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Nov 26, 2024
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Course Catalog 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Creative Writing and Literature Major
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Major Requirements
Students who intend to major in Creative Writing and Literature should meet with the director of the creative writing program during the second semester of their first year. Students must submit a portfolio during the first semester of their junior year. Guidelines are available in the English Department. Please note that all 300-level and 400-level major requirements must be taken at Wheaton.
The major consists of at least 10 credits.
Five Creative Writing courses minimum, including at least two at the 300-level or higher from:
Notes
These five courses must include at least one 200- and 300-level sequence (e.g. CW 283 and CW 383 , or CW 284 and CW 384 , or CW 288 and CW 388 ). Students are encouraged to take two of these sequences. Occasionally, and with the permission of the instructor, students who have successfully completed an Advanced Writing Workshop in Poetry (CW 383 ), Fiction (CW 384 ), or Playwriting (CW 388 ) may take the course a subsequent time as a 399.
Three modern and contemporary ENG Literature courses minimum from among the following, at least one 300-level:
- ENG 240 - Identity, Genre, and Poetry
- ENG 241 - Modern Drama
- ENG 243 - Science Fiction
- ENG 245 - Childhood in African Fiction
- ENG 247 - Feminist Fiction
- ENG 252 - Contemporary Drama: The Tip of the Iceberg
- ENG 256 - The Novel in Multi-Ethnic America
- ENG 272 - Romancing the Novel
- ENG 341 - Public Poetry, Private Poetry
- ENG 343 - Fictions of the Modern
- ENG 346 - Postmodern American Literature: The Pursuit of Meaning: Process and Provocation
- ENG 347 - Blackness, Futurism, and Supernatural Fiction
- ENG 386 - Young Adult Literature
- One additional English course from literature, linguistics, writing studies, theory, film, or journalism courses or any English course.
- ENG 401
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