Creative Writing majors pursue the Bachelor of Arts on a specialized track emphasizing poetry, fiction, playwriting, or generalist writing. Reading and studying the works of strong professional writers, students learn, apply, and question the forms, conventions, and techniques of poetry and prose to discover their own voices as writers and develop their craft. Students practice writing in a variety of forms while studying the relationships among writer, subject and reader. Students collaborate in workshop settings with writing exercises, assignments, readings, group critiques and individual conferences and work in conjunction with the department to produce finished manuscripts in their writing emphasis.

Students regularly go on to: Law Medical Pharmacy Graduate schools Teachers in secondary schools across the nation Careers in publishing are also popular – the love of language and the ability to shape its beauty make a natural tie-in to the publishing world. Socially committed students often find careers at organizations committed to improving the state of humanity. And the ability to think and write clearly are skills in high demand in the business world.