Program Overview

Examine and discuss literary texts in literature and creative writing classes that will help you develop your own voice and approach to writing. From there, you will refine and showcase your skills in upper-level creative writing classes, including two-semester sequences in the writing of poetry, novels, plays, and other genres, and through a senior-year creative thesis.

Curriculum Requirements - Total Credits Required: 125

 

First Year - Credits: 32-33

  • Quantitative Reasoning General Education Requirement   (Cr: 3)
  • Science and Technology General Education Requirement  (Cr: 3-4)
  • World Language  (Cr: 6)
  • English Elective  (Cr: 3)
  • Electives   (Cr: 6)
  • ENG 108 - Introduction to Creative Writing (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 111 - Critical Reading and Writing I (Cr: 3)
    Satisfies the Writing Designated Core requirement.
  • ENG 112 - Critical Reading and Writing II (Cr: 3)
    Satisfies the Writing Designated Core requirement.
  • INT 100 - Internship I (Cr: 2)

Second Year - Credits: 32

  • Aesthetic Awareness and Creative Expression General Education Requirement   (Cr: 3)
  • Global Issues General Education Requirement   (Cr: 3)
  • Individual and Society General Education Requirement   (Cr: 3)
  • Creative Writing Electives  (Cr: 6)  
    • One course must be at the 200-level; one course must be at the 300-level.
  • Elective  (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 203 - Early American Literature (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 213 - Early British Literature (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 225 - Literary Criticism and Interpretation (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 365 - Shakespeare (Cr: 3)
    Satisfies the Literary Perspectives General Education Requirement
  • INT 200 - Internship II (Cr: 2)

Third Year - Credits: 31

  • Values and Ethical Reasoning General Education Requirement  (Cr: 3)
  • World Cultures General Education Requirement   (Cr: 3)
  • Creative Writing Electives  (Cr: 15)
    • Two courses must be at 200-level; three courses must be at the 300-level.
  • English Elective  (Cr: 3)
  • Literature Elective  (Cr: 3)
  • Multicultural Literature Elective  (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 379 - Semester Internship Strategies (Cr: 1)

Fourth Year - Credits: 30

  • General Education Electives   (Cr: 12)
    • Two courses must be above the 200 level.
  • ENG 480 - Semester Internship (Cr: 12)
  • ENG 489 - Senior Research (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 490 - Senior Thesis (Cr: 3)
    Or
  • ENG 491 - Senior Capstone (Cr: 3)

Creative Writing Electives

Students choose six writing courses from the following list. Three must be at the 200 level and three must be at the 300 level.

  • CMM 207 - Writing for Media (Cr: 3)
  • DM 211 - Fundamentals of Journalism (Cr: 3)
  • DM 255 - Writing for the Screen (Cr: 3)
  • DM 338 - Feature Writing (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 207 - Writing Your Story (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 208 - Writing Poetry I (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 209 - Writing Short Fiction I (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 228 - Writing the Novel I (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 229 - Playwriting and Screenwriting I (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 232 - Flash Fiction (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 234 - Young Adult Fiction Writing Workshop (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 305 - Writing for Inquiry (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 307 - Telling True Stories (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 308 - Writing Poetry II (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 309 - Writing Short Fiction II (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 328 - Writing the Novel II (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 336 - Nature Writing (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 340 - Playwriting and Screenwriting II (Cr: 3)

Literature Electives

Students choose one course at the 300 level. 

  • ENG 204 - American Literature: Civil War to Present (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 210 - Topics in Literature (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 212 - Drama Survey (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 214 - British Literature: 18th Century to Present (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 222 - Modern Irish History and Literature (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 224 - Justice and Injustice in American Literature (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 226 - Early American History and Literature (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 227 - African-American Literature (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 230 - Rebels and Misfits (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 231 - Cliffhangers: Serial Storytelling in Television and Literature (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 233 - Other Worlds: Fantasy Literature (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 235 - Modern Fiction (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 236 - Growing up LGBTQ+ (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 237 - Healing Stories (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 240 - Boston in Literature and Film (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 245 - Cartoonists and Satirists (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 260 - Gothic Literature (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 266 - Science Fiction Literature: From Galaxies Far Away (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 310 - Modern American Poetry (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 312 - Literature for Children (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 314 - Early World Literature (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 315 - Women Writers (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 316 - World Literature: 18th Century to Present (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 321 - Literary Triumvirates (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 337 - American Indian Literature (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 361 - Victorian Secrets: Fear and Hypocrisy in Victorian Literature (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 367 - Eastern Literature and Haiku (Cr: 3)

Multicultural Literature Electives

Students choose one of the following multicultural literature-based courses.

  • ENG 224 - Justice and Injustice in American Literature (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 227 - African-American Literature (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 230 - Rebels and Misfits (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 236 - Growing up LGBTQ+ (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 315 - Women Writers (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 321 - Literary Triumvirates (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 337 - American Indian Literature (Cr: 3)
  • ENG 367 - Eastern Literature and Haiku (Cr: 3)

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the English program, students will be able to: 

  1. Advance coherent, well-reasoned arguments that demonstrate conceptual organization and control over language. 

  2. Analyze literary texts through close reading, attending carefully to language, form, and structure to interpret how meaning is created.

  3. Explain and apply key concepts related to the history, theory, and analysis of literature. 

  4. Through a sustained process of drafting and revision, create work that possesses a distinctive authorial voice, achieved through language and imagery and/or original exploration of topic or theme. 

  5. Interpret texts from diverse cultural, historical, and social perspectives, demonstrating an understanding of how worldview shapes both literary expression and interpretation.

  6. Make connections between their major and professional opportunities through internships.

In addition to fulfilling the outcomes of the English program, students completing the creative writing concentration will:

  • Create work that possesses a distinctive authorial voice, achieved through language and imagery and/or original exploration of topic or theme.
  • Experiment and take risks in a variety of forms (e.g. poetry, short fiction, creative non-fiction, plays and screenplays).
  • Produce an original body of work such as a collection of short stories or poems, a novella or a screenplay.

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