Creative Writing Minor
For information, contact the Department of English, 356 Bachelor Hall, 513-529-5221.
This minor offers students a chance to use their elective hours to strengthen their degree, satisfy a personal interest, or enhance their career opportunities. It explores intersections between creative practice and critical practice through the writing and study of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, screenwriting, graphic narratives and digital literature. Students transform their ideas into polished final products with the support of peers and faculty. This minor is open to all majors except English: Creative Writing.
Program Requirements
(18 semester hours)
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required Course | ||
| ENG 226 | Introduction to Creative Writing: Short Fiction and Poetry | 3 |
| Writing Courses | ||
| Select two of the following: | 6 | |
| Intermediate Creative Writing: Fiction | ||
| Intermediate Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction | ||
| Intermediate Creative Writing: Poetry | ||
| Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction Workshop | ||
| Advanced Creative Writing: Screenwriting Workshop | ||
| Advanced Creative Writing: Nonfiction Workshop | ||
| Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry Workshop | ||
| Playwriting | ||
| Electives | ||
| Select three of the following (no more than one course at the 100 level): | 9 | |
| Popular Literature | ||
| Introduction to Poetry | ||
| Introduction to Fiction | ||
| Introduction to Drama | ||
| Books You Need To Read | ||
| Introduction to Shakespeare | ||
| Literature and Travel | ||
| Disability and Literature | ||
| Humanities and Technology | ||
| Writing for Film and TV | ||
| Literature and Film | ||
| Shakespeare and Film | ||
| The Short Story | ||
| Women Writers | ||
| GLBTQ Literature | ||
| Narrative and Digital Technology | ||
| Native American Literature | ||
| Asian American Literature | ||
| Asian & Asian American Cinema | ||
| Introduction to European Literature | ||
| Caribbean, Latin American and Latinx Literatures | ||
| Children's Literature | ||
| Literature and Medicine | ||
| Environmental Literature | ||
| Colonial & Postcolonial Literature | ||
| English Literature to 1660 | ||
| English Literature 1660-1900 | ||
| English Literature 1901 to Present | ||
| American Literature to 1900 | ||
| American Literature 1900 to the Present | ||
| Contemporary American Fiction | ||
| Reading for Creative Writing: Contemporary Literature | ||
| Medieval Literature | ||
| Sixteenth-Century English Literature | ||
| Seventeenth-Century English Literature | ||
| English Literature of the 18th Century | ||
| African American Writing, 1746-1877 | ||
| African American Writing, 1878-1945 | ||
| African American Writing, 1946-Present | ||
| British Romanticism, 1789-1837 | ||
| Victorian Literature, 1837-1901 | ||
| British Modernism, 1890-1945 | ||
| Ethnic American Literatures | ||
| Early American Literature | ||
| Antebellum American Literature | ||
| American Realism and Naturalism | ||
| American Modernism | ||
| Contemporary American Literature | ||
| Women and Gender in Film | ||
| Interdisciplinary Special Topics | ||
| Shakespeare’s Principal Plays: Early Works | ||
| Shakespeare’s Principal Plays: Late Works | ||
| English Renaissance Drama | ||
| Studies in Drama and Performance | ||
| Studies in Poetry | ||
| Studies in Prose | ||
| Total Credit Hours | 18 | |