2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Dec 14, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Writing, Literature, and Publishing, B.A.


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The undergraduate faculty of Writing, Literature, and Publishing is committed to the following learning objectives for the BA in the Writing, Literature, and Publishing program.

Students will:

  • Develop close reading skills and the ability to think and communicate critically.

  • Recognize literary forms and the ways context deepens an understanding of literary texts.

  • Demonstrate research skills and actively engage with a variety of sources.

  • Acquire creative writing skills, recognize the significance of revision, and practice craft techniques in one or more literary genres.

  • Articulate how writing creates meaning and conveys values and ideas, and may also reflect, contribute to, or critique social, cultural, economic, and political perspectives and biases. 

  • Employ one or more professional skills for modern publishing environments. 

Students take courses in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, magazine writing, and publishing, in addition to courses in literature that ground them in the English-language tradition and introduce them to other traditions.

Required Courses


Students pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree in Writing, Literature and Publishing complete 52 credit hours. No more than 4 credits of internship (PB 499 ) may be used toward the credits required for the BA degree.

One Literature course at the 300 level (4 credits)


One Literature course at the 400 level (4 credits)


Two courses in Literature, Publishing, or Creative Writing at the 200 level or above (8 credits)


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