Creative Writing Track Fiction Focus

English Major: Creative Writing Fiction Requirements Checklist
This electronic requirement checklist can be completed and used during advising sessions or utilized to track the progress toward your degree.

• A minimum of 36 credit hours is required, with at least 15 hours in the chosen track.
• Only courses listed on this checklist count toward the major. If you wish to substitute a course, before taking it you must submit a petition to the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
• English Composition (ENGL 1001) is prerequisite to any English Major coursework.
• Although not required, it is highly recommended to complete the composition sequence (ENGL 2089: Intermediate Composition or equivalent) prior to beginning English Major coursework.

• ENGL 3000 Intro to English Studies
• ENGL 3006 Intro to Shakespeare
• ENGL 2007 or ENGL 2008 Survey: American Literature
• ENGL 2134 or ENGL 2135 Survey: British Literature
• English Course in Global, Ethnic, and Minority Literature in English (see below for list of approved courses)

Please be aware that some courses have prerequisites. Most intermediate courses require one introductory course. Capstones require at least one intermediate course.

• One Introductory Course – choose one of the following:
  ENGL 2010 Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry & Prose
  ENGL 2011 Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction
  ENGL 2013 Introduction to Literary Nonfiction
  ENGL 2015 Introduction to Screenwriting
  ENGL 2017 Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry
  ENGL 2027 Introduction to Creative Writing: Drama
  
  
• One Forms Course – choose one of the following:
  ENGL 3085 Forms of Poetry
  ENGL 3086 Forms of Fiction
  ENGL 3087 Forms of Literary Nonfiction
  
  
• Two Intermediate Courses – choose TWO of the following:
  ENGL 3015 Poetry and Sound
  ENGL 3022 Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy
  ENGL 3023 Writing the Mystery
  ENGL 3025 Writing Historical Fiction
  ENGL 3026 Writing Fiction with a Global Vision
  ENGL 3027 Writing Comic Fiction
  ENGL 3028 Memoir as Literature
  ENGL 3030 Writing the Love Poem
  ENGL 3031 The Poet as Actor: Persona and Voice in Poetry
  ENGL 3032 Music and Poetry
  ENGL 3033 Writing Prose Poetry and Flash Fiction
  ENGL 3034 Audiopoetics
  ENGL 3053 Writing Fiction in the Digital Age
  ENGL 3054 Creative Writing Pedagogy
  ENGL 3079 Creative Writing and the Environment 
  ENGL 3085 Forms of Poetry
  ENGL 3086 Forms of Fiction
  ENGL 3087 Forms of Literary Nonfiction
  ENGL 4012 Intermediate Creative Writing: Fiction
  ENGL 4013 Intermediate Literary Nonfiction
  ENGL 4017 Intermediate Creative Writing: Poetry
  
  
• One Capstone – choose one of the following:
  ENGL 5111 Senior Writing Seminar: Fiction
  ENGL 5113 Senior Writing Seminar: Literary Nonfiction
  ENGL 5117 Senior Writing Seminar: Poetry

• Choose two English courses, at the 2000 level or above, for a total of 6 hours. No English elective credit is given for 2000 level composition courses (ENGL 2089 or its equivalent). One elective must be a Literature course.