Program Overview

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Creative Writing

Bachelor of Arts

Overview

Develop your writing craft and from fiction and nonfiction to poetry and technical writing and under the guidance of award-winning, published authors in small workshop settings. The Creative Writing program offers students the opportunity to develop their skills for creative written expression. Workshops led by an internationally renowned faculty aim to help students write well-crafted and compelling works of prose and poetry. Additionally, coursework in literature and literary analysis teaches critical thinking and research efficiencies, while classes in publishing share real-world insights into the writing profession. This Bachelor of Arts program of study not only gives students widely applicable tools that can be used across myriad industries, but it also offers a Professional and Technical Writing certificate and grants access to some of today's most important and influential writers.

Learning Outcomes

• Ability to write well-crafted and compelling works of literary merit in prose or poetry.
• Understanding of craft terms and concepts and the ability to articulate how these aspects of craft contribute to text's literary, aesthetic, or emotional effects.
• Ability to isolate and manipulate craft elements in writing and revising a story, essay, and/or poem.
• Knowledge of significant currents in contemporary prose or poetry and their antecedents.
• Ability to identify and analyze the ways in which individual writers operate within, on the edges of, or in response to their literary contexts, predecessors, genres, and historical traditions.
• Understanding of key goals and outcomes expected of the English major, in particular, knowledge of foundational texts of British and American literature.

Program Details

Sample Courses

• ENGL 201: Introduction to the Writing of Creative Nonfiction
• ENGL 215: Elements of Craft in Creative Writing
• ENGL 380: Literary Analysis

Career Fields

• Journalism
• Public relations
• Education
• Publishing
• Advertising

Level of Math

• General Knowledge

This strand involves the general understanding and appreciation of how mathematics is used to solve problems in everyday life. The G-strand does not prepare a student for any further work grounded in mathematics and assumes the student will not proceed beyond the basic Foundations level noted above. Thus only those students whose major requires the most general knowledge of mathematics should take this strand.

Level of Second Language

• 4th Semester Proficiency

Fourth-semester skill level in a second language is required. B.A. degree students may fulfill this requirement with one of the following options:

• Scoring the equivalent of fourth-semester skill level on an entrance or placement examination administered by The University of Arizona.
• Completion of a two-course sequence beyond the second semester of post-secondary language instruction.
• Completion with a C or higher of a 300- or 400-level language course at the post-secondary level.
• Completion of one course beyond the third semester in combination with an AP (Advanced Placement) score, IB (International Baccalaureate) score or a CLEP (College Level Entrance Program) score determined by the individual language department.
• An AP, IB, or CLEP language score determined by individual language departments
• A minimum of one semester study abroad in a language program approved by the appropriate language department as the equivalent of fourth-semester skill level.

Pre-major Required?

• No

This Major's College

• College of Social & Behavioral Sciences

Degree

• Bachelor of Arts

Sample Plans

2025, Creative Writing

• 4-Year Sample Plan
• Map Transfer Coursework
• Plan Ahead with a Transfer Pathway

First Year

• 1st Semester
  • ENGL 101 First Year Composition
  • First Semester Second Language
  • GE Core: Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections
  • GE Core: Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections
  • Introduction to the General Education Experience (Entry Course)
• 2nd Semester
  • ENGL 102 First Year Composition
  • Second Semester Second Language
  • Math
  • GE Core: Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections
  • GE Core: Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections

Second Year

• 3rd Semester
  • Third Semester Second Language
  • GE Core: Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections
  • GE Core: Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections
  • GE Core: Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections
• 4th Semester
  • Fourth Semester Second Language
  • ENGL 280 Introduction to Literature
  • ENGL 215 Elements of Craft in Creative Writing
  • ENGL Introductory Writing Workshop

Third Year

• 5th Semester
  • Upper or Lower Division ENGL Elective
  • Upper or Lower Division ENGL Elective
  • ENGL Introductory Writing Workshop
  • Minor Course
  • Minor Course
• 6th Semester
  • ENGL Upper Division Elective
  • ENGL Upper Division Elective
  • ENGL Upper Division Elective
  • Minor Course
  • General Elective

Fourth Year

• 7th Semester
  • ENGL Intermediate Level Workshop
  • ENGL Upper Division Elective
  • General Elective
  • General Elective
  • Minor Course
• 8th Semester
  • ENGL Advanced Level Workshop
  • General Elective
  • General Elective
  • General Elective
  • Minor Course

Map Transfer Coursework

• Enter your coursework from Arizona universities or community colleges to see how they can map to this major.
• Connect with The University of Arizona Academic Advisors to validate how your coursework will transfer.

About the Transfer Mapping Categories

Maps to One Requirement

A transfer course with this designation matches a UAZ course that maps to one requirement for this major.

Can Map in Multiple Ways

A transfer course with this designation matches a UAZ course that maps to more than one requirement for this major. This means that the transfer course could meet any of the matching requirements but does not mean it fulfills all matching requirements.

Ask an Advisor

A transfer course with this designation matches a UAZ course that has not yet been mapped to a requirement for this major, or it means that the transfer course was input incorrectly.

Pathways

• See the pathway agreement in place between Arizona in-state community colleges and The University of Arizona.
• To see a pathway, select an Arizona college: Select an Arizona community college

Mapped Coursework

• 0 Maps to One Requirement
• 0 Can Map Multiple Ways
• 0 Ask An Advisor

Mapped to Sample Plan Requirements

• 1st Semester
  • ENGL 101 First Year Composition
  • First Semester Second Language
  • GE Core: Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections
  • GE Core: Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections
  • Introduction to the General Education Experience (Entry Course)
• 2nd Semester
  • ENGL 102 First Year Composition
  • Second Semester Second Language
  • Math
  • GE Core: Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections
  • GE Core: Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections
• 3rd Semester
  • Third Semester Second Language
  • GE Core: Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections
  • GE Core: Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections
  • GE Core: Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections
• 4th Semester
  • Fourth Semester Second Language
  • ENGL 280 Introduction to Literature
  • ENGL 215 Elements of Craft in Creative Writing
  • ENGL Introductory Writing Workshop
• 5th Semester
  • Upper or Lower Division ENGL Elective
  • Upper or Lower Division ENGL Elective
  • ENGL Introductory Writing Workshop
  • Minor Course
  • Minor Course
• 6th Semester
  • ENGL Upper Division Elective
  • ENGL Upper Division Elective
  • ENGL Upper Division Elective
  • Minor Course
  • General Elective
• 7th Semester
  • ENGL Intermediate Level Workshop
  • ENGL Upper Division Elective
  • General Elective
  • General Elective
  • Minor Course
• 8th Semester
  • ENGL Advanced Level Workshop
  • General Elective
  • General Elective
  • General Elective
  • Minor Course