook Colleges.
Students electing the creative writing option
are urged to study widely in the Arts and Sciences,
and to participate actively in the A Writers
at Rutgers" a series of readings by professional,
often quite famous, writers from outside the
university. Check the Undergraduate office (Murray
104) for the schedule.
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