Undergraduate Studies

The undergraduate Creative Writing concentration is for those students who wish to focus upon the writing of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, or film and movie scripts. The requirements emphasize creative-writing workshops, as well as elective courses in literature and other English courses. Of the 33 credit hours required for the major, students are required to take 15 of those hours in workshop classes. Students who wish to conclude their sequence by writing a thesis, must qualify for and enter the English Departmental Honors Program.

Requirements:

Lower Division Literature (6 hours)
Analysis of Literature (Eng 250)
One Literature Survey (Eng 292 through 297)

Writing Workshops (15 hours)
Students must take at least one course at each level and at least two courses at the 400 level.
Eng 221, 222, 223
Eng 321, 322, 323, 324
Eng 421, 422, 423, 424

300 /400 level English Classes (12 hours)
At least two of these courses must be in literature. Courses range from professional writing, English and American literature, criticism and theory, and single author courses. (See the UNM Catalog or look through the latest English Department course schedule for course offerings in English at the 300 and 400 levels.)