Creative Writing Courses
Undergraduate Courses
ENGL 2513: Introduction to Creative Writing
Instructors: Various. Literary composition with emphasis on technique and style through
readings and writings in fiction and poetry.
ENGL 4630: Advanced Fiction Writing
An exploration of the craft of the short story in a workshop setting featuring extensive
reading.
ENGL 4640: Advanced Poetry Writing
Workshops focusing on continued development of the required skills of poetry writing,
in which student work receives intense scrutiny.
Graduate Courses
ENGL 5723: Craft and Forms of Poetry
A course focused on the interaction of traditional formal elements with free verse
form in contemporary poetry, through analysis, readings, and practice.
ENGL 5730: Seminar in Fiction Writing
A workshop focused on writing fiction at the professional level.
ENGL 5740: Seminar in Poetry Writing
A graduate poetry workshop with readings in contemporary poetry.
ENGL 5763: Craft and Forms of Fiction - POV: Narrative Point of View in Fiction
A course focused on aspects of narrative point of view and psychic distance as they
pertain to the craft of writing fiction.
ENGL 6130: Studies in Fiction Writing
A craft-oriented workshop with outside readings.
ENGL 6140: Studies in Poetry Writing
A poetry workshop with readings in contemporary poetry and essays about poetry by
poets.
ENGL 6160: Studies in Creative Nonfiction
Individual projects in creative nonfiction.