Creative Writing, B.F.A.

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

• 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. 

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

• Demonstrate knowledge of and more advanced practice of craft technique in the student’s primary literary genre.

• Learn how to generate and shape a creative manuscript by completing a thesis in poetry, fiction, or nonfiction.

Students take introductory, intermediate, and advanced workshops in the above genres, and in literature that ground them in the English-language tradition and introduce them to other traditions.