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The creative writing concentration offers an opportunity for students with a passion for literature and the arts to develop their interest in writing through hands-on workshop classes and literary seminars.
Students pursuing a concentration in creative writing will complete a series of workshop courses intended to help them focus on practicing and refining their craft. Creative writing students will also take a slate of broad-ranging and diverse literature courses so that they may constantly be engaging the life of a literary text at every point -- from the first draft's raw inspiration to the published work's ongoing vitality, apart from its author's vision or context. Finally, students must complete one course in the form and theory, culture, and tradition of creative writing.
Students will also complete a capstone seminar in which they write a 30-40 page MS in one of the following genres: creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, or writing in the arts.
This concentration will prepare students to continue in a master of fine arts program and/or teach creative writing and literature in schools and colleges.
Students will:
- Analyze important works in the genres they study;
- Define orally and in writing the most important elements of genres they study;
- Apply their understanding of creative genres by writing their own creative MSS;
- Be well prepared to pursue an MFA degree and to teach creative writing in schools and colleges;
See the English major for more information on applying and inquiring about this unique aspect of Point Park University’s English program.
