Creative Writing Degree Offering
Application
Applicants must:
- Be in their sophomore or junior year
- Submit a cover letter and writing sample by completing this Application form between October 1 and November 1.
- Cover Letter (1,000 words maximum): Explain how your personal background and life experiences (social, cultural, familial, educational) or other opportunities or challenges have motivated your decision to pursue an English Major with a Creative Writing Concentration. In addition, tell us about your academic and research background, your career goals, and how the English Major with a Creative Writing Concentration will help you meet your educational objectives.
- Writing Sample (1,500 words maximum): You may send prose, poetry or any mixture of genres. Please use 12 pt. font. Prose pieces must be double-spaced. Submissions that do not comply with these rules will not be considered.
Notification on application status will go out by email to all applicants by December 15.
Access Course Requirements
The Creative Writing minor allows English majors to take additional creative writing courses as part of their course of study. Non-English majors can also declare the Creative Writing minor.
To declare a Creative Writing Minor, complete the online Creative Writing Minor Declaration form.
Applications for the Creative Writing Minor are accepted throughout the school year.