Creative Writing Track

The creative writing track gives you a chance to unite literary analysis and the writing process, culminating in a creative writing project of your choosing. It is strongly encouraged that students pursuing the track also pursue the creative writing minor.

The requirements are as follows (for LS transfers or Tisch Double Majors, see the next section):

ENGL-UA 101 Introduction to the study of Literature

ENGL-UA 201 Reading as a Writer

Three of the Following Four (in any order):

    ENGL-UA 111 Literatures in English I

    ENGL-UA 112 Literatures in English II

    ENGL-UA 113 Literatures in English III

    ENGL-UA 114 Literatures in English IV

One course in Critical Theories and Methods OR British Literature before 1800

ENGL-UA 910 Creative Capstone Project (taken with ENGL-UA 911) - 2 Points

ENGL-UA 911 Creative Capstone Project Colloquium (taken with ENGL-UA 910) - 2 Points

One Senior Seminar

Two other English Electives

Two successive courses in Creative Writing Workshops (CRWRI-UA; Intro and Intermediate)

*If you are pursuing a creative writing minor, your CRWRI-UA courses completed for the minor will count toward the major requirements. 

The Creative Writing Track within the English Major for Students after completion of the Liberal Studies Program

The track in creative writing gives you a chance to unite literary analysis and the writing process, culminating in a creative writing project of your choosing. It is strongly encouraged that students pursuing the track also pursue the creative writing minor.

After completion of Cultural Foundations I, II, and II, with a C or better students will complete a 10 course major/track.

The requirements are as follows:

The Double Major in English with the Creative Writing Track for Students in TSOA’s Department of Drama 

The track in creative writing gives you a chance to unite literary analysis and the writing process, culminating in a creative writing project of your choosing. It is strongly encouraged that students pursuing the track also pursue the creative writing minor.

The requirements are as follows:

*NOTE: In place of the intermediate CRWRI course, students may take DRLIT-UA 840 Workshop in Playwriting (to be scheduled on a TR) (4 credits). This class may count for Drama's Theatre Studies B requirement.

All Drama Students interested in a Double Major in English should first meet with their advisor in TSOA Drama located at 721 Broadway, 3rd Floor.