BA in English Literature & Writing

Creative Writing Concentration

Minimum of 180 total quarter credits
Minimum of 60 upper-division credits
Minimum of 45 credits from Marylhurst
60 credits required for major

Required Core Courses (21 crs.)
Introduction to Literature and Writing
Introduction to Literary Genres
Literary and Critical Theory
One world or ethnic literature course
Two survey of literature courses
Senior Thesis

Concentration Coursework (39 crs.)

Required concentration courses - 21 crs.

One study in form and technique
Three Writing Seminar I courses
One Writing Seminar II course
Senior Creative Writing Workshop
Writing Pedagogy: Teaching and Tutoring
or Writing as Rhetoric

Shakespeare or period study - 3 crs.

Shakespeare
Medieval Literature and Culture
Early Modern Literature and Culture.
Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Literature and Culture of the Romantic Period
Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Modernist Literature and Culture
Postmodern Literature and Culture

Study in literary genre - 3 crs.

Topic: Autobiography
Drama
Poetry
The Short Story
The Novel

Electives in English literature and writing - 12 crs.

Please see the current Marylhurst University catalog for complete information.