Creative Writing and Literature Major

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 - Archetypes in Black Women’s 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