Creative Writing Program

The Creative Writing Program provides a framework of small classes within which students make art through words, and are drawn into deeper knowledges of their own cognitive and creative processes. At both the 200 and 300 levels, this is achieved through students reading their own writing alongside that of literary masters. Students are given the opportunity, in a highly supportive environment, not only to express themselves as artists through the written word and to learn skills with which to approach their own creativity, but also to become more subtle readers.

The creative writing courses are invaluable not only for providing a variety of triggers for the imagination but in revealing to students the possibilities for elaborate interchanges between readers and a writer that a successful text can generate. Through peer and instructor feedback processes, students develop their critical faculties and their potential for self-directed learning.

In each creative writing course, the students develop a portfolio of their own individual work which includes a combination of fiction and poetry in addition to other written genres. At the 200 level, the emphasis is on spontaneity and the gathering of ideas for experimentation with different forms. At the 300 level, gathering and forming ideas is equally important, but there is further emphasis on developing individual narratives and poems to a state of being "finished", and through this process, students become aware of the potential for interplay between the pieces of work in a portfolio.

Students taking Creative Writing as a minor by combining ENG 270 and ENG 370 with their own choice of four additional courses from the minor course list, become part of the vibrant arts community at Richmond.

ENG 270 Writing from the Creative Impulse (3 CREDITS).

ENG 370 Creative Writing - Towards a Collection (3 CREDITS).

Minor in Creative Writing (18 CREDITS).

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